| ChichiriMuyo said: How, exactly, does it cost $40 to burn a BR disc? You can get them for well under $4. Are we counting in electricity, Internet, and hardware costs as well, or something? If it's $40 to burn a BR is it $5 to burn a DVD? Seriously, where are you pulling this number from? I just typed "blu ray burnable disc" into Google and one of the first things I saw was an offer for 25 BR discs for $29. Even if you were looking at the more expensive dual layer BR discs it only takes a quick look at Newegg to see that those are available for under $20. And on top of that, you'd only need 2 of them since the only games that big on the PS3 are MGS4 and FF13. Seriously, no unnecessary attacks like that other guy, you don't seem to know much of what you're talking about stage. You're just plain dead wrong on the facts, and as such there's simply no justification for your belief. BR burning is not that expensive, hasn't been for quite some time now, and the fact that hacking console hardware can make you some serious money makes it unlikely that the costs were ever an issue to begin with. It's the security that PS3 has, plain and simple. The fact that there's an entire processor that functions as a security measure and nothing else should speak to that. |
No its not, do you know why the PS3 firmware is split now between the HDD and onboard NAND when it wasn't originally I'll add. The PS3 has been close to fully hacked before now but Sony caught wind of the potential hack and splitting the firmware killed it stone dead. The main reason the PS3 is still not hacked is the most talented hackers are mainly interested in using the hardware for homebrew, it's the thrill of getting hardware to run software it's not supposed to. By allowing Linux installs from launch Sony killed the motivation for some of the brightest minds out there, combine that with the ridiculous expense of the console and at that time expensive costs of burning Blurays and it was never a priority for most of the hacking scene in the first few years. Now prices have dropped on the PS3, Bluray writers and media, combined with Sony removing Linux support on the new model PS3 there is more chance of a exploit being found by the hacking scene than ever now.
The 360 which some people think has terrible security actually had only two security holes which have both been fixed now, at this current moment in time its impossible (and likely to stay that way for a while) to run unsigned code on a 360 updated with the July 09 update. The DVD drive firmware flashing exploit is also likely to be fixed with the next revision of Liteon drive now someone in the scene released their only backdoor into the drives they had left.
The figures shown in the OP are hardly surprising though that the PC suffers most.
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