Piracy Destroying the PSP

[MZeroEW2]

Yeah it sure is a shame. and Monster Hunter is a awesome game

[SSaxdude]

Piracy also killed the Dreamcast

No, Sony killed the Dreamcast.

[stanfy86]

I first decided that I was going to take my PSP in different directions than Sony intended almost as soon as i got it.

I bought one originally because i wanted a portable media center, the MP3 playback was awesome for a portable console, and the few games available at launch were amazing, but the one selling feature i was most interested in was the ability to play back movies.

Now as everyone knows by know the UMD was a complete failure, and its obvious as to why. Why would anyone in their right mind pay 25$ for a movie that will only play on a PSP when the DVD version is the same price?? i mean if the phat PSP came with vid-out off the bat, that would have been a completly different matter, but alas that was not the case......so rather than pay full price on a UMD movie i had to create the MP_ROOT>100MNV01 Dir, and place MP4's there, now the reason this pissed me off is i had to find this information through a issue of hand heald gaming monthly.

The main reason i was using custom firmware up untill about 4 months ago was specifically to play old games that are hard to find, and to expand on the capabilities of the unit itself, i mean having 6-7 consoles rolled into a portable system if fricking awesome, and also i wanted to play PSX games on my PSP (i can remember when PS2 was big, i was so expecting/looking forward to a portable PSX), but in order to play PSX games on my PSP Sony wanted me to buy a PS3, and connect it to the sony store, pay for a game that i allready own, then transfer the PSX game to the PSP......ummmm i dont think so.

Now onto the article.....well all i can say is with the titles available for the PSP so far...only about a dozen games are good, and everything else is just a half-assed port of its console counterpart, or just bad. These days im finding games in general to be re-hash's of old concepts, or breif play time, and no replay-factor, i can remember a time when replay factor was one of the biggest things that sold games.

In conclusion i would probably have followed sony if they werent trying to make money off of me every time i wanted to add a new feature to the system. Rather than actually acknowledge what its cunsumer base wants, and provide ways for them to attain it, WITHOUT SPENDING ADDITIONAL MONEY, Sony would rather take these requests/sudjestions and figure out how they can make the most money from us...

I know a lot of people wont agree with me, but im not trying to make anyone adopt my sentiment, just giving my perspective on the issue.

[mike_jmg]

Just a thought that might save it

Why not distribute every game through the PSN store and put an end to the freaking UMD format for good.

PSN store hasn't been hacked (as far as I know), it has a lot of security measures, games would be available on the release date for everyone, sounds like copying the ipod song downloads, so what?, It would be nice and it'll put an end to piracy (I think)

[myuusmeow]

If the PSN is so secure, why do I have a download of Beats I got for free? Why am I downloading Syphon Filter: Combat Ops for free right now?

[mike_jmg]

damn

ok psp is doomed, at least for software

[Veskgar]

Am I the only one tired of seeing these types of threads? This is a PSP homebrew forum but yet everyone is always knocking the PSP and its games. Yes, homebrew and custom firmware is great. But without the PSP hardware and firmware designed by SONY we wouldn't have any of it.

Automatically assuming piracy is to blame just because PSP games have not reached some sales figure "milestone" is a pretty vague assessment.

SO many love to hate the PSP and I never saw why. Well, I'll say "I told you so" in 2 years when the PSP is still going strong.

Start showing the PSP some more love people!

[zanco]

Only thing I can say: stop torrenting games...
Besides you enjoy a game much more when you buy than when you torrent it.

[kharaboudjan]

actually i couldnt care less if the psp will be ripped. my only reason to get the psp was for the emulators. and there is only like 3 (N64, SNES and Amiga) that isnt fullspeed yet.

[Larry]

Rent games, seriously you guys cant afford 20$ a month to rent a game for as long as you want?
It sure beats pirating games. Play a game until you beat it and take it back.
It's better than buying games, and better for sony than pirating them.