Has Sony Got Coders Running Scared?

[gamesquest1]

You are exactly right. In business, this is called "economies of scale" which basically means the savings from manufacturing, marketing, or buying in large quantities.

With 20 million PSP's now shipped/sold worldwide, I doubt Sony is still taking a hit from hardware sales. Also, I just read recently that the PSP is number 4 on the list of top 10 tech gadgets being bought as "back to school" items from high-school / college students.

But out of 20 million PSP's does anyone know how many are used for homebrew? I'm willing to bet its less than a million. I wouldn't doubt if more and more people are using their PSP's for homebrew as time goes on and more people learn about it. Also, if ISO loading is hurting the PSP as much as some people think, and there were millions pirating away, Sony would no doubt be taking a serious hit and their wrath against homebrew would be 10-fold.

The best thing us fellow homebrewers can do to sustain the PSP homebrew craze is to keep generating buzz over it and introducing more and more people to PSP homebrew.

KxPloit, MPH downgrader, Fanjita & Ditlew, Dark_AleX, Booster and others have helped pave the way for MANY more people to enjoy homebrew. We owe them so much.

Yeah i agree with you obviously they are making a profit but mainly off software sales and if they where taking no action against this soon everybody would soon know about it and it spreads rapidly..i should know i told a few friends and family and now i know at least 30 odd people who have all used my gta liberty city stories to downgrade and play homebrew and such so as you know the easier it is to do it the more people do it so sony have to crack down because it does spread such as softmodding with the xbox millions of xboxs where soft modded that way because it was free, and offered such great features which tempted so many people to do it once they found out about it and the worst thing was that xbox couldnt stop that 1 because there was so many splinter cell games made before they found the exploit so as you can see sony has to take as much action as they can its up to us to get past what they throw at us

[SSaxdude]

The hard part about getting people's interest into homebrew is they don't listen. That or they whine about having all the new "features" of new firmware updates.

[gamesquest1]

well once you show people your psp doin all the $#@! it can doo i know loads of people using devhook and that because i showed them how to do it ive even been paid by a pew of my mates of mates lol so if eveybody flaunts there psp you shound hopefully get quite a few new psp hombrewers to the scene and save a few psp's souls lol

[tallica]

No it just feels like there is a lack of new releases because in july homebrew went crazy.

[The_Ultimate_Eggman]

I think $ONY breathing down some coders necks has put them off and making them lie low for the time being.Like other peeps have said at the moment we have no need for 2.80 so i doubt we will see it decrypted in the iminent future I just hope this isnt the end of homebrew as we know it.

[yaustar]

Quite frankly, there is one sole reason why I am developing on the GP2X rather then the PSP. Its because I can't be bothered to screw around the firmware issues surrounding the machine. A lot fo the releases nowadays is to do with trying to get the current homebrew running on the newer machines and from my point of view, it is just not worth the effort to develop for a platform that continuely locks home development out.

On the GP2X, everyone is focused on trying to get the best out of the machine and playing each other's applications, games and emulators. A far cry from the current PSP situation where users are divided from deciding to upgrade to play the latest games or wait for DevHook support and keep homebrew.

[NoQuarter]

Good point yaustar,I might consider getting one if it's not too much.Besides seems like the company has the right idea.

[Voltron]

Good point yaustar,I might consider getting one if it's not too much.Besides seems like the company has the right idea.

Assuming we are talking about 1.50 PSP's, isn't homebrew at a much greater level on the PSP than the GP2X? I find it hard to believe that there are BETTER homebrew apps, & emulators on the GP2X seeing how great they are on the PSP.

If I'm wrong, correct me. Or if someone knows of any emulators that are available for both the PSP & GP2X but the GP2X version is far better, I'd be interested in knowing.

[NoQuarter]

I just did some reading on the GP2X,I don't know what quality the apps and emulators are at wtithout actually playing one.The thing that impresses me the most is the use of linux and the GPL,although there are some issues with that.Also the fact it comes with a devkit, they openly support homebrew.
I'll always have my psp 1.5.I'm not giving up that sexy machine,my main problem is just the way sony is doing business.

[Basil Zero]

I'm thinking there's going to be a LARGE AMOUNT of Homebrew releases right around Nov-Dec 2006.