Dark AleX wasn't hired, but "actively talking" to Sony? |
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Speaking of Wildcards, here's something that's definitely going to make lots of heads roll. In rather long MTV interview with John Koller, Sony's marketing head for the PlayStation Portable, certain few details have cropped up that pose some interesting questions for the homebrew scene. While the length of the interview talks about the PSP 2000 (PSP Slim/Lite), PlayStation Home on the PSP, and a second analog stick for the handheld, it's only towards to end where they talk about homebrew development.
Now, because of all these projects and features lined up for the PSP, it'd seem as if it would benefit Sony to ask for help from skilled programmers who are quite adept with the ins and outs of the PSP. In other words, homebrew developers and hackers. They actually even mentioned the magic word: Dark AleX.
Besides, DAX was the one who continuously whittled down the security measures that Sony has imposed with its official firmware updates. So, after the homebrew hero announced his "retirement" from the PSP hacking scene, you can't help but ask (and as did MTV during the interview):
MTV: Did Sony shut him down? Or had Sony hired him?
Koller: Neither. I think he's taking a hiatus.
MTV: Does Sony hire any of the PSP hackers?
Koller: It's not even a hiring thing. They come in and actively talk to us.
Whoa. Hold up. If we're to take Mr. Koller for his word (and he is the marketing head of THE PlayStation brand after all), then we are presented three facts:
- DAX wasn't given a cease-and-desist order from Sony
- DAX wasn't hired either
- homebrew developers and Sony are in active contact with each other
- Is Dark AleX really, really, really 100% gone? Or is he working in the background... with Sony?
- Does Sony "hire" white hats black hats gray hats from the homebrew community?
- What reasons would Sony have to be actively in contact with those hacking their systems?
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It's kinda weird and suspicious at the same time. hmmm....
What could this mean...
It's kinda weird and suspicious at the same time. Hmmm.....
hmm sexy
i think hes done as of fw exploitation but he might return in another category ... till then i idolize him ... lol
could be bad. what if dax is working for sony...when the psp slim comes out it'll be 100& un chackable cuz dax made it that way. lol
OMG FIRST POST
You guys are acting like dax is a real god, that what he does is unchangeable. Well let me tell you something that may surprise you...HE'S A NORMAL HUMAN!!!
To "...":
OMG, REALLY? AND ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT HE WAS A MUTANT CYBORG HELL-BENT ON PSP-HACKING ONLY! Come on dude, what "Uhm" is saying is that DAX knows the PSP very well, and could make firmware much more damn secure.
lulz... your first...
WORKING FOR SONY,
THAT LITTLE SPANISH F.U.C.K
I said this a long time ago and well what do you know. We might see some firmware upgrades worth updating our psps to.
What a stupid *****ola. i hope you die alex you prik
Seriously, I think people should leave Dark Alex alone.
OK, so he is not making custom firmwares for us anymore and may or may not have made a deal with SONY. So what? He is entitled to live his life as he sees fit without people questioning every choice he makes.
Oh, and this is just a suggestion, but here is one option that has not been tested yet...(this is directed at people making custom firmwares) SONY has expressed at least some interest in homebrew, so if those who are making custom firlwares make a firmware version that is unable to run UMD ISOs or allow access to the UMD drive from outside of the XMB icon, but still able to run all homebrew (not including UMD rippers and ISO launchers, of course), then there is a possibility that SONY may actually try to get along with people who enjoy homebrew. The only people who would suffer from ISO usage and UMD access (outside of the XMB icon) being blocked would be people who desire to pirare games.
It isn't confirmed yet that DAX is even working with Sony, and yet some of you ppl think he suddenly turned evil by working with Sony. For now all we can really say is that DAX left the PSP homebrew scene, and maybe even ditched the PSP altogether. We can't truly confirm anything else.
dude me and my friend were talking about this kinda of stuff when lumines came out and we agreed that if sony told "hackers"/"developers" how to make downgraders that need certain games to boost game sales...think about it the GTA exploit came out then almost all gta games were off shelves and now the lumines exploit and all the lumines games are out of stores!
