Couple of years ago, an infamous hacker named ‘Hotz’ hacked the Apple iPhone. He has apparently done it again with Sony ‘used-to-be-uncrackable’ gaming console the PlayStation 3. This hack allows you to play pirated games on your PS3 console without actually having the Blu-ray Disc (BD) game inside the console. The game will run 100% from the hard drive.

This concept works like a jailbroken iPhone, all you have to do is download a pirated game from an irresponsible website, install it on your PS3 hard disk and load it up!

Now, here’s some good news and bad news. There will be some rapid increase in PS3 sales once the retailers begin selling hacked consoles, but that would also mean declining sales of PS3 original games. This is bad for game developers; they deserve so much more for their hard work. Remember: making games are not easy! “Piracy is a crime”

What I do like however; is all these customizations you can do with hacked PlayStation 3. Just like the iPhone, a jailbroken-iPhone could do so much more than the locked-down iPhones. According to Hotz (the hacker) he / (I doubt if she) has managed to customize PS3 theme.

This is of course nothing yet; but this could mean that there will be so much more features which can be implemented on the PlayStation console once it has been hacked.

Remember the first generation iPhone? Well, it had no games nor apps. Once it’s been jailbroken, there were tons of customizations, games and apps were developed.