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Why console makers can legally brick your game console (arstechnica.com)
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[–] gadfly1999@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that console represents a future revenue stream for them. Bricking it will turn the maximum expected lifetime revenue they can get from that console to zero.