iPhone Hacker Claims to Have Cracked the PS3

I'll laugh if they make a PS2 emulator

The day of reckoning is here!

They will make all kings of emulators. All in good time.

that would be hilarious.
if they do then son many middle fingers would be pointed at sony for not having support for ps2 games anymore

3 days ago this was really news.

Mostly for what I want, Linux access to the GPU would be awesome. The rest of stuff that will be developed will be icing on the cake?

If console companies were smart they would buy people like this off. But they aren't and so we will see a hacked PS3 soon..not that I find it exciting or anything.

I wanna see a Windows 7, Mac OSX, Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2, N64, hell even a dreamcast emulator, oh and a 1 terabyte HD. Then I will be impressed.

Damn I wish I had the brains for that.

i would like this not just because of pirating games but to get my copyrighted game saves back after sony had to replace the bluray drive in my PS3 making my backups useless.

technically it would just show that someone can make a better PS2 emulator than sony. that is if the reason they got rid of the PS2 emu in later consoles was it was horrible

Hooray for hacked reliable hardware!

@Xbox360 t(o_ot)

I will LOL if he managed to make PS3 play games from xbox and wii. Bravo! (maybe not likely haha)

One of the guys so smart he will definitely be in trouble in the future. At least tech wise.

Bout damned time a professional got to work.
How about the damned PSPgo already? From all I can tell development for the PSPgo hack went to hell for a while because of some useless drama on the scene... very unprofessional.

These are wonderful platforms, but the limits Sony places on them is downright disgusting. Atleast do what Macintosh does and charge ridiculous amounts for the damned applications.
FAT32 only (yeah, chances are, I may at one point use it as a USB drive and want to put a file over 4GB on it...), expensive peripherals (at my local best buy... $50 for 8GB M2, $50 for 16GB MicroSD), and not even a damned custom alarm clock.
I don't even want free games, I just want custom firmware with unlimited access.

Sony can make great hardware, too bad they hired a bunch of monkeys to do their software, because all their funds were wasted trying to make it uncrackable instead of useful (both the PSPgo and PS3).

March on soldier.

They do buy people off and welcome them to the company as long as they are successful.

I call bullshit. Pics or it didn't happen.

your face is bullshit

if it works this'd possibly be the first time since .. ever .. that a gaystation or other console would seem worth the money to me

*GULP* How long till the PS3 is as pirated as the XBox?

That would be awesome!

And one of those middle fingers would be mine!

Who cares, consoles are for children.

And PC gaming is for suckers. The never ending driver issues, constantly having to shell out hundreds of dollars on new video cards just so you can have a decent frame rate, dealing with Windows in general, etc. I used to game on my pc but I got tired of having to upgrade and update my pc every 2 months. I buy the PS3 and it's done. I think a PC puts out better graphics but the cost is just not worth it. So much easier to just buy the game and know it will work on the console.

If only they'd give me a real keyboard/mouse for the console, while I agree with most of what you said, I just can't stand console controllers, they feel so... unnatural compared to the keyboard/mouse I've spent the last 15 years gaming with.

Oh yeah. Playing COD MW2 is hard. I used to play on a pc and the keyboard/mouse combo was better for that type of gaming but I have gotten used to the controller now.

Marsax73 what you say makes no sense. Driver issues are for morons who don't even know how to use their PC. I haven't had driver issues since Windows 95. The upgrades you speak of? It's called progress. It's not like on a console where game innovation and graphics are at a stand still for 6 or 7 years after a new console comes out (will probably be 10 years this generation). On a PC, graphics improve, game realism improves. Compare a console game from 6 years ago and one from today, they look the same. Now compare a 6 year old PC game to a recent one and you'll see a big difference... well unfortunately maybe not so much lately because these stupid consoles are killing it all. But show me any console game that can look as good as Crysis, now in its 3rd year and a game developed specifically for the PC. There are none. Hell, even a blatant lame ass console port like Modern Warfare 2 looks 10X better on PC than on any console.

