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When has crypto completely failed?
It would probably backfire and supply would favor consoles even more than they are already do compared to dedicated GPUs.
Well GPU mining isn't used for bitcoin, and would no longer be used for ethereum. So we're talking millions and millions of gpus that have to now do something. Flood all the alt coins and wreck them most likely.
Console at MSRP for people that will buy zero games/psnow account and so on or any accessories is probably a terrible deal versus high priced GPUs (if not a lost to some player involved) too.
I think that's where we have a reckoning, more specifically in all the alt coins.
Yea but that hasn't stopped people in the past with PS3 and PS4.
You don't believe that people aren't willing to risk a PS5 that has a fairly powerful GPU for $500 to mine on it? I'd buy a PS5 if I could install Linux on it and play PC games. That's a $500 PC, assuming one can find a PS5 for $500. It'll be a while before someone gets Linux working on a PS5 but it'll happen, and I don't see GPU prices going down anytime soon.
It doesn't matter since people are now aware that it can be done. It's just a matter of figuring out how these hackers were able to do it. Since there's more than one method of doing it, it's reasonable to believe that it'll be done again by another group. Obviously the first thing people will do it pirate games, which can be done relatively quickly. I guarantee you that Sony right now is shitting bricks and doing everything they can to release an update to prevent anyone from exploiting it. Meanwhile experienced PS4 hackers will keep their PS5's on this firmware version and will not update it. The situation gets much worse when the PS5 gets the same supply issues as PC GPU's because someone ported Linux and can now crypto mine on it.
At this point I think the only difference between etherium going to Proof of Plutocracy and Practical Fusion Power Generation is that the former is only a perpetual ~6 months in the future vs the latter's 30 years.
I don't think Crypto was a thing during the PS3 era.
Nobody cares if they do it for sport. They opened Pandora's box and now there's people racing to replicate their results.
PS4 has working GPU support because AMD is lazy and just used used a similar GPU for other products. Because AMD has open source drivers for Linux, it's just a matter of time before someone does it. Admittedly Linux for the PS4 was no small task as the PS4 is not a PC in the traditional sense, so a lot of work had to be done to get the Sony stuff to work on Linux. Guess who did the root hack to the PS5 and ported Linux to PS4? That's right, Team Fail0verflow did it.
Piracy hasn't had any negative effect on console sales, like for the example the Nintendo Switch has both been hacked and emulated to death and it isn't slowing down Nintendo's sales. That being said this isn't about piracy so much as getting a cheap $500 PC in a market where PC's are hugely over priced, particularly their GPU's.
You assume that people are like you in that they have $1k to spend on a PC. Lots of people don't have that kind of money and a PS5 turned PC would probably get you a better gaming PC for $500 than a $1k dedicated PC right now.
No, it's not any worse than RDNA1, it's just riding that massive cache to better gaming performance.
Shit, just realized who I'm talking to.
You're totally right dude, my bad. Consoles, and everything about them suck. PCMR and open source everything. Anything proprietary and licensed is bad, as well as anyone profiting from their own proprietary hardware or software.
Pirate on, bro.
Crypto currencies weren't a thing at the time, nor were the need for vastly powerful (at the time) computational devices outside of enterprise, corporate, or military markets and environments.
This statement is way off, as the PS4 running Linux had full GPU driver and hardware support and accessibility, and that was done back in 2016.
We aren't talking about Sony's OtherOS locked-down hypervisor on the PS3, which I might add was made entirely legal in the early 2010s in a court ruling, so those with older firmware were allowed to continue to use OtherOS and Linux on their PS3 consoles entirely legal.
You have no way of knowing that, and that is subject to change in the future if true.
Again, the tech landscape has changed vastly since even 2016 as GPUs were not unobtanium at the time, and also 2016 was a much better year overall in terms of general quality of life compared to what the 2020s have become.
I don't know what era you are living in but it certainly isn't 2021, and no one who needs these to make a profit or achieve a technical goal are "just doing it for funsies".
This isn't solely about gaming, and good luck getting a "similarly spec'd PC" with today's GPU market.
What it means is that there is a way to do so, showing the world that it is possible and opening the floodgates on those with the need to do so.
For what the CPU and GPU performance the PS5 can net in regards to crypto, for only $500, that is a hilarious statement.
I dunno, I reckon 3D tv's will be well into their next generation before I can use crypto at my local corner store.
The next generation of 3D TVs, so, the next few months?
There's a c-store in my town that has a crypto ATM.
3D TVs haven't been a thing for a few years now. They try and push it every 10-15 years.The next generation of 3D TVs, so, the next few months?
I wasn't aware, and apparently they haven't been sold in years.
You can do it pretty much everywhere now: