Has Sony Got Coders Running Scared?

[mr_nick666]

I agree with the general concensus that its just a holiday thing Its been a good summer here in the UK and (for me personally) Ive spent half the time on the PSP and the PC that I would in the autumn/winter Time will tell...

[ACID]

I still hope is just the vacation time of summer they do deserve a break. As for booster his devhook didn't include an illegal file it was added on. Yes he knows of the capability's of devhook but he didn't release it for those reasons. If you read this booster or dark-alex keep up the great work never surrender to Sony's halo threats.

[NoQuarter]

I agree with acid burn lets hope none of of our great coders suucumb to pressure from the man.I think we've seen lulls longer than this one,besides do we really wan't to emulate 2.8 it's not that great of an update.We're still seeing updates and info on some great releases.

[ACID]

i agree 2.8 is not a great update and right now theres only one game i think been releaset that uses this in the next couple of months.

[NoQuarter]

I was thinking the slowdown in releases was coming a couple of weeks ago,with sony preparing their ps1 emu and all.this is really no surprise.

[moogster66]

Sony should be grateful, I'll say it again, GRATEFUL, that the coders out there are able to program for the psp. And the homebrew scene is flourishing like it is. The PSP would be dead, and almost a memory by now if it wasn't for them! Sony should be paying them, not looking for ways to "Go after them"!

Thanks to all the coders who made my investment in the PSP worthwhile, and not another waste of money on a dead video game system!

[NoQuarter]

Amen to that,but unfortunetly I don't think sony is greatful
Heck even their licensee's are jumping ship,so something is going on internaly.At least that's what I think.

[gamesquest1]

nah moogster & noquarter as many people know hardware sales are not what keeps a company running as many people seem to think, its the sales they make on UMD as virtually every console is sold at a considerable loss, which means they need each person who owns a psp to buy plenty of games....i know for a fact this dosnt happen if people play homebrew ... i know because i own 2 UMD's one is the demo and one is liberty city stories which i have shared with most of my friends and family to use the downgrader. so now i know only 1 of them owns more than 3 games so as i see it sony does need to stop people buying the console just for homebrew.....for themselves like not what i personally want

[lordhelmchen00]

The funny thing is ... devhook brought money from me to Sony and Software publishers! I have 2 psps, but I never upgrade any of them because of the cool homebrew (SNES ad-hoc, NeoGeo etc.) out there. After devhook came out, I bought Outrun2006, RocoLoco and GTA, because I was finally able to play the games on my PSP. I furthermore plan to buy Tekken, Extreme Ghouls'n'Goblins and E3 (if they're not going to be firmware 2.8).

Well, without devhook, I would still only enjoy emulators and early PSP games. So, Sony should thank devhook! I personally think that homebrew will not be stopped by sony. If sony will stop homebrew, it's the legit homebrew that is affected. The more they try to stop ISOS, the underground scene gets more attracted to get them onto the PSP (just a suspicion); the forbidden fruit thing. I think they have already lost against piracy (which is a pitty).

[NoQuarter]

I disargee gamesquest because:
after a certain amount of hardware consoles are produced the production costs drop.The company only loses money at first. As more people buy the console the company starts to turn a profit on it.IMHO.
wouldn't make much business sense any other way

Tekken is a great buy!Which I wounldn't have been able to buy without devhook!
I actualy got into a pretty nasty arguement with a good friend over piracy and my friend went and shelled out the money after it,Would'nt want to screw my fav game company(Namco) plus tekken comes with a dpad attachment which is a must even for homebrew.