The things done through Mod chips promote console innovation as present by the current consoles... The Wii plays retro games because previous modding in the last gen systems showed emulators being built by home brewers. This showed there was a demand for that. The ps3 has linux to cater to the open source community and plays a myriad of media formats and also plays imports because the mod chips of previous gens had these abilities and once again showed a demand for this. The xbox 360 took a number of pages from the media center capabilities that home brewers made for the first gen xbox. Not to mention the "arcade" system they now have was taken from home brewers trying to create their own code on the original xbox. Mod Chips FTW!
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thedesolate1 @ Jun 13th 2008 11:15AM
The things done through Mod chips promote console innovation as present by the current consoles... The Wii plays retro games because previous modding in the last gen systems showed emulators being built by home brewers. This showed there was a demand for that. The ps3 has linux to cater to the open source community and plays a myriad of media formats and also plays imports because the mod chips of previous gens had these abilities and once again showed a demand for this. The xbox 360 took a number of pages from the media center capabilities that home brewers made for the first gen xbox. Not to mention the "arcade" system they now have was taken from home brewers trying to create their own code on the original xbox. Mod Chips FTW!