Sony Officially Dont Like Homebrew

***wraggster*** · July 1st, 2007, 21:18

A user on the 1up forums contacted Sony regarding homebrew, heres his email:

I am well yet another PSP owner .

I just found some sites which allow games to be downloaded and then copied into Memory Stick .

Unfortunately i have not been able to run them .

All applications and games were homebrews .

Is there any geniune reason for this ?

To be more specific
Is SONY trying to prevent users from running freely available homebrews .

Hoping for an early response .

The response from Sony was typical and to be honest no company such as Microsoft, Nintendo or Sony will ever publically say that Homebrew is good but heres the response:

Hello Tamish,

Thank you for writing us.

Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. (SCEA) does not recommend downloading any unauthorized
software (i.e. games, movies, etc.) for your PSP(TM) portable entertainment system from the
Internet; these software downloads have not been officially tested nor approved by SCEA and may
cause damage to your PSP system.

Any damage caused to your PSP system due to your use of unauthorized software downloads will void
your Limited Sony Warranty for the PSP system. The only approved network updates can be found at
PlayStation.com.

Please visit the link below to download and install available system updates for the PSP(TM)
portable entertainment system.

http://www.us.playstation.com/psp/do...s/systemupdate

If you have further questions regarding this message, please refer to your email case
number:46547XX.

Joseph
Multimedia Specialist
Sony Computer Entertainment America
Consumer Services Department

to be fair you would expect nothing less than this response.

**Buddy4point0** · July 1st, 2007, 21:31

we already new they didnt like homebrew lol, too bad homebrew helps psp sales by alot

**mavsman4457** · July 1st, 2007, 21:32

I don't see why this would be posted. Are we dumb enough that we needed to email Sony to find out that they "Officially don't like homebrew"? This is nonsense.

**splodger15** · July 1st, 2007, 21:34

How do they know I have played homebrew on my console

**TCLCloud** · July 1st, 2007, 21:35

Ha, i like the bit at the end:

Please visit the link below to download and install available system updates for the PSP(TM)
portable entertainment system

And make homebrew impossible! Cheeky bastards, should be able to do what we want with our PSPs

**JKKDARK** · July 1st, 2007, 21:37

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

**cypressice** · July 1st, 2007, 22:09

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

**mat_dizzy** · July 1st, 2007, 22:10

Yeah as homebrew and custom firmware is legal... i will never quite understand sony :S

And trying to get them to download the latest official firmware, i sware one of these days that site will be hacked and the official link will be replaced with oe