Sony developing hack-proof PlayStation 3? (£186)

WatchTower · 23 Feb 2011 at 14:18

PS3's lower than £200 if people still think they're expensive they must be homeless.

The best piece of kit for a fraction of it's original price.

Dark_Angel · 23 Feb 2011 at 14:28

Guys I'd like to remind everyone to be somewhat careful on the subject of how a console is hacked / software is run on it.

VeNT · 23 Feb 2011 at 14:32

if it comes down to that price I'll buy one, not seen any for sub £190 for ages now

Dark_Angel · 23 Feb 2011 at 14:33

I'd consider shifting my old PS3 and buying a new one as I've one of the old original 40GB with a 80GB harddrive I got from a friend

Don't really play it much, but since it's getting on it might not hurt - especially if it comes with a game or 2!

Tom84 · 23 Feb 2011 at 15:12

Surely if this is true Sony should replace all existing consoles FOC

HAz · 23 Feb 2011 at 15:41

surely a hackable ps3 is more fun?

G-MAN2004 · 23 Feb 2011 at 15:43

K1LLSW1TCH said:
If this is indeed true then it puts a bit of a dampener on the comments of the armchair security experts who said in the other thread that a hardware revision was impossible due to it not being compatible with all the existing games.

Oh God, that thread was pathetic. So many people thought they knew it all.

"That's it, it's the end for Sony, they can't do anything to fix this, believe me. I haven't ever worked in security but I know." :rolleyes:

Code13 · 23 Feb 2011 at 16:13

5punk3monk3y said:
It will be 3.56 out of the box i.e. hackproof

Not by the sound of it. It seems like some form of new Hardware configuration though it will have the latest firmware too.

K1LLSW1TCH · 23 Feb 2011 at 16:30

G-MAN2004 said:
Oh God, that thread was pathetic. So many people thought they knew it all.

"That's it, it's the end for Sony, they can't do anything to fix this, believe me. I haven't ever worked in security but I know."

Typical OcUK though innit bruv.

Streeteh · 23 Feb 2011 at 16:31

Good news for me tbh, i was considering 'upgrading' to a slim because my 40gb has been consistently full for a looong time now. Also i prefer the slim form factor and, well, lets be honest, there's always the background fear of a YLOD

This just cuts the price point down another notch for when i do finally invest in a replacement.

CliffyBiro · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:21

I was planning on buying another next month, but I think it makes sense to see what comes of this first.

deSade · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:27

Code13 said:
You can't beat nerds.

Yes you can.

And they cry.

Skyboat · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:48

Streeteh said:
Good news for me tbh, i was considering 'upgrading' to a slim because my 40gb has been consistently full for a looong time now. Also i prefer the slim form factor and, well, lets be honest, there's always the background fear of a YLOD

This just cuts the price point down another notch for when i do finally invest in a replacement.

Ignoring the other reasons for purchasing a Slim, upgrading the HDD in these things are dead easy, takes literally 2-3 minutes with the right screwdriver. Of course you'll have to make a complete system backup first though, which isn't hard mind.

Dark_Angel · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:58

Skyboat said:
Ignoring the other reasons for purchasing a Slim, upgrading the HDD in these things are dead easy, takes literally 2-3 minutes with the right screwdriver. Of course you'll have to make a complete system backup first though, which isn't hard mind.

But but but... new and shinnneeeyyyyyy!

badcompany · 23 Feb 2011 at 19:38

yer but how much longer until PS4?

Streeteh · 23 Feb 2011 at 22:39

Skyboat said:
Ignoring the other reasons for purchasing a Slim, upgrading the HDD in these things are dead easy, takes literally 2-3 minutes with the right screwdriver. Of course you'll have to make a complete system backup first though, which isn't hard mind.

Dark_Angel said:
But but but... new and shinnneeeyyyyyy!

FrankJH · 24 Feb 2011 at 08:50

Margaret said:
40Gb from a decent torrent site or newsgroup is only like 6 hours on a 20mb connection and that's pretty slow nowadays.Having said that you probably could complete it at least once, it's only a 4 hour or so single player campaign. Sigh.

I don't have my PS3 modded though, cba. No such thing as hack proof mind.

and how many people actually have 20mb connections (compared to the user base, even just uk userbase, of the PS3)?

A VERY tiny proportion

Tythus · 24 Feb 2011 at 11:36

FrankJH said:
and how many people actually have 20mb connections (compared to the user base, even just uk userbase, of the PS3)?

A VERY tiny proportion

The majority of intenet users cannot even get a 20mb connection even if they wanted.....well they could if they had a few hundred a month spare but lets not go off track too much.

DBT85 · 24 Feb 2011 at 13:16

FrankJH said:
and how many people actually have 20mb connections (compared to the user base, even just uk userbase, of the PS3)?

A VERY tiny proportion

As of 2009 virgins network covered about 12.5 million homes (near enough 50%) and they were about to start adding another 500k. But that only means that its available. Most people I think will probably still be on 10mb as most don't need anything faster. Some do, but most don't.

We can't get it here

Gashman · 24 Feb 2011 at 18:57

Tom84 said:
Surely if this is true Sony should replace all existing consoles FOC

why on earth should they replace consoles that have been intentionally hacked? sorry but if you hack your console then you should have absolutely nothing from sony, period! infact sony should kill all the hacked consoles, and watch all the hackers run crying to the press about how big bad sony has turned their PS3s into paper weights, would make me laugh my behind off!