Sony's Playstation Vita To Be Developer Friendly?

By Author: Francesca Morse
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Playstation Vita, also named PS Vita, is Sony's latest portable game console that

got gamers worldwide excited about. Other than its features and super realistic

graphics that will blow your mind, there's also a chance that PS Vita will be

developer friendly. This comes as quite a surprise since Sony has been known to

combat the use of homebrew games and applications on its device in attempt to

prevent users from running ISO and CSO (in other words, pirated) games on its

consoles. Homebrew games and applications have so far only able to be run on PS

Vita's predecessor, all Sony PSP consoles, if a user has a custom firmware instead

of Sony's official firmware.

There are a few different custom firmwares out there, namely M33, GEN,

prometheus, and a few others, developed by Sony PSP independent hackers and

developers. Having these custom firmwares as your system also means your PSP's

are no longer eligible for warranty and protection from Sony. Sony has been

known not to really like the use of custom firmware on their Sony PSP, ...
... and even

at one point conducted a survey asking its users 'why' do they hack their PSP or

run a custom firmware (also known as CFW) on their PSP's. For later models of

Sony PSP, namely PSP 3000 and PSP Go, Sony has been putting extra efforts to

prevent these version of consoles from being able to run homebrew games and

apps, or hacked in any way. However, independent hackers and developers

developed a workaround to this problem, which is HEN or chickHEN, where even if

users cannot switch their firmware to custom firmwares, they're able to play ISO

and CSO games, which can be found everywhere online for free, on their PSP.

In July 2011, during Develop Conference in Brighton, the Head of Developer

Services of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe talked about PS Vita hardware,

and also about various software development tools and technologies. When asked

about homebrew capability of PS Vita, Sony replied that they would be disclosing

more information regarding that very soon. This probably hints that PS Vita might

be developer friendly, something that most people have been waiting to hear from

Sony.
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