Sony: Piracy is a big concern and the reason we can't do business in Philippines

[callsignAPOLLO]

There's less money and sales to be had in the Philippines, that's why piracy is big there, costs have to be cut for there to be a thriving market. Sony can't release overpriced games and systems in the Philippines and expect tons of buyers because there just isn't enough customers that would be willing to pay outrageous sony prices, thus sony's fear of piracy. Son's fear of piracy in the Philippines is ironic because of the guilt they should feel at the thought of trying to sell such overpriced stuff to people not as priviledged as we. =) -Sisko

[xg917]

sale price = higher
money used to make products = wayyy lower..

i hate that..
at least sell at a reasonable price Sony!!!!

[nothingtoday]

I can't believe they're complaining about this when sony and other mammoth companies are causing it in the first place. They're the ones who are "cutting costs" and taking their production lines to developing countries to get some joe there to make their overpriced products for half a meal a day. Then they have the balls to complain that someone is stealing their things.
This is a serious issue not pecause of piracy but because of human rights issues. No one in their right mind would save up for two years just to buy a real game, and no one in their right mind would pay a person so little

[callsignAPOLLO]

I concur -Sisko

[VampDude]

They should sell the PS3 to the Philippines and then pull out when a mod chip is available if they're worried about piracy, that way they can sell a console or two and a few games

[sourced]

here in the philippines theres a mall called "greenhills" where you can find everything pirated. lol

they charge you 800 pesos(about 18 u.s dollars) to downgrade your psp. and 300 pesos ( about 7 u.s dollars) to load isos onto your psp.

[VampDude]

here in the philippines theres a mall called "greenhills" where you can find everything pirated. lol

they charge you 800 pesos(about 18 u.s dollars) to downgrade your psp. and 300 pesos ( about 7 u.s dollars) to load isos onto your psp.

And here on my PC, that is completely FREE!

[Cap'n 1time]

What about P2P sharing? You can't hunt down users..

See RIAA.

[Joe88]

i hate sony, they're gay. Because this is just pure exclusion to my race. They were already gay enough for stopping homebrew but now racism.

so every company is "ghey" for not allowing you illegally download game for free and run them?

it aint rascism, its the truth

[kcajblue]

so every company is "ghey" for not allowing you illegally download game for free and run them?

it aint rascism, its the truth

he meant that it happens in a lot of other countries and sony is only singling out the philippines.

and he said homebrew not illegally downloaded games.