Boosts sales for the hardware but kills the software and future support. These people that hack their handhelds don't wont future games on that system. They want to play Mario and Metroid games from 20 years ago...all for free.

@Tachyon

iPod doesn't have a proper contender. iPhone is the biggest phone on the market. It's Apple. Of course it sells. The sales of iPod are not the same as sales of software. Hundreds of kids in my school alone have hacked iPod's that they get free apps on. Of course if how many? Like a hundred million iPod's and iPhones? Where apps are still only a dollar most of the time? And a lot of good apps still don't get that much profit. Imagine if all the kids that own them that can damn well afford a few dollars to pay for their apps actually paid for them. That is tens of thousands of extra dollars earned for that small group of people that made a good app.

Sony sheep? You are that blind that you result to calling others fanboyish words? Awesome.

You aren't free to do what you want with it. You agree to the terms of use when you purchase the product. If you get caught hacking it then you can go to jail. Hey lets hack something so we can get no actual useful apps on it! Yay! There are already programs to make legal homebrew on Vita. Hacking it has no real purpose other then leading to piracy. That is ALWAYS the main reason devices get hacked in the end.

Just because it is "pretty much impossible" to crack doesn't mean it won't be. The PS3 was hacked. DUH. Any common sense for you, sir? NOPE.

"dont be a coward and hit the disagree button without explaining why you disagree. otherwise u can only prove you must be a sony sheep. "

How does disagreeing with you make anyone a "Sony Sheep". Lololollolollololol you must be a Hack Herd! Hey it means the same thing. You are part of a herd of people that support hacking, instead of Sony. It just doesn't sound as smooth but oh well I must be cool for making up a term that generalizes a population of people and classifies them all as equally dumb and ignorant people!

Don't be stupid and hit the reply button to leave a very long comment to a short comment that you hardly actually relate to. You are just saying a bunch of things and making assumptions after someone just mentions a common known fact.

Also, why do you sometimes type the full word "you" and then shorten it to just "u"? Weird.

"If it adds remote play for all games like a feature that was originally promised or the ability to play psn games (purchased legally) then by all means carry on."

oh' brother, yes its so good that Hacker's ignore the people who's ip right's they want to stomp all over with because they say they are fightning for "consumer's right's"

here is a consumer's right for you, when you buy the content disc to play a game it's only been a licence to play only on the platform it was issued for, that does not mean you get to rip the content's off the software and play it on any other device that you as a consumer own, unless you ask for the right to do that from the iP content holder an if it is OK to do that , if you do it anyway with out asking, that is stepping on the right's of the content holder, but d@mn the content holder for trying to protect their iP right's?

right?

History shows piracy can be resisted though. Ps3 took years to hack.

Vita does offer great value like steam. PS Plus. Cheaper games for newly released games even though the games are comparable to home console games.

Because, as far as I can recall, he hasn't done anything that is illegal.

If he's in China he can't be touched unfortunately. One of the main reasons hacking runs rampant in China. Not saying he IS from China, but it's a good
possibility.

You either don't have a Vita or you have horrible tase in games. Either way you are wrong.

exactly what I have been saying for months, this guy is just trying to get famous for hacking the device first.
I do understand some people like hacking things, but he better not tell anyone any hints on how he hacked it or release(mysteriously leaked) to other people.

PSmobile is the way to go to make whatever application or small game homebrewers liked to make. make it available to everyone and not just hacked machine. So what if Sony makes a little money on the side.

"What's the point of hacking the Vita for homebrew when the PlayStation Mobile Developer Program is available legitimately from Sony?"

because they want the higher end development APi's with out paying for the licence to do so.

like always, they do not want to do thing's the right way, they just feel they can do thing's in life , because they feel the rules just do not apply to them.

Its because homebrew is a convenient excuse for hacking any device these days.

Yep :)

can't wait to unlock the features , but still gonna buy the games original ^^

i really don't care about the disagrees i will get , i don't pirate so it's not my problem if sony lose money , i want the features , it's my right since they announce it with the vita but didn't let us use it , it's there fault , i can hack the ps3 but it's giving me what i want so i don't need to hack it . but in vita it doesn't ...

"And here comes the third paty abandonment..."

not really this time, due to the fact unlike the PSP the PSVita does have Playstation Mobile to offset something like this. But it does effect those AAA investment profile games by 3rd Party though, no doubt some may in fact skip making a AAA investment onto the PSVita platform outside of Sony only 1st party games, but that's pretty much what's happening right now anyway, the Fact that many 3rd party publisher's and developer's of AAA games are pulling back that kind of investment and lowering that to lesser budget style games for development investment, will be due to the world wide economy issues, going on right now anyway. And the Hardware in mobile devices can use game engines designed to be lower investment but retain good over all quality without huge investment $$$ to put into their project.

Sony would most likely keep the licence of their memory card High if they even choose to licence it to 3rd party manufacturing like to sandisk , kingston etc. Thus even with Piracy the memory card is going to remain most likely higher cost, and with no card reader yet, very likly to be yet another hurdle to slow piracy.

thats fanboyism! man!

especially when you state something and all you get are disagrees and yet nobody has the guts to explain why.

i agree with you, this is just sad.

I agree!

again, how are you reading him being emotional? Does he have a pattern that you see? This still reads like deflection. Bro, look at your post history.

And if ANYONE here (or anywhere) gets "emotional" over video game companies that don't even know or care WHO they are, then people need to get a life and stop being on this site terminally. Or better yet, people need to play the games they say they have. It's why I don't post here everyday, I have work, family, bills, and games to play.

I'm not saying everyone should do what I do. But MANY of the people here can do with a "vacation" from these eternal fanboy wars.