{"id":12403,"date":"2011-06-15T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"sony-on-ps3-hacking-we-embrace-independent-game-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12403-sony-on-ps3-hacking-we-embrace-independent-game-development","title":{"rendered":"Sony on PS3 hacking: \u201cWe embrace independent game development\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with the <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/13\/one-on-one-jack-tretton-sony-c-e-o-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYTimes<\/a>, Sony CEO Jack Tretton denies that the company wants to deter users from modifying their consoles, saying that &ldquo;No, there&rsquo;s a real misnomer there, we embrace independent game development; if you call that hacking, then we embrace that.<\/p>\n<p>We give people tools that let them create new experiences.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Wait, what. And no, I&rsquo;m sure LittleBigPlanet doesn&rsquo;t count.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What I don&rsquo;t think we are in support of is someone trying to hack our device to pirate software and possibly collapse the platform,&rdquo; he adds, which seems reasonable enough, but what he says does sort of seem to contravene actual reality, which shows that &ndash; quite on the contrary &ndash; Sony regularly releases firmware updates to prevent people modifying their consoles for any reason whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the question of quite how to provide a platform for real indie development without providing a platform for piracy (or worse) remains relevant. As soon as somebody comes up with a good solution, drop Sony an email or something.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14751-Sony-%E2%80%9CWe-embrace-independent-game-development%E2%80%9D?p=457899#post457899\" target=\"_self\">Discuss the PS3 and hacking<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reality 2.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}