Sony's Reaction to downgraders

[SSaxdude]

Ok, I see what you are saying. But if I can remember right, many people decided to wait for the PS2 because Sony said it would be much more powerful. They also said the PS2 would have graphics like the movie Toy Story. The PS2 is more powerful, but it's not an extremely large difference.

[cdrdj]

hmm people seem to hate sony but own psps... hypocrits.....

but yeah sony is seeming to fall apart.. makes me sad not happy

yeah, Sony made the PSP but I don't really Hate Sony as a company or an entity. I just hate Sony's attitude on things like homebrew and how they always force their DRM crap on us. Anyone remember the Root-kit Fiasco? Kinda like Microsoft is now with their Genuine Windows checking thing. SO yeah, for me hating sony, it's like, I don't hate the person, but I hate the person's attitude.

[ACID]

Mi theory is if they are trying to stop isos to be run i understand. They are loosing money that way not that they report there real earnings. But every body knows that they have no losses on home brew that just makes the psp more attracting to people. Look at the GPX.

[yaustar]

They don't earn any money on the hardware, most if not all of their profits are from UMD sales. If people buy PSPs just for homebrew (and they do exist), the lose or break even on the hardware sales since they don't buy any games.

OT: IMO the DC failed because it was too early. Great piece of hardware but its hype was about internet play and they couldn't deliver as most of the world was still on 56.6k. If it was released when broadband was more common, I believe it could have made an impact.

[SSaxdude]

Isos are bad to Sony the same amount as homebrew. Both keep people from buying their games.

[cdrdj]

OT: IMO the DC failed because it was too early. Great piece of hardware but its hype was about internet play and they couldn't deliver as most of the world was still on 56.6k. If it was released when broadband was more common, I believe it could have made an impact.

I'm pretty sure that system was killed due to ISO's. It had NO PROTECTION whatsover. You just downloaded an image then burnt it onto a normal CD. Trust Me, I know from experience (not saying you should do it, but it's a dead system anyways I just recently found out about it so i didn't really affect their sales proud owner of over 50 original DC games). No one bought the games anymore so publishers didn't release. That's why you see some DC games going for so much on ebay.

I just hope this doesn't happen with PSP. I really hate people who use ISO's or roms from a system that's still on the market (DC is off the market right?). I could care less once the system is dead or unattainable from stores anymore, but current systems really die from it. Just look at Dreamcast, IMO.

Isos are bad to Sony the same amount as homebrew. Both keep people from buying their games.

I agree with Isos being bad but i really don't think Homebrew is so bad. Yes, i spend most of my time on homebrew now a days buy at least i'm still using the psp. There aren't really any good psp games whose genre really interests me. Only games i pretty much buy are fighting or rpg's which the psp doesn't have a ton of. So i personally think that Homebrew SHOULD be there.

For example, the last time i touched my ps2 was to play kingdom hearts 2 and that was over 2 months ago. Before that was Dragon Quest 8 and that was Last year. So as you can see, homebrew is good cause you didn't waste your money on a system that you only touch every few months. Last time I played a psp game was a few months ago. Since then , i've constantly used my psp 1.5 on things like web browser, pimpstreemer and snes. So until FF7 game comes out for Psp, I'm gonna be using my Homebrew.

[SSaxdude]

I'm not against piracy at all, and I don't think Sony is losing that much to piracy. Same with the Dreamcast, piracy was not costing Sega a ton. I didn't even now about copying DC games until about 2 years ago (and I've had my DC since 9.9.99) I think more people started pirating DC games in the last year or two (when the system was dead.)

[roberto_h25]

hello, this is my first post...

i think that the psp is enough to consider sony a good company, but i'm worried as said above about sony's attitude and actually smartness. they should realize that homebrew is to be considered as an opportunity, like, they could even stop selling umd's and increase the price of psp's.

sony seems too obsessed with umd and blueray imo. blueray discs are going to have more storage capacity, but that means their going to be more expensive cause they are going to have to fill them with more maps, textures, etc., or else, why the extensive capacity?

for example, they could concentrate on developing faster cpu's in order to create the scenarios through random processes of some sort. that would mean infinite possible maps, and cheaper development cost.

i think they obsess so much on technology like umd's and blueray because of commercial considerations. all and all, i have bigger respect for sony's technical staff than for their executives.

[psiko_scweek]

ok, Sony isnt some evil diety. Its just a company trying to make profits. Sony does not make any money on homebrew or on the hardware sales. They make money on UMD sales. And Yaustar is right there are people who have a PSP for homebrew only...(me for example)

on the notes about the Dreamcast -- Sega is starting to sell them again (refurbished) as well as some brand new games. Dont believe me, check.
The problem with the DC was there werent really that many great games.