Sony Officially Dont Like Homebrew

[cloud_952]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say.. slow news day? Really, I've read this same e-mail before, many times, any time Sony talks about homebrew. o_O Any one of us here could e-mail Sony and likely get the same form response.

[pt9087]

Lol thats pretty funny! Sony dont like homebrew but hombrew sells Sony!

[Asuki]

Ever thought about what the GAME function had back when PSP was released?

Except for starting the Firmware upgrade and playing "demos" which didn't exist back then, as far as I can remember. Other than that, it had no other features.

You bought it, so it's your responsibility for taking care of it. You wanna upgrade to something that makes you able to use less of your PSP? Sure...

Sony made the mistake since FW 1.0 and we know it, Next time, don't let that happen if you really want the "public" to buy your games and your UMD videos which totally failed.

Sure the MD's were nice but that's in the past. Think about scrapping the UMD idea and let people download games to the PSPv2's flash memory (if that's ever gonna get released) So we can either hex or think of a way to get those image files running/file packs running.
without buying em.

Sure PSX idea was nice, but you guys blew it.
Why the hell should I pay for games that I probably either own or have bought as "pirated copies" ?

[b8a]

BWAHAHAHAHA!

This is what I find so hi-larious:

Sony Officially Don't Like Homebrew

That Sony response is exceedingly tame and would have to be way misconstrued to read that message from it. On top of that, Sony refrained from commenting on homebrew for over a year, but in the past six months alone I've read two separate interviews where Sony acknowledges supporting homebrew. The same company that brought us NetYarouze when no other commercial games company was offering anything even remotely similar (in case you need reminding). This is incredibly bad comedy.

This is total proof that the majority of people don't hate the PSP, it's only the die-hard fanboys of competing companies that are being overly vocal in an attempt to cover up their shame over buying a Sony product. Even Microsoft have had to admit that the PSP is a success and it's time for all of the anti-Sony fanboys to admit it as well and move on to something a little more productive then over-analyzing every single news release that has the word "Sony" in it, looking for the slightest negative connotation.

Sheesh. I wonder how often the Xbox and Nintendo forums have to put up with this tripe...

[bah]

unauthorized software? But the person who sent the message said the games are homebrew..

All homebrew except on 1.0 requires an exploit to run and even if it didnt, it has never been approved by sony to run on the PSP so of course homebrew is unauthorized.

Unauthorized != illegal, it just means they can deny you warranty if you break its conditions as listed on the last cpl of pages of the manual.

Sony doesn't love homebrew, coming up next week: Water is wet.

[Plowking]

What I see here is simply that Sony would never like to admit that the PSP is a success because of homebrew.

I'd guess they wish their machine did well on the merits of what they only allow to be produced for it, and are probably really embarrassed that it's the homebrew scene that's made it a great machine.

[reakt]

They're not saying they don't like it. Only that they don't recommend using it as it could cause damage to your PSP and it will void your warranty. That's absolutely true, homebrew which writes to the flash of the PSP certainly can damage it.

[bah]

They don't directly say they don't like it, but honestly do they really have to? Isnt it obvious that a company who produces a console would prefer you to be buying games that generate profit for them rather than homebrew.

The fact that a homebrew enabled PSP is also capable of running ISOs doesn't even need to come into it.

They don't want to make too big a fuss over the whole scene as it will only make more people aware of it.

The most popular homebrew would have to be emulators, and they surely arent going to be supporting homebrew coders in writing emulators due to the legal issues of being seen as promoting this as a use without permission from the trademark/patent/copyright holders.

[onetwentyeight]

i doubted the universal involvement with homebrew selling psp's until lumines became the #1 seller at amazon overnight.

[b_simpson1999]

without homebrew there would only be a couple of people that would even use the psp. i know if i couldn't use homebrew my psp would just sit and collect dust, but because of homebrew my psp gets used EVERY day

yes I whould agree with this cos i upgraded my psp to 3.03, I whould never use my psp much i whould use my nds till there was HEN then the downgrade and now enjoying custom firmware and homebrew