Microsoft Unbans ALL Banned 360s

[Cobalt Blue]

That was friendly competition.

that was just sega being retarded.

[ZaeTelapo!]

This is pretty chaotic, actually I wasn't expecting Microsoft to pull this, but overall, not sure how I feel about it.

Though microsofts move seems a bit on the ego side if you ask me.

[Woppet*]

Shadowth, the PS3 is much more secure. It took them years to be able to pirate games on it and even now it's not easy at all. Unless you have a blu ray burner. Or an external drive that has enough memory to hold multiple 10+ gig games.

Hacking and piracy has been rampant on the 360 for years. It's only very recent on the PS3 and still much much rarer.

[Cobalt Blue]

piracy makes you value less your games anyway.

[Woppet*]

piracy makes you value less your games anyway.

Depends on the person really

[Rökkan]

And I thought Nintendo vs Sega was bad.

That was friendly competition. This is what happens when 2 companies not for lack of a better term devoted to gaming enter the console market.

You grew up in Japan or something? Sega's american ads were just about how the Genesis can beat up a Super Nintendo for his lunch money. Hence why he was called the Genesis in the first place instead of the Mega Drive (to keep on creating this image that he's better than the competition).

Look:

[Shadowth117]

Shadowth, the PS3 is much more secure. It took them years to be able to pirate games on it and even now it's not easy at all. Unless you have a blu ray burner. Or an external drive that has enough memory to hold multiple 10+ gig games.

Hacking and piracy has been rampant on the 360 for years. It's only very recent on the PS3 and still much much rarer.

Hacking and stuff has been around on the 360 for a while yes, but its not as common online. PS3 though before the PSN fiasco that's happening now seemed far easier though to play hacked games if you ask me. I mean if you had a decent internal hard drive you wouldn't have to worry about storing games on it and its not like you'd have to burn them to play them.

I don't really do too much pirating or hacking online personally, but I store my games, that I bought just to be clear, on the internal hard drive so I can just use a backup launcher to load them rather than digging them out everytime. Considering you don't have to burn them, its not hard to just do what you want with the game with ease online while on the 360 you can't do that online without at least using a disc. Well until this gets released anyway: http://xbox360.dashhacks.com/2011/04/25/...-usb-drive

Edit: In short I wouldn't say either is better or worse at the moment, but I personally prefer Microsoft on the matter as I said earlier.

[Vipershark]

piracy makes you value less your games anyway.

i disagree
i still buy (many of ) the games that i pirate and I still value all of them

[Cobalt Blue]

you dont value your pirated games when you dony hvae any plans to buy them later(if).

no one has mentioned though the millions sony did (and still does) from selling thousands of PS2s and how easily they got chip modded to play pirated games. and the same happened to the PSX

[FRET]

Shadowth, the PS3 is much more secure. It took them years to be able to pirate games on it and even now it's not easy at all. Unless you have a blu ray burner. Or an external drive that has enough memory to hold multiple 10+ gig games.

Hacking and piracy has been rampant on the 360 for years. It's only very recent on the PS3 and still much much rarer.

Hacking and stuff has been around on the 360 for a while yes, but its not as common online. PS3 though before the PSN fiasco that's happening now seemed far easier though to play hacked games if you ask me. I mean if you had a decent internal hard drive you wouldn't have to worry about storing games on it and its not like you'd have to burn them to play them.

I don't really do too much pirating or hacking online personally, but I store my games, that I bought just to be clear, on the internal hard drive so I can just use a backup launcher to load them rather than digging them out everytime. Considering you don't have to burn them, its not hard to just do what you want with the game with ease online while on the 360 you can't do that online without at least using a disc. Well until this gets released anyway: http://xbox360.dashhacks.com/2011/04/25/...-usb-drive

Edit: In short I wouldn't say either is better or worse at the moment, but I personally prefer Microsoft on the matter as I said earlier.

you keep using the term hacked games and I'm not sure you know what you're saying


it is a lot easier and safer to have a jailbroken PS3, and play pirated games, however, there are virtually no hackers in games.
on the 360, it's a lot easier to use hacks and exploits in games.

the more you know

[Vipershark]

you dont value your pirated games when you dony hvae any plans to buy them later(if).

no one has mentioned though the millions sony did (and still does) from selling thousands of PS2s and how easily they got chip modded to play pirated games. and the same happened to the PSX

...that's because the ones i don't buy are the ones i don't like...?

I personally value my acekard over any single ds game i own
while of course i value all of my games, if anything were to happen to them, my acekard is what i'll turn to

that's why i have downloaded copies of castlevania and nsmb, for example
they got stolen and i haven't had a chance to rebuy them, so in the meantime i have them on my acekard for when i want to play them again