Update: This was just brought to my attention… (Thanks Daniel)
Could the welcomed $100 price cut for Sony’s PlayStation 3 be temporary? Reported comments from multiple Sony execs in online publications Gamesindustry.biz and Joystiq.com indicate so. The current PlayStation 3 model, which is equipped with a 60 GB hard drive, certainly has received a price cut to $499 and is available at that price right now - but Sony’s recent statements indicate that model is no longer in production.
Weak! Read full article here.
Unfortunately no news relating to hacks, so this is the next best thing… After much talk & anticipation, Sony has finally decided to drop the PS3 price by $100. Console gamers, starting July 12th, can pick up a PS3 for $499.99 USD.
Perhaps more owners will result in more PS3 hacks. :)
The console should have be 499 from the start.. 599 was too xpensive! Just a thought..
IF PS3 IS TOO EXPENSIVE THEN WHY ARE PEOPLE PAYING $600 FOR A GAY IPHONE???
loooool, im agree with you, ps3 price is ok but more cheap is better !!!!
hey everyone, theres finally a usable hack on the wii page!!! i thought u’d like to know cause any fan of sony should know how much they’re starting to suck
no point talking about what shud have been. but yeah your right. it just sucks that i bought mine a month ago and now they ate comingdown in price
yo if you got your from target,walmart,bestbuy
take it back and get refund say it froze
lol. dont have walmarts or best buys or anything over here. in ireland. to much trouble really. for like 60 quid not to big a deal
dude if its only been ten days theyll refund anyways(30 for bb and futureshop)
Boo not as good as 2.0
still too pricy
actually ist TOO cheap for as console that costs more than 800$ to build…
True….
But seems they managed to make the build price drop…
Unfair -_- I live in germany and there there don’t make the price lower -.- mhh…
yay!! ill prolly but it now!
good now my broke friends can actually afford to buy a ps3
That’s bullshit ….We in the U.K. R paying 425.00 pounds and in the U.S. Your paying 250.00 pounds….Nah……Welcome to Rip off U.K. !!!
yup, rip off britian alright…… fuk spent all this money and games are still takin 4ever 2 come out…. common sony, sort it out.
Just one thing:
In brazil PS3 costs 1250 pounds….
(Luckly i got mine in japan)
(Yes, i’m brazilian)
LOL and in japan cost even less!
bitches!!!!!
I pay for mine 1050 USD.
lol
japan sell it freaking cheap…
even games are cheap…
here in Canada price dropped from 699 to 549
$150 price cut!:) still cheaper in the US… even though exchange rate is almost the same.
guess sony realizes to make money they got to lose some first.
Good move by sony. Now just on with some titles damn it
the uk and europe ae set to get a similar price cut thursday.
wow a full $100 -_- i can go buy like 10 used xbox games with that amount or 2-4 xbox 360 games
Im all up for the price cut thing.. Im just a little upset that SONY is now also introducing the 80GB unit for the same amount I payed for the 60GB on release day.. To add salt to my wound, theyre also throwing in Motostorm with the 80GB unit.. I know the Hd is customizable, but still it hurts…..
Early System adopters always get burned, But you know who the real fans are by what they are willing to spend on the system. 100$ cut is nice but I would have been willing to pay 100$ more for my system. I’ve put more money into my 360 and use it less. Sony new they would cut the price by the end of 07 when the system came out they just needed to make as much money back as possible for taking such a hit.
*Knew* I hate my spelling.. -_-
oh effing well.. so i lose $100 i guess.. i bought mine during the launch. i just wish sony waited just a lil longer.. so i feel like not waiting was a good idea..
