30 Day PSP Coding Contest

Busshy writes "Lik Sang and PSP News have tonight announced the start of the first 30 day Coding competition for the PSP. The competition can have entries such as Games, Demos, Emulators and Applications for any version PSP. Full details and prizes (which is a complete range of essential PSP accessories) are available on the site."

Development software..

[Andares]

If the Sony guys are still charging 10k for the PSP SDK, then lots of qualified possible winners are going to be weeded out. However, from Sony's perspective, if they released the SDK to the public people would use the emulator that it comes with to play roms and not buy their product. Perhaps they should offer copies to people who they think might do well but can't afford the software.

Re:Hmm

[Enti]

Seconding this. It's nice to see groups encouraging homebrew, especially given Sony's current attempts to prevent it. I would like to point out that the DC was a bit of an underdog, despite how wonderful it was. The PSP, on the other hand is bound to generate a nice homebrew scene in the coming year or two (I'm amazed by what there is already) simply due to it's mainstream nature and awesome features (portable, powerful, nice screen, decent onboard storage, ect.)

Re:Any application...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, good luck with emulating the extra screen and the touchscreen on a PSP. Don't forget to be able to load two ROMs at once since there are already several DS and GBA games that interact with each other if you put both in a DS at once.

Re:Development software..

[ivan256]

They won't. They're losing money on the system and making it up through the sale of games.

Do you have any proof of this, or are you just speculating? I mean, they're charging $249 for the thing, and there are handheld computers out there that aren't much more expensive that are on a 40%+ profit margin. I would bet they're selling these things exactly at cost.

The only thing I see out there is speculation though. Even the Official Playstation Magazine can only speculate. And Sony isn't going to come out and deny it, because they'd love for you to think you were getting something that was worth more than what you paid for it. Even if the screen and the UMD drive cost $100 each though (they probably don't in quantity), I can't imagine the PSP costs more than $249 to build.