How Many PSPs Have Custom Firmware And Access The PlayStation Store? At Least 15,000

By Spencer . October 27, 2008 . 11:31am

Here’s an interesting discovery pointed out by OnlyOdin (thanks for the tip!!), the most recent version of PSP custom firmware performs a check on the creator’s website before it connects to the PlayStation Store. On October 23rd, six days after the custom firmware went live, there were a total of 46,078 custom firmware connections to the PlayStation Store as determined by the number of hits on dark-alex.org. 15,359 of these connections are “unique hits” which translates to 15,359 unique PSP machines running custom firmware accessing the PlayStation Store directly from their PSP.

We can’t tell if this number is high or low since there isn’t a blanket statistic for how many PSPs with custom firmware are in the wild, but now we know there are at least 15,359 running Dark Alex’s software AND want to browse Sony’s PlayStation Store on their PSPs.

Images courtesy of Sony.

TAGS: Custom Firmware, PSP, Sony

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Reflect

Oh cool, I'm one of those 15,359! Too bad there isn't anything I want in the store.... yet?

Dana

It's in Sony's best interest to not prevent Store access from those with CFW, as there's no way to rob the Store - at least let these people spend their money on the downloads there, to make up in some small part for those with CFW that pirate UMD games and whatnot. And some people only run CFW for convenience (running from memory stick) or for homebrew... Let's hope - for Sony's sake - that they realize all of this and don't try blocking CFW from actually buying things.

thaKingRocka

this should let sony know that people want to do some legitimate shopping even if they have modded/custom systems.

Starstew

Or they're just looking for something new to steal.

jarrodand

So how many nonCFW connections has the store had.

Spencer

I don't think Sony has released that kind of data. This is really just a "for fun" statistic since we can't compare it to non custom firmware PSPs and the number probably doesn't reflect the number of total PSPs with custom firmware either.