Whats up with the date saying july 12th? I just got mine tonight from Circuit City for the 499 price.. and it comes with a free sony sixaxis remote. They actually drop the ps3 to 450 and you pay for the $50 controller.. but what ever .. still a pretty nice deal since i would have had to buy one anyways. plus the rebate for 5 free Bluray Movies.. mail in.. but damn.. thats like 150 bucks worth of movies!!!!
man!!! this is the best hack I’ve ever seen. LOL
xD
Maybe if ya run that hack twice it gets the price cut again
lol
cool, now i can buy a second PS3 to use ‘properly’ for all the upgrades, and keep my 1.02 off to the side until the homebrew comes along
wtf lol
if the homebrew arrives man , i think that the ps3 will never be hacked =), SONY wont make the same mistake that they did with the psp , if you remember the last point to finish the ps3 was the security and they almost work on that 1 year soo , i think that the ps3 will run originals at least for 4 years
Probably…
BUT, there still a chance that homebrew arrives…
BTW, this is the only console i will buy original games… =P
dont cry people that in Mexico is hard to be a fan of SONY , cause i bought my ps3 for the ridiculous price of 1000 usd , and i just buy it on May , but when the ps3 just come out in mexico u can get it for 1500 usd. still think that 499 o 599 usd is soo EXPENSIVE????
That’s great now my friends won’t have an excuse to conform to my standards of extreme gaming
yep the only reason I’m happy about the price cut is that it may atract more coders to the party!
SONY SHUD MAKE THE PS3 A REGULAR COMPUTER, ISTEAD OF ASPIREING TO BE ONE!
Still, Is better to have a Xbox360 hacked than a 500$ PS3 with a lack of good games. The only good game so far is Ninja Gaiden. Anithing else is just crab.
Resistance is quite good…
And i like quite well Armored Core (Thought it was released to X360 too)
BTW, xbox360 is much more expensive, thanks to “Xbox360 LIVE”….
Resistance sucks compared to GoW
Ok. I think you can count with one hand how many good games the PS3 have. I will keep my hacked 360…….sorry for you all and your sorry ass PS3
i guess you dident see e3 this year. ps3 owned it. have fun playing gaylow.
In japan i got my PS3 at 400 dollars, and it was 6 months ago…
PS3 IS THE THE BEST CONSOLE EVER SOON EVERY BODY WILL SEE THE TRUE POWER OF THE PS3 8 CELL CORE HA HA HA HA THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE PLAYSTATION 3 REALITY BEGINGS NOW I LOVE SEX DRUGS GUNS & FIGHTING THANK YOU SONY MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
Dark Alex Killed By CIA Agent
nice joke
PEOPLE Where is my ISO LOADER????
I can’t wait anymore!!!!!!!!
Did you seen in YouTube the Ottoman team’s Iso Loader? Watch it!
KreeCha - STFU - you cocksucking trickass bitch
it costs the same (in CANADA (GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD)) as the XBOX black edition 550$
While you guys wait for ISO loader im enjoying streaming music, pics and movies on v. 1.82 with Nero Media Home. I cant wait for v. 2.0 or Home. I think this upcoming holiday season will really have lots of cool stuff for the PS3, no just games.
If you guys looked at the PS3 as a TOTAL packaged media center and not just a video game console you will be much happier. Especially when you start using it as one.
actually the price cut is for the now old 60 gb so once there out is the new 80 gb one for 600 usd :P
sony tricked us again :P
Dude i dont care that it cost $600 for all the overwelming amout of hardware you get a blu ray player just tops it off not to mention i have run my ps3 for days at a time without turning it off my 360 died after only 6 months that means i am up to months on that system and ive ran it 90% more then my 360 but i do like the elite with extra cooling and external cooling fan might be the only way that system wont overheat
its funny that all the noobies go for xbox360. the more funnier is that they dont know that most of the xboxes go to the factory again for repair -> nice red button LOL…
and what they also dont know is that the xbox360 is using 90% of its total power to run games. and the ps3 20% at the moment, see what happening when the ps3 is running on 90% and @ 1920×1080p resolution… i can say one thing then: bye bye xbox360:)))
the price drop is just to liquidate all current PS3 inventory in order to make way for the new 80gb model to replace it at full price on the shelves this Xmas. its rumored that the new 80gb system doesn’t include the graphics synthesizer chip required for full backwards compatibility for PS1 and PS2 games. I believe that there’s a massive exploit they can’t patch and are trying to bury it before anyone finds it. I think it has something to do with that chip, and the PSP…because they are also releasing a totally new design of the PSP as well almost simultaneously. While this may be for any number of explainable reasons, it is still quite possible and probable that there is a major exploit that they are afraid of in those current PS3 systems. Has anyone tried using the PSP to hack the PS3 yet? Whether it involves some sort of part swapping strategy or homebrew app on the PSP to decrypt something on the PS3 via Wifi or USB connection, I really think there is something in all of this to try exploring. Its a massive move on Sony’s part to just abandon their product line, redesign it, manufacture it, and redistribute it. That kind of business move would only make sense if they feared a probable financial loss equal to or greater than the cost of that decision, and this is a ton of money they would be throwing away to make such a move possible. If they REALLY feel its worth it, then there’s got to be something big around the corner in the way of homebrew that noone has discovered yet.
