So, the word is out to everyone and their mother that the PS3 jailbreak has been reverse engineered, open sourced (and the code has already been improved on, making PS Jailbreaks promises invalid) and that anyone can do it for $20. The clones are also pouring in, with guys like PS3Key that seems a lot more professional and a lot cheaper ($49) if you want a ready made device. People are working on projects to getting PSP's and Android devices to run the code, so people owning them can run the exploit for free.
With facts like these, how will the PS Jailbreak survive with a price of $125 + shipping? And now modder Manzzon are reporting that the first batch of the PS Jailbreak are once again delayed for another week, not showing up until the middle of week 36. People are canceling their orders (and I believe that it's the correct thing to do), so what will happen to the folks behind the PS Jailbreak? What will happen to the resellers when their customers cancel the orders (or return them)?
As I wrote in this post, the minimum order for resellers were 250 pieces for $88. Thats $22000 for the minimum order, and the resellers might have ordered even more to get a higher advance. At least $22000 of merchandise that maybe isn't worth more than $10000. Many of the resellers are quite small, so if they already have paid for the shipments it could be quite a hit on them. And if the shipments isn't paid for, who will take the hit?
Was I right when I wrote that the PS Jailbreak was out for quick cash and then get out? Will they get that cash now at the cost of the resellers and customers? Whats your thoughts? Have you ordered? Canceled?
This is exactly what i predicted would happen from day one. Still, I feel sorry for anyone that lost money on this.
ReplyDeleteSorry too, but patience is not a quality for them.
ReplyDeleteits hard to even feel sorry for the resellers. its was always a very murky world to enter
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to point out something that I thought just now...
ReplyDeleteRegarding the PS3 firmware, from what I've read, seems nobody has the complete decrypted dump yet, but doing something like the original Jailbreak team did would require knowledge of the internals of either the GameOS or any other lvl1 code/firmware data.
I doubt they'd just fire at random trying to get the exploit right, its impossible they just typed some random code on the payload and got it to patch the right places randomly, so its obvious they got the decrypted firmware, and if the base exploit requires hardware revision and it's not patchable by Sony (I saw somewhere something about Sony needed a hardware revision to get rid of some bug on syscon, can't recall right now which bug exactly), then it means they can counter any firmware update from Sony by using different payloads for each new firmware... currently, at least publicly, no one has completely decrypted the firmware, and no one knows exactly what the dongle payload does exactly. And now that everyone got their own opensource alternatives, it does not seems like that the original Jailbreak team will release any updates, leaving us on our own...
Also, I remember someone saying that the sample dongles were not updateable, I think that may have to do with the fact that they are sample dongles and not the final product? Maybe they intended those samples to work just at firmware 3.41 as some kind of limitation, like a demo version of the final product, just to prove that it is real.
Well, its hard to tell how things will turn out, or even if the original Jailbreak team intended to continue updating or really were in just for quick cash.
Anyway, sorry if I said anything stupid, but that's what I understood from the situation up till now, and I'm really excited and want to know how things will turn out.
thats great news that jailbreak is reversed! and hopfully they can implent loding other peoples gamedumps soon into the code..or is this in the making perhaps?
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