New PSP 3000 Difficult to Hack
Post by Supervirus , 2008-11-02 06:54:15 Source: 1up Editor:ShirleyTags: PSP

For the most part, each PSP hardware revision has been harder for the modding community to hack. In the past, they've always found a way past Sony's roadblocks. However, the recently released PSP-3000 ups the anti-fiddling measures to such a degree that PSP Fanboy is wondering if it's even hackable, aside from swapping its CPU with that of a PSP Slim.
Sony's efforts are no doubt meant to curb piracy, but they're also putting a damper on the homebrew community, a part of the market in which Sony Computer Entertainment of America's President and CEO Jack Tretton once expressed interest. In July of 2007, regarding the possibility of "tapping" into homebrew development, he said "I think that is something that is in the works. We certainly see some of the stuff that has been done via homebrew, and it's incredibly creative. And I think we'd like to try and tap into that a little bit more." Unless Sony isn't telling us something, the company's actions indicate a reversal in the position Tretton laid out.
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