There is an unconfirmed report that Sony is fed up having to deal with hackers targeting its PS3 and that the company may be developing a hack-proof PS3.
The drama surrounding the Killzone 3 leaks apparently has Sony worried that its platform could become a common piracy threat, EverythingHQ writes.
This new PS3 reportedly has a 300 GB hard drive and a price tag of about $300, which would replace the current 160 GB model and make room for a $249 or $199 version. The publication speculates that the launch of the console might be tied to the outcome of Sony's lawsuit against hacker George Hotz, who jailbroke the PS3.
That, however, appears to be rather unlikely as that suit could last years. If Sony wants to build a walled garden around its PS3, it will do it any way since the console's vulnerability has been shown. Sony declined to comment on the rumor.
Also I think their new unhackable PS3 is going to be a regular PS3 slim covered with tons of duct tape, with a permanently disabled wireless chip. That way you can't connect anything to it but controllers, and can't connect to a network.
That's what I was thinking
And someguynamedmatt, you hate pirates? Look at the corporate fraud these days..look at the money the bankers took..look at the Federal Reserve system and the never-ending debt it creates. Not saying pirating games is right, just trying to put things in perspective and perhaps explain why some people choose to do it. If people want to get on their high horse about software piracy, corrupt morals and questionable business practices then really folks, look around you..
There is a difference between hacking to explore new possibilities and hacking to not pay. I don't condone piracy but I don't mind hacking. It allowed me to use my memory stick on my PSP instead of the slow, battery chugging UMD. I own the games I play but still its better that way.
As for "hack proof" hah. They have said that about a lot of things. Nothing is hack proof. Since all software is man made there will always be holes, bugs and loop holes to exploit.
"Pathetically low"? According to what, the National Bureau of Making Stuff Up On the Spot? TorrentFreak reported at the end of 2010 that Dante's Inferno was downloaded 1.3M times; CoD: BlOps was downloaded 930,000 times for the 360 (5th most pirated game on TF). That's considerably less than the 4.7M times it was downloaded for PC, but those are numbers from just one site. Even though piracy is less prevalent on 360 and PS3, we're still talking millions upon millions of pirated games each year. It's low if you compare the numbers to piracy on PCs, which take significantly less effort to obtain and run, but to say that piracy on consoles is "pathetically low" without reservation is just inaccurate, by any standard.
How is it pirating? please explain to me why you think someone jailbreaking a PS3 that they paid for and legally own is pirating. Unless pirating means stealing from yourself, your argument is invaild. George didn't steal/pirate anything, he simply configured his own PS3 to play other games.
tl;dr someguynamedmatt cannot argue for he is ignorant
1. An offline system
2. A powered off system
Everything else is fair game, and calling it hack proof is just sending up a flare and asking for people to hack it.