IF Games Like GTA is on a non Homebrew Firmware Will You Upgrade?

[wraggster]

Quick question to those who downgraded, would you sacrifice the ability to play Homebrew and emulators and play games like the Grand Theft Auto game if they made you install a non Homebrew firmware.

Sony you can be sure are working to cover the holes in their firmware to stop exploits and it wouldnt be unheard of for a company like them to trace the hackers and pay the hackers to find aany exploits and fix them.

To answer my own question above, i think the time has come for me to buy a US PSP as thats the area with the UMD Movies i most want to watch.

[jimjamjahaa]

nope. at least not for a very long while. i will let the hackers come up with a new work arround.

that is, of course, if we are talkign about 2.01

2.0 is now irrelivant

[wraggster]

you say that but if a killer game came out it would be hard not to

[jimjamjahaa]

well gta is pretty killer. it would be hard to resist, but its a real serious step to take upgrading to >2

the decision would not be made lightly

[wraggster]

i would never upgrade my v1.0 and ill buy a new psp just to play games on, thats probaly what most who can afford it will do

[Zephyroth_drgs]

not all ppl can buy 2 psp but maybe the solution can be a firmware like 1.5 modified that can "tell" to the upgrader game that is already on a higer version, i mean 4 example a 1.5 version that says that is 2.x so when a game try to upgrade it it will (maybe) notice that is already a higer version.... could that work? dont think ya?

[Tron_Fan]

No, not at first. I still am backed up a few games on the PSP, plus Shadow Of The Collossus is coming out for PS2 in a couple of weeks and that should keep me busy for a while.

I'll watch and see if A) What the reviews on the game are. It could stink. and B) See if someone comes up with a version changer for 2.1

I will want to play it at some point (being a big fan of GTAIII and Vice City).

[DrSarcasmo]

Ya know, I was waiting eagerly for GTA, but I probably won't upgrade for it. If I wait long enogh the new 2.x will end up cracked and then I'll run it. Or the WAB upgrader wit be updated. I'm enjoying homebrew WAY to much to upgrade. And not just the games either. VNC emulation, Internet radio, assorted Video file formats, FTP demon. The list goes on.

The funny thing is I don't run loaders. I don't own a single piece of pirated software for the PSP. I have a dsiposable income and buy the games I like on the UMDs. I DO believe Sony screwed up with UMD movies, but that's another can of worms. Remember Mini-disks and Betamax...LOL If Sony got their collective heads out of their asses, they would stop wasting time on trying to block homebrew applications and support the community and garner a huge helping of goodwill towards themselves.

Oh, and for the record, i believe that GTA will NOT be 2.x on release. That will just hurt the sales for both Sony AND Rockstar. I know that if I was releasing a game that I spent millions on developing and the hardware vendor told me that they are making it so that only a limited number of units can run it, I would have a major fit. This WILL limit sales of a killer app.

As hundreds if not thousands of people have downgraded back to 1.5 and can just use the WAB changer to simulate 2.0, releasing GTA as 2.X could well be financial suicide.

DrSarcasmo

[geise69]

Nope! It's just not my kind of game. I never really liked the series that much. I thought 1 and 2 were alright and I loved the fact that it went all 3rd person perspective. I played it and just couldn't get into it. I've always been more of an importer playing shootmups, rpg's, and other action games. Now if it was Ys VI Ark of Napishtim and Popolocris, or a Treasure game (hopefully they'll start doing psp games) then maybe if there's no other way around it. I can always play my emulators on my pc to sacrifice for "finally" some really good psp games. I'm not saying GTA is a bad game just not for me.

[slayer2psp]

ill just run gta off the memory stick no update needed to run games off the memory stick plus the load times are much better im not saying ill run a bootleg copy i have already paid for my gta i run all my games off the ms they just play better off it. the umd drive sucks too slow