A group of hardware hackers claim they are about to release the first product to allow gamers to play homemade and pirated games on the PlayStation 3.
The PS3 is the only games console that has not been hacked, despite being on the market for more than three years.
Now a group called PSJailbreak says it will release a USB dongle containing software that allows users to save games to the console's hard drive.
Sony, the maker of the PS3, declined to comment.
PSJailbreak has also not responded to interview requests by BBC News.
However, a distributor for the dongle said that he had tested it and would start selling the device "in the next two weeks".
"We are in contact with a person in Malaysia but don't know where the manufacturer is," he told the BBC.
Mixed responseAccording to videos of the hack posted online by an Australian distributor, a user merely has to insert the USB stick into the console to make it work.
The videos show a person navigating to a "backup manager" on the PS3, which purports to show a list of games saved to the console's hard drive.
The narrator flicks through the list before loading one of the games.
Sceptics have suggested the videos are a hoax or that they show the hack running on a so-called "debug PS3", used by developers to test code for the machine. BBC News
