Use Case IV

homebrew: users wanting to modify and customise their consoles

It's Learn to Solder Month - Ars Technica
23C3 2006: Console Hacking conference - Kotaku
How easy is it to hack 3rd gen consoles? - from 23C3
Future Console Hacking events - 23C3 blog

In console land, it's still called hacking; but in the PC game world it's called modding, and is generally accepted (with some notable exceptions) - another future post (i'm building up quite a library of promised posts) will be about the practice and politics of modding, but for now, I'll list it simply as a use case that any game designer is going to have to account for.

The takeaway here would be that if even the Xbox360 can't be locked down, it's probably not sensible for others to try. far more profitable to accommodate this activity within the device specifications.