I somehow thought this was common knowledge.
Same way the Atelier games shifted to having Switch as the target platform after years on PS4, if the business demands a release on a lower end platform they will find a way.
Yeah its one of those things I played growing up and quickly lost interest in being a part of the "fanbase" haha
lolwut? What do you mean "alpha graphics"? The tech they're working with has been stabilized and refined for 45 god damn years at this point. What's to "iron out"?
My astonishment at their utter incompetence knows no bounds. HOW DO YOU EVEN MANAGE TO DO THAT?!?! Stable, reliable 64-bit exabyte-capable filesystems with practically corruption-proof design and operation have been available -- open-sourced and MIT-licensed -- for three fucking decades! Christ, even BSD's UFS2 is perfectly adequate for this job. THEY USE BSD UNDER THE HOOD ANYWAY!
No, it's not even that. It's not that they didn't think to "allow" a 2TB hard disk in the system. It's that they apparently designed and implemented a custom filesystem and related utilities but did such a horrible job that it literally pretends to work properly on disks larger than 1 terabyte but then also silently and irrevocably fails over time as they're used. What's worse is that this does not appear to have been deliberate "sabotage" but rather sheer incompetence, especially in the presence of existing software that was 1) free, 2) available for commercial purposes without charge or licensing burdens, 3) demonstrably functional and better.
I swear to god there must be, like, 10 assholes on this earth who specialize in developing dogshit filesystems and they just make the rounds between Microsoft (FAT, NTFS) and random electronics companies (bespoke custom garbage) shitting out bad code, getting drunk, and cashing the checks before the overworked intern gets around to testing
fsck and discovers it eats half the files on the disk once the volume exceeds N gigabytes in size.
They had a bug that didn't need to be addressed unless they sold a 2TB PS3, which was never even close to a commercially viable option. I'm sure while they still had resources to address this issue there were always more pressing problems to fix.
They introduced a bug unnecessarily by developing (unnecessarily) a filesystem and toolchain for it in the presence of superior alternatives that were readily available. Not-invented-here syndrome in full force. Especially stupid because they were already using BSD's core anyway. There's a god damn filesystem right there, for free, MIT-licensed. No fees, credits, or source code disclosures required. Just fucking use it, morons! You're already using the kernel it was built for anyway.
To be fair - FAT was actually an elegant solution designed to give you an actual filesystem on devices that were tiny for the time. FAT can be much faster to traverse than the full tree filesystems that were common on Unix and other high-end workstations of the era, specifically when you're dealing with smaller storage devices with low numbers of files.
They've combined 'line must go up' with diversity bullshit. You don't hate Sony enough.
You don't need to, they can't stay afloat like this for long. Sooner or later it's going to start effecting their profits and those diversity hires will be the first to go. They can celebrate hitting an iceberg all they want, it won't stop the ship from sinking. I wish them a very happy loss of profits, same as with crapcom and every other DEI obsessed Japanese company, of which I should add that DEI is extremely unpopular in Japan and so are companies trying to appeal to westerners above their home market.
This has basically been their M.O. for quite some time.
"Diverse Individual Experiences" sounds like a way to technically, perhaps for legal reasons or something, move ever-so-slightly from the "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion". Absolute liberal snakes.
Sounds like the previous cope, "Japan will never bend the knee!" but toned down to "Well, they bent the knee, but they don't like it!" How long until we realize these companies DO like it, even in Japan?
Why's that? It frees a lot of people from the Sony ecosystem and is great for gamers generally.
Crossplay is dogshit because in the past, building/buying/saving up for a PC provided an IQ barrier and impulse control requirements so you wouldn't get paired with drooling console retards.
@NeonFlux answered it well above but I'll chuck my thoughts in.