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Will Hackers Be Able To Crack The Sony PS Vita

The Sony PlayStation Portable was plagued by a great of piracy, as hackers were able to get into the Sony PSP shortly after its release. One of the big questions leading up to the launch of the next-gen Sony handheld, the PS Vita, is will hackers be able to crack it?

The Sony PS Vita is going to be moving away from the UMD proprietary format, and moving to a cartridge-based format.

With that, the hope is that Sony will be able to prevent piracy, along with the help of a memory format that is not going to be open in any such way.

The Sony PSP was exploited due to its use of the Pro Duo memory stick format, a standard memory card that was utilized by hackers to run PSP games, third-party applications, etc.

Sony is moving towards a closed memory card format with the Sony PS Vita.

This means that they are going to be memory cards which are exclusive to the handheld, with extra security beyond the standard memory format.

Sony has stated these memory cards will not work if they are hooked up to a computer, or anything of that nature.

With that said, will hackers be able to get into the Sony PS Vita, or will they actually be blocked out?

We have seen every console hacked in some way, but it appears Sony is setting up the PS Vita to fight off hackers far better than they did with the Sony PSP.