mattkan wrote:
No. Whats the point. The only console that ever stood up to the hacking test was the ps1. And that was many moons ago. I think Mr Holtz has not experience the full wrath of what hacking it could do to the ps3. It could kill it after a month.
The PS1 was hacked, there were chips available to allow you to run copied/region locked games for sure (So I've heard...)
Personally I wouldn't hack the PS3, I (may) have run "enchanced" consoles in the past but feel that the volume of games I ended up with detracted from their value. Now I only have games that I actually want. Even that aside, I enjoy playing online and wouldn't want banned because I wouldn't stump up the cash for a game. The PS3 is my media hub in the living room, I honestly don't know what I'd do without it these days and if you were to chip the machine there's a fairly big risk that you'd break it.
Games these days aren't all that expensive, sure on release day they might be ~£40+ in some shops but shopping around on the net they can usually be found cheaper. Give it a few months and most games are half that anyway. I find that if I buy a game I enjoy it more, the reason being that if I've stumped up the cash I'll play it through. Pirated games don't have that for me, and when I have too many I never play them all through and have missed some gems in the past as a result.
At the end of the day, if everyone were to run pirated software then there would be no money for future releases, or prices would have to be increased. I know that the entertainment industry has been saying this for years, but it makes sense.
I do see one plus point in a cracked console. The original xbox had some great utilities and emulators you could run when it was chipped. xbox media centre (XBMC) was a brilliant media player, and could upscale to 1080i,720p very well. Though we all know that when you chip/crack/hack a console it's only a matter of time before you start running pirated games.
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