Survey for Dark AleX, et al: Sony asks PSP hackers about their motivation

Dishing off lots of firmware to protect the Sony PlayStation Portable may be taking its toll for Sony engineers. Now, Sony Computer Entertainment wants to know through a survey why you’re hacking your PSP in the first place. More details after the jump.

Really, how would Dark AleX respond? Sony Computer Entertainment has just released a survey asking the PlayStation Portable community why they hack their handhelds. Click on the image above for a higher resolution of the Sony survey.

Sony has not released details about the research, only saying that it is one of the company’s efforts to understand its consumers. But with the boom of the PSP homebrew scene spurred by NEM and the Saturn Expedition Committee, the Spanish Swaploit team, Killer-X, Fanjita, Noobz, and sustained by Dark AleX among many other devs, it seems Sony is trying its best to keep up.

Releasing firmware after firmware (with the latest being PSP Firmware 3.95) may be taking its toll on Sony engineers. Since Sony is protecting the PlayStation Portable from a faceless homebrew community, the very least they can do is know their reasons why they hack the PSP in the first place.

Who knows, this might just lead into a dialogue between Sony and the homebrew community. Now, if you’re into the homebrew scene, how will you answer the survey?

Image courtesy of Kotaku.