If you actually upgrade every 2 months you must be a an idiot who doesn't know what to buy, which is also the cause of your driver issues. For the rest of us, we can do a partial upgrade every 2 or 3 years and keep up with the progress just fine. And if we choose not to, hey we can always lower the settings on the newer games or install one of the mods which more often than not tend to improve the visuals and the performance, but at least we have the options on a PC.

Enjoy your life of limitations. Don't worry, you won't be forced to make any tough decisions.

"It's unclear if the newer PS3 Slim would be vulnerable to Hotz's hacks."

My money is on "No". But no matter for me because I have one of the first PS3s.

And PC gaming is for suckers. The never ending driver issues, constantly having to shell out hundreds of dollars on new video cards just so you can have a decent frame rate, dealing with Windows in general, etc...I buy the PS3 and it's done. I think a PC puts out better graphics but the cost is just not worth it. So much easier to just buy the game and know it will work on the console.

Marsax, maybe one day you will be like me and be able to afford both platforms and have the brains to know how to build and upgrade a PC for cheap (it takes a some patience and a little time, both of which it sounds like you obviously don't have). The last rig I built nearly a year ago for just under a grand. The E8400 is overclocked to 4.4GHz and the GTX 275 overclocked about 15%. That rig mows through anything out there right now at 1920 x 1200 resolution, something the PS3 can still only dream about for gaming.

The PS3 (mine is 3 years old with a 500GB hard drive upgrade) has served me well for a lot of things. For the most part the only gaming I do on it is racing games because that controller SUCKS for shooters (Dirt2 - which stutters - NFS Shift, and Motorstorm Pacific Rift). It is a great portable gaming system for business trips and for those inevitable trips to see family to show off pictures and home videos. It also serves as my only BD player. But that's about it.

For real gaming, from FPS to driving to flight simming with FSX, I always revert back to the PC. There is no substitute for graphics and hardware game play that the PS3 can only dream about.

I actually have built my own PC's since the 486 days. I have never owned an OEM pc in my life. I enjoy building my own PC's and I'm currently looking to building a new one with the i5. My post had to do with spending $300 for a console that will play the game you buy and it will look the same for everyone. A few years back, there was the endless debate about which game looked better on which card. Smoke and fog looked great on product A but then shadows, etc looked great on product B. So the choices weren't as easy as just slapping a $200 video card in your pc. Personally, I'd rather put a regular $70 video card in my pc and spend the extra cash on a better processor and motherboard.

As I stated in my comments, I think a properly setup PC will put out better graphics but then a proper gaming pc will at least run you $800-1000. Now there are games that require more horsepower to run and a $1000 rig is not going to cut it. And let's not forget about every year, AMD or nVidia comes out with a better card than before.(ie. more money out of your pocket)

You guys keep pumping dollars into your rigs and I'll be happy with simply putting the games in my PS3 (for the next 5 years) and not having to spend an extra dime for upgrades.

marsax73 -
You do make some valid points about the drawbacks of pc gaming..
but like many have stated.. pc gamers should know what they are getting into. Consoles have the luxury of proprietary hardware.
I think Windows 7 does a decent job of creating a console like feel and stability for games.. but its still up to the game programmers to fully utilize the power of the pc and work out quality control issues. I feel recently that some game companies have become lazy and decided to skip pc support all together. If console companies want my dollars.. they need to add keyboard and mouse support to their next gen systems.. and start making games that fully utilize them..not some dumbed down fps that was made for a controller.

haven't heard any offers being made to c4eva and progress is always being made on xbox360.

and people waiting for the ps3 to be hacked, have fun downloading 25GB+ isos. that takes some time and the media isn't cheap either. I'm entirely not interested in it at all. Plus xbox360 can do everything that a lousy ps3 can do. I'm siding with the PC guys here. PC is still better than console and if you have driver issues, you pretty much purchased the wrong hardware. Don't blame it on PC in general nor Microsoft. I haven't had driver issues besides for very, very old outdated hardware that barely anyone uses any more. Heck, even Windows 7 supports both of my old logitech web cameras and I would say that it doesn't have to.