They’re not supporting it again, though, so don’t get the wrong idea.
Sony ended their support for the PS Vita earlier this year. Normally, that’d mean the device would become an open playground for hackers. But Sony’s putting their foot down on that.
Yesterday, Andy Nguyen, a vita hacker, announced a new hack for the then-current Vita firmware3.71:
Today, Sony deployed firmware updated 3.72, seemingly to thwart that.
What the update says it does is nebulous. All t says is that “update improves system performance”. What it actually seems to do is simply block the exploit through the game specifically used to accomplish it. Which isn’t necessarily the end of the world for hackers; there are likely plenty of games out there that can be used for that purpose. Hell, Nguyen himself put out a (now deleted) tutorial on finding games used for such exploits.
As for why they’d bother, though, that’s simple. In the US at the least, these sorts of things are very much a “defend it or lose it” kind of deal. So realistically, they know they’ve accomplished little, but they’ve done what’s legally required to protect their IP.
Source: Kotaku
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