Did Sony's SCE have a stroke recently?

Seriously. I know they have somewhat suported indy & homebrew development but just recently noticed. Their connect site links to pspupdates, a psp homebrew development site.

http://psp.connect.com/index.php (last part on the right side)

News post where this was reported.
http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/

 

Well maybe they are trying to get a hardware base using a market scheme like the one from GP32 (emus&apps).

That may explain why sony sells the PSP at the same price from launch: they are making a profit on the hardware, not the software...

 

Lol! First they don't want us installing homebrew on our PSP, and now this.

Has to be an error...

 

if you can't beat them, join them ?

 

Looks like a banner ad, maybe they don't pay attention to who advertises on their site?

Shadowlayer: I am totally going to steal your avatar! :110: I haven't laughed that hard at an avatar in a long time... Hehe...

 

If it is, PSPupdates spent quite a bit of $$ to get that banner there, which I doubt.. and all the other links go to Sony sites. Doesn't make sense at all.. unless they are bringing out 3.0 with homebrew support o.o

 

trying to establish the PSP like the PS1? one eyed pirates at sony, all of em

 

trying to get money from pirates maybe?

 

Homebrew and pirating are seperated by a very thin line, if any at all, and to keep ignoring a popular front such as that is obviously losing some money. Instead, allowing for some *controlled* sandboxing, may be an answer that economically benefits SONY. If there's an effort being made on the PSP by coders, they might as well take a bite. It's like comparing a tax to a complete ban Remember, gambling is illegal as long as it doesn't pay taxes

 

Maybe they want to emulate MS and the open XNA homebrew. They already copied Live...

No way dude! I had to kill a puppy to get this avatar!:rambo:

 

So does this mean if my PSP becomes corrupt from one of these applications that Sony will send me a new one?

 

Why when they did ps2 linux kit & the black ps1 long before XNA.

 

Yeah but the yaroze was killed in a sec, and you couldnt do much with the linux kit either.

the XNA on the other hand is a crippled version of the professional SDK. Plus MS may handle distribution over Live Arcade.

 

Regardless, your statement doesn't hold water. The Yaroze allowed one to buy Codewarrior dev environment and Sony published a load of Yaroze titles in Europe on charity discs.

XBox360 is as crippled as any other attempt at allowing homebrew, it just has a decent spec to work from.

 

someone must have played a small prank down at SONY. upon visiting the website today, the link labeled USE IT has been removed.

 

Apparently it was advertising that linked to the homebrew website. Pretty embarassing, no doubt heads will roll.

 

tought if i was a boss at sony i would consider supporting homebrew for selling some of the stocked machines... but actually i think that will sell a load when the psx emulator will come out... (probably one to me too if FFT will be available )

 

Between homebrew and porn UMDs, this is probably what is keeping the PSP "afloat" so to speak...