All the time? Hardmods have been a thing since the first consoles, all the way down to the latest Nintendo Switch.
Also, consoles are "protecting" not the user, but the manufacturer - which is exactly the point people are trying to make.
Also, consoles are "protecting" not the user, but the manufacturer - which is exactly the point people are trying to make.
What hardmods do you know of for current gen consoles? Even the previous generation mostly fixed all public hardware based attacks.
This is standardized hardware that would be a relatively soft target to build tooling against, yet modchips are essentially dead because the attacks are just far too difficult.
That there are still no good attacks for the xbox one speaks volumes.