A belated seasons greetings and Happy New Year to everyone on ps2dev.org. The new year is always a nice time to think about the last year, and look forward to the next. These days my real life has not allowed me to have any more than a maintenance role with ps2dev. However, the Ps2dev community continues to grow and change which is great to see.

From my perspective 2006 was the year of the PSP. The number of releases and maturity of the tools available for the PSP homebrew developer has grown. This has allowed a large number of great releases to be shared. I would like to put in a special thankyou to Tyranid for his continous contributions to the PSPSDK library and his PSPLink software. I would also like to thank everyone else who made contributions to the forums, libraries and tools available to the PSP homebrew community. It has been quite amazing to see what can be achieved in such a short amount of time.

While the PS2 has not had as much attention this year, there has been some great releases. I'd like to thank Herben, jbit, eeug, evilo and everyone else who have made contributions the Subversion repository.

Looking forward, I think 2007 may well be the year of the PS3. I think we should thank Sony for having the forsight and guts to deliver such powerful hardware which allows for homebrew development. I look forward to see what people will accomplish with this impressive hardware over the coming years. I would like to think that the ever present ps2dev community provided part of the incentive to create an this more open platform. However, I think we may need to wait until March before the PAL teritories get their hands on the PS3 until we see things moving fast.

I would like to remind people that the ps2dev community is simply a group of people with an interest in writing software for the Playstation consoles. From this point of view, there is no leader or anyone you need to ask permissions to be involved. The ps2dev web site provides the tools forums & subversion to allow people to start and create their own projects. If you want to be involved the only way to get started is start. Which reminds me of a great quote by Goethe:

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!'

Everyone have a great 2007, and remember that now is a great time to start a project or anything for that matter. If you need write access to Subversion, please request it via private message in the forums (I can be slow to responsd, so send multiple messages if needed).