Pulling the game from sale is one thing - stopping people who have already paid for it downloading it is again is something else.

Remember its also taking the game away from everyone who has already bought it.

Well, it's not really. It's stopping you re-downloading it if you delete it. And presumably for a limited period of time. That's a world of difference away from taking it off you.

You think it's good business to throw paying customers under the bus to attack the hackers? I don't. I think a company should do everything it can to disrupt the hackers without inconveniencing the paying customers, and I think the experience of the paying customers should always be the highest priority.

Don't disagree with any of that. Doesn't change the point, though.

It actually does, depending on what you think 'the point' is. The people to blame for the Vita being hacked are the hackers. Directly and indisputably. But the people to blame for the games actually being removed are Sony. No one else made the decision and no one else implemented it. Indeed no one else could. There are arguments to be made for whether that's a reasonable reaction under the circumstances or not, but the blame for actually taking the games down has to lie with Sony because Sony are the ones who weighed up the consequences, decided it was a reasonable course of action and went ahead with it.

A third PSP game has been removed from the PlayStation Store after it emerged that the title was being used to allow homebrew gaming on Vita.

Prior to its removal Super Collapse was being used by hackers to access and run homebrew software Vita Half-Byte loader which, amongst other things, allows consumers to run Game Boy, NES, SNES, N64 and Mega Drive emulators.

Crucially, the hack did not allow users to play pirated Vita software.

The game will likely be reinstated to PSN once the hack has been removed and, more likely than not, a further Vita firmware update released that will close the loophole.

Last month Sony removed both Everybody’s Tennis and MotorStorm Arctic Edge from the PSN Store as they also allowed hackers to circumvent some of the Vita’s security measures.

I think I'll probably grab one when a game comes out that I want to play. Right now, there's nothing on there that I'd be bothered about playing.

That came out nine days ago! I didn't even know it existed. But yeah, I don't have £200 spare for food, let alone £200 to play a game.

Reports surface that hobbyist developer and reverse engineer Yifan Lu has discovered a Vita exploit that could make it possible to load homebrew software.

Sony has long faced a difficult fight in the battle against hackers of its hardware and products. The PlayStation Portable was repeatedly hacked, ultimately resulting in low sales of the device, according to Sony. And while it took longer for the PlayStation 3 to succumb, it too became the victim of hackers in 2011. Finally, the PlayStation Network was compromised in the same year, resulting in the loss of millions of people's personal information.
Hacked?

Hacked?

Now, it appears as though the same could be set to happen to the PlayStation Vita. Website CVG reports that coder and self-confessed re-engineer Yifan Lu has been developing a homebrew loader for Sony's latest handheld. According to Lu's blog, he has discovered an exploit for the PlayStation Vita and has used it as the basis for building what he calls the Usermode Vita Loader. This, claims Lu, makes it possible to create homebrew Vita software.

The PlayStation Portable was repeatedly hacked, ultimately resulting in low sales of the device, according to Sony.

£189 according to the telly box. Sounds more interesting than it was but I ain't biting.

Vita hacked ?

In the hardware chart, PlayStation Vita (fourth this week, again behind the PSP) coughed and wheezed over the one million sales milestone. It did so with its lowest sales in months - just 7957 units.
Vita has taken 42 weeks to reach one million sales in Japan. That's drastically slower than the Nintendo 3DS (13 weeks, before the price cut sales sky-rocket) and the PSP (14 weeks).

ERHMEGERD! YERPGHERNKS!

But a deals a deal I suppose, so I'll have to send the monies and take my chance. I can't log into paypal through the ebay page at the minute so I've emailed the seller to ask for their paypal account details direct so I can send them the money now.

I would love a chipped/hacked PSP.

Do you have a PSP? They barely need anything doing to them nowadays. The era of the Pandora battery is long gone.

I'd be a bit warey of doing that - just another wrinkle to sort out if anything does go wrong.

I have a hacked PSP I never use, Vision...?