Ex-SCEE Employee Reckons The PSP SDK Is A Bit Rubbish, iPhone SDK Is Better

[JLF65]

Once again, the iPhone runs a full blown, mature OS, the PSP does not. Partly because Sony doesn't have an OS to put on it, but mostly because the PSP is INCAPABLE of running one. Or, is there some magic I'm unaware of that can compress half a gig into 32MB?

Yeah, because we never ran "full blown, mature OS" on our PCs when they only had 4MB of RAM and 20 MHz CPUs.

The PSP is more than capable of running a full blown, mature OS - there's just no reason for it. The PSP is meant to play games, and play multimedia. You don't need a full blown, mature OS to do that.

As an example, I run MacOS 8.1 on my PSP via Basilisk II. That is a full blown, mature OS. Maybe not modern, but you didn't specify modern, did you? So if we can run a full blown, mature OS in an EMULATION on the PSP, you can certainly have a full blown, mature OS natively on the PSP.

Even if you specify modern OS, the PSP is more than capable of an OS the same level as Windows XP, just with a couple features missing - like memory protection. Such a thing really isn't needed on the PSP anyway.

[Zack]

I have to say b8a's point on the app store is a good one.

If sony and nintendo (let focus on sony here though) opened up PSN to allow user submitted content and took a slice of the selling fee, they would gain substantially from it.

For one, it would take out a lot of the need for "hacking" the console, and it would also allow free titles to be released into PSN if the developer didn't want to charge for their software.

Will this ever happen though? Probably not.

[GamingHorror]

Well, the App Store didn't stop users from hacking the iPhone. So that's not a silver bullet. Plus the reason why people hack a device is not to get to more or free software, but to prove they can do it and to get access to features they otherwise couldn't and to modify the device. Piracy just follows suit whenever the dam breaks.

[Zack]

Well, the App Store didn't stop users from hacking the iPhone. So that's not a silver bullet. Plus the reason why people hack a device is not to get to more or free software, but to prove they can do it and to get access to features they otherwise couldn't and to modify the device. Piracy just follows suit whenever the dam breaks.

Well I am aware of that. Either way, whether it prevents piracy or doesn't, it would still be a move in the right direction for Sony.