The up gradation of the Sony’s Play station 3 does not benefit the customers in any way. Though the customers can skip the up gradation on their system but in that case they won’t be able to upgrade and retain the existing Linux on their system.
Sony is in a plan to up grade its play station 3 with the version of 3.21 this Thursday. However, the customers who up date the latest firmware would not be able to install Linux on their system any more.
The players who do not up grade would not be able to sign any longer into the play station network. Thus they will not be able to play the videos for which they made investments. On the other hand, new game released from Sony would require would require the new version. This indeed is a tough situation for the customers.
In response to this, Sony said the main and perhaps the only reason for such a step was security. However, Sony has been largely criticized in the sense that the Linux is a security concern only for Sony and not for any user. Thus the new up grade of software by Sony is said to be highly against the consumer.