Youre wrong its x86, ps3 and 360 arent. Thats the difference

What he's saying is that the loss in software sales will easily offset the gain of increased console sales. It could also lead to loss of developer support.

I buy my games so I couldn't care less. For those who think this is bad for Sony, the PS1 and PS2 were both mod chipped to hell and back and it didn't hurt their business in any sizable way. This stuff is niche and really not worrying about.

In some parts of the world, it's not illegal to patch and mod your console to run homebrew on it, but the act of downloading games you don't own it's still illegal.

PS3 and PS4 as far as I know install the latest FW available in the moment of assembly, I could be wrong. But if the console sit on shelf for a long time it could become outdated... And if moddng and pirating becomes big enough it may make them make more updates and ensure tighter schedule for shipments to enable more updated consoles.

Well I like my trophies and ranking, but I don't bother with cheaters and if I was competing with friends for the trophies I would look the likelyness of them cheating.

Yep... one year ago the exchange rate was 2.65:1 and psn games were R$ 150-200 and now it's around 3.7:1 so the equilibrium is similar. But if you bought from USA you would probably save some money.

We gotta grab those clicks

No it doesn't contradict... the only "positive" thing they said is that it could raise HW numbers, but it would impact SW and cheating. You only read what you wanted to read, that is where I said your bias could make you be and see double standards. Your double standard may not come from piracy and homebrew, but on how you want to judge other people existence or non-existence of dislike for something.

Not exaclty. What you said is true... but I did just wanted to say that HW rise was the only positive side people put, but there was a lot of negatives on this thread, but he decided to took ofense on not everyone being very upset by it.

Is there any country you know of that prohibits you from modding your own HW as long as you don't break copyright material or divulgue the findings that lead others to breaking those materials? I don't remember any. But yes piracy is crime in most countries, just that in some no one care or take action against.

Nowadays consoles rely too much on being online so this is only of use for people who only play offline when it ever reaches piracy levels. Still I want to see consoles open as much as possible :)

I don't ever fell the need for MP, but you are right, for the majority of the market Online seem like relevant enough for the piracy to be "selfcontained"

Still haven't saw anyone saying it was positive (well wasulfunir just said he likes more open system). I saw people saying it could impact positively the HW sales. I find hard to understand why you can't see a difference between one positive aspect (with several negative or possibly negative) and a positive thing as a whole. Because I haven't seen anyone (besides perhaps wasulfunir, that isn't even PS4 buyer) saying it's totally positive.

I see... so it was some people that you know go to PC and complain of piracy and forgot to complain here... fair enough, altough on your initial post you didn't delimitate it. Anyway I think it may impact SW sales a lot in some countries (like Brazil) but improve HW as well. Sony probably think the balance is negative since they earn money on SW and they have making the consoles harder to pirate.