I concur with “everyone”….. I found it fishy from the get-go that the size increment was only 20GB…. And as an incentive their also adding Motostorm… The system has only been out for around 8 months and its already being redesign…. Thats suspicious.. It can also be viewed from a marketing perspective and an argument can be made for the fact that no one is buying the system.. If sales is the main reason theyr doing this they need to hire new recruit because all they need are some games… They should have been patient and waited for titles like Call of Duty 4, GTA4, MGS4 and many others… Im sure Ps3s would have had flown off shelves…………..
i Just found a way to freeze my PS3. its totally unresponsive, except for the BD drive. I can still eject and insert discs. however the hypervisor is totally frozen in place. The only way to power down the unit will be by using the switch on the back.
My system is version 1.00 from the original Japan launch, upgraded to FW 1.02
To acheive this crash, I made a folder of images to be burned to disc. My Friend had Toast Titanium on his Mac so I thought I’d try that out to see how well it makes cds. There is a function on that to make files invisible. So to add extra weight I decided to copy the same folder a couple of times as an invisible file. The size of the image folder is 136.8 mb, and I started that off by making that as the main folder for the whole disc (the root folder), then inserted a copy of that same folder (named the same) into that folder and made it invisible. Then I put another copy of that folder also with the same name, into that invisible folder and made that one invisible too. Total size of the disc is 412.3mb and it completely freezes the PS3 hypervisor while still allowing disc eject and insertion. Who knows if that could be a break for anyone out there working on finding holes for homebrew, but its definitely something I think you guys should try.
note- the root image folder is not made invisible, only the copies of that folder that were put inside
oh yeah, and the crash takes place when you try to access the inserted image disc through the photo area, and I dont know if this is important or not or if its a common thing that just happens, but when i clicked on the disc under the photo section of the Hypervisor, I got a folder that showed up as “PS3 Data” and thats when it froze.
thats a very intresting thought, i was thinking about alot of that as well, but i dont understand what psp has to do with ps3 as far as a hack went. i mean how would it work, how can psp have an affect on a iso loader or anything at all. if there something that you know of let us know about your theory, this is most intresting thought about an exploit yet. is there any info on the chip at all? if so post it. well i’ll try to mess around with it to see if what you say is possible. i mean theres gota be something. is there any programs or programing software to this thought?
well, since the PSP has been fully hacked and opened up, we can put whatever apps on there we want to if we are able to write them. i personally am not a programmer, so I cant really explore my theories on that level. but i am hoping people like yourself will take interest in what im saying and try exploring those avenues if they havent already.
i guess the theory goes like this, we have two pieces of Sony hardware designed to work together, and one of them has been totally hacked while the other has not. As the firmware levels have progressed, it has become clear that Sony eventually intends on having the PSP become a long range internet based interface for the PS3. The way the design seems to be going, the PSP could eventually have full control of the PS3. Whether or not this happens, or has already happened, the fact of the matter still remains that the homebrew community has established full control over a piece of Sony hardware which is potentially able to control a much larger piece of their hardware. I believe this is why they are attempting to liquidate and replace all PS3 and PSP inventory simultaneously.
My suggestions? I am no expert, but based on everything I have read, i’d say the biggest problem on the PS3 is the isolated DRM subsystem. If you could maybe write an app for the PSP that could mimick the DRM process when a disc is inserted into the PS3, so that you could connect the PSP to the PS3 before inserting a disc into the BD drive, then maybe you could spoof the DRM subsystem somehow and send the BD drive to check in the spoofed DRM subsystem you create on your memory stick on the PSP or something. I dont know if this is even possible, but its an idea. Try it out if you want.
