PS3 piracy largely solved, says Capcom
Capcom's Christian Svensson says that Sony's moves to combat the PlayStation 3 jailbreak have resulted in the lowest occurrence of hacking on any platform.
Piracy has become a headache for PC and console developers alike, but Sony's own action to combat PlayStation 3 piracy has been largely effective according to Capcom US vice president Christian Svensson. The PS3 jailbreak could have opened the floodgates for piracy on Sony's platform, but Svensson says their action paid off with the lowest rate of piracy on any platform.
"Piracy exists on almost every console to varying degrees," he told Eurogamer. "The only one I would say is fairly inconsequential to our business, as much as we can tell, is PlayStation 3. Obviously the PlayStation 3 was opened up [jailbroken], and through a variety of systems, Sony has managed to largely put that genie back in the bottle, to the point where the scene is nowhere near as large as it is on other platforms."
That's at least some good news for Sony, after its suit against PlayStation 3 jailbreakers raised the ire of hacker groups. They retaliated with denial of service attacks for days, before halting and apologizing to inconvenienced users. The suit may have also been an inciting factor in the PlayStation Network hack that took PSN offline for a month in spring. After all that, there had to be some payoff.
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Capcom's Christian Svensson says that Sony's moves to combat the PlayStation 3 jailbreak have resulted in the lowest occurrence of hacking on any platform.-
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'Alive and kicking' is a relative term. And he acknowledged that piracy never stops completely. I still don't see a reason to disbelieve him.
3 months ago everyone on the internet expressed total certitude that the PS3 was done, pirates win, game over, lol. Seems like people are just listening selectively at this point. -
not that active though. people using it are stuck using 3.55 which is a hindrance to pirates who want to play the latest games. like if a pirate wanted to play Resistance 3 they would be out of luck.
unlike 360 where the player can pretty much play anything they just need to worry about a ban from XBL if they don't want to buy two Xbox systems
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