[fahadsul3man]

yinlip psp ftw >.<

[KillerBug]

This is great news! Keep it up Sony, keep this thing so secure that no one will want to buy it from you!

[Kurukurupa]

Originally Posted by KillerBug This is great news! Keep it up Sony, keep this thing so secure that no one will want to buy it from you!

Isn't this an awfully selfish thing to say. If you want a portable device that does a lot of stuff, then buy an Android tablet or just buy the old PSP, those are hacked into oblivion anyway.

I don't see why people would be rooting for the new device to be hacked, of course, it is cool for the people that actually do it. However, all other people jumping on the bandwagon, I don't get the obsession with running your own code on a device on which wasn't originally designed to do so.

You are just destroying the system, occasionally a nice feature will be implemented in a firmware because of hacking, but most of the time, it will only deter developers and stop new stuff from being implemented into the system, for example, Trophy support was never added to the PSP because of all the hacking present on that device.

I hope that hackers will use their mind for once and not destroy a good thing for the normal users that buy the Vita for what it is, a gaming device as partially happened with the PSP.

[GregoryRasputin]

Originally Posted by Kurukurupa I hope that hackers will use their mind for once and not destroy a good thing for the normal users that buy the Vita for what it is, a gaming device as partially happened with the PSP.

Hacking a console improves sales....

[Kurukurupa]

Originally Posted by GregoryRasputin Hacking a console improves sales....

Yes it does, but the majority of people that buy a 'hacked' device buy it so that they can pirate the software on it. I'm sure that there are also people that buy it so that they can run their own little hello-world scripts on it and what not, but with Tablets and all being widely spread, I don't see most people buying a 'hacked' Vita just so that they can run their own software on a handheld device.

If one really wants a device that can serve as an open portable device, I think that people are most likely to invest in a Tablet or just the old PSP and not go for the PsVita.

The majority of people that buy a product because it is hacked do it to pirate stuff on it, it's sad, but true. Of course, a company will get profit from more sales in hardware, but they rely more on software sales to break even with the amount of money that has gone into R&D for a new handheld.

Although the "Hacking a device improves sales" argument may have held some value in the past, in today's market, I don't think that it is a good argument to make for hacking a device. And it doesn't justify the things I mentioned earlier happening to a system either ( less support from developers because of piracy, possible updates not being created, the 'normal' consumers getting shafted because of the previously mentioned things happening ), or does it ?

[hello1]

It is indeed no surprise that the retail PS Vita uses different encryption keys for the .pkg files that PSP does.


"The PS3 can decrypt the new packages on firmware 4.00 which contains the new PS VITA PKG AES key for the PS3 <--> PS VITA content exchange feature. This means we can decrypt and get the content of the PS VITA PKG files via a 4.00 PS3"

Am i the only one who think this is false? From what i know, the PS3 can not decrypt or unpack Vita .pkg files. The same goes for PSP games (it was changed in firmware 4.00).

[lythong266]

I will look at psvista hack in three years from now on.

I do not against hack, but I also know that we need to support the company that makes it, and its' games. Thus, I prefer PSvista can be hack about 3 or 5 years from the day the company release it.

[Annelies]

Originally Posted by GregoryRasputin Hacking a console improves sales....

^^^

This man speaks the truth.

[Cheesethief]

Still though, a Hello World within 24 hours of launch is not such a good sign for Sony. Be it through the PSP emulator or not.

Hrm....
Hopefully they do not remove PSP emulation like they did PS2 emulation in the PS3.... Or like OtherOS in the fats due to a hacking scare.

[Kurukurupa]

Originally Posted by Annelies ^^^ This man speaks the truth.

And, if you don't mind me saying, you are terribly ignorant if you think that that excuses hacking a device.

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There will be an increase in hardware sales, but nowadays that isn't what companies count on to keep them afloat, the emphasize lies more on software sales, whether it be on discs or digital. Any company, if given the choice, would rather have a little less hardware sales and no homebrew on their devices than have homebrew running on their device.

A vast majority of people that 'hack' their device do so to be able to pirate software, there are some that don't and that is respectable, but most people do it solely to pirate. Such piracy will deter developers and will kill a systems develop environment, in the end creating a PSP and DS like situation where developers chose not to develop for a device because there is little to no profit to be had any way. Although a larger install base will attract more developers, in the case of 'piracy'-encouraged hardware sales, this is just a big bubble waiting to burst, because a substantial amount of the users have no intention of buying anything as they would rather pirate.

If you really think that those few consoles sold because of homebrew are a good thing and speak for hacking a device, you are out of touch with the world. But, that is just me I guess ?