The PS3, hacked at last!

I'd like to shake that man's hand. That couldn't have been easy, at ALL.

Nerding it up for a bit, getting read/write access to the PS3's memory is a huge deal. That's still a pretty long way from actually playing haxxored games on the console, but this paves the way for lots of cool emulation and other fancy crap that can be done on the beloved black monolith, much like the wealth of options the PSP has.

And besides, when you think about it, what would the point of hacking a PS3 for playing pirated games be? It apparently takes a "hardware"solution to implement the crack, so you need to open it up to get it to work (see pic above) instead of just installing sliced firmware ala PSP. In addition you'd likely have to run games off a terabyte-class external hard drive because the file sizes are so fucking big (BD storage space), and the chance of getting permabanned from PSN is most likely going to be 100%.

Sound like too much of a hassle to you, too? If you want to play pirated games so badly, it makes far more sense to just get a fucking modded X360 and be done with it. Yeah, it may implode within a year, but hopefully you'll have gotten your money's worth in hooky games by then.