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Story: Australians make Xbox hack freely available

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I think it is great what Hibana is doing. I belive that human knowlage...

I think that mod chips are good for devices like the PSP. Sony have crippled the potential of the device with its restrictions. There is so much good user-made mods out there that make use of the devices potential - features not commercially available.

However, with the xbox I can't see it being used for anything but playing illiegally copied games. Don't get me wrong - I agree games are overpriced. However, Game Developers will not invest so much time and money into their products if they know their sales are going to halve because of the ease in which people will get pirate copies. The easier it to get illegal copies the more the games will cost as they will need to charge the legal purchases more so they can turn a profit.

However, in countries like malaysia where there are no copyright laws companies sell legal software very cheaply otherwise everyone would by a pirate copy. Maybe this would be a good tactic for Microsoft. If the games were half the price then it would mean piracy would be less tempting. However, seeing as Microsoft is already losing billions on the xbox and don't expect to turn a profit until 2008 it probably can't afford to cut prices any further even with rivals Sony and Nintendo releasing their systems.

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