Changes absolutely nothing for me, I`ll tell you that much. I don`t follow "console hacking" because I couldn`t give less of a care frankly, but from what I understand the Wii and 360 have both been hacked to death for years now, so I really don`t see the big deal here. Or is this just hackers rejoicing because they finally cracked 4 year old tech? Lol, good for them, meanwhile I was over here playing stacks of games,

*N4G throws 360 pirate argument out of the window*

Like the PSP right?

There are two possibilities that will occur. One is that hardware sales of PS3 will increase but it will somehow affect software sales. Hacks can allow users to run homebrews on their hacked consoles but we all know that the hacks is most frequently used to pirate games. Although this won't affect the PS3 that much because games of today requires an internet connection to fully experience the game.

both the xbox 360 and the wii have been hacked doesn't seem to be bothering Microsoft or Nintendo that much.

LOL best time to buy a PS3 then. But in general most console gamers lack to know how, or the will to keep up with firmware changes and hacks so this shouldn't change a thing other than to annoy Sony. We're talking about a gaming populace that likes to chillax in front of the TV, unlike the PC gaming techhounds who loves to tinker with every aspect of their machine.

There is also no reason to spend time pirating say Black Ops for the PS3 when doing the same for the PC takes a lot less effort. Sure a few copies of God of War and GT 5 might be pirated but thats insignificant to the total sold.

Wonder why sony did not encrypt the root key (which i know nothing about i just read what it said)

good job hackers 4 years in your mothers basement.

Simple truth: until pirated game torrents start showing up and have been proved to work, nothing has happened.

As long as it doesn't ruin online games like PSO on the Dreamcast, I don't care.

To be honest I'd probably jail break my PS3 once they get it working. I'd probably do it to collect trophies, and well... just to play free games :)

Millions of people are enjoying their jail broken iphones, and that damn thing cost more than the PS3. Yet their sales are still sky rocketing

"However, do a quick search of BluRay torrents (but don’t download) and you will find not only fewer movies but also fewer downloads. "

ok let's do the maths-
*public torrent sites= 50
*private torrent sites= 30
add them together 80 torrent sites together, which should eventually lead to millions of downloaded blurays!

"Some of the “amazing” features that these hacks give are emulators,"
There are more features! Xbox hack was the best hack in any console and XBMC was the best hack that happened to it! If you own a modded Xbox, you would know hackers can add many homebrew apps to it!

"So the games may not be as “free” as you think, nor the jailbreak as useful."
Yes but the whole point is developers would be losing large amount of sale for the game because the people who were mean to buy the game are downloading them.
And I know there will always be people who buy games, but the point is making games like GOW3, Bad Company 2, Gears all cost a total and more than 15million to make!

8th gen will be arriving and gamers would obviously want MORE in terms of graphics meaning boundaries would have to be push for production cost in other to make it appalling to gamers!

Wow can't believe Sonys PS3 is the first console to be hacked. End of the road for Sony. Game Over.

I'm so glad Microsoft and Nintendo's systems are still unhacked. Don't want them to sell less games because people can download games of the internet ;)

Could you all do me a favour. Could you stop the 'Microsoft and Nintendo got hacked and we didn't care' $hit please. Stop pretending that you care. If you weren't so busy praising the hackers and congratulating the pirates for making copies of the games you could show some concern. I have sat and heard news of people hacking systems and releasing copies of games and I have seen almost zero protests from 360 or Wii owners. You know why? Because you don't care. Your too busy thinking how many pirated games you can buy and how you can cheat in games. All you think about is how you can do what you want with the system and not the consequences. Why should I care if you don't? Just because Sony and it's PS3 users are more concerned then you please stop telling us not to care.@ khushand. Of course Microsoft isn't affected. They have mostly third party games. The 360 will sell whether they are pirated or not.

"That is 50GB’s of space, so downloading the file would leave people on most plans over their bandwidth cap (We still have those? YES)"

If you live under a fascist, freedom-hating regime such as parts of Euroland, or most of Canada, or all of Australia, maybe. Thank goodness for the US of A. Bandwidth here is basically All-You-Can-Eat, and you're allowed to bring in a wheelbarrow.

