futile effort then. the level of piracy with custom dvd drive firmware on the 360 is already at a high with people not caring about online play or gamerscores. basically the same as piracy on the PC (by people not caring about online gameplay there either). meanwhile sony maintains a "open platform" even running its own linux distro, serving the basic needs of homebrew on a Cell, expandable with regular aftermarket stuff.... all that with maintaining security to hardware, maybe learning lessons from the PSP hacks? because of this i think the interest in hacking the ps3 is considerably smaller that doing the 360

it's not that i don't earn enough to afford those games. some games just don't have a high enough fun-$$$-ratio if bought at full retail price. and certainly not at what retailers charge for games in europe. average xbox or ps3 pricing is 60euro-70euro for a new game. budget titles are 30euro that would be 75-87$ for a new game and 40$ for a budget title. only very few titles have the right to claim that kind of money. one of the was GTA4. but most games would be utterly dissappointing and i would ask myself why i paid that sum for a game that managed entertain me for 2 hours at most.