Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - Posts

EA PSP numbers show sales gain over last year

EA announced yesterday its first fiscal quarter 2007 numbers. In addition to their net revenue being up by 13 percent, some numbers were broken out by platform. For the PSP, the platform revenue total was $37 million, which was a year over year increase of 12 percent. As a percentage of the total net revenue, PSP revenue equaled approximately nine percent of the total value of $413 million. These numbers put the Sony portable gaming device significantly above related numbers for the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance.

Source: PSPWorld
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Devhook running into legal problems!

From PSPUpdates:

With all the success of Devhook, I guess it was getting too uncomfortable for Sony on their comfy chairs. It seems that pspsoftware.ddo.jp, the actual release site of Devhook has received a Cease and Desist Order from Sony with regards to distributing Devhook.

Now my Japanese isn't something to write home about, so I'll leave it to 0okm, who has got the translation covered. Here's the translated text:

"Reboot_1.50.bin is the copyrighted material by SONY, that is mixed with DevHook0.43fix.
Warning from SCE to those who up-load DevHook0.43fix comes.
Moreover, please annul it at once when downloaded 0.43fix is preserved at hand, and it uses it.
Not seeing this knows and there is a possibility to use, too.
Please inform me of this when there is an owner in surroundings.
Moreover, the main body of DevHook and the relation file of all versions were deleted from this site.
As a result, opening DevHook on this site to the public is completely stopped."


Now you don't need to have a masters degree in English to make sense of that. Sony has taken action on PSPSoftware.ddo.jp for distributing Devhook and have also requested them to notify someone at Sony when the uploader (Booster) is online.

One thing's for sure, Booster will need to find a new place to host his awesome homebrew. But seeing this happen, I wouldn't be surprised if SCE/Sony start going after sites who are hosting Devhook. Well, let's just wait and see how everything pans out. A small suggestion by me would be to download the latest versions of Devhook as soon as possible, just in case everyone is forced to remove them off their sites.
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