I have friends with two psp, one for original games and another for custom firmwares (they love the snes emulation)

Will the R4DS destroy the DS?

Will the flashed 360 DVD drives destroy the DS?

Did the modchips for PS2 and XBOX 1 destroy them?

Don't think so. Sony just needs to get out more games like God of War. The people that play illegal copies normally won't buy at all. They won't even buy a device that's not hackable.

And there are those that get custom firmware that just want it for homebrew or running games from memory stick which they own but just want less noise (no UMD spinning and less battery drain)

do i just download it and on my memory stick and install it? is there a chance it will brick my psp? and if its difficult to do?

Will it destroy the PSP that Sony planned and made? Yes. Developers will have their profits reduced from lack of game sales. They will slowly pull game production from the PSP and move it to the other consoles. Software will make less and less money. THe PSP will fall from grace.

Will it destroy the PSP that Sony made, but has had it's potential maximized by the open minds of people who want the PSP to do more of what it's capable of doing, not just what Sony wants it to do? No, not at all. CFW will actually help the PSP maintain a longer life than Sony has planned, until something comes out and does it better than the PSP can. With software sales suffering from piracy, less PSP games will be made and that will lead to less games to pirate, but then the homebrew crew will make their own games and apps to supplement.

For Sony to succeed, it may take something drastic like a recall on all unsold PSP's and release a new model, a PSP 2 that can only be used from here on out. Or maybe recover sales lost from software on hardware and accessories.

only big name psp titles are selling well.

common titles that get overlooked by media tend to be downloaded instead of bought.

when was the last time you saw a psp game outside japan in the top 20 sales that wasn't already an established series on consoles?

You'll have to first buy a PSP in order to do this right?? So how can it hurt the PSP itself??? It may hurt Software sales... seeing as how 75% of the people who have CFW don't buy them.

I purchased Crisis Core... I purchased MGSPO, and MGSPO+. I have snes emulators, and the PS1 games I own on my PSP. So I dont think believe that Im hurting sony what so ever.

Neither are the people doing this, because most of them use it for movies, classic ps1 and other console games.

Like I said, you'll have to purchase a PSP, so this will not hurt PSP console sales. In fact it helps.

its not custom firmware thats the problem its the pirates. that and not a ton of games there are some good ones but there should be as many as ds games if not more.

And UMD's suck and cost to much , if i'm getting a 1/3 of the space i should be paying a 1/3 of the regular price.

Hackers have killed PSP's software sales. Only a fool wouldn't admit that PSP software sales are in the toilet, while hardware sales are solid.

aside from GOW and Crisis core, how many other AAA mass market games are there on the psp? cheap lazy psp ports and arcade games compendiums (looking at you midway) just dont cut it. Thats the reason software sales are low.....get resident evil 4 on there!

Most people use the custom firmware for homebrew and useful third party apps. However there is always the chance a version of these firmwares can be released with the intention of bricking PSP's. such assholes do exist....