Another problem you guys seem to have, is the encrypted internal drive on the PS3. Maybe since the PSP uses Sony hardware, you can use it to run some kind of decryption algorithm that the PS3 will understand and accept.
With the PSP, you have the potential to inject code into the PS3 that can possibly be interpreted by the machine as “official Sony code”
thats my theory at least. i’d really like to see some homebrew advances soon. i hope this helps someone
also, remember what I said about the PSP becoming a long range internet based interface for the PS3? if you may notice or recall, Sony started making all these announcements for new PS3 and PSP hardware not long after people in the homebrew community started messing around with internet based exploits on the PS3, namely the ‘Folding at Home’ exploit. The answer may be somwhere in that, with the combination of inserted code via the PSP
also, something that might help i found quoted from Paradox– “the first sectors from a PS3 image (sector 0 to 20) are special and may be the decryption keys for the executables.”
is there a way to get an NHL 08 or Madden 08 Beta (cuz im dying here with NHL 2k7)
BTW this comment has nothing to do with the price cut
Mat I completely feel your pain.. The 4 games i own were purchased the same day of the Ps3 launch and nothing else has really motivated me.. Its so sad that such a powreful system (which is far beyond capable) is not able to supply some great gaming titles… There are just a handful of prospects which were mentioned in e3… But if it keeps going like this with the poor game titles, SONY will be in deep shit…
GTA 4
thats going to be the shit. im hoping someone will get some custom firmware made by then, otherwise i might have to buy another unit. im not ruining this thing with an upgrade. i already feel like a dirty whore for bringing it up to 1.02
GTA 4, Super Streetfighter HD Remix, Fifa 2008, and Killzone are the only games I’m really waiting for. The thing is their all old too… I haven’t seen any brand new franchises that have got me trembling at the knees for.
i installed linux on 1.80 firmware is that right?
i got azureus to run on my 1.82 ps3
how did you do that?
I have YDL 4.0 on my 1.82 Ps3 but rarely use it.. Im not to fond of the DOS system and finding codecs and fixes and patches for the damn thing is too time consuming.. I saw a video on youtube of someone running windows something on their Ps3. Everything seemed to work perfectly but the lag was umbearable… The ram on the Ps3 is too low to provide stability for it.. Maybe the ram can be upgraded.. Who KNows….
im having isues with my psp and remote play its not picking up my usb. it is but it ownt work when i try to register it. what am in doing wrong?
Maybe thats because you upgraded your psp to 3.51 M33…. Alot of people are complaining about the remote play issue.. Thats why i stuck to 3.40 OE Until improvements are made by “M33.”
Another thing.. When you go to register PsP from your Ps3, you then have to go to connect to UsB from the PsP so they can sync together.. I was getting frustrated a bit a first also….
i tryed all that, but still nothing i even whent back to 3.40 oe-a. and it dident work ither i hope that m33 dident screw up my ps3?. well im gona return it anyway is still got worrenty on it so i guess im gona go ahead and mess it up a little bit. i dont know, i mite get a xbox360 instead. thats hackable. im geting sick of wating. nothing good is coming out.
im getting to that point too. if they really did make an unhackable system, its fucking worthless
is it worth upgrading to 1.82?
YES. 1.82 allows for streaming pic. music, and video using the latest Nero version. I use it all the time. It will convert your video files on the fly so the PS3 can play them. Its sweeeeeeet.
will linux still work?
one more thing can i reinstall the 1.80 firmware in usb? if so how what folders do i need to make to read the update?
Yes you can install updates that way, its how i do it and its MUCH faster then waiting for the downloads.
Create a folder named “PS3” on the storage media or USB device. Within the PS3 folder, create a folder named “UPDATE”. Download the update and save it in the UPDATE folder. If the data is not saved in the correct way, the PS3™ system will not recognize the update data. The folder name must be in all uppercase letters. File name: Save as file name “PS3UPDAT.PUP”.
noticed how quiet it is on the hack front now ? - even the dev forum on PS3news has dried up completely - safe to say that no hacks will ever be available for PS3
This is so not for this forum I know, but has anyone had any problems connecting their ps3 through WIFI sinse downloading the RFOM map pack? if so and you resolved it, please let me know.