Poll: Would You Buy / Support a For-Profit PS4 Dongle or Not?

If you're in the United States, today (Tuesday, November 8th) is the US Presidential Election 2016 where either Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton or Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will become the next President of the United States.

Not following politics much myself, I can't help but think of this video fitting perfectly for this year's Presidential candidates:

Anyhoo, it got me thinking that with all the voting going on today combined with the PS4 4.01 Jailbreak from ChaitinTech and both the EPEEN and TRSi scene group PS4 NFO updates it's the perfect day to run a poll here and see what everyone thinks of a for-profit PlayStation 4 dongle.

Since the PlayStation 3 Re-DRM TrueBlue dongle days many sceners including myself and @GregoryRasputin most memorably have been fairly vocal on being against DRM-infected dongles and those who peddle them, and now whispers from various dongle camps leave me wondering whether the crusade should continue with PS4 dongles or should we throw in the towel on the fight against them?

If you've never heard of a dongle before, in this context we're referring to a small hardware device that you would have to buy from an online shop which would plug into the PlayStation 4's USB port (or somewhere similar) and allow you to run commercial PS4 game backups and homebrew (unsigned code) in theory.

Soooo.. what do YOU think, voice your opinion by VOTING in the Would You Buy / Support a For-Profit PS4 Dongle or Not? poll and in the comments below!

 

[PSXHAX]

@PSXHAX ,@GregoryRasputin hey fellas can you please help me ? what is Dongle exactly ? and is it good and also what is game backup and should we pay for game backups too after buying a dongle ? also can we go online with this crap ?

and also can you explain me this dongles can be available on latest OFW ?

So far all we've seen are rumors followed by more rumors.

If a team announces a PS4 dongle then a lot of those questions should be answered, as they'll likely set up a website like Cobra did detailing all the features, pricing, etc.

This is really just a poll about the concept of a PS4 dongle in general, to see how much love/hate members of the site have for them.

 

[pasha4ur]

I'm ready to pay but there are no products to buy

CFW is better then dongle

I think I faster sell ps4 and buy new GPU for pc then people release something even paid for ps4.

 

[ThatCoolguy]

If its released worldwide and not only in the USA

 

[kazookid0]

I would not get a dongle simply because the people manufacturing them would only sell them to make money from all the devs who did all there work for free

 

[R0rke]

So far all we've seen are rumors followed by more rumors.

If a team announces a PS4 dongle then a lot of those questions should be answered, as they'll likely set up a website like Cobra did detailing all the features, pricing, etc.

This is really just a poll about the concept of a PS4 dongle in general, to see how much love/hate members of the site have for them.

by this dongles can we access online multiplayer ?

 

[PSXHAX]

I don't think anyone will know that until some team announces one with complete specs, etc... hopefully a free alternative will come first for the win though.

 

[vtaker]

Who knows how the next hack for PS4 will work. If in 2009, you told me PS3 would get hacked with a USB dev board, I would have laughed at you. Maybe we'll all have to buy bray burners to make backups this time lol.