While I do admit I am a big Xbox fan, I was always curious to see what would become of the more open platform of the PS3. As most of us love to get things for free, I think having to pay for things like gamer pictures and backgrounds on Xbox Live is completely unacceptable. But I can see how locking down the Xbox 360 has advantages (not just money) as well. They can ensure that all content is safe for everyone and no jackass can ruin it for everybody.
Although I will say it again, having to pay for gamer pictures and themes is pure crap and a total money grab. I am sure there are tons of people that would be willing to make them for free.
Anyway, that is not what this is about. It got me thinking about how Sony is going the other way and making the PS3 very open (Very un-like Sony BTW). Which I think can be good in some ways, but what copying games? With an open system and a huge hardrive, it is going to be way easier for people to be able to play 'backup' copies of PS3 games.
I think the Wii and the Xbox 360 will be able to defend against this longer as since it is more difficult, why bother when you can just concentrate on hacking the PS3.
So what will happen once they figure out how to play downloaded 'back-ups' straight from the PS3 hard drive? I think they may start selling alot more consoles, but I don't think it will be a good thing for the game sales. Once people can download it for free, why would they bother paying?
I guess we will have to wait and see, but this generation of gaming sure is turning out to be an interesting one.
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