A few of us working on xmbc have split off to start a port of xmbc to the ps3.  Sony allowing the installation of linux on the ps3 was a smart move.  It allowed us to start on something like this without having to wait for various sundry methods of getting software on the device.

While porting isn’t completely straightforward, we have access to a wide variety of existing code that already builds on linux.  This really helped us ramp up quickly on dev and we’re currently testing VERY early alphas on our own machines.

Here’s a teaser:

Our plans are to get ps3mc functioning at roughly the same level as xmbc before going public.  After that we’ll start making decisions about future capabilities.

As a team we’re just getting rolling, but development is well underway.