That's pretty damn slick. Even if its common sense (to everyone but companies), it's good to see any company not jumping through hoops to prevent users from doing self-repairs.
I think Sony caught Microsoft off guard that generation, as Sony went with hardware standard components across the board and Microsoft were going with custom firmware drives and branded HDDs and expensive bespoke Wifi adaptors. It's kind of surprising that Sony were willing to give up on that accessory market because I know they made a killing with memory cards during the PlayStation and PS2 generations. They were ridiculously profitable.
I randomly only about a year ago had my gta4 360 ballad of gay Tony disc destroy itself from the inside. It was super weird but the telltale dark spots on the back of the disc were there. I still have many discs from PS1 era that work fine so the fact that it seemingly occurs at random regardless of age scares me
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That is interesting. DVDs even have that second polycarbonate disc on top of the metal layer. Maybe there was contamination inside from manufacturing.
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What is Playstation Plus Extra? Is it rotating games like Gamepass? Or is it supposed to be adding?PlayStation Plus Extra to lose 10 PS4 games in January
It turns out there are 10 PlayStation 4 games leaving Sony's PS Plus Extra and Premium subscription tiers next month.
Yeah but I am trying to understand how games rotate in Extra
Theoretically rotating games service. For now no games have being taken out. I think we only know of one game that is going to leave the service next year: GTA collection. No dates have being set for any other games.
from the ifixit guide:
The drive firmware is married to the motherboard. You basically have to swap the circuit board from the old, married drive to the replacement for them to work.
The 25xx models (and beyond) use drives without logic boards at all. The drive logic was moved to the motherboard, and it's still custom and married to the board firmware. I don't know if a logicless BRD drive is standard in any other device, although I would imagine that most of the parts (spindle, corkscrew, laser rails, ect) are off the shelf parts. The feeder, though, seams fairly "Sony custom" to me, with many exclusive parts that change with every drive revision.
