Squeak and Playstation...

Lawson English english at primenet.com
Mon Mar 6 20:02:52 UTC 2000


On Mon, Mar 6, 2000 10:39 AM, Ranjan Bagchi
<mailto:ranjan_bagchi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Games are one-thing.. a system like squeak being
>bootable on a console though would allow internet
>distribution of new software.  This relaxes the
>requirement that to run something on a PS2 it's got to
>come on a CD.  
>
>This could be the birth of a shareware "scene" on
>consoles!  

This is likely one important reason why SONY doesn't want it to happen.
Most of the PS revenue comes from the licensing of the CDs.

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