While it is a well known fact that PC, as a platform, is rife with software piracy, the same going to become true of consoles.
That is according to InstantAction CEO Louis Castle, who talked about the problem in a keynote address at Develop 2010 yesterday. The keynote itself was entitled ‘Traditional Games Breaking Into Social Networks’
“Piracy is not exclusive to PCs, I assure you it is coming onto consoles,”
Consoles have so far remained relatively unscathed by the issue, though Castle believes it is merely a matter of time.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
It already has.. been going on for around 2 years now, possibly even longer -.-
Really?! Consoles are only being hacked now?!! So how do you explain my hacked PSP? My softmodded Xbox (The original one), my softmodded PS2? My softmodded Wii?
Consoles have been hacked, softmodded and chipped well before 2010. The guy clearly has no clue.
Stupid article.
Going to come? Consoles have been hacked for decades. I know a guy, who isn't a pirate by the way, that was writing his own (pretty crappy) games for the Atari 2600 since right before the NES hit the scene. He had all sorts of breadboard, ROM chips and ROM burning stuff in his garage because he hoped to one day manufacture his own retro homebrew games. He's been trying to reverse engineer pretty much every cartridge-based console he can get his hands on ever since because he wants to know how they work. Mostly the old ones as anything beyond the SNES is beyond his skill level, but he's hard at it. That's his main hobby.
Long story short, as long as there has been computer hardware there has been someone trying to hack it.
The 360 is quite open to hacking sadly, it doesn't even require much skill to do from what my friends have told me.