"in a bit"? They did that over a year ago 
There was a lot of scandal surrounding it. Sony was sued, some people got some money, shortly after it was removed a solid crack came out allowing anyone to run unsigned programs, Sony then sued some more people... giant mess they made, if you ask me.
Roughly how long the average update to any software appears to take for the casual user!!
Their fancying of a quick blast of some game or other, is quickly dashed and this can rapidly lead to turning the thing off for such a period of time, imhho.
I purely use it for PS2 and PS1 titles (sourced the old fat 60gb model especially) despite a plethora of modern titles I've yet to catch up on, some still in their shrink wrap, ditto for 360, except its less of a pain in the arse.
Although I hate MS more, for ever entering the console market to begin with and polluting it, with the ("'updates' on unfinished games (obvious bug fixes) / 'new stuff' (intended content ) renamed as DLC)) impatience of shareholders who wouldn't wait for a product to be to finished and almost but not quite, the whole game of, lets make a game for the ever evolving PC platform, so that end users have to re-buy and re-build a rig every 6 months, in order to see the developers visions as it was intended.
Consoles should have a fairly guaranteed life span (that MS again shortened) during which, games get better and better upon them, as developers learn to squeeze more and more from the stable hardware. PC's maybe the forefront of cutting edge but as a result, no 2 games in succession are ever runnable to their intended requirements.
Pandora goes a long way toward providing a versatile platform that developers can prove the merits of this alternative, less capitalistic mental 'mindsight'.
That I welcome and enough of a community to prove its worth, as perhaps, we can turn back the tide and have the manufacturers of big products, simply sit on various hardware developments until they are tweaked to consumer perfection and ready to have an ongoing consumer love affair on each product with, whilst they develop, tweak, expand on and perfect the next level behind the scenes. I can dream cant I?
Rather than hocking the next chip off the presses as the the new unleven bread, promising its promises and moving on, before the flock have realised a new messiah was perhaps in their midst and worthy of their time and affections.
That kind of model could curb all the "Mhz myth envy" and let folk focus on polished software pushing the limits of any given hardware. It could lead to proper communities around products, that last longer than their contract.
It could lead to better things overall.
"But wheres the money/competition/incentive/theft/corruption in that?"
Hence....Pandora
What were we talking about again?
