BPatches701  |  March 19th, 2010 at 12:27 pm

Why is this voted down so much? I think it’s a good idea.

keyrat  |  March 19th, 2010 at 12:29 pm

Probably because of the logistics. Games on PS3 need to pay royalties, need a dev kit, etc.

Flash games would be much improved with the browser being improved, so just vote for the better browser suggestion.

yocomodragon  |  March 19th, 2010 at 12:30 pm

no idea why it’s voted down, could see some great cheap games made.

DarkRecoil  |  March 19th, 2010 at 12:30 pm

because of the strong association between homebrew and piracy

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inVanity  |  March 19th, 2010 at 2:07 pm

It would cost money. Just to get an ESRB rating alone sets a game to $2.99.

fane1024  |  March 19th, 2010 at 3:31 pm

Aren’t the minis already as close to this as you’re going to get, given the reasons mentioned by keyrat?

EVanHelsing  |  March 19th, 2010 at 7:04 pm

The 360 does it already.

SomeOtherPerson  |  March 20th, 2010 at 9:59 am

I’m all for this. Anything that enables and empowers indie developers to create content benefits games and the industry as a whole. It sucks that PS3 is such a closed platform and has such a high barrier of entry for developers. 360 has XNA so why cant PS3 have some form of homebrew initiative.

fuzzyclutter  |  March 21st, 2010 at 7:32 pm

voted down so much because this idea would expose the system to bad programming from obscure sources and liability issues from copy protected content . The closed platform nature is what makes it safe .

zabelzerolp  |  March 22nd, 2010 at 5:27 pm

I will want to see Apps. for the PS3 it wiil be BADASS,, BUT like i said before……SONY makes the little things harder for them & for us.

Rye0077r  |  March 23rd, 2010 at 9:48 am

Voted down because in the context of Sony, Homebrew is synonymous with illegally changing the system settings! I’m actually surprised that Sony let this through with that kind of language.

That said, I do like the idea of seeing more indie games on the PSN.

pad2007  |  April 29th, 2010 at 12:01 pm

love to see this one happen…. open platforms…better 3rd party support, come on sony. don’t b apple

VGExplorers  |  June 4th, 2010 at 7:28 am

Homebrew seems cool and all, but it’s FREAKING ILLEGAL, you would have hackers on the loose and the PSP would never have a “clean” online ever again. Homebrew would bring illegal backups and ROMs and system failures. This would be PlayStation’s Virtual Genocide. Homebrew could be used safely, but there is always someone who has the stupidity to make the first step of corrupting an entire network. Homebrew would be cool, but there’s always people who take too much advantage of it.

Permafry_42  |  August 27th, 2010 at 1:45 pm

i’m still waiting for sony to allow flash sites to run on ps3. plus i would love if we could get trophies from playing kongregate games.

SukiNihon  |  August 30th, 2010 at 9:32 pm

“Homebrew seems cool and all, but it’s FREAKING ILLEGAL”

No it’s not.

“i’m still waiting for sony to allow flash sites to run on ps3″

They have, for over 4 years now.

XaaLoo  |  November 15th, 2010 at 4:12 pm

would love to see this and to see PS3 opening up more. kids: homebrew != piracy.