Give PS3 2 years at most now before Software sales go down the toilet, why 2 years? For faster/ceaper Boardband and Blu-ray burners/discs.

Meh.

Sony will find a way to detect these hacks and you will see the same people who are right now happy as fuck crying their ass off about how Sony is banning them for their illegal activities.

Just like there are boffins working AGAINST Sony, there are also boffins working FOR Sony. They'll be responding in their own way soon enough.

SONY WILL DIE HAHAHAHAH XBOX WILL BUT FUCK WII IN A WEEK AFTER THAT AND MICROSOFT WILL BE THE BEST ELECTRONIC COMPANY IN THE UNIVERSE HAHAHAS FUCK YOU' YOU STUPID GAY SONY DROIDS, lol just joking, hacks won't change anything look at the Xbox, when halo 3 was released the game manage to sell 11 million copies even with mod chips.

No more than 3 days until "Sony hack killing Patch" headlines flood N4G as always.

what does it matter the best selling PS3 game is call of duty!

All this time I thought Geohot found a nice girl and settled down, tsk tsk. Now that he cracked the ps3, I guess its back to masturbation in his parents basement then.

i rely do beleive that linux was saving the ps3 from full scale hacking and whether people want to admit it or not sony did screw over every ps3 owner by removing that feature(if you argue that it wasn't used that much and quote sony's bs 1 percent btw they cant actually tell how many people are using it or not) what if one day the remove another "minor" feature such as turning on or off the ps3 via xmb button would you stand your ground or just take it? this may seem anti sony but the fact is i love sony i love their games but this was a BS move by them; it in my opinion was them playing the big company and taking a dump all over their consumers albeit it was the first time i've had that impression but the experience still left it's mark.

Can someone tell me why these people think they have the right to break open these devices and do what they wish with them. Dont they realize that piracy is bad and shit like that? You bought it? Is that your excuse? big freakin whoop.

Worried about hackers ruining PSN. With anyone being able to jump online and create dummy accounts I don't think it will be enjoyable.

Piracy will fail on PS3, the games are too big

Homebrew/Emulators will be the big thing

oh and BACKUP MANAGERS to play your games from the HDD

that's it.

Sure it will help the ps3 sales in the shitty countries. well I think the ps failbreak already did this.

This only benefits me if i can save my games to the HDD. Its the only reason i installed homebrew on my wii. On the wii its faster than the laser on the wii to read the discs. Id love to be able to play my PS3 games right off the HDD w/o switching discs. But as per usual this lead to piracy. People would just rent and save.

lol they said most people wouldnt like to download the games because of bandwidth caps haha. Thats why all the ISP's are raising the bandwidth caps now lol. God that site sux's. Pop up ad hell

Nothing will happen, the average consumer will not spend the time figuring out how to play hacked games. The PS2, XBOX, 360, and Wii had been hacked for years and the systems generated millions of software units sold. You people spend too much time defending either side. All the software giants have to do is drop game prices by ten to fifteen bucks and all this hoopla will be yesterdays news.

WhyTF is he talking about writing anything on bluray? Aren't pirated games put on hard drives?

Good article.

It should be pointed out however that, Geohot failed to hack the PS3 hardware by his own merit.

The key was leaked by a Sony developer to begin with.

IF that had not occured - Geohot and co. would still be retired.

And another thing - if these hackers weren't copying, distributing or promoting pirated software - the 'other OS' funcitionality would still be available - allowing them to develop on the platform.

If you ask me - their plea to Sony and the wider public about making the platform open is all Bollocks.

None of them have any interest in making games or developing enhancements for the PS3. It's all about game distribution.

i took out a life insurance plan on geohotz. i think my odds are better than the lottery

I've been trying to tell people this for a while now. Who in their right mind who go through all the trouble to Pirate ps3 games? I know that some die hard techies might but that far from the majority of gamers.

I will still buy my original PS3 games,I'm just grateful to have the extra options now. I can't wait to see the custom apps that will be out for it.