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1566451/20070806/index.jhtml FULL ARTICLE OF INTERVIEW...
this is from the article...
NEW YORK — The upcoming PlayStation Portable coming out this September is actually called the "PSP 2000." The infamous PSP hacker Dark_Alex was not hired by Sony.
So if he isnt hired.... Then DAx is still around i guess u can say.. the PSP Scene... but as they mentioned... PSP Hackers are "TALKING" to SONY... my question is.. TALKING ABOUT WHAT!!! COME BACK DAX!!
maybe he's the guy who put in that official iso loader, IF he is working for sony O_O..
I think he was just lying to make ppl think sony has control than they do.
Well, my conclusion is that sony wants to be ontop of the game powerhouses. that means nintendo and microsoft, so with siny talking with homebrewers like dark alex, sony will gain more popularity going along with homebrew and be ontop.
Judging by what I've gathered, Dark Alex is a high school student... or just graduated. Sony is very unlikely to hire someone right out of high school, just because they happen to be a gifted coder. Anyone who believes that he could possibly start working along side sony just has an overactive imagination.
The fact that he's spanish isn't that important, you lil purit...sorry american *****ot xD
i never pirated a game, but still i need to play iso games. Maybe you're making a very common mistake, which is: "iso+illegality". My..., in my country doing private copies of something you bought and being able to run them in the same device as the original is a right.
You're like the guys who thought that the iraq people had nuclear weapons or stuff like that. No Sony is not a big evil that want to rape us all, they're just a japanese company which produce video games with a lot of holes, they can't think about eveything, so they get hacked. Nothing more imho.
i have the same opinion
that sony officiall is talking bullcrap out of his mouth. thats all. sony just doesn't want to loose its face. they got owned several times by a spanish hacker and now when they know he has retired, they can start talking ***** about him and other homebews coders / "hackers".
i bet if someone like DA contacted sony they would sue the hell out of 'em... and afterwards take all his knowledge to "improve" their products
they have a face to say that the hackers talk to sony and not sony talked to hackers? lol you give me shot on that!? sony looses millions bcoz of hackers of homebrew developers so thats why they say such a thing how lame.
ISO's are the reason the PSP is doing so bad as far as games, it's only fair that Sony wants that to end I mean look on torrents, they're being downloaded more so then even PC games. It's sad what these custom fimwares have done to the homebrew and the PSP community, hopefully DarkAlex will fix that with a good locked firmware.
Every 'popular' console ever made has the files of its games available for download on the internet (hope that made sense but w/e). You know why? Cause every piece of software on the market is "Hackable." Software Developers are constantly trying to find ways to protect their software better, but there is always the few talent 'hackers' that are able to "crack the code" if you will. Even if DAX is a good coder, and even if he did start working for Sony (WHICH ISN'T CONFIRMED), you can't have a 'locked firmware.' There will always be ppl like M33, and that other new team, who will probably make the firmware cracked again. The PSP was just unfortunate enough to be exploited so early and easily, thus causing such a huge scene.
Are you seriuous? This is an "article"?
This is the biggest tabloid stupidness I've ever seen!
DaX has made by far the biggest contribution to the psp scene. Even if he was working or just talking to sony, its his right to do so. You loosers who just post "ooo dark alex you f..k you betrayed us..", are you mad? You run CFW in your psps and still write comments like this?
I dont believe...
Sony is always talking big about something and in this interview they just wanted to sound like they are in control of the homebrew and cwf boom. (which they arent).
This article, as it is, was ment just to flame the homebrew scene and nothing else.
Gino.D be ashamed
retard
Hackers come and go...if DarkAlex choose to go, I'm sure someone out there will take over "the role".
Bottom line is that every console has a way to be comprimised/hacked. That doesn't necessarily mean that Sony "hired" Dark_Alex although it wouldn't surprise me if they offered him a job or at least give him an interview. "If you can't beat'em, join'em", A classic but very effective cliche. It isn't uncommon for companies to offer jobs or financial compensastion when that individual is comprimising your business. When money talks, people quite often listen.
