Playstation 3 Hacked!

Thats right you read it right. News just in tells me the guy responsable for hacking the iPhone in 2007 at the age of 17 has now turned to the PS3 and he’s done it. George Hotz (cambridge) wrote on his blog that he now has complete read/write access to the Playstation 3 allowing him to make it backwards compatible with PS2 games but he’s still unsure on how to wield his new found power.

It wasnt no easy hack. It took him “3 years, 2 months, 11 days…thats a pretty secure system” He goes on to say he’s not going to make some easy to use download tool so everyone can jump on the bandwagon. As far as i can see its still in the early stages of infancy and im sure will be quite a while before we start seeing mod’d PS3′s all over the place.

Is this the end?

Does this mean PS3′s can me moddified and we can get cheap games meaning you end up with every game that ever comes out but you dont play them as they have no real value and Great games dont get released as no one buys them anymore?

Does this mean Trophies will be able to be hacked meaning all that hard work you’ve done was a waste of time as cheats will use 3rd party programs to get every trophy ever created and even ones that dont exist?

I hope not. As expensive as games are these days you have to remember its big business to the game companies which in turn means they put their all! into the creation process. If that money isnt there why would they continue. Or will Sony follow in the footsteps of Microsoft and end up banning over a million gamers from using their Playstation because their PS3 has been mod’d.

I guess we will just have to wait and see how this story unfolds. Watch this space.

RobGroove