Has Sony Got Coders Running Scared?

[Video_freak]

That's right Voltron, I just never used those. I gotta get my hands on them

[NoQuarter]

Crap if this keeps up I'm gonna have a backpack full of portable devices!

[Video_freak]

I was thinking about that too...
Maybe a PSP will do for now?

[NoQuarter]

You really should give neocd a try,Easily some of the best 2d games ever made IMO.

[Video_freak]

I will. I have to "own" the game first though...

[F9zDark]

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.

Unfortunately he is right. If consoles made money for those that made them, then we wouldn't see as many games at launch or even a continual supply of them as time went on. Lets just say the PSP costs Sony 300 dollars to produce. They sell it for 250 USD. Thats 50 dollars lost for evey PSP sold.

Time goes on, production costs reduce to 275 USD. Still, Sony in the net loss, now losing 25 USD per console. Christmas rolls around, PSP price drops to 200, even though the console is still costing Sony 275 to produce!

They lower the price because they want more people to buy the PSP, since the more people who have the PSP, the more likely Sony will sell games for the PSP. Thats the whole console mentality.

With a system like the PS2, ok, Sony is definately raking in some profit on that. The production costs are probably dirt cheap now. But a company cannot wait 5+ years to seeing a profit on the console itself. Thats why there needs to be games.

[NoQuarter]

There does need to be games,just not constant rahashing of old ideas.I really like the way GP2X set things up with support for homebrew out of the box as well as commercial releases.I think I'll get one when my finances allow.Got my heart set on DS lite first though.
Ebay is good place to look for Neocd games Video freak.
My friend found a rare PC engine game there in pristine condition:
Dracula X

[yaustar]

I hear ya on the firmware updates & multiple firmwares. I strongly believe that everyone into PSP homebrew should downgrade their PSP to 1.50. Homebrew with the eLoader only works up to firmware 2.60. However with a 1.50 PSP, you can also turn it into a 2.71 PSP with DevHook.

The problem is, what about 6 months down the line. What will Sony do then? It is difficult to predict the future on the PSP and the uncertainity does drive potential developers away. But I agree that 1.5 PSPs are great for homebrew, I have a few friends here playing about with developing on it and see what it can do performence wise.

There does need to be games,just not constant rahashing of old ideas.I really like the way GP2X set things up with support for homebrew out of the box as well as commercial releases.I think I'll get one when my finances allow.Got my heart set on DS lite first though.

Given that you have a PSP for homebrew, at present I would advise you to get the DS lite just because the commerical games for the DS are pretty good overall. Come just after December I be hopefully looking at some decent original games for the GP2X: http://www.psymastr.com/gp2x/

[Voltron]

And why would devhook support 2.80? Are there any games that require this yet?

No games yet require 2.80. The game that requires the highest firmware is the new F1 Grand Prix game. I think that comes with a 2.70 or 2.71 update.

As far as 2.80 firmware features, I don't care about Video RSS feeds, but I thought I read that 2.80 firmware allows you to name your video files whatever you want now. Instead of having to name the video "MAQ12345.MP4", you could name it "Sopranos Episode 1". Also, the location in which videos are placed may have changed. If anyone can confirm or deny this I'd be interested to know.

[jak66]

both are true voltron, the folder you put videos in is the 'VIDEO' folder in the root of the memorystick,although some videos work others dont