PSP Piracy Is 'Trending Down,' Claims Sony

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Illegal downloads of PSP software have slowed across the past two months, Sony Computer Entertainment America hardware manager John Koller has revealed.

Noting that piracy has been "a significant issue" for the platform, Koller told MTV Multiplayer that "it's trending down right now," adding that "we've seen the piracy not be as such prevalent in the last month to two months."

No explanation was offered as to the lowered piracy rate, nor as to how Sony calculated said rate. The past two months have been a relatively slow period for the PSP, with roughly 20 games released in the past eight weeks. The system often outsells the PS3 in the U.S., though its games rarely rank among the month's best-selling software.

Koller also commented on the "good vs. evil" battles that piracy inevitably raises.

"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," he observed. "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."

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    November 25, 2008 2:14 PM

    Odd how PSP piracy goes down when PSP game releases dry up.

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      November 25, 2008 2:20 PM

      yeah it's a great system but fuck there's nothing new to get

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        November 25, 2008 2:21 PM

        brw newest game i've played and loved was force unleashed. spider-man wasn't that fun ... i tried to like it ;(

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          November 25, 2008 2:32 PM

          fortunately my PSP gathered dust for about 2 years and i just picked it up again and it feels fresh and exciting! god of war was probably the best damn game i've ever played on the system.

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            November 25, 2008 4:01 PM

            i quit after the first interactive cut scenes when i fucked up and lost the boss fight. no thanks

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              November 25, 2008 6:38 PM

              ok... do you give up on everything when it's not spoon fed to you?

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                November 26, 2008 1:20 AM

                What part of "interactive cut scene" made you think "not being spoon fed"? Screw QT events. Give me a playable level

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                November 26, 2008 8:43 AM

                spoon fed? interactive cut scenes are fucking terrible gameplay mechanics. the only decent one i've played with was mercs 2. while it was annoying and tedious if you fucked up for whatever reason you lose a bit of health and you just try again

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            November 25, 2008 9:06 PM

            I got bored of repeating the fight with the god at the end. 20 times is enough.

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      November 26, 2008 11:54 AM

      I was thinking that same exact thing.

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