I think the thing to focus in on here is the word "they". He didn't say that DAX came in to talk to them. Just that "they" do. "Them". "Those people". I'm sure a bunch of not so talented people go to SONY every day. And I'm sure that SONY would have hired "those people" by now if they did have any talent. Bottom line ... if DAX wanted a job at SONY he would have one. And ... it wouldn't be a bad thing. It would be a talented person making a living. You couldn't blame him for that.
"Is Dark AleX really, really, really 100% gone? Or is he working in the background... with Sony?"
No.
He's not.
Idiot.
Every 'popular' console ever made has the files of its games available for download on the internet (hope that made sense but w/e). You know why? Cause every piece of software on the market is "Hackable." Software Developers are constantly trying to find ways to protect their software better, but there is always the few talent 'hackers' that are able to "crack the code" if you will. Even if DAX is a good coder, and even if he did start working for Sony (WHICH ISN'T CONFIRMED), you can't have a 'locked firmware.' There will always be ppl like M33, and that other new team, who will probably make the firmware cracked again. The PSP was just unfortunate enough to be exploited so early and easily, thus causing such a huge scene."
Right, but there is the thing with the PSP compared with all the other consoles, you do not have to mod it to get it to pirate games, it's nothing more then a download and install of custom firmware. The only other console that had this problem was, you guessed it, Dreamcast and you see what happen to it. I'm all for the scene, I've used my PSP for homebrew from the start but ISO hacking has made it into something totally worthless, I'm sure we'd get much more million dollar selling games if it wasn't for it. Thus more developers joining in, to those who do pirate games I hope you know what you are doing to the handheld.
a secret sony agent gave DA a devkit.
psp still not booming sales secret sony agent gave source code to DA so that he can make a hack file which will hack the official firmware and combine with 1.5 vulnerability hence the creation of OE firmwares of which is bypass DA as the hacker and passes the blame to the end user, very clever indeed.
DA name too popular, secret agent stop/seized DA OE releases, leaked the source to other hacker homebrewers. thus m33.etc.
thanks for reading, btw none of these are true!
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talking to hackers/coders is still just talking. it wasn't said they are talking to dax. maybe they were talking to dikkie-dik from pimpstreamer. wich would be a good idea, considdering that the ps2000 will have tv-out and this would be a nice combination.
What an editorial garbage title.
You guys read to far into this. Dark Alex was not hired by sony. That is the single concrete fact in the related section of the interview. Nothing more nothing less. He may have spoken to sony in a developmental light or just in passing. Not fair to make assumptions until you ask the kid himself.
Sony has more to lose than gain if they officially permitted homebrew on the Psp. By actively preventing homebrew they can enjoy increased sales when it is hacked but at the same time avoid the legal issues of copyright regarding emulation because they have not officially supported this. If Sony gives the homebrew scene an inch, they will take a mile.
well then if all these companies are getting hacked, cant they just sue every single damn site they see? i mean like..its not that hard to find lots of torrent sites.
i can confirm that dark alex was contacted by sony and made a deal to stop cracking the firmware... there for he now has a job cracking
C'MON DAX, PLEASE STOP SNITCHING! YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO SNITCHES........THEY GET SHOT IN THE BACK OF THEIR HEAD IN FRONT OF THEIR FAMILES! SNITCH!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! RAT!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! !!!!!!! SONY INFORMANT!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!
might aswell throw the psp away...now..!!!hmmmm.
DAX is a sellout!
they probably reach a deal, if the devs stop producing homebrew, they are entitled to benefits with sony, etc.
Pretty naive questions, most notably:
"What reasons would Sony have to be actively in contact with those hacking their systems?"
To better learn how to protect themselves, of course. And realistically I don't think Sony would offer Dark Alex extented employment anyway short of perhaps very temporary contract work; Sony would never trust him, plus people generally need to be established in the WORKING industry to be considered worthy of a development job. Besides, isn't the cat too young to be working for them anyway? What is he, about 17 years old?
