Pirates! Yarrrr! T’is why thar be no sissy PSP games!

[shyboi122]

Wow, kind of guessed it already though

[Triv1um]

come up with that on your own?

Haha. *Makes whip noise* :thumbup:

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Still, you do have to buy something to make the DS open. Spending money doesn't appeal to pirates, hence why they don't buy games.

The PSP is a more prime target.

[mcdougall57]

Still, you do have to buy something to make the DS open. Spending money doesn't appeal to pirates, hence why they don't buy games.

Can't always softmod though and a flashcart costs roughly the same as a chip.

[Dbgtgoten]

I personally believe that the reason why games won't sell on the psp is that theres nothing really worth while on some of the games seeing as they last what 4-12 hours a couple good games got nice sales like MHF but some developers expect too much out of thier crappy games so yea and anyone who says spending money doesn't appeal to pirates think about PSP Memcards.

I believe they just aren't that many quality games on the psp thats why Patapon 2 and Locoroco 2 are announced because they sell alot cause of quality and uniqueness not the same old wash and rinse $#@!.

Enough said, piracy is not a problem even if everyone pirated in the world their would still be sales of the game because to get them you need someone to rip the image to pirate it eh?

[DimensionT]

Still, you do have to buy something to make the DS open. Spending money doesn't appeal to pirates, hence why they don't buy games.

The PSP is a more prime target.

You don't have to buy a memory card for the PSP?

PSP games can be 1+GB big. You'd need a 2GB card to play the biggest games in full, which would set you back the cost of what it takes to pirate DS games... But you'd be able to fit WAY more then 1 or 2 full DS games on the same space.

Pirated DS games are far easier to come by and download online as well... Plus there's the whole emulator shibang.

[dangee]

Pirates are a small minority of gamers.

Good quality games will always sell in quantity to mainstream users
who couldn't care less to mess with CFW.

Piracy didn't seem to affect MHP-2G too much.

[darkdex52]

Enough said, piracy is not a problem even if everyone pirated in the world their would still be sales of the game because to get them you need someone to rip the image to pirate it eh?

You, sir, don't know anything about scene. No, or barely any game is RIPPED from a bought CD/DVD/UMD/whatever. Sceners have completely diffrent sources, and that is the reason most of the games/movies/soft/whatever is zeroday stuff or even negative0day/
hour/week/whatever.

[Illegal Machine]

Hmmmm it is easier to hack a PSP than a DS because all you have to do is read forums for the PSP.. the DS needs a purchase, and it might not be the best purchase... is anyone going to go out and buy an R4 and a CycloDS and every other card out there just to test them out? I sure don't want to.. the PSP just needs time to hack..


but this is where Sony went wrong...


Remember the 8 Mb Memory cards that sony sold for like 20 bucks apiece for PS1 and PS2? Well apparently Sony (stupid asses that they are) decided to make them HIGH CAPACITY.. So everyone can put DRM Movies and music on there aong with HiRes .JPEG images (LOL)


Well who's surprised that users started dumping the UMD contents to the cards?



I'm not... and I wouldnt own a PSP if I had to lug around UMD's for every game I wanted to play..


I WOULD NEVER EVER CARRY AROUND AN ARSENAL OF UMDS


NEVER... Sony is lucky.. were it not for CFW and piracy, I wouldn't have bought 2 4 gig cards, and an 8 gig card, and a 16 gig card, and 3 PSP slims, and 2 Phats.


SO sony can suck my ass... I buy more of their product because of hacking and piracy than I would have EVER EVER EVER SPENT IN A HUNDERED YEARS OTHERWISE



**** YOU JACK

[masterchief929]

i think piracy was not that big of a deal a few years back, but now the number of people who pirate games is growing.

i don't think that it will put a huge dent in the number of games that are made and that sell. just look at the numbers. but i do think that there would be higher quality games on both hand-helds if there was no piracy.

but im fine with the quality of games that are out right now.

[goity]

The DS is much easier to pirate on, but the majority who own it are idiots who just want to play animal crossing and cooking mama all day. It's very few people who would even bother compared to on psp, where the main userbase is a little more technical. However, hardcore games do have some trouble selling on DS, which could be attributed to this.

Still, Jack Tretton did not just randomly blame piracy for all PSP's problems. This article is stupidly sexed up, and you can't really argue that piracy on PSP is reasonably widespread, though probably not as much as Sony try to make out.