Phgamer: "In Asia's gaming culture, piracy has been common place for every major game console since the NES. In the mid 90's a device called the UFO, allowed ROM games stored on floppy disks to be played on the SNES via a disk-drive like device that sat on top of the SNES. The 32-bit era saw the rise of mod-chips and insane swap-tricks to get past CD region lockouts.
Not much has changed in the generations that followed. Even today, the Xbox 360, Wii, DS and PSP have all fallen victim to heavy piracy. The advent of torrent sites and faster download speeds don't do the major players any favors either. The PS3, on the other hand, remains a different story. I have been keeping an eye on the local pirating scene, and with almost a year after the PS3's release, it appears to be the only console piracy free. On that note, I have concluded these reasons for the PS3's success in the anti-piracy war".
His reasons makes sense, though I don't know when he did his research since all PS3s are now $499 and below...
However he did forget number 5: There aren't any games worth ripping yet.
he missed out one big thing in terms of Blu-Ray...
Lets say the ps3 does get modded to run Burnt ISO's seriously how many people have blu-ray burners.. i understand that the ps2 and psp have HDloaders but even that seems unlikely in a product that only supports FAT32 drives(i.e 4gb file max)
The "No Games" argument is done with now, I say this looking at the 10 PS3 cases on my bookshelf and 4 PSN downloaded games and there's still a couple I want that I don't have yet. In any case it's just too damned expensive to pirate, in both time and money. The isos range from a gig, to well over 14+gb and that's compressed. When the games that start using the whole disc come out, expect those numbers to grow. Couple that with the fact that you'll have to get bdroms, and a bluray burner. Yeah not the same as doing a 360,Wii, or PS2 game.
let's go playstation!