Don't forget that we said the same thing about ps2. DVD burners and DVD discs were expensive and it wasn't theoretically sound to hack the system. Look at it now though, completely broken. Every system has been broken, and the Ps3 isn't going to stay locked down. I agree with the masses that liberating the system from its security would scrutinize sales and screw over the people who paid and funded PSN and the developers making top notch games. The hackers will break it though. PSP is the worst example in history of being broken. That system has been modified so many different ways from sunday that it is actually more profitable to buy an older PSP, download all the games your heart desires and put them on the biggest memory card you can find. The HDD limitation is going to be done away with too once the PS3 system is broken, even the Hypervisor. All of this high security technology driving the system is about to be breeched. The next "version" of the playstation is probably about the time we see this too, mostly because Sony knows the sales on the Ps3 model have made up for the losses they will soon endure. Once that happens, torrent search engines will explode with bluray game downloads going left and right. Essentially, when hackers finally rape the ps3, the world will end.