PSP Flash Games

I finally bought a PSP a couple of weeks ago, shortly before update 2.0 came out for the U.S. models. The new update includes, among other things, a fairly decent web browser. Since that time, I’ve been happily putting the browser through its paces, mostly reading news, sports, and checking web mail on Yahoo!. This is all good, but if the browser supported Flash it would suddenly open the door to playing many of the thousands of browser based Flash games on the internet.

Given that Sony makes its money from the royalties they get from the sale of 3rd party games on the PSP, I tend to doubt that they will be eager to add Flash support to the browser. Flash Lite games formatted specifically for the PSP would be great for gamers (if they don’t suck), but wouldn’t make a dime for Sony.

Even without Flash support, I think there will be some server side web games targetted for the PSP, at least from the homebrew crowd. I have one proof of concept idea I’m working on which may not suffer from the relatively slow PSP browser. I don’t think there’s any money in it, but if it works it should be fun!