In prior history Hotz was targeted by Sony for his independent research into running homebrew applications on the PS3 game-console. Unfortunately Sony objected to this and launched legal action[1] against Hotz and others which sadly ended in Hotz settling to not research Sony products again and did not set a good precedent towards such work.

Different situation but hopefully better outcome this time...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_Am...