Mods people! I wanna be able to play modded games via ps3!

all of you saying the games are too big where are you getting your information from. you are all saying that 40-50 gig is too big. First of all only because bluray can hold that doesnt mean that the game uses all of that space. go on any torrent site and take a look at the file sizes before you talk. 80 percent of the games right now are between 4-14 gig. Also if u get a game like the new NBA JAM thats between 1 and 2 gig. Even Gran Turismo 5 which is a first party title and you would think to be one of the biggest sized titles is only 19.5 gig. so please stop that 40-50 gig talk. also you can rent a game or borrow from a friend and copy it to the internal or an external hard drive and not have to download anything or burn anything. 99.9 percent of people playing pirated games on the ps3 are loading the game to an external hard drive not buring them to a blue ray disk. 1 other thing, with the root key now available all of these emulators, boot magagers, ect will be coded to run on updated official firmwares so people will have PSN acess and will be able to play these games online.

Games aren't too big. For me, even a game like God of War 3, which takes 40 GB of the blu-ray is still not too big. It would take less then 24 hours to download that if I leave my pc on for the night.

Yeah, you know, you get insane speed on torrent from private trackers, everyone has servers seeding to keep their ratio.

If I leave my door open and don't put my valubles in a safe I expect them to go missing.

A service dongle was leaked from within Sony, so the hackers never hacked shit they were let in.

It was just to good to be true, all of these ps3 exclusives coming out this year was supposed to make this year possible the best year this gen for me. Now my ps3 gaming is in danger, thanks hackers.

Here we go again with my comment not posting but saying server error and my comment still waiting to post. I hit send again and it says comment already posted, refresh the site and my comment is nowhere to be seen.

This site has gone down hill and something needs to be done to fix all these crashes.

My orignal comment is in my comment history but I can’t copy paste because it’s longer than what can be seen.

How can a gen be delayed it hasn’t been announced?
Anyways I don’t mind a 2028-29 release of next gen we already had a18 months delay with the Covid problems

i understand sony have stock piled ram for the ps5 could they also done it for the ps6 i wonder?

What is crazy is that this generation of consoles might still go up in price . I believe that millions of gamers have not upgraded to this gen due too prices not dropping.

We don't need better graphics/hardware.

Some of the best games this generation didn't have high end current generation graphics. Heck, some had PS4 or even PS3 level graphics.

A lot of the games this generation that had the best graphics were either sub par, or it was not the reason that made them great. (Heck, no game that just has amazing graphics and nothing else, is great)

How can people say this was one of the worst generations ever when we have had games like:
Baldurs Gate III
Cyberpunk 2.0
Elden Ring
God of War Ragnarok
Horizon Forbidden West
Silksong
Hades II
Clair Obscur
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
Blue Prince

That's just quickly off the top of my head.

Just from that short list above have been the best games in the last 10 years and there have been many more, especially from the Indie or AA scene.

All next generation is gong to do is make AAA studios continue to produce slop and have graphics as the 'selling point'.

This has been one of the best generations IMO (short list above and many more games).

We don't need new hardware to make great games, we need more creative and passionate developers.

Good, I am fine with the current consoles and now add the handhelds like ROG Xbox Ally X and the others, I am good with the consoles and now add, steam, multiple store fronts and PC games, and my on the go gaming is fine so no rush for any new consoles as my gaming goes. Been a gamer since 1979 and have owned almost every console made since. We have certainly seen many issues this gen like Covid, A.I., supply chain shortages, chip shortages, the election, tariffs, but given all of this I have too many games to play on my consoles and handhelds, so yes this gen has been challenging but definitely not the worst as there are many great, quality games and this gen is not over, and 2026 looks to be an awesome year for games.

I'll get into next gen. late. I don't feel like getting hustled because of artificial price increases. I'll probably grab something a few years in, unless Bloodborne 2 drops or something. I mean, I'm still playing Cyberpunk.

all for it

I feel like ive been chasing sale after sale since everything is so damn expensive

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I have no problems with the delay. I just hope my 4,5 years old PS5 will make it until the realease of the PS6.

I'm fine with my PS5 at the moment

This will be perfect timing for them to push streaming games.

I wasn't gonna move on anyway

Good, we barely have any proper exclusives for the current generation. This gen is far from over

I'll never buy anything ever again especially from Microsoft and Sony not a fan anymore with backward compatibility is horrible.

Steam machine can be more expensive I still wouldn't care. Steam is now my console and my digital store front!