Uncreated
i can suck my own ***** ahhahah
Am I the only one that is thinking that DA being or going "In Hiatus" could be another way of saying "In Detention" or "being detained"? I mean Sure, Hackers "come in to them",
maybe it's to talk about how to stay out of Jail? Instead of a job? Of course I could be WAY off base.
Its plain and simple, i said it before and i say it again......Sony is using homebrew and hackers to get ahead of the console wars!
thank you, that's what I've been thinking since I read it last night. Whoever made this article just wanted to get a few jumps. There is a light chance they MIGHT have spoken, but it's all based on assumptions. He could be talking about previous hackers that have come to him.
Gindo D. you suck at a reporter sorry +/
on the psp3d.com forums, theres was a person with the screen name of something like "Cody" with a last initial. the admin of psp3d said he could confirm without a doubt that cody worked for sony. people like freeplay and so on go on that site and talked to him, not necessarily about programming, but he had supported homebrew without iso's, and would talk like a normal person on there.
Sony pay there 100's of developers, and it must cost them a packet. Then some hacker comes along and blows away all the work that these developers have done. So you tell me, if you were sony would you pay all these developers or would you talk to the haker and try to get him working for you. he's shown that he has got more brains that the developers, for the small fact that they have broken the security, let alone run there own code on the machine. This hacker becoming an employee has been going on for years now and its not just with handheld.
i think that dax may have gone into contact, but to ask for a bribe
would explain the hasty goodbye, and the silence afterwards
Yeah, I bought Field Commander and ripped it to my memory stick so my brother could play it too. Without the ability to play games from a memory stick, we'd have had to just share the UMD.
DARK ALEX IS A ***** HE NEEDS TO GET A live and stop spending hes time hacking stuff
i live by san bernardino and no one here really plays psp...
thats what he did...
it's you the guy interpreting conspiracy theories that has no life
the Sega CD and the Saturn were also pretty easy to burn games for. Heck, so was the 3D0.
this is like a big plot twist in a movie. and de ja vu. i was just thinking dax was gonna release his source code (its out) or at least make a new oe in a few months. i might be right!
i have lost all respect for him now.
i rip my games (mainly the ones that load FOREVER) to my memory stick because they load quicker.
For my views on homebrew, I support homebrew. I do not necessarily support piracy, but I find nothing wrong with obtaining a backup/archival copy. Bunch of extremist jokers love to go overboard on this subject. :/
Look at the dang copyright laws, they go way too extreme in copy protection. In the long run, people find out loopholes anyway. Anyhow, there is not enough proof yet that DAX has anything to do with Sony. For ya haters out there, why not go do something that benefits society in general. Well, spent my two cents speaking.
it's all about marketing. they don't care about the people who hacks the psp, because they are filling their pockets with the psp sales.
If you copy a game so you can play two player or if you copy a game and are playing it on two consoles at the same time that's still piracy. You can't buy something and then copy it for your mate so he can play it too, that's illegal. There's no where in the world that that would be legal.
That sounds like a man didn't really land on the moon story. I doubt very much that sony want to encourage homebrew on the PSP, the PSP hand held is way to cheap, Sony only make money on games on it. They've encouraged PS3 homebrew to a certain extent because they don't lose as much money per console.
The xbox1 could also take custom firmware with no mod chip, alot of people did it but the problem was you couldn't connect it to live anymore because Microsoft would detect you running a different firmware and ban you from live. Because of this Mod chips that can be switched off and on were more popular on the Xbox1 then firmware chip mods. So no, the Dreamcast was not the only console which could be firmware modded by download.
mr_bigmouth I don't understand the context of your statement no one is saying old consoles could not be hacked, I think you misunderstood Nightvortez's comment re Dreamcast.
