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They have to please the shareholders. Thats probably the main reason they dont want hb available to the customers. Obviously, if psp users can download free games, they will spend less on the commercial games. So, less dividends for the greedy shareholders.
I have found in the past, that sony reply personallay to a good hand written letter. I sent one to scee in dublin and got a reply within the week. Although, this was to do with my ps2 breaking down...you know, when it stops reading your games.

how big is the disc read issue anyway, my ps2 is from uk launch and it works great and always has

it is a bit ironic however that the most probable reason for low umd sales, at least for me, is that to play the umds i will have to update and lose homebrew
if i could have both i would own alot more umds, daxter, socom, loads of movies
i just cant make the descision to lose homebrew

It seems to be a big problem, i fixed it by adjusting the lens height and cleaning it with some alcohol on a cue tip.

homebrew has gotten old for me. I have like 65 homebrews on my PSP, but I just can't get motivated to play them. I have nester J, but you can only play Super Mario Bros. so many times. I have Snes9xTYLme, but that got old, too. The ports are great, but I haven't played a homebrew yet that I could play for more than 1/2 an hour. They get old and repetitive and none of them have that replay value since none of them have save states. It gets old playing the same 1st level over and over. Terra incognita? Played it once and lost at the last boss. There is no way I'm going thru all that crap again.

A/f/a sony allowing homebrew. I tried calling them on the phone one time, and I asked how big the flash memory was b/c I was curious. I told him I was using homebrew and hacked it all. He started getting all pissed off, like I was insulting him. I don't understand what the big deal is if I am using something in the privacy of my own home and modding it and tweaking it how I please. I own it; it doesn't belong to sony anymore. Sony is so retarded. Whatever happened to that petition on the internet that we all signed?

actually sony does still own the psp
when you buy something in a shop you are only purchasing the right to use it as was intended by the maker, search it in google, you'll be surprised. if you buy a book, you are only buying the right to read its contents, the book still belongs to the produucer. If you buy a CD you are buying the ability to listen to it

also, any qualifications you have from education don't belong to you, they are the sole property of the exam board that made the exams and issued the result, they can withdraw them at any time!!!

scary!!!

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Originally Posted by yaustar

Do sony frown on homebrew though? Net Yarouze? YaBasic with PS2? They must have been around for a reason...

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Sony doesn't mind when they are the ones providing the libraries.