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.
With the state of the market they way it is what would they really lose?
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.
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.
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.
After all emulators actively get updated for PC and no one gets sued
examples PCSX2, MUPEN64, Yabause, PCSP, bsnes, VBA-M etc.
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.
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.
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.
That's incredibly false. The vast majority want ISO's and don't give a rats ass about homebrew.
Also, those emulators don't get sued because they don't contain any copyrighted code.