DAX FIRMWARE IS NOT SAFE- PROBOBLY RIGGED FOR AUTO-UPDATING WHEN DAX SETS OFF HIS BOMB AND YOUR WLAN TRIGGER IS ON!
hehe.
after spending hundreds of hours opening up the firmware for the enjoyment of the community FOR FREE without even taking a cent from the community, I personally think its only normal for him to talk to Sony and maybe ask for an open job that he can get into.
hackers are hackers - as they say "no honour among thieves". so its only natural for DAX to look after himself especially he has proven that his hacking skills.
so from my experience... the word "talking to Sony" means DAX is asking Sony for a job since he already demonstrated the skills to open up the firmware and using the hacking background and his name... he expects Sony to consider him at least.
and what i bet is that he didnt expect Sony to say no. my absolute bet is that Sony refused to take him in and that DAX is probably a little bit disappointed that he wasnt given on the spot consideration.
and that his so called "retirement" is a step to make Sony think that he's already out of the 'dirty door' and ready to clean up his act.
hehe. DAX must have been refused by Sony. hehe i bet DAX even offered a FREELANCE programming job but Sony probably said - NO THANKS right in his face. DAX must be feeling really stupid right now.
What if Person A buys/owns the UMD, uses the ISO, and let's Person B borrow the UMD indefinitely?
Quite legal.
Ok my statement was exaggerated as far as that goes, but like with the PC games there is always a hook to why it's better to actually buy the game where with the PSP having the ISO and having the UMD is virtually the same thing except there isn't a hard copy. Not to mention the fact that the games aren't even that big of a download compared with full DVD games. Not to mention how many people use CFW right now, the only thing that's stopping them from downloading is their own morality and that's a small thing when it comes to money.
95% of pirated games are pirated because the person won't buy them. Without piracy, they would have less sales: I download ISOs of games I would never buy but if it turns out it's good I'll buy it.
At least that's how it was, until Sony made PSP-2000, now I enjoy *****ing them over. As they say: What goes around comes around.
Torrent sites have disclaimers taking no responsibility for any content passed through there server(s).
I'm a coder and spend allot of time talking with
Sony, iv even helped them to improve their pops emulator, i relay don't see what the big deal is?
dax = f_uqing narq
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"OMG, DAX IS A TRADER, HE WORKS FOR SONY!" If u accually read the article it clearly said:
"then we are presented three facts:
DAX wasn't given a cease-and-desist order from Sony
DAX wasn't hired either
homebrew developers and Sony are in active contact with each other"
retards...
dax could be working for sony and sony not even know it...
mebbe dax was a sony employee from the START!! mebbe THATS y he was so good at this stuff.
It is G.R.E.Y not gray!
i love it when people point out spelling mistakes in an attempt to appear smart
the following is sourced here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#Miscellaneous_spelling_differences
grey or gray ,Grey became the established British spelling in the 20th century, pace Dr. Johnson and others,[74] and is but a minor variant in American English, according to dictionaries. Canadians tend to prefer grey. Some American writers[citatio n needed] tend to assign wistful, positive connotations to grey, as in "a grey fog hung over the skyline", whereas gray often carries connotations of drabness, "a gray, gloomy day."
who didnt see this coming
Last Thursday, an anonymous coward divulged to me that the man operating under the pseudonym "Dark AleX" is in fact planning to charge his laser over 9000 times at the next Sony corporate meeting until they meet his demands of manufacturing and distributing UMD burners to every major retailer in Africa so that the junglebunnies may make our games reeeel cheap like for no monies.
