Although I think this guy is quite confuzzeled, he does have a few half-baked ideas. In my opinion, homebrew helps the PSP a lot more then it hurts. But we can not ignore the fact that it does hurt a little bit. Homebrew has expanded the amount of time I spend with my PSP. I use it as a moble computer because my laptop is a bit on the bulky side and doesn't fit inside my pocket. I can send e-mail, AIM, listen to music, and browse the web with it! However, I have noticed that the price at which I will buy a UMD is way low. Unless I have to have that game (last one was GTA:VCS), I'll wait till the price is about $29.99 or lower because I am perfectly content with playing homebrew games in the mean time. If a game is orriginaly sold at $49.99, that's a $20 loss of income on me that I would have spent (I think they should try to improve the quality of thier games too....). I also never bought UMD movies even when they are $5 in the bargan bin because I could always encode them myself from my DVD's in PMP format at a high quality. Finaly, I do not own an official PS1-to-PSP game from the Sony Store because I can make my own through the POP converter. However, if Sony relesed a game I did not own, and wanted to play, I would get it. But thier selection isn't big enough for this to have happened yet (I have a TON of ps1 games). BUT I wouldn't have gotten the PSP in the first place if I didn't know about homebrew. Also, I have talked my friends into a PSP because of homebrew! None of them would have bought it otherwise.

I really think Sony should encorage homebrew because it expands thier device into the portable computer it really is. They would have more people buying the PSP becaus ether could eather develop for it or just listen to their music on it. Part of what makes the PS3 a good platform is the fact that I can develop for it under Linux. The PSP doesn't have to run Linux, but just opening up the device a little bit would be a great move. Heck, even USER mode only would be awsome.

Note, I am not going to deal with ISO's here. I am against them fully. Sony can block them if they started alowing homebrew, so that is not a valid excuse.....

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