I have been fairly critical of Sony's Trophy system in the past, but that's mostly because they have a vast amount of potential that hasn't been realized. Take the PSP for example -- had Sony shared the Trophy system between its handheld and the PS3, something really interesting could have happened. Sadly, however, Sony is Sony, and this is never going to be.
"You're not going to see Trophies on the PSP," explains PSN director Eric Lempel. Well, that's one good idea buggered.
Lempel explains that piracy is a huge part of the reason why Trophies aren't coming to PSP: "If people can artificially inflate their rankings and amounts of Trophies, it kills the whole Trophy system." According to Lempel, "keeping it secure, keeping it fair" is the order of the day, meaning that no Trophies will ever come to handhelds.
While I can see where they're coming from, it's still rather stupid. People have artificially inflated their Gamerscores on Xbox Live, but MS used its own network service to track them down. All Sony would have to do is require players to be logged into PSN to view their Trophies on the PSP and they have them. Besides which, I thought the PSP GO was going to curb piracy. Evidently, Sony isn't very confident in the security of its new system if it won't add Trophies to it.
Yet another good idea squandered. Oh well, I'll just continue to not give a stuff about PSN identities.
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9:00 AM on 06.09.2009
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Maybe the on psp2.
I'm not a "ply this game for hundreds of hours and find every last hidden pidgeon" person so I couldn't give a shit. I've got a whole load of <10% trophy games that i've blasted through and traded in.
A lack of PSP trophies is no biggie.
T minus 17 days till Monster Hunter Freedom Unite! - When you're playing MH you very rarely see your PSP's XMB anyway! It's been literally Months since I last exited MHF2.
OH well, maybe when the actual second iteration of the PSP comes out well see mobile trophies
Also, I'm really warming up to the trophy system. I read a lot of comments in the PS3 Trophy article Jim wrote awhile back, and some good points were made. The platinum trophies really are a good innovation. If MS was smart, they'd integrate something into your gamercard where it says "100% Completed Games: __" or something. It wouldn't be hard and it would pretty much counteract the platinum trophies right there.
Or what, just because you have a CD/DVD burner, you copy and burn games/movies/music? D:
Sony are also lame, because this whole response is them not being bothered. Reminds me how half hearted a lot of their words still are. In truth, anyone with a brain at Sony would have had PSP trophies sorted out, from the moment they launched on PS3.
MS once again make Sony look like amatuers who don't care.