^^^ i think your being too pessimistic. it hasnt come down to that yet. If that were true then we'd only have Wii's and simpler smart phone games to play. as long as their is a market for deeper games we will always get them.  I would like to know how consoles are simplyfing games??? because IMHO the libray for PCs and consoles are not that different. RTSs and MMOs are the only genres i see that thrive on PC but not on consoles. I guess those two could count as "deep" games, but they never thrived on consoles to begin with

If it bypasses security devices?  Yes.

You dont need to bypass any security devices as long as your PS3 is 3.40 or lower...

Oh...you can also run emulators on PS3 without jailbreak and any hack whatsoever, given that you still have Other OS

Actually, that's waht the flash drive does.  It bypasses the security devices.

Whether you develop the hack or just use it is irrelevent, it's still hacking.

Though downgrading your firmware is considered hacking by sony at the very least.

You could/can use emnlators on PS3 without any hacking so yes...it is irrelevant

Er, no it's not.  It's totally relevent... because like you said... "could".

You can't anymore, not without bypassing security measures by downgrading your OS.

Actually, if you havent upgraded to 3.41 you can use it perfectly legally without any bypassing

Right and?

I mean, I think in your desperate attempt to be right, you've forgotten what you were argueing.

Consoles aren't inferior to PCs, because if you own one specific console (A PS3) before a certain time, (Before the Slims, when most PS3's were sold) and haven' t kept up with firmware updates (Again probably less then half the phat users to say the least) you can run emulators.

This was supposed to prove your point how?

Also, your overlooking the fact now, that your PS3 can't play PS3 games.

It can play SOME PS3 games, but not any of the recent ones since every PS3 disc after that firmware update, comes WITH that firmware update or a later one.  So no.  Even that very very small subsection of consoles is inferior to PCs.

Actually my point was from the beginning that if you wanna mix brands, than you can play emulators on PS3, because vlad asked where can I play SNES games on PS3, and i said you can play SNES games on PS3 the same way you can play Windows games on MAC, and than other people started mentioning emulators. Dont cherry pick the quotes from the discussion.