I agree that hacking for cheating sucks, but I love my modded box with XBMC on it. I have a 250gig HD in it and I love that I can fit all 50 of my games on it and don't have to swap CD's to play a different game when I get bored with the one I'm playing, just simply hit a special button combo all at the same time and machine reboots and I select a different game to play. That alone is worth the mod. In fact many of the new features of the Xbox360 came from reasons and things that the modding community was doing with their original xboxs. There was even an interview I read a while back that of a couple of the designers and they were talking about the xbox360 being modded and they said they think it will inevitably happen but they have taken measures to make it harder and they think less people will want to do it, because they can now do many of the things people were doing with original modded xboxes.
The hypervisor and its implications
Nov 30th 2005 8:25AM (Joystiq Xbox)