Will there ever be mod for PS3

[Gus122000]

Not worth modding since Blu Ray discs are very expensive.

Since it was already bumped....
Meh either pay 10 or 60 dollars for a ps3 game.You choose

 

[CockroachMan]

Blu ray discs are expensives and a blu ray burner is still too expensive..

With blu ray's "victory" over hddvd, the prices should drop, but I don't think it will be as cheap as DVD media in less then 2 or 3 years..

Blu ray looks like a very complicated technology, a modchip for a blu ray drive looks like something hard to make and it'll probably be very expensive..
If PS3 continues to sell the way it's doing now, the interesting in modding will grow and we should see a modchip soon..

 

[squirt1000]

Blu-ray disks have come down in price really quickly, I can get Verbatim BDR disks for £5 a go

And the drive I own only set me back £200

 

[jumpman17]

I don't know. $24 to buy a single blank Blu-Ray disc just to copy a game? I guess that's still saving $36.

 

[Renegade_R]

I don't know. $24 to buy a single blank Blu-Ray disc just to copy a game? I guess that's still saving $36.

And when you have a bad burn?

 

[Armadillo]

$24

. Can get a single verbatim disc for £5.99 ($12ish) and you guys normally get stuff much cheaper than us

 

[jumpman17]

Whoops. $24 was the re-writable version. Normal is $20.

 

[Awdofgum]

plus you have to have a blu ray burner which would cost a quite of bit of money

 

[JPH]

Whoops. $24 was the re-writable version. Normal is $20.

Yes, I saw some blank BluRay disc up at BestBuy for 20 dollars, too.

If you're going to purchase some, purchase them online, and in bulk.

 

[Armadillo]

Blu-ray burners have dropped. £185 will get you a Pioneer BDR-202 4x Blu-Ray burner. That's less money than I paid for my x4 dvd writer.

£185 for a burner and £5.99 a disc. Not that expensive any more and would be well worth it if a hack for the ps3 appeared.

 

[Awdofgum]

Well even if it does happen, i think sony will go to the extreme to stop people from modding their PS3s

 

[pubjoe]

It'll probably happen eventually.

 

[Duke_Jay]

Well even if it does happen, i think sony will go to the extreme to stop people from modding their PS3s

Like M$?
Eventually there will be a mod for the PS3, but I think it will take some time.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

The mod they are working on currently for the PS3 will not require blue ray dsics or burners because they are making it so you can play the games off of an HDD

 

[Duke_Jay]

The mod they are working on currently for the PS3 will not require blue ray dsics or burners because they are making it so you can play the games off of an HDD

Wow that will be pretty hard I guesse, Isnt that easy to detect?

 

[Bob Loblaw]

The mod they are working on currently for the PS3 will not require blue ray dsics or burners because they are making it so you can play the games off of an HDD

Wow that will be pretty hard I guesse, Isnt that easy to detect?

I'm really not sure. I just read the other day that some people are faking how far along they have come with modding the PS3 as well so this all could be a hoax.

 

[mastermanna123]

Not worth modding since Blu Ray discs are very expensive.

It's worth modding if you can play backups. Who would want to buy a game for $60-$80 only to find out it sucks? I would rather pay $20 for the game (cost of Blu-Ray disc).
However, now that I think about it, Blu-Ray burners are around $500. And the amount of space the games would take up on your computer, and the time...It would be hell.
It could go either way for the PS3.

 

[Giga_Gaia]

Not worth modding since Blu Ray discs are very expensive.

It's worth modding if you can play backups. Who would want to buy a game for $60-$80 only to find out it sucks? I would rather pay $20 for the game (cost of Blu-Ray disc).
However, now that I think about it, Blu-Ray burners are around $500. And the amount of space the games would take up on your computer, and the time...It would be hell.
It could go either way for the PS3.

If the biggest game gets on a dual layer blu-ray, that is 50GB on a computer, it's so little space, I mean, I could get more than 40 games of 50 GB stores easily on harddrives.

 

[saulin]

I can see the PS3 getting hacked like the Gamecube was. By streaming the games.

I never owned a Gamecube but I heard this method sucked because a lot of games would run slow. Now with consoles having USB ports. There probably will be a way to load the games off a HDD. Personally I think there isn't much demand for hacking the PS3. But eventually something will come out.

 

[xcalibur]

I'm sure that people will start modding seriously when MGS4 comes out but even though games aren't as big as anyone makes them out to be, those of us with a slow conection would rather just buy the game than wait 2 weeks for it to download.
And the fact that the bluray discs cost about a third of the game isn't really helping either.
Maybe in a couple of years when everyone has moved over to 10+ mb connections and bluray has become a lot cheaper will a lot more people pirate the PS3.

Though at the price its sold, I'm pretty sure those people could afford a fast connection and bluray discs.