ild just like to remind people who talk about dark alex saying omg hes gone to sony and all that if he has good on him maybe the psp will become way better by letting you be able to play umd and image files of umds
may i remind u software like windows vista who people cry about and destry the cds cose the noobs cant install drivers or make partitions properly
anyway vista hacked in a week
anyway back to psp if dark alex joins sony and they patch things so u can only download game umds that u have to pay for
well someones just guna find an exploit sooner or later since programers are pushed to have there software out qwite soon theres always mistakes
i bet even aliens make mistakes
and psp mod chips
a way around it all cose it totaly mods the firmware to let u do wateva
so people please dont get ya panties in a twist stay carm and keep off the crystal meth ie p or methaine phetamine
I'm Happy For this Guy - I think it gives him an opportunity to make something of his life, and also give the chance for someone else to step up and take the reins. His previous achievements are well documented, so a good coder will have no trouble coming in and taking over, and a great coder will rise above and crack Alex's Sony code, just as he did to the original. Be happy, for a new day has come
"DARK ALEX IS A ***** HE NEEDS TO GET A live and stop spending hes time hacking stuff "
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*Life* and *his* I think you meant there..
learning to read and write at even a basic level might be worth a look at some point.
I mean if your going to call out a clearly educated person who can code for a PSP for having no "live" the least you could do is not make yourself look like you have even less of a "live" by typing your comment out better than a 6 year old would have done.
Nice attempt, shame the irony destroyed you before you even began though.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r+2+q+arrogance
ar·ro·gance
%u2013noun offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.
If that was the case, why wouldnt DAX at least drop by to make a statement saying that wasnt true?
I know if someone was putting me out there like that putting shame to my good name I'd want to clear the air, or something.
Its all a conspiracy, Sony is paying the hackers to hack PSPs so that people who visits websites like this will buy PSPs, I already got 2 just because of the iso emulation. Plus UMD piration doesnt affect sony, it affect the people who make the games, like RockStar(GTA) and stuff.
http://gameplanet.biz.ly/
Amazing Site!
Dark Alex is from India, retards.
"Is Dark AleX really, really, really 100% gone? Or is he working in the background... with Sony?"
I dislike flaming nor getting involved with idiotic speculation but this is just a load of crap. Stop brewing up a load of wild rumours without really knowing real information. Especially when you haven't even met or know the guy personally. A friend of mine does and knows for a fact that this is far from the truth (same goes with all those "reasons" suggested by the many idiots here such as bribery, etc.). So like many have already said, lay off the editorial. Reporting is good - biased, unfounded speculations aren't.
I've seen far better in other places. Sad to see QJ's mediocre content being dragged down by lame commentators. >_<
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Ps. As for talks with Sony, theres a tiny but extremely warped grain of salt here. DA did have a close encounter with Sony, but nothing like the pleasant / "want-a-job?" type encounter suggested here. The guy's got a soul and is a person - he'd do things no different than most of us. Keep that in mind before you start spewing out bull***** comments please.
Pss. And if you're really wondering, yes DA's a normal teen like most of us, just with a higher gift in coding. He's got a hacker mindset, but a true hacker does not and will never consider oneself an "elite" or "god". He's Spanish for all you mindless American fanboys, but that doesn't mean a thing (you'll find devs from China, Russia, India, most of Europe, the US, Canada, etc. - just like programmers/hackers in general, PSP homebrew isn't nationality restricted; information wants to be free, no matter where you are).
Remember, programmers code for the people, but not so they are slaves to the people. Things like this come from voluntary free time (for some, its just a hobby like any other). Next time you want to say something like "DA's a jerk for quitting the scene" or "bet he just quit and now works for Sony cause he like money", keep that comment to yourself (or others will shove it up unpleasant places).
Seriously, this site needs some _good_ mods.
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wow i am suprised i mentioned this in a diffrent forum the other day(pspcrazyfor ums better forums but qj.net has better updates)and i said it would be intersting if homebrew coders helped sony this is a big suprise
hay heres the article dark_alex is mentioned READ IT
Sony Exec Talks New PSP's Upgrades, GPS Attachment, NYC Appeal And More
By Stephen Totilo
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NEW YORK — The upcoming PlayStation Portable coming out this September is actually called the "PSP 2000." The infamous PSP hacker Dark_Alex was not hired by Sony. And the PSP is more popular here than in any other city in the U.S. (Sorry, Chicago!)
Those were just a few of the many surprises shared last week by John Koller, head of marketing for Sony's American PlayStation Portable division during a half-hour interview about the state of the PSP with MTV News.
