The PS3 has the ability to install a Linux OS on its HDD, turning it into a home computer. This offers great flexibility to the system, which some love and others don’t care for. We here at PS4Talk see this as a possible step towards one of the more popular OS’s being available on the PS4, that the regular consumer will care to use. Linux is a massively popular OS, but ask the general person what is is and they just shrug their shoulders and think you’re an uber geek.
With this in mind, is Sony best advised to try obtain permission from MS or Apple to offer the ability to install their OS on the PS4? Sure there are issues with Licenses, but by the time the PS4 is released the license for XP or perhaps even the failing Vista will be cheap enough to justify this. Offering a much more publically known OS will no doubt be another factor to help sell Sony’s next console. I know that the ability to install Windows on the Macbook is what was the deciding factor for me. The ability to dualboot is essential for me. And we all love machines capable of doing multiple things. Just look at our mobile phones, they now feature cameras, wifi, radios, tv tuners…and the list of extra features keeps increasing. The PS3 is a real media machine, and I can only see the PS4 becoming even more versatile.
Of course, this is purely pipe dreams and speculation, but thought arousing non-the-less. What are your thoughts regarding the matter of 3rd party OS’s on the PS4? Perhaps even the rumoured Google OS will make a show on the PS4.
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