Pirated PS3 games hit Beijing according to Chinese website

PSUni: According to a Chinese website, George Holtz's PS3 hack has already lead to pirated PlayStation 3 games. Much of the article is hard to decipher due to poor Google translate results, but the jist is that pirated PS3 games are now available on burnt Blu-ray discs. However, they won't be available to the market until the hardware and software cracks are available to the public.

[Julie]

Meh more faery tales, now every day we get these news from unknown sources claming "the PS3 is finally hacked!" really! "but the hack does nothing usefull" , "credible source from surfer-siligon" :/

:p

[Mr_Bun]

Actually, the article mentions that there isn't a hack yet and they won't release the pirated games until a hack is available.

[Julie]

hehe so those are copies that can't be played :p i wonder why people do such crazy stuff D:

Is like to burn a CD or a DVD i guess but these can't be reproduced? i don't know a lot about technical stuff :3

[Hellsvacancy]

Ive seen ripped PS3 games on torrent sites b4 and theyve ALL said "these rips r in-case the PS3 1-day gets hacked"

Its old news

[TheDudeAbides]

old old old
and doesnt make sense

this GeoHot's thing is faaaaaaaaaaaar from making pirates stupid-happy,
all ps3 games are scene-availaible http://pre.zerosec.ws/?cat=... but useless

[vhero]

wont release them so they will spend a fortune buying blank bluray discs to burn them when there is no hack? Yeah right.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

These guys probably buy Blu-ray in bulk and are probably getting them at a good price consider it is China and you can buy just about anything on the black market.

[sikbeta]

Hellsvacancy is Right, the guys made ISOS before anything, just to not lose time making all the ISOS At The Same Time, if someday in the LONG....future the Beast3 get h#cked

lol what a waste of Time -_-

Now, the whole thing made by the George Holtz guy just WORK WITH FATTIES and as far as everyone know and geeks understand can only make things for THE OTHEROS feature, more like a Fully Powerful Linux OS in a PS3 rather than a Pirated Console

Gamers FTW!!!

[Blaze929]

Asia sheesh - the pirating and knock-off god land.

[FamilyGuy]

Why burn or press these to disc before even knowing what a future hack may entail? The disc might need some special, pre-burn before the disc can be played or there might be a HDD playing hack. You may even need special, high end disc or something (verbatim).

What a waste of time and effort.

[4cough]

Hope they manage to figure a way to play the games off a HDD, so ppl don't have to buy a overpriced a Blu-ray burner and blank discs.

[Karooo]

really? really??? umm k.

[Hellsvacancy]

Man u got good eyes

[Hakimy]

Actually he read the article,the writer himself was wondering about this :P

[Hellsvacancy]

oops

[Theonik]

I noticed it from the logo. + you can see it. this further re-enforces this being fake but i know that there are ways to make PS3 back up disks and that there are emulators for PS3 although they suck so i wouldn't say this is 100% useless.

[Marty8370]

ISO's have been available for ages, yet PS3's can't play them, and still can't. Nothing has changed.

[orangbulu]

Beijing Jan 31: I have received a shocking news，currently ps3 pirateed games are being stocked in a game store in Shenyang, however because the modding method has yet to be available locally, it is not out on the store racks yet.

So far we know that the modding method has been done by a small group from canada. They researched the ps3 BR drive and security system after george hotz released the crack. They have successfully tested 15 games including FF13

The mod involves modding the BR drive，I have personally seen the pirated ps3 discs. There are many games and they look great. They are going to sell for 25-30 yuan. There are reports that shops are stock pilling ps3s and preparing to rise the price to 700yuan once the crack is released

[GiantEnemyCrab]

I wonder if this is the Team Xecuter stuff I've heard some rumblings about... This thing is about to be cracked.. unfortunately.. I am all for homebrew but you can't keep the pirates out of it.

[Hakimy]

I know that some of you will disagree with me,but you don't know how many people are waiting for this (including me).this will move many ps3 consoles,oh and here we only have pirated games cus no one will buy an original one since it's too expensive to buy one.so I have an excuse to be excited, right?.....RIGHT?! XD

[Bathyj]

No, you're a douche. I hope you get arthritis and cant hold a controller.

