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Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by jimmyl02 »

hnlmorg wrote: post #2

The moment the hack is public Sony will release an update to block it. And so the game of cat and mouse continues.

this will always be true of jailbreaks as they fundamentally break the security of the device. this means that it can be used for cool things like shown in the article but it could also be used maliciously by an attacker to completely take over the device which the manufacturer should definitely patch.

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by zerocrates »

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #5

I like the concept of the playstation portal, but given its cost similar to a steam deck, wouldn't be better to use that for this purpose?

The Deck is twice the price of the Portal, at minimum. Of course it's also vastly more capable.

They're really not competitors, except for the Deck's use case as a streaming sink from a PC; this is more a "you've got these nice controls and screen, sure would be nice if you could use them for more" situation.

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Post by jsheard »

zerocrates wrote: post #3

Why not just sell something like the Portal as open in the first place? There are no Portal games to worry about protecting. What's the percentage in locking it down?

If they're selling it at cost or at a loss (I don't know if they are) as a value-add to the PS5 then they wouldn't want people buying it just to play emulators.
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