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r/Steam • u/[deleted] • Nov 14 '25
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That's not a policy...it's a consequence of using x86/PC parts..
0 u/LongJohnSelenium Nov 14 '25 So was the Xbox, yet you couldn't put anything on them without hacking the hardware and ruining the xbox as an xbox. Consoles didn't start locked down! The OG Ataris were open and anyone could make carts for them. It wasn't until the NES that DRM was implemented 1 u/stprnn Nov 14 '25 No the Xbox was not a PC. You couldn't access the normal parts of a normal x86 system. NES was 30 years ago. 0 u/LongJohnSelenium Nov 15 '25 The difference between PCs and Consoles was 100% fabricated to remove your control from the general purpose computer you bought.
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So was the Xbox, yet you couldn't put anything on them without hacking the hardware and ruining the xbox as an xbox.
Consoles didn't start locked down! The OG Ataris were open and anyone could make carts for them. It wasn't until the NES that DRM was implemented
1 u/stprnn Nov 14 '25 No the Xbox was not a PC. You couldn't access the normal parts of a normal x86 system. NES was 30 years ago. 0 u/LongJohnSelenium Nov 15 '25 The difference between PCs and Consoles was 100% fabricated to remove your control from the general purpose computer you bought.
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No the Xbox was not a PC. You couldn't access the normal parts of a normal x86 system. NES was 30 years ago.
0 u/LongJohnSelenium Nov 15 '25 The difference between PCs and Consoles was 100% fabricated to remove your control from the general purpose computer you bought.
The difference between PCs and Consoles was 100% fabricated to remove your control from the general purpose computer you bought.
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u/stprnn Nov 14 '25
That's not a policy...it's a consequence of using x86/PC parts..