I think Sony could and should support homebrew or at the very least give the attempt a trial run to see what would take place.
i 100% agree, homebrew should be supported, your taking that last sentence and dropping out the word emulator, which if sony supported they can quite easily be sued for, on the pc side, m$ does not support them(nor any linux distro's), as well as the fact that user's have much much more freedom with pc's, their's no single supporting target to sue, it's a waste of time and as NoEffex said, it's not copyrighted code, also their's no way for any company to know a user uses an emulator, however with going through the PSN store, and allowing emulator's it's a clear display of their support of emulator's, any company would just have to ask sony for sale records on said emulator to clearly show sony themselves are allowing emulator's, and their selling it to their user's
They would only gain big with such a move and the hunt for exploits would be all but over except, for those wanting ISO support in which case would leave a very small percentage left over hunting and trying to exploit, but in the end most would be satisfied and very happy.
They push out a firmware update that allows anything EBOOT.PBP to launch with minimal hardware access which restricts of course flashers, installers, ISO loaders etc.
hahahaha, NO, plain and simple, as noeffex also pointed out, the vast majority of user's could care less about homebrew, especially those who have used iso loaders, this would also strip out plugin's, custom themes, and force user's to use the xmb over irshell, so don't even think that it'd stop people from trying to find exploits, case and point: itouch/phone
They DON'T publicly announce hey you all can now run a ton of emulators
and play all your favorite games but instead have a webpage of recommended homebrew's that do not infringe on any copyrights.
why would they not publicly announce it, because not saying it doesn't mean they didn't do it?!, recommended homebrew that do not infringe on any copyrights, hmm, so the user's can still get copyrighted software, yep perfectly logical=-)
I'm pretty sure no law suit could touch them and if one ever did, it's easy for them to roll out an update anyway, to undue the damage which would be good enough for any judge.
haha, you think a judge would say, "oh, it's ok, only the user's smart enough to not update can't use all those nice emulator's, and copy righted software u put on the psn store"...NO
After all emulators actively get updated for PC and no one gets sued
examples PCSX2, MUPEN64, Yabause, PCSP, bsnes, VBA-M etc.
again, u can deny user's of downloading said software, where's on the psp u have a single target, sony, and are in clear support when they add them to the PSN
With all this talk as of late of taking features away from the PS3 this would be a hell of an announcement and would get everyone talking with excitement.
so...now we are doing a public announcement, which is it?!
How many hundred of thousands would rush out and purchase PSP GO knowing they could have the best of both worlds?
How much more content would sell off the PSN if such dreams became reality? I'm willing to bet it would be HUGE.
boat loads more would sell when the psp becomes like an itouch with actual feel for input, but their's still lot's of restricitions, you don't get the best of both worlds, but you could get alot more homebrew games on the PSN
I will never buy a GO until homebrew and PSN are fully supported and I know a lot of people who feel the same way.
and that will never happen, it's a possibility for some to happen, but sony doesn't really care, so it will never happen
as i said, if they took a page out of apple's book, they'd make the psp into an amazing gaming device, but that won't stop people from wanting more, so by taking a stance against homebrew, sony doesn't have to worry about as many legal issues