Quote Originally Posted by Constipated Rat View Post
I looked at your links, but what do you mean "All I'll say about that".. are you agreeing with me?

I'm only asking since you quoted me and posted it.
Look at the dates on the articles. 2001. The "death of PC gaming" has been heralded by reporters, analysts, and etc. since there has been PC gaming. PC gaming will never die until PCs themselves die. And I don't see that happening in our lifetime.

The 360 reads and plays DVD movies also which in some cases are dual layer.. The Wii was gonna be made as a dvd player so the drive supports it, but they held back on it, but hackers brought it out of it and made it do it, so the softmod makes it read burnt DVD's and play the games. But yeah the GC is a good example, that worked against pirates AFAIK, couldnt be bothered googling to ind out if it was hacked.
Neither of those are relevant. There is no way to play unintended content on an unmodded 360 through use of its ability to read and play DVD movies, therefore the ability to read DVD movies does not affect whether or not the console is secure. The Wii has the capability to read DVD movies, but it is disabled by the firmware by default. Therefore, the ability to read DVD movies does not affect whether or not the console is secure.

There are mod chips for the Gamecube, same as there are for the Wii, 360, PS2, PS1, etc. There's no free-ish way to mod it like there is with the PS2/360/Wii because there's not really any software running on it, but it is moddable. Basically the thing that makes this hardware cycle so easy to mod is not the insecurity of the media, but the reliance on a console operating system which, by definition, will be vulnerable to some sort of software attack.

Quote Originally Posted by Gypsy View Post
Just how old are you?
22. I've never actually seen a Betamax tape myself, but I'm aware of it. I've picked up a bit of the history of modern consumer electronics through my many journeys through the internet.