http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/09/30/sony-just-stop/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/09/30/sony-just-stop/comment-page-1/#comment-2309 fufufu03 Wed, 05 Oct 2005 04:18:46 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/09/30/sony-just-stop/#comment-2309 I could only agree with you partially. I agree that SONY should give the consumers space to explore with the console. Let them be creative and play around with it. But hacking back to earlier version enable consumers to play pirated games, this is something SONY has to deal with, based on the fact that revenue is not generated by console selling but by softwares. If software companies are upset with all these hacking and pirating actions, they might produce less quality games. I could only agree with you partially. I agree that SONY should give the consumers space to explore with the console. Let them be creative and play around with it. But hacking back to earlier version enable consumers to play pirated games, this is something SONY has to deal with, based on the fact that revenue is not generated by console selling but by softwares. If software companies are upset with all these hacking and pirating actions, they might produce less quality games.

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/09/30/sony-just-stop/comment-page-1/#comment-2308 untoward Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:23:03 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/09/30/sony-just-stop/#comment-2308 my guess the reason sony is fighting home brew software so hard is that they are selling the psp at a loss, just like thy did with the ps2 at launch, just like they are going to with the ps3. the way they make there money is with software and umd sales. because a hacked psp can run iso images of umd discs from the mem stick, I'm guessing they feel the risk of piracy is too great. that, and of the the 2 greatest reasons i want a psp that will run home brew is for emulation of older hardware. if sony were to allow that to happen nintendo would own 2 next gen consoles and 3 handhelds. the second reason is so that i wont have to reincode video from mpg, or avi, and the shear convenience of that would cut into UMD video sales. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> the only real way sony would ever allow home brew is if they could make a massive profit on the actual sale of the device considering they would never see a dime of consumer money after they sold the hardware. I'm all for that, i could budget $500 for that. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> i might pay more if they scrap the UMD drive, and build in a hard drive a touch screen for data input, give the usb port host function for all sorts of peripheral devices. use the memory stick as a battery efficient memory space so that games and movies don't have to stream off the hard drive. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> sony could then probably have to rethink its strategy and offer the hardware at a loss again if if they ran an itunes store like web site or software suit that could be the gateway for online movie and music distribution, and software sales. this way all those home brew programmers could start up a company, maybe licence an sdk (for cheep) from sony and make a little money them selves for all their hard labor. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> I'm sure if sony doesn't do any of this microsoft will, it wouldn't be hard with what they have developed so far in their failing pocket pc platform, just ad a unified 3d/sound chip powerful enough to handle games and hi quality vid. M$ would probably frak it up by having windows media as the only codec its device supported. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> my guess the reason sony is fighting home brew software so hard is that they are selling the psp at a loss, just like thy did with the ps2 at launch, just like they are going to with the ps3. the way they make there money is with software and umd sales. because a hacked psp can run iso images of umd discs from the mem stick, I’m guessing they feel the risk of piracy is too great. that, and of the the 2 greatest reasons i want a psp that will run home brew is for emulation of older hardware. if sony were to allow that to happen nintendo would own 2 next gen consoles and 3 handhelds.
the second reason is so that i wont have to reincode video from mpg, or avi, and the shear convenience of that would cut into UMD video sales.

the only real way sony would ever allow home brew is if they could make a massive profit on the actual sale of the device considering they would never see a dime of consumer money after they sold the hardware.
I’m all for that, i could budget $500 for that.

i might pay more if they scrap the UMD drive, and build in a hard drive a touch screen for data input, give the usb port host function for all sorts of peripheral devices. use the memory stick as a battery efficient memory space so that games and movies don’t have to stream off the hard drive.

sony could then probably have to rethink its strategy and offer the hardware at a loss again if if they ran an itunes store like web site or software suit that could be the gateway for online movie and music distribution, and software sales. this way all those home brew programmers could start up a company, maybe licence an sdk (for cheep)
from sony and make a little money them selves for all their hard labor.

I’m sure if sony doesn’t do any of this microsoft will, it wouldn’t be hard with what they have developed so far in their failing pocket pc platform, just ad a unified 3d/sound chip powerful enough to handle games and hi quality vid. M$ would probably frak it up by having windows media as the only codec its device supported.

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