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PS 3 foi mais vendida em 2010 que Xbox 360

Um relatório da consultora Strategy Analytics mostra que a PlayStation 3 ultrapassou a Xbox 360 em termos de base instalada no final de 2010, ou seja, a PS 3 foi segunda consola de nova geração mais vendida em todo o mundo.

A PlayStation 3 terminou o ano de 2010 em segundo lugar entre as consolas de nova geração mais vendidas, ultrapassando a Xbox 360. A Wii da Nintendo liderou a tabela das mais vendidas em todo o mundo.

De acordo com o relatório da Strategy Analytics, a consola da Sony terminou o ano com uma base instalada de 43 4 milhões de unidades vendidas, enquanto a Xbox 360 atingiu os 42 9 milhões de unidades.

Após muitos usos "extra-oficiais" para o Kinect, chegou a vez do sensor de movimento da Microsoft ser usado para controlar o rival PS3.

Para conseguir a façanha, o hacker indiano responsável pelo hack ligou o Kinect em um laptop. O computador roda o driver PrimeSense para o Kinect e tem os comandos convertidos para um formato compreensível pelo PS3 pelo DIYPS3Controller. Desta forma, o PC manda ao PS3 comandos na forma dos controles normais do console (pressão nos botões, movimentação da alavanca analógica e etc.).

Como pode ser visto no vídeo acima, o sistema ainda apresenta diversos problemas, mas mostra, mais uma vez, o potencial de modificações e usos variados do Kinect.

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Hackers shut Sony down for six days
Is not resurrected over Easter
26 Apr 2011 08:38 | by Nick Farrell in Rome | posted in Home

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Sony is continuing to pay the price for removing Linux from the PS3.

Hackers have kept Sony's lucrative PlayStation Network offline for a fifth day and Sony seems unable to stop them.

The PlayStation Network is the internet-based retail service that allows users of its PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable devices to buy games, films, music and game add-ons, and to chat with one another.

It was offline on Wednesday after what Sony called an "external intrusion". We guess it was being rude. We would call anyone who hacked TechEye an external intrusion although we would imply that it was the sort of external intrustion that was very small and would probably get laughed at if it was shown to the opposite sex.

Patrick Seybold, senior director of corporate communications, made a public statement that Sony planned "a thorough investigation ... to verify the smooth and secure operation of its network services".

However on Monday he was starting to run out of ideas. He warned that fixing the network was a time intensive process and Sony was working to get the servers back online quickly.

Clearly this was not a matter of switching them off and switching them on again.

The root cause of Sony's problems is that it removed the "Other OS" option from all PS3 consoles in March last year, which meant users could no longer choose to install and run the Linux operating system.

To get around this problem 21-year-old George Hotz published a root key for the PS3 that meant any content, such as films and music, could be played on a jailbroken device.

Sony took him to court and while it "won" it caused a lot of bad blood with its legal antics. A post on the Anonymous blog on 4 April said the action against Hotz and fellow hacker Graf_Chokolo was "wholly unforgivable".

However Anonymous said that it is not behind shutting down the network and Sony will have to look for a new scapegoat.

What it is proving for Sony is that its PS3 network cannot deal with hacking and so far everything that has happened to the Playstation this year has been bad news related to security.

Trying to pick a fight with hackers appears to have resulted in the outfit becoming a target, and so far Sony has been unable to find a way to stop the attacks. Faced with a choice of a network that does not work, and the fact that Sony seems unable to make its system secure enough, people might start to vote with their feet.

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PlayStation tem fraude contra usuários

A Associação Brasileira das Empresas de Cartões de Crédito e Serviços (Abecs) informou ontem que usuários da rede de games on-line PlayStation Network (PSN) devem ficar atentos à movimentação de seus cartões de crédito.

Na noite de terça-feira, a Sony, responsável pela rede de games, informou que hackers roubaram nomes e endereços de 77 milhões de usuários e é possível que detalhes de cartões de crédito também tenham sido obtidos em uma das maiores violações de segurança já registradas na internet.

A Sony ainda estuda se os dados de cartões foram mesmo obtidos pelos hackers, mas afirma que os códigos de segurança - um número de três dígitos no verso do cartão - não foram roubados.

A rede PlayStation Network, utilizada por quem tem os modelos PlayStation 3 e PSP, permite que os usuários joguem entre si conectados à internet e também compras na loja virtual.

Como medida preventiva, a Sony tirou do ar a PSN desde quarta-feira passada. Um escritório de advocacia dos EUA está processando a empresa por falhar na proteção à segurança dos dados dos usuários.