How would the bailiffs evolve if they were quickly hacked?
Imagine the situation. A new console comes out, let's say ps5, and literally in a week it is hacked, which allows it to run pirated discs, and in 2-3 months a working emulator is released on a PC. How do you imagine the development of this console in such a situation, would you just stop making games on it or pretend that nothing happened?Consoles are not PCs, so everything would be fine. But our consoles would be a popular platform.
whoever hacked that would be thanked for the subsequent exams, but alas, probably no one cares about breaking the boxes
For one or two exclusive sequels of a couple of boring brands every two years? The game is not worth the candle.
It was the same with the Xbox 360. Nothing, 75 million. Most of the Earth does not use burglary.
the first thing is that it is difficult to hack
if hacking was difficult for an ordinary pawson like past consoles, then no
if hacking the console was not particularly difficult - roughly speaking, inserted a USB flash drive and raised a black flag
I just think that in the first place the same protection systems came out on the console as on the pitch in addition to the protection of the system. also new ones would come out where, let's say, the firmware of a hard disk would be needed and any disk would be impossible to use by analogy with the drives of old consoles. also there would be many new versions of the console to limit the hardware number of consoles, some may be pirated. and that was a hell of a race. in the end, a software-hardware bios dm would appear on the consoles, which would be flashed with a current programmer, and the games would accordingly be encoded as for a denuva and a pirate, the edge was laid, the console is a purely gaming device, and with pitch this approach will not work because it will limit its original functionality.
if the pirate on the console was awkward, it would hang somewhere at a level capable of providing sales based on the attitude to the ability to lock.
software emulation as such is not particularly piracy if the product is run on another device. although of course this is piracy, and especially if the emulator comes out approximately in parallel with the release of the new console, it would create certain losses of profit. if they were statistically high, the practice of software and hardware content protection would work again, they would need more complex and more physically demanding emulators of the console's hardware filling.
therefore, any kind of exo-ho-ho would simply lead to a spiral of increasing defense and making it more difficult to hack something. in fact, this trend can be seen in practice, when over time all copy protection began to be implemented in the console.
something cardinal like the withering away of consoles, cloud computing or shortening the period of their support - very unlikely.