PlayStation 3 'hacked' by iPhone cracker

[Jebus]

I think I'm about 5 FW's behind anyway...

[Brats]

You're perfectly entitled to believe whatever you like. I'm just counteracting your arguments, because I don't believe they support your belief at all. This is a forum for discussion after all.

And I never said piracy was rare, I just said it wasn't rife. Maybe we have different definitions, but 'rife' to me says that piracy has reached the point of saturation where it has a significant effect on sales. It might not even be a majority, but it is significant enough to penetrate the mainstream so that even Mum's buying their children consoles get caught up in it (remember the newspaper article from that journalist Mum who unwittingly bought her kids a DS with an R4 cart?).

Console sales are so huge nowadays that even a small proportion of piracy can appear like a huge number. There might be 2 million people out there pirating 360 games, which does seem massive, and yet it's only 5% of total 360 owners. That figure isn't 'rife' at all.

[Flabio]

I am not looking forward to having to constantly update my firmware while this cat and mouse nonsense goes on

How will that be any different from the sheer number of firmware updates they roll out for the PS3 anyway?

[Jebus]

There'll be more!

[ChrisF]

How will that be any different from the sheer number of firmware updates they roll out for the PS3 anyway?

Yep. Loads of them!

[capcom_suicide]

There'll be more!

Yeah this is one of the serious -ve's for me. I hate PS3 updates, they take ages compared to the 360.

[Number45]

3.41 enabled patching of PS3 firmware.

[ChrisF]

3.41 enabled patching of PS3 firmware.

Wahoo!

It was one of the big draws to PSN+, for me, the ability for it to download (but not install) firmwares automatically for you. I really hope it doesn't have to do that too much though

[Number45]

Yeah, I don't ever get to use that though. As soon as I know an update is available I make sure I do it as soon as I get home.

I intentionally don't install the + demos though so I have a nice message waiting for me the day after.

[dvdx2]

There are


If piracy was rife on 360 those numbers would look very different wouldn't they?

many people have a flashed xbox 360 to go along side a legit one (one to play offline, one to play online) MW2 isnt a good example as people many 'pirates' have bought the game to play online. Try doing the maths for a game that doenst have a large 'online' community.

[Flabio]

On a tangental note, I powered on my PSP to play some Valkyria 2 this morning and it told me that I need to update from 3.95 to 6.20.

Yeah, I haven't used it for a while...

[randombs]

MW2 isnt a good example as many 'pirates' have bought the game to play online. Try doing the maths for a game that doenst have a large 'online' community.

FSW posted the sales figures for RDR and RE5, both offline games...

On a tangental note, I powered on my PSP to play some Valkyria 2 this morning and it told me that I need to update from 3.95 to 6.20.

Yeah, I haven't used it for a while...

Mine's on 6-something (or a funky 5.5x that lets you play 6.xx stuff) and that was only to try the MGS demo for all of five minutes, otherwise I'd be in the same boat

[Jay]

I'm considering buying another PSP to save me the hassle of not being able to run newer games on my CFW slim*. Maybe determined PS3 owners will go the same route when Sony start patching the firmware.

* on UMD. I don't pirate PSP games.

[Flabio]

Anyone got the figures for, say, 'War for Cybertron'. That's far enough off the curve that it might be useful.

[Jebus]

FSW posted the sales figures for RDR and RE5, both offline games...

Again, anyone playing Resi 5 offline is (imho) playing that game wrong.