yo ho

can't rape the willing.

i don't pirate new games but old ones that you can't buy brand new without chunking down $70 on ebay for a sealed copy of xenogears and i will not wait for sony to get off their asses to bring em to the psn. when they do, i'll but them but until then, arr!

like anything else piracy - sony is making the large assumption that people that are downloading and "pirating" the games would have went to the store and bought the game if they were not able to download it

let me clear it up for you - that is a big leap in logic - I am willing to bet a lot that the overwhelming majority of those who are downloading these games would NOT buy them regardless of their download availability
game = free: sure I will give it a try
game = not free: meh screw that game
and thats the truth of the matter
plus that pirate chick is hot

the day the ps3 gets cfw is the day ps3 sakes shoot through the roof, it may not happen but alot of people are trying, and they are learning many things just from dissecting a hdd backup. their is already a proxy for bypassing firmware to play on psn, but only time will tell. sony made that ps3 with the knowledge of how the psp got ripped apart and how to make a pirates crack nightmare.

...and they've decided to make the next version even harder to buy physical media for? lol

Yes, but you're saying that the pirates had to do pirate-y things because there were no games to play. Dille is saying that people are pirating games that are out there to be purchased. It's not like he's complaining about people having NES games on their PSP, he's complaining about people pirating games that have been released for the system, so the explanation that "there were no games to play" doesn't really make sense here.

akathatoneguy: The point is that when Sony was saying "If you have pirated firmware, you can't play our new games" when they had NO games to make that a realistic threat. Now that they HAVE games, people already have their custom firmware with no regrets, making it a lot easier for them to rip shit off.

I am not agreeing with it. I don't pirate PSP games (or even DS ones, for that matter), but Sony did help to encourage the image the PSP has a pirate's haven.

Ah yes, homebrew. Remember when the original Xbox was so homebrew friendly? Good imes, now why did Microsoft have to make it hard for us to do the same for the 360?

I bought a PSP at the last minute before hopping a 15 hour flight last month at gamestop....a used fat one (I'd heard they were easier to put firmware on). Since I couldn't hack it before the flight, I bought Lumines(for the hack) and Loco Roco 2. Both were great games.

Soon after I actually started looking at the PSP library, and I don't think the argument that "there are no games" stands anymore. I'm having tons of fun buying legit games for crazy cheap, I have Loco Roco 2, Lumines, Me and My Katamari, Monster Hunter Freedom, Puzzle bobble pocket, Tekken, and FIFA 08.....all cost under $20. There are tons of games I still want to pick up....Patapon 1 and 2, each under $20....both Worms titles, Little Big Planet(when it comes out) and not tomention the crapload of RPGs I haven't tried yet.

I WILL hack my PSP someday at the end of it's life, especially since memory cards are getting so cheap....but for now I'm really feeling good about my purchase

Whats the point? When Sony can't offer me a decent gaming experience on the damned thing, why wouldn't I go to a custom firmware? At least there I can emulate just about anything. The only reason I still have one is because I can do this. I have had a PSP since day one. Admittedly some of my favorite games are on the portable. Lumines, WipeOut Pure and Pulse, and MGS: Portable Ops. But in all honesty the homebrew community made my PSP experience much better, not Sony.

and if only they made it so the PS3 could play PSP games. Then we wouldn't have an issue with low development. gaming needs to think more on the big picture. I can play music on my laptop and an ipod...I want to play some playstation games on my ps3 and psp.

huh, I would add a comment but everyone else really summed up my view on the psp.

not enough games from Sony = hacked psp

hacked psp = more fun

if Sony got off their asses and tried = a funner system

and Patapon = the only game I actually play on the damn thing

AP News Feed: Wednesday, April 22, 2009

SCEA's Peter Dille Press Release:

Heat is hot, water is wet, snow is cold, and I'm crunchy and good on sandwiches.

That is all.

I have been hacking PSP's for free since '06 (good 'ol LCS + e-loader), because honestly the way sony intended you to make use of their system was retarded.

It was first marketted as a full multi-media expierience, and fully capable of hi-res video playback, but sony never mentioned at all how to load your own movies onto the mem stick in a way that the XMB could detect it, i first learned of the appropriate path from an issue of EGM for god's sake!

Second, and this is a BIG point for me, since second-hand game stores became more common place i have constantly been selling crappy games back to stores to get the good ones, and faithfully holding onto the good/rare ones, so when i herd that the PSP was going to be able to play old PSX games, i wasd jumping for joy, that is untill i found out that they wanted me to buy a PS3, and purchase an additional copy of whatever game you want to play, im sorry but thats bullshit. I have held onto some of my fav PSX games for more than 10 yrs, and now to reward me i have to buy the game again to play it on my new console? no thanks.

I actually diddnt find out about the ability to rip games untill 8 months after hacking my system, i was using the CFW specifically to play my PSX game backups, and ultra-rare games like chrono trigger, and FFVI, and select homebrew like quake 1 and hexen 2.

So overall my opinion is this, if sony had actually encouraged the system to be used to its full potential, and allowed backwards compatability, without having to pay for a game you allready own, i would have been a faithfull sony fanboy

Meh! there arn't that many PSP games to pirate in the first place..