| Tridrakious said: Please mister Damnyou, explain how my post is nonsense. |
Certainly. You made two nonsensical statements, which, given that you made two statements is a 100% quota:
A) "I don't know why people keep talking about with this "hack" story. It's a useless hack."
B) "And any hack is bad for any system."
A) Geohot gained total access to the memory of PS3, which means in time he will learn how to make it do anything. That is the oposite of what we refer to as 'useless'.
B) How is it bad for people to get additional features for their digital cameras? Or their cellphones? Or their toasters? If anything, there are a great number of hacks that increase an article's value and can positively influence purchasing decissions, leading to more revenue for the makers of said devices. For instance, I decided to buy a Canon camera after learning that there are custom firmwares that allow me to do many things I originally wouldn't be able to. Hence, your blanket statement is obviously false.
In the case of game consoles, the jury is obviously still out. We have seen cases in which it was harmful (PSP) but also cases in which it helped to increase the userbase (PS1), which in turn led to many more legitimate sales as well (and which helped to make video games mainstream).
"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360
"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed
"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick
"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance
