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by mywittyname 27 days ago
You can doubt this. But the fact is, the Xbox One was secure for it's entire operational life without a crack. And the Series X/S has held up as well.

It's completely possible that future consoles are secure enough that the components fail long before the security does.

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There just isn't a demand for it. Have you seen just how dedicated nintendo hackers are? Check out decomp.dev https://decomp.dev/
Decompliation is nothing compared to the effort and technical know-how required to jailbreak / exploit the Xbox One.

The Xbox One might be single handledly the most complex and secure piece of human hardware. [1] (Highly recommend watching this talk).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTFn4UZsA5U

Arguably there was not much interest on those platforms. I believe you will be right eventually when physical access of the actual machines are kept away from us, so it’s a matter of solving the latency issue.
iirc microsoft also allowed installing homebrew without cracking the console, which definitely was a conttibuting factor. Why hack the console if you can just install your own software already.

And it isn't like any xbox console exclusives come to mind, all their stuff comes out on pc too.