i don't know if sony would require all future games be played with certain firmware versions...i mean, what about the all-so-many average consumers that barely know the psp and only play games with it - will they really make these people go through the hassle of updating if some or most of this consumers don't know how to? maybe i'm wrong and there are more psp owners all about homebrew then average consumer psp owners all about gaming or letting it collect dust (like a friend of mine). i personally wanna make the psp do everything and anything possible. the only fuss i have with the psp is the limited amount of data i can store...then again, the 4gb hd is out, and i'm sure it'll keep gettin better as all technology does with due time =)