Piracy of PlayStation Portable games and the utilization of the device as a piracy machine are on the downturn, according to Sony’s hardware marketing head John Koller. A two-month downturn, that is. In an interview with
MTV Multiplayer, Koller said that it wasn’t a “secret” that there “has been some piracy on the PSP,” but maintained that it is “trending down right now” as a result of first-party downloads through the PlayStation store.
The exact numbers weren’t related in the interview, but Koller cited that fighting piracy is a hard task and requires a bit of "Matlocking" on the part of Sony. From the interview:
We’ve noticed there’s kind of a ‘good vs. evil’ battle that we track on many of the forums and many of the pirated web sites. There’s certainly people that are standing up and fighting for what we consider the good side, the rights of developers and publishers to make money on their IP. And then there’s certainly the other side that believes that they can take as warranted. It’s kind of been nice to see other consumers going and help and fight the battle for us.
I never saw the piracy fight like Batman versus The Joker, but I’m all about continued fighting if that is what is really going on. I also don’t think piracy results from laziness like Koller is possibly indicating. Granted, accessible downloads are nice, but I think people are stealing games because they don’t want to pay for them.
What do you guys think? How do you view the piracy war?
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8:19 PM on 11.24.2008
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I think people should pirate games a little more and then give the cost of the game DIRECTLY to the developers. That will show some of those greedy Publishers!
All 5 of them.
Well, there's also the fact that the overwhelming percentage of the PSP's out there are hackable using old techniques.
I don't know what this "battle" is supposed to involve, but it's just as easy to pirate these games as ever. I'm happy for the PSP though. Maybe some more games will be released for the system.
Just think, the attach rate on PSP is a little over 5.1. If you weren't such a sludge filled douche, you could have, I don't know... BOUGHT THOSE FIVE GAMES and maybe devs would have supported the system more. Just a thought, just a playful thought. Because even if you're going to be a dumbass and say "It's got only five good games" then at least those would have been five games you PAID for.
I know, I know... grand concept. People buy games, developers support system. People steal games, developers pull out. People who stole games justify theft by saying "well, it didn't have enough games" never realizing the irony of being the cause of that issue. Seriously, die in a fire and do me a favor, never buy one of the other currently thriving consoles.
If you're not willing to buy games, stick to flash.
Still needs more good games. Just like the PS3, theyre 'coming'... WHEN? HUH? Im extremely sick of the constant stream of multi-platform games and PS2 ports, both types of game that almost alway feel out of place and inferior on the PSP, even if theyre still half decent. Its games like Crisis Core and Dissidia that interest me (well... them being Square games has a bit to do with it i guess :P).
Yeah, seriously. UMD's also drain (significantly) more battery power, take up space in travel kits, and involve a small amount of effort (minimal obviously, but versus none at all) to change out and put in. I'm tempted to rip all my games just for the ease of it all.
The new PSP is not unhackable, it just requires a bit more work to hack :D
I have and will not buy a DS game though, and I play that thing all the time, and am thinking of getting a 360 and continuing to not support mircrosoft, I'm guess some of you are smart enough to figure out how I'm going to do that :P
So here, its very rare to see original games, the piracy rules over here.
Also it's nice to have various FAQs stored on the memory stick, so I may refer to them using a quick homebrew text reader when required and internet access is not possible. Let's not fool ourselves in thinking the internet browser is decent.
However, this is just my example. I'm sure my situation accounts for roughly 0.0001%, while the remainder are the real low-down, dirty thieves.