this is old news, the firmware hack has been around for a few months now, it wont change region or run homebrew stuff, in effect, the only people this hack will excite is the pirates :crap:
Give it another year or so and I'm sure team xecuter will be selling some kind of mod for the 360. Funny really, when all they have to do is lower the prices of the discs and there would be no chips of any kind.
If this happened the console manufacturers ans software houses might end up making more money than the guys who make the chips. Also region locking is very sad, again this is designed to maximise profit.
Originality mainly, its like why peeps Pimp up the cars, mod their comps etc.. but when it comes to chipping, the reason for me personally is so that I could run imports and homebrew stuff (XBMC on xbox is far superiour than the the 360's media equiv)
Do I have to have a credit card to access the Xbox Live Marketplace? I am planning on purchasing an Xbox 360 soon and want to be able to access the Xbox Live Marketplace. I bough Bullet Witch and want to download the free special features only available through Xbox Live. I don't even know if the content is still available for downloading, but I want to know if I have to use my credit card in order the access the marketplace at all. I don't plan on purchasing anything through it.
You don't need a credit card to access XBox Live's marketplace but some of the online content is commercial, though I don't know about Bullet Witch. To be honest I can't imagine you'd want to pay for any of the extra content anyway since Bullet Witch is perhaps not the best title on the block . Note that patches to fix bugs and problems are always downloaded for free.