Piracy has been large problem in the gaming industry or actually in the whole entertainment industry. Where you can download or purchase games for a small price compared to the original game. Currently most next generation consoles and recent handhelds have fell victim to piracy, that's including the PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 & DS. While the PS3 is still retaliating and is the only console not to fall to piracy as of yet or it won't anytime soon. The following reasons explain why the PS3 has not fallen to piracy.

High Price Point

The high price point leaves gamers thinking twice about modding their PS3 as it's price point is still high. So if anything happens to the console in the modding process the owner would have thrown away a lump of cash for nothing.

Region-free games

Modding has been mostly common to games being only released in Japan and not any other territory. Take for instance Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix. This game is a prime example to why the PS2 is modded, because many hardcore fans do not appreciate being left out and are forced to mod their console. With the PS3 you do not encounter this problem as Sony were reasonable enough to make the PS3 games region free.

Blu-Ray

The size of each game is huge and most of the pirating happens on the Internet. Not many people would want to upload on torrent sites ISO files at 20Gb and more. Imagine the time period it would take to download that very file? Even though you go through this stage and be patient enough to wait for the download to complete, do you have a Blu-Ray writer? That's another problem, they are really expensive to purchase and so there goes that idea down the drain.

Hardware complexity

Each firmware update released for the Playstation 3 completely erases the previous firmware, so if any exploits are found within that firmware can be erased with one easy step and so exploits won't last long.

So as you can see, those are the main reasons why the PS3 hasn't fell victim to piracy, but as the price of hardware decreases the more vulnerable the console will become. The real question is how much longer can the PS3 hold out for?

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.

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