Sony: PSP Piracy 'Sickening,' Has Reduced Sales

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  I would guess because they assume that if X was actually purchased they would have more money not realizi... : TheGamer11
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    i knew lots of kids who pirated stuff in high school. NONE of them would buy stuff legally because they h... : deadfish
    • Kids are always going to have minimal funds and nearly unlimited time. Pretty much a given. : geedeck
    • This is one of the situations where I'll let piracy slide. If the only reason they have a console is beca... : PlayfulPuppy
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  Also, Sony has always been sooooo slow to embrace the mobile console angle. You should be able to buy any... : geedeck
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    There is a lot of games that you can share locally. Almost everyone one of them that had mp also had loca... : razlebol
    • Sure in 2009. And yeah, it was supported from launch, but you couldn't actually buy games that had local ... : geedeck
• Hey, some are PS1 ports. : briktal
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  Hey look, it's the "people steal games cause they all suck" argument... AGAIN. : TickHeadDog
  • No shit. What a stupid fucking argument. : Sgt_Boomstick
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  I hate the "I don't like the games so I pirate them instead" counter-argument for looking past piracy. Ho... : TimeDoctor
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    this argument confuses me, why would you download a game, movie or TV show you don't like, its like some ... : Saithene
    • Plenty of people download shit because its easy and painless. To them its just a demo that, who knows, ma... : Sgt_Boomstick
  • Where did he say that HE pirated a game that he didn't like? What he was saying was that people aren't... : rohithX
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  I don't like the fact that every time someone brings up software piracy someone feels the need to point o : s2jason
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    People only say it because it's true. : -shadin-
    • They also say it when there's no particular relevance. This article never claims it's a direct correlatio... : Chris Remo
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  There's lots of good PSP-exclusive games that aren't ports from other systems and aren't first person sho... : roushimsx
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    You can buy Logan's Shadow right now for $15 from amazon! http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000U... : FormerHPB
    • Well yea, but I'd still like to see a PS2 port. : roushimsx
• Yes. Implying a lost sale is a bad argument. : dmason
• While its definitely not 1:1, pirated downloads definitely equal lost sales. The ratio is the big questio... : Sgt_Boomstick

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  - Piracy on the PSP is easier than on the DS by virtue of not requiring you to own anything other than wh... : roushimsx
  • The DS is still far easier. Let's see, is it more simple for someone to learn how to make or purchase a ... : -shadin-

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• think there's some on 360, not sure if seen any with ps3 : ClawHammR
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  lots of 360 games are pirated and some of them were released on torrents before the official release date... : hanged_man
  • On the 360 you can just change the firmware on the optical drive. : swimteampie
  • The 360 is a simple firmware flash on the DVD drive, it takes 5 minutes to do. The Wii has a softmod ava... : shredomatic
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  It's more difficult to pirate on 360 than PC though. Harder to get into pirating in the first place on 36... : BCFire
  • Ps3 piracy doesnt exist, not for ps3 games anyway. : klearlyunseen
• There are for the 360, but it's not as easy as old Xbox and MS can counter them time to time, but if they... : Sailor of Fortune
• Well, for the PS3, the media itself is simply more expensive. At $10-$15 for a BD-R, plus a few hundred f... : psamathos
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  PS3 doesn't have any piracy yet. Even if they could figure it out who wants to spend 10-15 bucks on a bl... : Physick1
  • I imagine they could just store it on the hard drive, and since you can add your own HDD then storage won... : OmegaRed59
• I was thinking about modding my 360 a few months after I picked it up, just to see if it could be done we... : The_Archon
• I'd say DS also has an insane amount of piracy. : Sgt_Boomstick

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  Stealing is more sickening than a company O_o : OmegaRed59
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    Normally yes, but what about the rootkits Sony put on its customers' machines? : dognose
    • That act was pretty sickening, but they don't do it anymore. It doesn't really have much to do with the ... : OmegaRed59
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    I don't know, rooting someone's PC for buying your product is pretty evil IMO. : deculture
    • So Sony has been sickening in the past. Okay. : OmegaRed59

