Comments on: PSP firmware 5.00 hacked

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:36:18 +0000

ACTUALLY psp 4000 is coming out featuring a built in camera, copy and paste tool, fully compatable flash player(for youtube) and SO MUCH MORE!

By: Devboy

Devboy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:53:46 +0000

Sony had their share of crap from psp. There will be a revolution with microsoft’s very own handheld console. Lets hope they do create a lineup for portable gaming. That’ll be a day. Its not far from now !

By: BLUE

BLUE — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:14:55 +0000

Mark: “I think the problem is more to do with people hacking their software to run on the hardware. Sure, you own the hardware, -but you don’t own the right to use the new firmware software.-”

Don’t own the right? Who “OWNS” the right to deny me anything I live in america I can shit in public if its in my religion and steal rice pattys from little kidsI can take your idea and add 1 thing to it and sell it and you can yell me a theif while I take all the money.
Sony its go down a long road of fail really and they do it shamelessly too!

By: midwest2

midwest2 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:24:02 +0000

Sony will never win, they can only loose more slowly,tottaly agree with your point
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By: icefox

icefox — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:37:13 +0000

Sony will never win, they can only loose more slowly. I understand why they are against this, but they would probably make more money from it if they just left it open source.

Think, if they advertised this like the Chumby and allowed people to do whatever they want, people would buy it. Their current unimpressive style is to describe it as an MP3 player with external speakers, a fair sized screen, and the ability to play some games, most of which weren’t that good.

Maybe Sony will realize this by the time a psp-4000 is announced and maybe they might make a little money.

By: jjsjldkf

jjsjldkf — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:38:39 +0000

nice webman

By: DiThi

DiThi — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:25:42 +0000

I for one have already reserved openPandora.

http://openpandora.org

Along with a cheap 3G phone with bluetooth, it will supply all my portable needs (surfing, gaming, PMP, PDA and even programming).

By: Coderer

Coderer — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:04:25 +0000

@larawen: …which is a problem when you follow the traditional game console market strategy of losing money on hardware to make it up with software. PSP definitely takes a bit software-sales hit from piracy, so they’re selling units at a loss that don’t even have many software sales attached to them. That’s gotta hurt.

By: Larawen

Larawen — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:00:53 +0000

I believe it has more to do with appeasing the 3rd party devs. If they never patched the firmware and made it easy, more people would hack and torrent the games. By changing the firmware and forcing new games to be run on the latest it insures that only the more dedicated pirates are going to continue to not pay for games. Not to say that its stopping people from doing it. Even Sony has admitted that the hacked firmware has probably boosted hardware sales.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:32:29 +0000

“well you can only conclude that after you have paid for the hardware they still consider themselves the owner.”

I think the problem is more to do with people hacking their software to run on the hardware. Sure, you own the hardware, but you don’t own the right to use the new firmware software.

By: YoYo-Pete

YoYo-Pete — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:32:53 +0000

That’s great and all… It has tons of amazing uses. I want to know why so many choose to use the homebrew scene for on-line cheating. If it wasnt for that aspect, we might see much more co-operation from SCEA.

By: nubie

nubie — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:25:15 +0000

cough, openpandora, cough.

All fake adverts aside, why do they even bother? Just to give the appearance of a locked system to the board running Sony?

Put a damn SD card and let it run any software already Sony. And don’t do the PS3 thing and lock out the video acceleration (in fact, offer money to homebrew game devs already.)

By: happypinguin

happypinguin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:54:11 +0000

Chris: I totally agree.

It is up to us if we still want to feed those closed platform manufacturers.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:46:29 +0000

They (the manufacturer) will always loose this race eventually.

Why do they do it ? – well you can only conclude that after you have paid for the hardware they still consider themselves the owner.

Theres a number of completely open hand held consoles even with 3d hardware which makes foe great mame experiences and are great for homebrew

You have to wonder what future there is for closed platforms…