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PS3 Owner-Upgrade Successes PLUS PS3 Innards Exposed

Several users have reported success in managing to upgrade their PS3 hard-drives. There are several reports of amateur electronics enthusiasts swapping out the 20GB and 60GB drive with higher-capacity version, all of which were recognised and accepted by the PlayStation 3's OS.

The most remarkable point to this is not that something written in a manual actually does work - although that is remarkable in itself - but how rapidly and successfully it can be made to happen.

Phil Harrison6389d ago

Hackers could put a Linux virus on the Hard Drive, upload to an Email, and sent it to a buddy, and brick the console.

I can't believe how open PS3 is.

VirtualGamer6389d ago

so you don't look stupid when you open your mouth.

http://www.theregister.co.u...

Arkham6389d ago

Shut your nonsense hole. You're just making things up to justify your own deliriously skewed viewpoint.

calderra6389d ago

Classic computer points:
-Virtaully no one in the home market runs Linux. They pretty much ALL run Windows.
-Most of these people still don't even run virus scans, assuming they even know what a "virus scan" is.
-The average Linux user is tech-literate, and if you tried to give them a virus, a high percent of them could probably trace the attack back to you and take appropriate action on their end. And legally considering all the professionals.

Now let's look at what PS3 will do to that mix:
-There will soon be millions more linux-ready boxes in the world.
-Most of these boxes will be operated by the same people that will still open unknown .exe attachments in emails.
-Basically none of these people will have any idea how to secure their units.

And voila! Linux virus-writing finds a home!

kmis876389d ago

Someone running Linux on a ps3 still has to go out of their way to buy it and install it. That indicates they might know something about what they're doing. People that open .exe email attachments aren't going to be going out to buy yellow dog linux for their ps3.

VirtualGamer6389d ago

Did you even read the article?

In order to have viruses be effective you need alot of things to work together. First you need a commmon OS like Windows that most people use. Linux has many different flavors and configurations so makes it alot harder not to mention its not widely used. Then you need a common email program like Outlook. There is no common email program that Linux users use so again much harder to propogate as the virus has to exploit vunerabilites in the email program itself in order to spread. Then you need weak security and uneducated users operating as admins on their PC and bingo you have a very effective enviroment for a virus to spread. Linux you operate in a none admin role thus reducing the risk. Thus is why there is about 60,000 viruses known for Windows and only 40 for Linux.

Does that mean no one will ever get a virus using Linux? Nope but the fact that someone is stupid and gets himself infected does not mean its going to spreed like wild fire as it does in the windows world. Thus viruses are far less of a concern. Lastly people who actually write viruses create them for maximum effect so they would target an environment where its very easy to spread. Linux is not that place.

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Silver Bull3t6389d ago

... now I know where to get a replacement fan for my hovercraft...

Thump19676389d ago

Think of the modders and now you will have to worry about viruses glad MS went the way they did

CyberSentinel6389d ago

I was refering to the standard serial ATA 2.5 HD support. I have a few extra old laptop hard drives I could of given a new lease on life, not to mention upgrades would be cheap and easy to install. As for the OS support, I couldn't care less about that, thats just Sonys stab at MS for their HD-DVD support. Very few will actually install another OS since there will be very LIMITED support.

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7 Deserving Games That Never Got Backward Compatibility

Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.

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20 Best Survival Games of All Time

From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga1d ago (Edited 1d ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow1d 18h ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo18223h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie13h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere4h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin9h ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere4h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Hereandthere4h ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

OtterX1d 1h ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

RNTody1d 1h ago (Edited 1d 1h ago )

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno1d ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno22h ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii9h ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno8h ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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