And that one other time the US goverment built a super computer out of Ps3's (no im not joking)

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/ps3-supercomputer.html

The tax loophole was a perceived reason, but it was never proven to be true. The closest admission to it was Sony losing a lawsuit related to the situation and Sony admitting that something related to Yabasic was intended to skirt EU tax law, not Linux for PS2. I never heard of Yabasic before today.

Fun fact, Geohot owns a company that jailbreaks cars and their adaptive cruise control systems now.

I like this post and find it generally helpful however feel the last line about why Xbox One hasn't been emulated yet is in my opinion both opinion and speculation, which is fine --

I think the community could come up with some robust counter arguments about why this hasnt occured yet, maybe there not being interest due to catalog overlap between Xbox and Windows PC since the OS is basically a custom Windows with a custom Direct X, as is the case for Xbox Y2K, and Xbox 360 and has been put into a virtual machine AFAIK via Xemu and Xenia. Following that legacy, Xbox fans have always seemed slower than other fans to emulate their consoles -- for whatever reason.

The Xbox One consoles were never hacked because Microsoft went paranoid crazy on the security model

Actually just got my $20 for this. Class actions work sometimes I guess. 10 years after the fact.

I’ve read it was just to shit with Microsoft by announcing that computers were tools of the past for gaming AND non gaming (and earn money).

Pushing Microsoft to invest billions to develop the Xbox on Windows (which ultimately did not run on windows) to shit with Sony, and earn money…

what message? This was a real product released by Sony.

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Nope, this was an official, legally sold product. Came with a keyboard, mouse, 40gb HDD, and PS2 ethernet adapter. Required an 8MB memory card to function and installed via command line. It's a pretty cool piece of history.