PSP homebrew support "in the works"

  • Posted July 26th, 2007 at 13:24 EDT by
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The homebrew scene is usually considered a bit of a danger zone, because it often takes some sort of hacking before the console in question will run such home-made software. Jack Tretton, however, has actually praised some of the work of the thriving PSP homebrew crowd.

When asked if Sony would consider adding official homebrew support to PSP, Tretton rather encouragingly said: "I think that is something that is in the works."

"We certainly see some of the stuff that has been done via homebrew, and it's incredibly creative. And I think we'd like to try and tap into that a little bit more."

Source: CVG

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  1. amdprophet | amdprophet

    • 1:30pm BST - July 26th, 2007
    • 1

    Boo yea! I'm in the middle of making a MMORPG for the PSP right now.

  2. Jezer29 | Jezer29

    • 1:35pm BST - July 26th, 2007
    • 2

    I think thats great b/c I've always have been intrested in homebrew especially cause I would love to be able to play old school NES games.. But Im affaird of bricking my PSP.. If these guys can put their $$$ hungry ego's aside and come to some type of agreement. That would be nice.. Lets just wait and see....

  3. willisc89 | liquidsoap89

    • 2:02pm BST - July 26th, 2007
    • 3

    that's good in some ways, but that does open up the psp to viruses, which would not be a good thing, I would still like to see some type of support for homebrew though so BRING IT ON!

  4. Solid_Squirrel | ZeroTheSquirrel

    • 3:13pm BST - July 26th, 2007
    • 4

    hey don't worry Willisc89, If Sony gets involved the homebrew would become official with Sony and the risk of Viruses will be gone. I wonder what they are planing for the homebrew scene...

  5. gingo | gingo

    • 4:49pm BST - July 26th, 2007
    • 5

    psn id: gingo... this is strange for a company to support homebrews but kudos to sony

  6. MrFenwick | SirFenwick

    • 6:06pm BST - July 26th, 2007
    • 6

    I think Sony knows that no matter how many updates they do, it will be hacked. In the end, it would be better to just go ahead and let them do what they want! I'm sure it would sale a lot more PSP's.

  7. Crimson_Angel

    • 6:16pm BST - July 26th, 2007
    • 7

    all right sony

  8. Alpha2

    • 7:42pm BST - July 26th, 2007
    • 8

    Hacking has nothing to do with the decision to create homebrew, You can make the system as open as you like and there'll still be hackers trying to play free games that they downloaded. No he's actually talking about creativity and games made by people who actually ARE making apps rather than the means to play free games.

  9. kflashin | KFLASHIN

    • 11:34pm BST - July 26th, 2007
    • 9

    If you can't beat em join em eh SONY.I don't know this could be a great move or a complete disaster

  10. mista mike | Noke

    • 2:12pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 10

    my psp already gots cool stuff on it like old skool games and custom font and im able to play pretty much any video format out but i will like to see what they come out with now, i need a homebrew upgrade anyway

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