Oh well!

The anti-homebrew vibe was completely unintended… For the record, I am amazed and impressed by some of the games and applications created by the homebrew community.

I would love to see Sony encourage more creativity on it’s consoles, but I’m sure Sony is feeling a little burned by the experience of allowing homebrew within Linux, only for it to become a potential entry point for people looking to alter aspects of the core OS (Potentially paving the way for piracy)

For now, LBP2 is probably as close as we are going to get to a homebrew SDK!

Thank you for your reply.

Upon re-reading my earlier comment, I have noticed an unintended anti-homebrew vibe.

For the record, I am amazed and impressed by some of the stuff that the homebrew community creates. I would love to see this kind of creativity encouraged by Sony. Unfortunately, you only have to look at the PSP homebrew community to see that some people just seek to abuse the ability to run unsigned code so they can enable piracy.

In my opinion, the only safe way to allow homebrew is within the confines of a game like LBP, or to create a limited SDK that restricts access to features that could be abused for piracy (Like Blu-Ray drive access)Ironically, Sony allowed the latter from launch (In the form of Linux support) but had to remove it when someone threatened to abuse it to allow access to the core operating system.

For now, I am happy to see what people can create despite the restrictions in LBP2 and hope that Sony reinstate Linux support when/if they can find a way to do so safely.

Whats need got to do with anything ? Its called fun.

Sony could easily develop or contract out a Game Shark type device with full control over any security issues online or off especially considering most of the buying public aren’t looking to hack a console.

They can spin it anyway they want but I think the reality is they see devices like this as not being worth the effort to design and sell and use “Security/Piracy” issues as an easy excuse not to. I’m sure there is a risk here but when isn’t there ?

Also if they did this they or developers may not be able to make money selling us cheats and at the end of the day all Sony is really after is our cash.

Good point about Datel and the PSP bye the way, I hadn’t thought of that :)

Not directed at riculas or anyone else but I think its important to remember not everyone in the mod/Home brew communities wants to Pirate or run Pirated software. Be it good or bad [matter of opinion] these consoles will be hacked no matter what Sony does.

Personally I find the Home brew stuff intriguing.