Koller was in town to show off the new one-third-lighter, one-fifth-slimmer PSP which will arrive on store shelves in September. In a hotel suite on Manhattan's east side, he plugged the unit into a TV, demonstrating the new model's video-output function. He played a scene from Jet Li's "The One" in 480 pixels on an LG widescreen flat-panel TV. It almost filled the screen. He played a minute of the PSP game "Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters" in its native resolution, 480x272, which, while displaying bigger than it did on the PSP, only occupied about a quarter of the LG TV. (Yank the cable out of the TV and the video signal jumps to the PSP screen.)
To the eyes, the revised PSP looks like the original. To the touch, the difference is noticeable. And the name? In public the new model will be called PSP, but Koller revealed that it is codenamed PSP 2000, distinguishing it from current models, which are called PSP 1000.
Those were the points Koller intended to cover, but he proved game to answer just about anything regarding Sony's system. For example, he confirmed what subway riders may have already suspected: NYC is the king of PSP sales, since its launch. "It's gone New York, Chicago, and then it's D.C., Philadelphia," Koller said. "Then, interestingly enough, Riverside/ San Bernardino, California." Come again on that last one? "It's very weird. I've been watching it, waiting for it to fall out of the top 10, but it has stayed at [#5] the whole time of our owner base."
That's where it's being bought. But who's buying it? Koller said that the PSP has a 95 percent male ownership, compared to 50-50 for the iPod, according to studies he's seen. More of a surprise, though, is that his market research shows that the iPod has 79 percent ownership by Caucasians, Koller said, whereas the PSP is just "44 percent or 45 percent" white. Koller said Sony has noticed this demographic surprise but hasn't figured out why. Had it become something of an urban accessory? "There's been a debate going on about whether it was our marketing that's done it and turned it into more of a cultural hip-hop product or whether it just is — if the product just lends itself to that."
Whoever owns the system, Koller said they've been calling for the video-out function added to the new PSP. When the revised unit was revealed at E3 last month, it surprised many gamers because it lacked a checklist of tweaks some gaming blogs and news sites suggested were safe bets. For example, some theorized that the PSP would drop the universal media disc format or at least de-emphasize it for a new built-in hard drive. The new unit has no such drive. "We had heard discussion about a hard drive," Koller said. "The final analysis is we decided a memory stick was good enough for now."
Others hoped for a second analog stick or nub to make the PSP do a better job of running game genres styled for console controllers. "We certainly looked at the area below the [face buttons on the right side of the PSP] for a second analog stick, but we thought the issues far outweighed the benefit we'd get out of it," he said, acknowledging that engineers at Sony's headquarters in Japan had investigated such a change. He said the problem was that games programmed for a one-stick model wouldn't work well with the two-stick and vice versa. "Japan looked at it and said [it
Dax wasn`t taken out by Sony, and they didn`t hire him either.
He really just... sold us out. He quit on his own, and in turn started being in cahoots with Sony. But why? He made the OEs, CFWs with really the sole intention of saying "F U SONY!".. so what would make him up and quit, then get in contact with Sony..?
I thought that one doesn't actually BUY the software itself, but the right to use it, and usually that means use it on only ONE system at a time.
That's why ISO loading is in the grey area, you CAN use it if you rip the game YOURSELF and use that copy on your own PSP, but the UMD and the ISO cannot be played at the same.
Me thinks there be turncoats in the homebrew scene.
not war
let him work for sony..let him make some money for his long hacking work....and stop arguing that we still have team m33..
Dax you're a *****ing sellout.
Sony hired DaX to sell more PSP's =)
as soon as you lend it to person B you must by law delete your iso
no its not quite legal
its quite illegal
sony arent losing as much money on PS3 sales as they are on PSP sales??
think you better check that
they're losing $250 per PS3
thats what a PSP costs
its only piracy if it is distributed over the internet!
