For the entire life of the PSP hacking scene, Sony has been trying to stop the whole homebrew thing. I think that instead of fighting it, because wee all know there's no way they'll win, they should embrace it. Like maybe once they have the download service set up, there could be an entire section devoted to homebrew. That, or release official compiling tools and let people distribute games on their own. They just really need to stop bitching and actually think about what the customer wants.
i think the main reason to stop homebrew is that it -always- goes hand in hand with piracy. the customer doesn't really want homebrew, they just want free games.
Congratulations for stating the same thing as plenty of other people have said for years, but the fact remains that if Sony did offer a platform for ordinary people to run arbitrary code on the PSP it would be within a walled garden to help protect against piracy and also stifle innovation, also you would be able to run your "backup" ISO's within whatever enviroment Sony decided to allow homebrew execution in. Face it Sony are happy with things as they are (Any money sales of PSP's have gone up since the release of PANDORA), they don't have to support our demands as wee support them ourselves and they shift more hardware.
don't forget that sony makes most profit from games, not psps. they want to sell more games per psp than just more psps.
Very true, but the success of a console is judged by the people that matter (stockholders) as the amount of hardware they shift, Sony can make residual income from other services, as they are starting to do. Plus there are a lot of people like me out there who would have NEVER bought a PSP or any games if it hadn't been hacked, but because it has I have bought 4 PSP's, 29 Game UMD's, 5 UMD Video's, sales Sony would have never had otherwise.
^^Exactly. I just think they should embrace the homebrew scene like Microsoft has. Maybe release their own streamlined tools to make games. It's helped sell this many systems already.
Eh, whatever. I just wish they'd stop bitching about the whole thing. I mean, I got temporarily eXx1l3d from Gamespot for mentioning custom firmware. When I asked why, they said because topics like that are taboo with Sony and they don't want to piss them off. If the head honchos of Sony actually had half a brain, they'd stop and look at how the PSP sales have gone up since the advent of Custom Firmware
here comes the clincher....for the CFW users its still too late
Whatever they offer will, as pointed out, have to be limited
CFW users will stick with CFW because it isn't
I guess you're right. What they should've done is just start an official homebrew thing from the beginning. I guess it's too late now, though.
As UncertainGod has mentioned, people has said this over and over again. Really, nothing will happen, and generally, people making these suggestions seem to have an over-simplified view of the entire situation.
Sorry metalgear08, but:
metalgear08 Wrote:For the entire life of the PSP hacking scene, Sony has been trying to stop the whole homebrew thing. I think that instead of fighting it, because wee all know there's no way they'll win, they should embrace it.
No, they have a
responsibility to stop homebrew. Allowing unsigned code to run _is_ a security risk, which is something they _must_ stop.
It's basically like saying that anti-virus companies will never totally stop the spread of viruses, so, should they embrace viruses?
metalgear08 Wrote:Like maybe once they have the download service set up, there could be an entire section devoted to homebrew.
That costs money to maintain, and why should they support something that they don't get money from, or isn't made by them?
metalgear08 Wrote:That, or release official compiling tools and let people distribute games on their own.
They're available, but there's license fees associated with it. You really didn't think Sony would give something away for free hey?
metalgear08 Wrote:They just really need to stop bitching and actually think about what the customer wants.
Are they bitching about it???
And what does the customer want? (without a market study, you won't actually be able to answer this)
metalgear08 Wrote:Eh, whatever. I just wish they'd stop bitching about the whole thing. I mean, I got temporarily eXx1l3d from Gamespot for mentioning custom firmware. When I asked why, they said because topics like that are taboo with Sony and they don't want to piss them off. If the head honchos of Sony actually had half a brain, they'd stop and look at how the PSP sales have gone up since the advent of Custom Firmware
That's Gamespot's issue, not Sony's...