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  i think you've mistaken homebrew apps with piracy... : jarek99
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    I think he means that it's possible the lack of sales isn't so much from piracy as it might be from peopl... : Schnapple
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      And what's wrong with that? : Xulu
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        It's bad for Sony's bottom line and borderline illegal thanks to the DMCA : Schnapple
        • How about it's mine and I'm gonna do whatever I feel like with it? It's called ownership. Yea what a ... : Xulu
    • How ironic, Sony marketed the PSP as more than just a gaming device. The PS3 suffers from the same proble... : jarek99

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  Should they eat the whole bag? Or should they just pull out each individual dick and eat it on its own? ... : mckimmons
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    Well, as anyone who's eaten a bag of moldy dicks can tell you, once they start getting moldy, it's hard ... : oojiboojiboo
    • So what you're saying is that the dicks would be much more efficiently consumed in liquid form. Should th... : CasbahBoy

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  And porn viiewer/player : aodeasykill
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    Oh yes, as soon as you can find a decent mp4 converter. btw, anyone got one? : vertdang
    • I use PSP Video 9...I think that works...and it's free... : The3Apocalypses

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• it's also hurting the DS : Cihte
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  People still pirate the DS. The only difference is there's a lot of people out there who dont know how to... : TheGamer11
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    And the DS doesn't use a horrible format that eats batteries and is just all round bad. : her0d
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      I really hope nintendo sticks with cartridges for upcoming DS 2.0 type machines. There is no excuse to g... : deathofrats
      • hopefully they go with digital distribution (like the dsi) , Id love a ds with like 32 gb storage on boar... : klearlyunseen
      • I hope nintendo just uses a high capacity SD card, and you buy everything online to your card, and that's... : dextius
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      Wah? The battery life on the DS FAR exceeds that of the PSP! And as for "horrible format"...well, whate... : Yxalitis
      • gg reading comprehension : My Documents
• True regarding the DS being pirated too. To run homebrew I think the DS is much easier to get set up, sin... : XSilencedXDream

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  That's no excuse. If the games suck anyway, why the fuck is it worth pirating? Piracy is piracy. Peopl... : K1Bond007
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    where in his post did he talk about piracy? READING FAIL. scummvm is an old PC game emulator for games li... : deadfish
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      Well he said the reason is because most games on PSP suck or are cheap ports and the whole thread is abou... : bigpig
      • He was saying sales on games are down because the games suck! Damn, learn to read or at least put a comme... : BCFire
    • This whole article and the comment responses are about piracy eating into sales. If this was seriously th... : K1Bond007
  • If you bought one and then discover all the games suck, then you'll pirate them to make back on your wast... : mxcl

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• Yeah, I don't know why they're complaining. People are just stealing their product and threatening their... : TheMongbat

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  This is one pirate you cant snipe from 800 yards away. : Klebold
  • Go Navy! : Topsiderover

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• but hes convinced that they are convinced! : jarek99

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  I don't know about now, but at release the PSP hardware was losing Sony money. : Arcanum
  • Sony losing money on hardware with lagging software sales... What else is new? =) : X-Nice

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  PS i legally own like 14 games.. the only ones I really liked were GTA and dark mirror... everything else... : deadfish
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    The Wipeout games are fine, but that's the only thing I'd own a PSP for, luckily a friend of mine has it... : FTY
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      for a while (firmware 1.4?) I ran a NES emulator which was badass. I stupidly upgraded for some metal gea... : deadfish
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        You can still run the emulators and whatnot with the newer firmware, it's just a lot harder. I used to... : Hyrenguy
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          I havent turned on my PSP for at least 3 years. What firmware am I? Any idea? : BCFire
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            same here. I havn't turned them on since 07 or so. : deadfish
            • them= it. i fail. : deadfish

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• There is already downloadable demos for the psp 1. : razlebol
• Even further, Patapon 2 is download only (with retail selling codes). PSP2 is rumored to be online dis... : Sailor of Fortune

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• ditto. only thing i use my psp for is watching TV shows pulled off of my tivo when im at the gym. well, a... : radio_babylon