Console mod scene

The console mod scene is pretty exciting these days.

First of all, the question of whether there's a 65nm CPU equipped XBox 360 console floating around is still a hot discussion. Some claimed that the Halo 3 Special edition XBox 360 console has the 65nm CPU, while some say that not all special edition has the cooler 65nm. Regardless, it's defintiely NOT a good time to jump into the market and get a XBox360 unless you definitely need to play Halo 3 right now.

The new slim PSP also has a hot mod discussion recently. Some confirmed that some of the lastest slim PSP has problem soft-mod the console to play homebrew games. In fact, there are people who explicitly try to buy old version of PSP in order to play homebrew game. After all, the old version price, US$169 (or HK$1200 in Hong Kong) . The slim PSP price in HK cost HK$1280 which seems to be a much better deal than the US$199 pack in US.

Another issue is that the new slim version with firmware 3.7 or above couldn't be mod to play homebrew. This is such a big blow to those who are planning to big or switch to a slimmer PSP.

I personally won't get a PSP yet because there's not enough game attracting. In fact I'll probably mainly use it to play SNES emulator games. Being a media player, PSP doesn't have a good native divx/xvid player.

Oh, remember to use MediaCoder to convert media to play on PSP.

In addition ... the iPod Touch .. well it's not a console, but definitley in my radar :-P