F:U:C:K YOU black alex, u suuuck biig time
you quit soo ffuuuck uuuuu
wth is wrong with u people, just leave him alone. you're all so ungrateful! he brought us the idea of custom firmware and alot of his own custom firmwares be grateful and thank him! m33 or wildcard is doing a good job so far so all of u leave DAX alone.
what if he comes back as someone else like change his name?
Liar, Liars. Pants on fire!!
Sounds like you guys are blowing this post way out of hand. Lets put it this way... i believe that if dax is helping .. so let him do it.. there will be a better much more smarter person will come along and beat him. and so on and so on.... everyone is human just like myself and all of you guys and gals...
but im sure if you made sumthin like a psp, and everyone just hacked it, and weneva u release a firmware upgrade for it, hackers just hacked them and change them to run homebrew, n u lost millions becos of ppl just downloading isos for free ("I download ISOs of games I would never buy but if it turns out it's good I'll buy it.", but as soon as you have the game, why would you buy it again?), ud be pissed cos im kno i wud. whers the money in running games you can download for free? so this article is oblously trying to mislead ppl into thinking sony will allow homebrew. it will NEVER happen, trust me. think about the people who want ps1 games to be at least downloadable from a pc(rather the the ps3), it aint gna happen, cos sony wants you to buy a ps3. and as most ppl i think have sed, it doesnt say what about. cud of been anythin!
sorry if im gettin the wrong picture, but thats what i think anyways.
This is dumb. Dark-Alex would never create cfw under
the influence of Sony. Sony would lose sales at their
own fault if they provided DAX with the info. He is
obviously trying to create a ruckuss(ruckess ?...w/e) so
people will stop looking up to DAX.
NASCENCE YOU ARE A F@CKING RACIST CU^T- MAYBE U SHOULD ASK THAT B!TCH OF A MOTHER WHO RAISED U IF SHE LIKES 'JUNGLEBUNNY' C0CK, YOU F@CKING INBRED SMALL MINDED IGNORANT B!TCH. QJ- WHY HAS HIS COMMENT NOT BEEN REMOVED- DO U SHARE HIS RACIST VIEWS?
..GOES FOR MATT - YOU ARE THE TYPE OF PEOPLE WHO WERE SINGING THE LOUDEST PRAISES FOR DARK ALEX UNTIL NOW. IF U HAVE A PROBLEM WITH BLACK PEOPLE THEN F.U.C.K. YOU- MAYBE U WOULD NOT BE SO UPSET IF YOU ACTUALLY BOUGHT GAMES U CHEAPSKATE, NO P.U.S.S.Y. GETTING, PILLOW BITING BUM BANDITS. ASK YOU SISTER OR MOTHER HOW MUCH SHE ENJOYS A GOOD BANGING BY A BLACK GUY, YOU BUNCH OF NEEDLE ***** WANKERS- QJ, WHATS WITH THE ALLOWING OF RACIST COMMENTS- IS IT OK CAUSE THEY'RE DISSING BLACKS NOT WHITES?
that's what Sony says now. We'll see about that again when they release firmware 4.00 which has full No-UMD... Lolz... I don't think Sony will release that but something like that.
what if sony pays him to make firmwares harder to hack
i myself am a coder and hardware modifyer i learn day by day and its more like a hobby dark alex is the same and would make our lives easyer if he was hired by sony im in development of my own software and you dont need a sorce code to take a part a file and figure it out so unless you noobs no pund on the noobs team, wanna just use these people for there accomplishments go for it ive made my own have some respect and learn something maybe give me a hand thats what this community is for we have the programs now get some knowlegde and help me and the rest of us screw sony they made id we make it better the our liking persanolise it mines moded to the tits and i have programs not even released yet and i wont because of disrespect like this get it together and maybe ill release my sorce codes for my dual operating system my big consern is how crappy this psp is *****Y RAM CRAP GFX CARD and theres allot more im upgrading on board to run what i want it to like prgraming a minature xbox and maybe in the fure 360 hardware mod on my mobo if alex got hired good for him means more for us to find out and give out opinions so start learning and help programs apps at very least