RGA
10-15-2011, 08:41 PM
So I went out yesterday looking for the PS3 and they seem to sell a variety of options - black, White or Blue. All supposedly the same but the Blue one costs a lot more.
But one shop - right when you walk into the giant computer/gaming mart made an interesting offer.
The regular PS3 Slim 160gig at $1980HKD and option 2 $3680. Option 2 comes with an external hard drive 1tb that connects to the USB of the PS3 - but it comes with 108 big name PS3 games - the catch is you can't perform a system update or play online games. I suspect it's a "hacked" PS3 but there was a language barrier and this was an actual shop not some back alley. But with games costing about $40US getting 108 games and all the major titles it's quite a deal. Roughly $4000 in games! So it's obviously some sort of hack.
I didn't think the PS3 could be hacked like this - I knew they were hacked for system information but to copy a game to a hard drive and connect it to the USB seems a glaring hole in the Sony machine.
I went home without buying either. Interestingly PS3 games here even when sold are about half the price they are in the US. I am not sure how companies like Sony can combat this - suing poor people seems pointless since they can't pay Sony to make it worth Sony's time or effort to bring the lawsuits (and jail time costs taxpayers huge amounts of money in a nation that will fall apart financially soon as it is). And they don't seem to be able to stop the hacks. Further - they may increase the price to compensate for theft but the higher the prices the more people will likely opt for the hacked machines.
$250 US is basically giving a person 108 games that would cost around $4000 on an average of around $40 a title. And for that $250 you get an external hard. If they are doing this with XBOX you'd have to think these companies would do a better job of preventing such hacks. Granted Sony has prevented online play with these machines and you can't system update or all the games are lost. Still there is a lucrative underground but for a store by the entrance of a large mart to immediately offer such a thing is surprising for a very "legal" country which seems to enforce laws for every little thing like eating or drinking in the subway.
But one shop - right when you walk into the giant computer/gaming mart made an interesting offer.
The regular PS3 Slim 160gig at $1980HKD and option 2 $3680. Option 2 comes with an external hard drive 1tb that connects to the USB of the PS3 - but it comes with 108 big name PS3 games - the catch is you can't perform a system update or play online games. I suspect it's a "hacked" PS3 but there was a language barrier and this was an actual shop not some back alley. But with games costing about $40US getting 108 games and all the major titles it's quite a deal. Roughly $4000 in games! So it's obviously some sort of hack.
I didn't think the PS3 could be hacked like this - I knew they were hacked for system information but to copy a game to a hard drive and connect it to the USB seems a glaring hole in the Sony machine.
I went home without buying either. Interestingly PS3 games here even when sold are about half the price they are in the US. I am not sure how companies like Sony can combat this - suing poor people seems pointless since they can't pay Sony to make it worth Sony's time or effort to bring the lawsuits (and jail time costs taxpayers huge amounts of money in a nation that will fall apart financially soon as it is). And they don't seem to be able to stop the hacks. Further - they may increase the price to compensate for theft but the higher the prices the more people will likely opt for the hacked machines.
$250 US is basically giving a person 108 games that would cost around $4000 on an average of around $40 a title. And for that $250 you get an external hard. If they are doing this with XBOX you'd have to think these companies would do a better job of preventing such hacks. Granted Sony has prevented online play with these machines and you can't system update or all the games are lost. Still there is a lucrative underground but for a store by the entrance of a large mart to immediately offer such a thing is surprising for a very "legal" country which seems to enforce laws for every little thing like eating or drinking in the subway.