SONY PSP Piracy....

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:16 pm

http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/news/defaul ... ionid=1591

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:19 pm

Good for gamers, bad for Sony.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 6:46 am

It can't be that bad for Sony, since people will have to buy Memory Sticks to play these games in the end, and regardless of who the actual manufacturer of the stick is, some money ends up Sony's pockets.

*Waits for the DS to arrive in the mail*

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:53 pm

Well, I'd say bad for Sony because people could rent the game and copy it to their memory card, and BAM! $50 game for only $7 bucks. It's even better if you borrow it from a friend. BAM! Free game.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:14 am

I'd say its bad considering the PSP has not launched in the UK yet.

New marketing slogan "Buy PSP and get FREE games"

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:30 am

Indeed...very bad for Sony.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:17 am

FatCobra wrote:Well, I'd say bad for Sony because people could rent the game and copy it to their memory card, and BAM! $50 game for only $7 bucks. It's even better if you borrow it from a friend. BAM! Free game.

Memory Sticks are not that cheap (1GB goes for around $100). By not offering a UMD burner, Sony has covered its base somewhat.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:52 am

Memory Sticks are not that cheap (1GB goes for around $100). By not offering a UMD burner, Sony has covered its base somewhat.

So Sony makes money but the publishers of the games get fucked. They then get pissed at Sony, and quite developing as many games = bad for Sony.

That's a theoretical situation... whether it happens that way, we'll have to see.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:03 am

That scenario will spell "Doomed" for Sony. Either that or more PS2 ports

I don't really like the system's games, I would be interested in some emulation though.

black mariah · Post by **black mariah** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:10 am

Yeah, piracy will REALLY kill the sales of the PSP just like it has for the XBox, PS, and Gamecube...

The overwhelming majority of people have neither time nor technical ability to fuck about with such things. Combine that with the fact that you have to have the increasingly rare 1.0 firmware for anything to work, and you have a whole lot of not a story.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:42 am

black mariah wrote:Yeah, piracy will REALLY kill the sales of the PSP just like it has for the XBox, PS, and Gamecube...

The overwhelming majority of people have neither time nor technical ability to fuck about with such things. Combine that with the fact that you have to have the increasingly rare 1.0 firmware for anything to work, and you have a whole lot of not a story.

Its not really gonna stop sales of the systems, more like the games. If all you have to do is download an ISO to a memory stick its hardly complicated to self boot a game.

If that ever becomes possible. Which at the moment its not!

Piracy put the final nail in the coffin for the DC imo.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:54 am

^^^ Well, it's time for Sony to eat some nail-and-coffin piracy soup, just so they pay for their sins against the Dreamcast.

[/Sega Fanboy]

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:17 am

dam right specineff, it won't kill the console but its nice to see the guys who are ruining the industry lose a bit of cash. unfortunate for the developers though they suffer more than anyone.

kong · Post by **kong** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:37 pm

Newer games require the firmware to be updated to run if I'm not mistaken. So unless these hackers can bypass the firmware check on newer games I really don't see this as a big deal.

judesalmon · Post by **judesalmon** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:48 pm

But you'd only be able to get one or two games on a memory stick.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:01 pm

I wish sony would ditch those things. I hate memory sticks. All other forms of memory are so much cheaper to buy.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:55 pm

Sony are a bunch of money-grubbing bastards. They could afford to lose a few million dollars in the natural progress of emulation.

Can't wait til the Revolution comes and pwns Sony AND Macrosoft in the ass.

Bar81 · Post by **Bar81** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:06 pm

Well, PSP firmware 1.5 to 1.0 *reverter* now released. Sony taking a big chub up the ass +1