Is the PS3 trying to be a new Amiga?

[adolescent]

@countzero

Lots of mis-information in your message.  You can install Linux out of the box on the PS3.  So, anyone willing to pay the entry price can develop homebrew for the console.  There's some limitations in the hardware access right now. But I'm sure they'll be lessened in the coming months.  

Sony is the ONLY console manufacturer that has supported homebrew on each of it's home consoles.  PS = Net Yaroze, PS2 = PS2 Linux, PS3 = PS3 Linux.  Microsoft has opened up XNA to the 360.  Nintendo never has.  

[adolescent]

@guru-666

I didn't forget the PSP, I said home consoles.  

I believe the homebrew issue with the PSP is that enabling homebrew also enables piracy.  On the PS, PS2, and PS3 they were seperate issues.  (ie. a Net Yaroze didn't allow you to play CD-R copies, just as the PS2 and PS3 Linux don't allow you to.)  Also remember, the 1.0 PSP didn't have ANY protection.  

[adolescent]

@hardlink

Why would a homebrew developer need direct access to the hardware?  Even the official development kits use libraries to access system functions (speaking from PS2 experience here, but I'd assume they are doing the same for the PS3).

[adolescent]

Tomas wrote:

What is the point when the performance will suffer badly? Why not just get a cheap x86 instead?

Because, then you're not developing homebrew on a PS3, you're developing it on a "cheap x86".  I'm hoping that the GPU will be available in future versions.  I feel there reason for not exposing it now is timing issues with the launch.