PS4 as a Steam Machine?

[brat137]

Basically I was wondering if anyone thinks or knows whether this would be possible? The PS3 (originally at least) could have Linux installed on it and I was wondering if with an amount of tweaking whether the PS4 could be made to do the same but with Steam OS. I mean the machine itself should be powerful enough to act as the TV set-up HTPC which gets games streamed to it. Its nice and small and looks relatively nice.

 

Extensions of this would be could it be made to have a boot menu so you could have a PS4 and a Steam Machine. Just encase you like the exclusives.

 

Similar thoughts for Xbox One?

 

I am not really interested in hearing whether its a stupid idea because I know I could build something for a similar price etc etc, I like building PCs, just wondering if this could work.

 

CHEERS!

[Guest]

Basically I was wondering if anyone thinks or knows whether this would be possible? The PS3 (originally at least) could have Linux installed on it and I was wondering if with an amount of tweaking whether the PS4 could be made to do the same but with Steam OS. I mean the machine itself should be powerful enough to act as the TV set-up HTPC which gets games streamed to it. Its nice and small and looks relatively nice.

 

Extensions of this would be could it be made to have a boot menu so you could have a PS4 and a Steam Machine. Just encase you like the exclusives.

 

Similar thoughts for Xbox One?

 

I am not really interested in hearing whether its a stupid idea because I know I could build something for a similar price etc etc, I like building PCs, just wondering if this could work.

 

CHEERS!

No, theoretically yes, but doable most likely not

[hawaiims]

Basically I was wondering if anyone thinks or knows whether this would be possible? The PS3 (originally at least) could have Linux installed on it and I was wondering if with an amount of tweaking whether the PS4 could be made to do the same but with Steam OS. I mean the machine itself should be powerful enough to act as the TV set-up HTPC which gets games streamed to it. Its nice and small and looks relatively nice.

First of all they are selling the PS4 at below cost of manufacturing, so they are doing everything possible to prevent this type of stuff from happening (it was a problem with the ps3 because people were buying them up and installing linux, and sony would lose money.) Besides, it doesn't just use a regular gpu or anything, so drivers would be impossible to make them work. 

[brat137]

Cheers both, was just a interesting thought.

[qwertywarrior]

First of all they are selling the PS4 at below cost of manufacturing, so they are doing everything possible to prevent this type of stuff from happening (it was a problem with the ps3 because people were buying them up and installing linux, and sony would lose money.) Besides, it doesn't just use a regular gpu or anything, so drivers would be impossible to make them work. 

the reason they removed otherOS from the ps3 was because of exploits but that didnt help it made the community angrier and fai0ver ended up getting the keys making it wide open

 

+they arnt  loosing money of the hardware costs

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2013/11/19/report-sony-near-to-profit-on-ps4-hardware/

[hawaiims]

the reason they removed otherOS from the ps3 was because of exploits but that didnt help it made the community angrier and fai0ver ended up getting the keys making it wide open

 

+they arnt  loosing money of the hardware costs

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2013/11/19/report-sony-near-to-profit-on-ps4-hardware/

they are because hardware isn't the only cost. The thing costs 399$, but Sony will sell it to best buy (or some other retailer) for maybe 340$. 

[MG2R]

Since the PS4 and the Xbone are, in essence, both just a simple x86 PC, as long as you can hack into the BIOS, this should be doable. It will be difficult to figure out, but someone probably will.

[Nexus]

Its probably possible, i dont think anyone has done it yet, but someone probably will. The real question is how challenging the process will be and whether or not the "average" techie will be able to do it. Time will tell.

[qwertywarrior]

they are because hardware isn't the only cost. The thing costs 399$, but Sony will sell it to best buy (or some other retailer) for maybe 340$. 

never thought of that

coudnt find any info on how much they actually sell it for retailers be it ps3 or ps4

[MG2R]

BTW, video streaming is basically just encoding and decoding a videostream. If the encoding is done with H.264, then a Raspberry Pi would be an ideal 1080p streaming device.