It's Official: PS3 hacked to run games off of HDD

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gebx said:

HappySqurriel said:

Quickdraw McGraw said:
I think you guys are blowing this out of proportion.

Sony will obviously do what they can to cover this up by the next firmware.
And it's different then with the PSP. I don't know many people who are willing to risk a $400-500 machine trying to exploit a hack that isn't even that fool-proof at this stage.

Unless hackers manage to go further with this, it shouldn't have a noticable impact.

Once an exploit has been found it gives hackers an opportunity to learn far more about the hardware, firmware, and operating system; this (eventually) makes it impossible to prevent further exploits because the hackers will be able to find a flaw in new firmware, and to "unpatch" a firmware update.

With that said ...

Piracy is only an issue if your system caters to technophiles who are likely going to know about and be able to take advantage of an exploit.

 Wouldn't that be a big part of PS3's current owners?

From what I have seen not really. This is not a knock on the PS3 it is after all a consumer device just like the Wii and the 360.