Doubt hackers have given up. They are just having a hard time...

The inability to hack PS3 is adversely affecting PS3 console sales. I wonder how many PS2's and PSP's have been hacked?

You need a special tool to open up the PS3 without breaking it. It costs around the same price as PS3.

Blu-Ray discs are around $10 each for a blank disc.

The hardware mod. hack of the PS3 has done been done yet, so pirated PS3 games would not be able to run on PS3.

Piracy of PS3 is not worth it to pirates.

It adversely affects hardware sales, but positively affects software sales.

Err ... no it doesn't, it just takes a screwdriver.

Someone already posted a link to Amazon where blank discs cost around $4. BDs are far cheaper than cartridges used to be, but that never stopped bootleg cartridge games being mass produced in Asia back in the 16-bit era.

True, there isn't any hardware or software mod to play pirated PS3 software yet.

Piracy is big business in many parts of the world. You can guarantee that it would be worth it to pirate PS3 games if they could.

If the PS3 ever reaches mass market acceptance then I can gaurantee you it will be hacked overnight. As of now its simply not worth it to aggresively pursue a hack. It's not a question of will the PS3 be hacked its a question of when and if you think otherwise your just fooling yourself.

i think no piracy or there is a piracy is double side sword,

look at xbox 360, even if there is some piracy, the xbox 360 software sales are better and multiplatform titles are have better sales on xbox 360

sometimes, people just using the pirate version to test the water.

after they like it, they bought the original, and using his 2nd unmodified xbox 360.

ps3 is i think same fate as gamecube, very hard to pirate at beginning also because the media is different, VS xbox1 and PS2 which have pirate copy everywhere
and the end result are, GC have lost.

so sometimes in this cruel world there is no real black or white, everytthing is gray, and sometimes we need to go to gray area.

just my .00002 cent

 wouldnt the people spending the time hacking and illegally distrupting said hack games/systems be the offender? sony would technically be the victim in this

Excuse me? The 360 got hacked almost on day one when no one had it and it hardly had any market at all. Same for the Wii. Thinking piracy has anything to do with the size of the market is foolish. Soft mod hackers simply want to prove they can outsmart big companies with their hacks and hard mods like chips do it for the cash.

The PS3 has sold over 15 million untill now, and saying it is not mass accepted is just foolish.

@ Gazz on top of that the PS3 should be more attractive to hackers as no one has been succesful in hacking it for two years ! , imagine the bragging rights.

Yup, right on the spot with that one!

It's because of the Blu-ray. BR computer drives are expensive and the PS3 doesn't have region codes which removes the motive for modchip manufacturers.