Will the PSP-3000 Defeat Homebrew?

[Shiesty]

the nerds, oops i mean coders, that hack the psp want to be the first to accomplish it badly enough that they'll try their damnedest and find a way to

[JLF65]

... custom pirate firmware ...

As someone else mentioned, there's no such thing.

By some accounts, developers like Ready at Dawn and Capcom have lost more than 50% of their prospective revenues to software piracy. One estimate has software producers losing more than $4 million per week to piracy.

Those figures are clearly pulled right out of someone's @ss. Media conglomerates vastly inflate the problem, and always have. There's no more piracy on the PSP than any other system, be it a game console or some other media format. Even with piracy, they're raking in the money faster than they can blow it on mansions, drugs, and hookers. Given that, I have no sympathy what-so-ever.

[Stone Temple Pilots]

Sony, resistance is futile.

[R4mbo]

By some accounts, developers like Ready at Dawn and Capcom have lost more than 50% of their prospective revenues to software piracy

PFFFFFFFF
I think that more then HALF OF THE PSP GAMES are CRAP and not worth to buy! They throw out money to develope this $#@! and then blame it on homebrew and hackers and piracy if it doesnt get sold.

[osgeld]

4 mil a week?

really now, you can count the games actually worth buying on 1 hand for the entire year ... 4 mil a week in what magic beans

or piles of bull$#@! every lazy ass software developer that puts out crap on the psp

you dont sell crap, this is just an easy way to blame your piss poor sales on something else besides your piss poor software

[andwhyisit]

Man, Wraggster calling M33 firmware custom pirate firmware is really kind of insulting and harsh don't you think?

And then to downplay the ingenuity of the Pandora method to make PSP's homebrew-enabled by calling it an "attack" is also really harsh.

Note the source link. It isn't wraggster saying it.

[midnitdragoon]

i hope it stops future homebrew...we already have a large homebrew comunity we dont need it to be larger... Lets keep our homebrew population like this so we can get new stuff rolling. im not talking about features...just GAMMEESSS

I hope the new sony psp sells millions...doesnt get hacked...so that new and original games come out for it. Getting tired of playing old 10 year old games on psp...for gods sakes i know its fun to play mario bros but i wanna play something new and original and not something i can so easily do on the computer.

Im sorry i sound very unappreciative towards a lot of the coders. I really do enjoy homebrew but i feel like im not getting the MOST out of my system if the psp isnt getting as many new and enjoyable games as it should be.

cfw isnt killing the psp...just the piracy . unfortunatly thats associated with the cfw. The only thing i can and hope to see happening to the psp 3000 is that it CAN get hacked only if you physically mod it with another piece of hardware. This will definatly lower future piracy and make more programmers confident that their game will be sold and get some kind of profit from it.(i cant see myself or a casual gamer melding a piece of hardware to their psp..just the hardcore who are willing to risk physical damage to their systems)

[solidsnake_8608]

Yeah if developers didn't make $#@!ty games, they wouldn't lose money, it's really that simple. Trust me, no one participating in piracy (which everyone has done, so don't act high and mighty, because you know you have at one point or another) is downloading $#@!ty games anyways. Bottom line is; don't make a terrible game for a system infamous for terrible games, and expect them to sell.

And no, the magic 3000 will not stop hackers (although I believe the real term is "crackers")

[midnitdragoon]

Yeah if developers didn't make $#@!ty games, they wouldn't lose money, it's really that simple. Trust me, no one participating in piracy (which everyone has done, so don't act high and mighty, because you know you have at one point or another) is downloading $#@!ty games anyways. Bottom line is; don't make a terrible game for a system infamous for terrible games, and expect them to sell.

And no, the magic 3000 will not stop hackers (although I believe the real term is "crackers")

developers WILL lose games if the consumer has an alternative to buying the game. Why pay for a game when you can download it. If developers make a $#@!ty game they loose money...but if developers make a great game they also loose money because people are still downloading(not everybody but im willing to say a good 75-90% of the people interested in that game that have psp with CFW.I pulled those numbers from my ass, but i feel confident with them). im guilty of the latter and feel very hypocritical saying this but its the truth.

edit-Hehe ill try to call them crackers more often =D

your right though....$#@!ty games are not going to sell. Why arnt programmers trying harder? Maybe they feel they shouldnt put too much effort into a product that might get stolen anyway...so why not half ass it. Something has to be done to the future psp's. I dont care what it is...special code, hardware, whatever to make the psp harder to crack so that developers can feel more assured into the product they are making. Hell im a homebrew fan but even with my support to homebrewers out there i def see the lifespan of the psp shortening every day if the psp isnt protected from future piracy..

[PoorKingz]

Piracy is a huge problem for the PSP. It's so easy with downgraders and pandora. ISOs are only a few hundred megabytes and are easy to find, download, and use. CFW is well known. PSP is a really convenient platform for piracy. I hope the 3k prevents piracy. It has gone way to far. People just download games and say "It wasn't that good anyway. Time to download another one!" And this attitude is really hurting the PSP. Developers who invest in PSP don't expect great sales and keep the budget low.