George Hotz, of iPhone hacking fame, has allegedly hacked the PS3 giving him full read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. Blog post Yeah, I know there's been a few fakes regarding PS3 hackery, but this chap actually has some credibility. I'll be interested to find out more information.
I believe the dude. I'm a little disapointed though since it's great PS3 hasn't had a piracy issue. I would love if sony lifted some of the restrictions in linux (like give 3d gpu access). but all in all if someone wanted to do ps3 homebrew, they can just use linux.
Yeah I saw this on engadget, quite sad, my first thought was "wow, finally I can run linux more effectively" then read all the comments about 'free games' / piracy et al. I didn't even think of that, but reading the net's reaction to this it saddens me a bit too. I hope this doesn't affect the prices of PS3 games in the future...
I wouldn't even think of that. I still don't understand the desire to use a game console as a computer.
This could get interesting... If this does resort to us being able to use homebrew, would you be interested in developing anything for PS3 subbie? Or do you still have a contractual agreement that prevents you from doing so?
I'm not sure, I'm not at liberty to disclose that. :lol: But I do love me some cell. :thumbsup: --- Side note --- You could do a really awesome n64 emu on a cell. Actually i'd be more interested in seeing wii/gcn running on a cell (since you can run the core ppu code on the cell and use the spu for tasks).
Actually, I think not being hacked was a disadvantage to the PS3. Why did the first Playstation sell like crazy? Because it was so easy to pirate, HUGE SUCCESS! Both the Wii and the 360 are hacked, and both are WAY ahead of the PS3. Coincidence? I think not. Why did Windows become so widespread in the first place? Everybody had a bootleg at home, so firms started using it (because their employees knew the system from their bootlegs) and paid for licenses.
This was inevitable but kudos to Sony's team for making it so secure that it took this long to hack. As someone whose softmodded psps, wiis etc, I find in the long run its more of a pain then anything. Each time a new game comes out you have to find a new softmod or patch that lets you run the newest games, since sony and nintendo are getting far better at security routines in their games. I've had a psp with customized firmware for years and finally put it to official firmware, simply because I got tired of new games coming out and waiting a month for the patch. Plus I always passed games in the store and wanted the package itself, but couldn't justify it since I had the iso at home. When the new Super Mario Galaxy comes out, I'll probaby just update to official firmware since the wii hacks are just a pain. I guess in the long run its about time keeping up with the mods and waiting for the mods over how much money you want to spend on games.
But Sony are yet to make a profit on each PS3 sold. And I doubt the Wii's success can really be attributed to piracy (after all, there's not really anything worth pirating:icon_bigg). It'll be cool to see if this goes anywhere...if the PS3 could be hacked to anywhere near the extent of the original Xbox, it would be absolutely brilliant for emulation.
PS3 hacked is music to my ears, but then again my very first thoughts weren't about piracy.... Homebrew on the native PS3 OS would be really sweet Making all available SPUs go crazy xD Then again - unlike on the debugs or the PSP - there is no functions on retal PS3s to put executable stuff on it from the outside - and Sony would've been REALLY dumb if they left the debug FW function in but just disabled them :-/ That also goes for piracy (luckiely), you can't just drop a backup in or copy it to the HDD (considered the BDEmu is not only disabled, but taken out of retail FW). And even THEN, backups can't just be put into the drive and be ran. Getting backups to play on the PS3 is supposingly the same pain as on debugs - maybe that will keep it down.... hopefully....
PS1 sold like hotcakes because... IT HAD A GREAT SOFTWARE LIBRARY, better than the competition and this was further fostered by Sony's outreach to developers on a level more open than Nintendo. Wii is ahead of the PS3 because of BLUE OCEAN CASUAL STRATEGY born from the motion control (as well as the tried-and-true Nintendo franchises). 360 is ahead because of Microsoft working off its successes in the previous generation (courting third-parties), but taking it further by evolving Xbox LIVE into a "killer app". Piracy may have helped a little, but don't give me that "LACK OF PORN LICENSING ON BETAMAX TAPES KILLED IT" argument.
If this means I can use it for XBMC, I might actually start to give a shit about the PS3. I could care less about pirating games, since I like to, you know, actually own them.
Interesting, and following this guy might be the only interesting stuff to do on twitter. Yeah I know, and the same with the PS2, but then again wasnt sony losing money on each unit until a while ago? same with MS and the X360 On the other hand, what I can tell companies about piracy is this: you're not losing any sales, those who pirate games would not buy them otherwise, case in point all the people who didnt get the N64. In poorer countries were games cost three or four times more (and people make much less) the only solution would be to sell at lower prices. Say what you want but it's better to get some money than leaving all to the pirates, since in those places making game copies and installing modchips it's a booming business. In south america computers shops will sell you "duplicating towers" which are big AT cases with 5 or 10 DVD burners, enough to set your own pirate games shop.
A decent media player would be good!! - I'd say 90% of my PS3's life has been used playing films, tv and music.... but with the issues with it not wanting to play this file or only video and garbled sound with this file its a pain in the a**.
I see your point and I use my PS3 the same way but I use PS3 Media Server,it plays pretty much everything I throw at at.
Same here, if they could make it run some kind of mediaplayer that does 1080/720p MKV and regionfree blueray i'd be set.
