scea email fake or possible?

originalself · Post by **originalself** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:24 am

I imagine someone here has sent an email to scea asking about psp licencing, supossidly someone got this in their response.

We are considering, now that we have launched in North America, ways that we might be able to make the SDK available to those who wish to develop non-game applications or use it as a platform for freeware or for academic uses.

Has anyone else goten a similer response?

Post by **pixel** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:07 am

That'd go with their normal policy nevertheless. Might be true.

sage · Post by **sage** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:43 pm

I fired off an email a few weeks ago and recieved the following response...

Note: I'm not sure what they ment by "game ideas" so i'm guessing it's a standard response.

Hello *****,

Thank you for writing us.

The following information is for serious inquiries only, and will only be
accepted from established
game developers (individuals or companies) with background and/or experience in
programming and game
design. All other generic 'game ideas' or 'game suggestions' cannot be
accepted. Please accept our
apologies in advance for any inconvenience. Sony Computer Entertainment America
(SCEA) values your
enthusiasm and input, however, due to legal reasons, we simply cannot accept any
unsolicited game
ideas. If, however, you meet these prerequisites (of working as an established
developer) and need
additional information, you may direct your question(s) to the following:

For detailed information on how to become a Licensed Tools Developer, please
write to:
the_future@playstation.sony.com

You can also send the following company information to SCEA:

Company History
Product History
- List of products released on any platform (samples may be included)
- Individual contribution to projects or released products

Executive Biographies
Publisher Relationships (if any)
Contact Information
- Name, title, address, phone, email, website URL, etc.

Indicate if you plan to develop for the PlayStation(R) (PS one(TM)) game console
and/or the
PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system.
Please do NOT send game designs at this time or requests for information.

Send information/materials to:

Address: Sony Computer Entertainment America
Attn:Third Party Account Management
919 East Hillsdale Blvd.
Second Floor
Foster City, CA 94404

You can also email this information to the email address given above.

If you have further questions regarding this message, please refer to your email
case
number: *taken out*.

Bryan
Multimedia CSR
Sony Computer Entertainment America
Consumer Services Department

Post by **pixel** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:06 pm

Congratulations, you've hit the official developper page.

sage · Post by **sage** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:27 pm

Congratulations yourself, you managed to keep the stereotype of a forum prick alive. Please start posting constructive information instead of being a complete idiot.

Post by **blackdroid** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:38 pm

sage wrote:Congratulations yourself, you managed to keep the stereotype of a forum prick alive. Please start posting constructive information instead of being a complete idiot.

You have 589 posts to read up on before you can blame him from not posting any constructive information.

Post by **pixel** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:39 pm

Now, now, is that an answer to post to a forum administrator. And for beeing a complete idiot, you only prooven to be one yourself, by copy/pasting infos available from here:

http://www.technology.scee.net/sceesite/software.html
https://www.newdev.scee.net/AreaNewLice ... mplate.cfm

You actually reached the "official developper" material, reserved to companies that SONY approves, and by no way is connected to homebrew or so.

Post by **Neovanglist** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:39 pm

Hahaha, it's a comedy of hypocrisy!

In any case, SCEE has said many times that there are no plans for a Net Yaroze/PS2Linux equivalent for PSP, however they also said that it's not impossible either.

In any case, any effort to develop for PSP will lead you to the license application process, which means you will have to show a business model, game concept, etc.

sage · Post by **sage** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:53 pm

double posted

sage · Post by **sage** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:53 pm

pixel wrote:Now, now, is that an answer to post to a forum administrator. And for beeing a complete idiot, you only prooven to be one yourself, by copy/pasting infos available from here:

http://www.technology.scee.net/sceesite/software.html
https://www.newdev.scee.net/AreaNewLice ... mplate.cfm

You actually reached the "official developper" material, reserved to companies that SONY approves, and by no way is connected to homebrew or so.

What? My first post was a quote of an email I recieved in response to a question about homebrew/idie development... It's not a copy and paste from a site.

Post by **pixel** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:07 am

I spent 2 minutes browsing sony's website to find back these stuff.

Before mailing random people requesting info, and mis-interpreting their replies, one should first get some knowledge about what's going on, and how they usually deal with requests. The reply you recieved is the exact same as some of the information pages on the various sony developer application pages.

PSPimp · Post by **PSPimp** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:53 pm

Neovanglist wrote:In any case, SCEE has said many times that there are no plans for a Net Yaroze/PS2Linux equivalent for PSP, however they also said that it's not impossible either.

"many times"? can you please provide a link? thanks :)