Topic: XLink Kai Founders To Produce Commercial Online Service for Sony PSP? (Read 132 times)

Xbox-Scene · « **on:** January 16, 2006, 09:46:00 PM »

XLink Kai Founders To Produce Commercial Online Service for Sony PSP?-- Posted by XanTium on January 16 23:10 EST
It's not really Xbox related, but we've always been following up on XLink Kai(info) stuff so I thought it'd be interesting to mention we got some leaked information from sources close to the people behind the XLink Kai tunneling software claiming that they are about to announce a new commercial PSP online gaming network - possibly as soon as Q2 this year.

Will this be a tunneling service - or something more unified - like Xbox Live!? Is it officially supported by Sony (unlikely)? Why is it a commercial product from a crew which have always contributed free services to the community? Will it get support from game developers? How is it different from the existing Kai PSP support (that will not cease to exist of course and development will continue) - justifying a price tag?

Notable members of Kai's technical crew have either resigned or gone missing over the last few months - so this story could have some weight.
Looking over XLink's site gives nothing away, and attempts to contact the resigned members have gone unanswered.

JoBlo69 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 16, 2006, 09:23:00 PM »

figures.... these people working on kai have done a great job on there project, its not suprising to me that a major corp. like sony would offer to buy them out, but this is all open scorce so all they can do is offer the people that made it a shit load of money to work for them.

I thought M$ would have tried this before anyone, especially with kia-xlink.

uberx · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2006, 11:55:00 PM »

Anything the Kai Crew comes up with is worth ckecking out. Best of luck to them!

HypoLuxa · « **Reply #3 on:** January 17, 2006, 01:46:00 AM »

Damn interesting

xXSanjuroXx · « **Reply #4 on:** January 17, 2006, 08:30:00 AM »

Cool work.. but i wonder if they can even survive seeing as Datel already has a similer product on the market (and comes with the needed wifi hardware) you can check out datel's thing here

http://us.codejunkie...p=18&i=8912&s=8

either way good work Xkai team keep up the good work

adeon · « **Reply #5 on:** January 17, 2006, 08:37:00 AM »

I hope that Sony dosent buy them,,, one thing is funding, or sponsoring.. but if sony buys them.... it migth close the doors to the other consoles?.. ...

THe psp is the 2nd biggest room on kai.. next to xbox....

the reason M$ didnt buy them was because they got live...

KAI is a great group.. I just hope it dosent corrupt..

I dont think Sony will buy them..... Sony has Infra mode on their new games.... but who knows...

Long live these great consoles... XBOX & PSP.. Kai is ther to make them even better

mlapaglia · « **Reply #6 on:** January 17, 2006, 10:43:00 AM »

interesting, they have always given us quality products, integrated with xbmc its pretty awesome, i hope sony dosen't just buy them. maybe it will be like winamp and AOL though, and let them work but have their name with it or something.

ksteiner · « **Reply #7 on:** January 17, 2006, 10:53:00 AM »

Why would sony buy them if they can easily create their own?

JoBlo69 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 17, 2006, 03:48:00 PM »

beause the kia network is already established if sony started today on making there own online thing it would take a long time to get the network setup for it... but the kia guys already have all the hardware done sony just wants to come in and buy it...

This post has been edited by JoBlo69: Jan 17 2006, 11:49 PM

trejkaz · « **Reply #9 on:** January 17, 2006, 04:17:00 PM »

I would gladly pay for any Nintendo DS service offered by XLink Kai.

But for PSP... the service is already there, so I don't see a point unless games start integrating it into their UIs.

bigduke · « **Reply #10 on:** January 17, 2006, 07:04:00 PM »

Now i wish i had a PsP!!

tizmagik · « **Reply #11 on:** January 17, 2006, 10:13:00 PM »

QUOTE(ksteiner @ Jan 17 2006, 01:00 PM)

Why would sony buy them if they can easily create their own?

Because it would be much cheapter to just buy them instead of paying engineers/programmers.

tater · « **Reply #12 on:** January 18, 2006, 08:55:00 PM »

If you log onto xlink kai's tunnel program, you will see PSP along with xbox, PS2, xbox 260, etc as one of the networks to connect to...so I would say that the rumor is true.

OrangeJuice · « **Reply #13 on:** January 20, 2006, 02:45:00 PM »

Dont know if its true, but i dont believe rumors. I dont think sony can buy kai because that would be like buying a part of MS and nintendo...which kai cannot make money from because it supports systemlink not live or whatever online gaming that costs money.

...if sony buys kai, kai would have to shut down all other consoles, which i doubt seeing happen because xbox is waaaaay more populated than PS or PSP. The media usually twists these stories around to make u guys wanna keep coming back for more. How much money is xbox-scene making everytime one of you click on an AD? This story is probably 95% BS and 5% fact.

Long live kai

Arvarden · « **Reply #14 on:** January 20, 2006, 03:04:00 PM »

If Sony manage to snap Kai for it's online gaming platform I can see it taking off. But if it's a solo project I think many poeple will shun the service and use the limited infrastructure mode or another free tuneling service.

But if Kai can some how pull off a online service compatable with most if not all wireless routers and access points they could be onto a winner.

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