[Hakimy]

*sighs* well I'm sorry that I live in a country which sells only pirated games and a ps3 game costs almost half the salary and the only chance I have to get new ps3 games is when a family member visits us from another developed country.don't judge and insult if you don't know how bad a situation is in another part of the world.you might not like it but pirated games existed here since the days of the genesis/snes so nothing will change this here.But don't worry all the ps3 games I have are original copies if that will make you feel better ;)

[PirateThom]

Really, these discs could contain anything.

Hey guys, I have a copy of Eight Days on a disc here, should I upload it?!

[TheDudeAbides]

plz no rapidshare hahahaha

[sikbeta]

"these discs could contain anything"

Mmmm.... PORN Fantasy Versus 13 and S€X Days lol

[Lookbehind]

Do they say "ahhhllll" instead of "ahhhrrrrr'lol, i know it's pretty lame.;-D.

[techie]

Oh dear (^_^)

[Dead_Cell]

Getting the game working is another matter entirely.

[Dellis]

^EXACTLY

that will never happen, PS3 is the ultimate security console

MS/NINTENDO will make their next consoles hacker proof thanks to Sony.

[koehler83]

So all this basically has stated is that some idiot wasted some blu-rays copying games that still can't be played.

Hey. Good job.

[MetalGearRising]

Since the ps3 became Hacked this is a welcome news can't wait one day to start importing ps3 iso's.

[Jdash24]

You realize you just said you wanted to get ps3 games right? I thought they all sucked to you, I smell hypocrisy.

[Ilikegames76]

the 360 pirated discs are more reliable than the PS3 pirated discs.

[jpod]

They already gone and ripped PS3 games. Worthless article.

[xg-ei8ht]

I cracked the PS3 once.

But managed to repair it.

[kewlkat007]

You'll see. one day BAM!! there it is...lol pirate game being played on youtube.

[Close_Second]

But I hate all the thieves that then exploit the hack then try to justify it. I can't afford it, I can't buy it where I live, wah, wah, wah. Theft is theft is theft.

Maybe they should start removing fingers on those who pirate. Eventually they will only be able to play games on Natal :)

[hatchimatchi]

piracy runs rampant in south east asia.

hp32.com

i can put in an order online of nothing but bootlegs and a guy will deliver it to my apartment. It's why the 360 sells pretty well where i'm at, everyone buys pirated games.

[Colonel-Killzone]

As a gamer i can see this is one of the worse things that can happen to the ps3. This isn't like the PS2 era were sony had a 120mil userbase ps3 is at 31mil and this will ruined the sales of games like god of war which happen at the ps2 era but then again sony will just firmware update and block them from using them online at least. I don't find this useful if true (which i doubt) i dont find it useful for games like mag socom etc.

[BubbleSystemSuck]

Where is Mass Effect 5 and God Of War versus Gears of Wars?

FFXIII versus?

LOOOOL

[sleepyazn]

this proves the Chinese knows what they are doing...burning copies of Final Fantasy vs 13 before it is even released. MAJOR FACEPALM!!!

[maniacmayhem]

Probably a dumb question to ask but...

Is there a reason you can't maybe download a PS3 game directly to your hard drive and play from there?

[EpsilonTeam]

Not interested. It's much nicer having BD originals than dvds.

[Rixynator]

I think this is for real, how long did it take to bypass the PSPGo? Within 24 hours. It's a matter of time before the PS3 go pirate and not to mention that Asians are good at it. Btw Nintendo hasn't fully flush out the R4 cards in Asia yet. You can get one for as low as 10USD from Thailand and play tons of game on it. GO ASIANS!!! LUB U LONG TIME!!!

[Advari]

Those Chinese sweat shops must be stopped the use of illegal and banned chemicals are starting to rot the brains of the people

[blazed13]

so the almighty ps3 got hacked already and the ps3 fan boys cant take it.... lol....