The state of piracy on PSP

[mike_jmg]

This has always been human nature we will always want to have good things with the minimum effort. But this can work both ways.

People is downloading games from the internet, so they don't have to actually pay for playing the games they want.

Developers most of the time release some $#@!ty game (IE games based on movies or cartoons, wich usually are playable on every current gen console), wich have low production cost, no testing no fun no nothing, just your favorite character of the moment stamped on it. And they expect to become millionare selling that crap

In addition people gets hurt in both sides too, developers who really put an effort into making a great game receive very little money. And the people that actually buys the games ends up paying a lot of money for a pile of $#@!ty games

I don't know this still sounds like a bad excuse, but I consider it sort of a balance (a bad one though)

[kyyubidx]

mike_jmg: you are indeed right, but consider this... a masterpiece like GTA IV is on its way... The game should go on sale for like... iono... 50€ (europe's case) which is better? to sell 1M for 50€ or 3M or 4M for 35€? If they want to seel they need to do something about it... whining and complaining isn't gonna cut it for game dev's... I think games should go on sale STEAM-like... Prices are universal and you can download it anytime... A success if you ask me... I own lots of steam games...

[mike_jmg]

maybe you're right, they really should reduce taxes
Here I don't get too far away from those kind of prices, when the PS3 came out the damn stores wanted to charge $10,000 mexican wich is around $1,000 usd, even now, I checked last week and the console is still around $750 usd.

A friend of mine bought his on the US for $500, I mean $250 less

The phat psp is still around $300 usd and the slim is even prizier.

This prices are just plain stupid, someone should do something about it but I have no Idea who could

edit: Also I would like to see those figures compared to the actual sales numbers

[kyyubidx]

as i said... blame lies on both governments AND the industry itself for not making arrangements with each other... Talking it over would definitely benefit gamers, dev's, publishers and goverments... but i'm not perfect and open to hearing other points of view...

[Harshboy]

Funny, I have every single one of those games on my memory stick.

[Bear_XI]

I used to pirate but I saw how crappy it is and not beneficial for the Community and since I want to go in Computer Science to be able to go in Gaming Industry. But if they sale like crap every hard worker will either get paid less(Indie) or loose there job(Companies) and that is really $#@!.Now a days I only download games that are Unfindable or that the company doesn't do money on it since its sold in a Pawn Shop or that the company doesn't exist anymore.

Tell me your name if you are ready to do the same as I will ad to the list below
-Bear_XI
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[DPyro]

Incidentally, I know a dude who got a job as a games programmer purely by some of the homebrew games he was working on in the PSP!

Me too

[acn010]

it can't be THAT bad... PS2 Sell examples:

GT3: A-Spec (14.87M)
GTA: SA (12M)
GT4 (9.54M)

and the list goes on... If you keep that in mind its a pretty good sign things DO sell... Because consider the price a PS2 game had at the time and multiply that by the number of copies... Entire companies got righer thanks to that... Well a little rich...

Back on the PSP topic... I think PSP game are WAAAAAAAY overpriced... I own very few and i'd like to have more... But many games that have no replay value or are too short are like 49€... Its crap... Sony should review their price policy

do the math.... if the game sales at 60 dollars divide how many people bought it($14.87million)

[Aryn]

I have spent $50 or more on a PSP game that was disappointing despite receiving good reviews, and there is not always a demo for the next game that interests me. While I do not condone downloading games for and keeping them for free I do find myself having to download a game once in awhile just to make sure it is worth spending $40 to $60 on (well, unless the game is sold for a lower price).

As for the Nintendo DS, the games usually have lower graphics but almost every game I purchased for it turned out to be fun and cost $25 to $40. I find myself purchasing a game and not feeling the need to download it unless the cartridge is lost or broken because it is more affordable and less of a gamble.

The Nintendo DS is not really harder to pirate games on, unless you know somebody with a regular PSP with a firmware that runs homebrew already on it, and he agrees to lend you his hacked battery, you still have to purchase a hacked battery for the PSP and set up the installation files for the custom firmware.

Simple case and point: Make games more affordable and more fun and the temptation to download them illegally is reduced.



Oh, and the console game developers who complain about piracy and how it is hurting them the most (in most cases at least) reported decent profits.

[Jube]

You people keep thinking piracy will stop. It won't, it's going to take a lot of work for piracy to stop. Stealing games is just like stealing music right? But you can always borrow a friends music CD, rip it to your computer and burn one for yourself. For something like illegal downloads of music to stop, computers would have to not be able to burn/rip cd's to computers. That would be the only true way for music to stop being downloaded. So what about games? People love their games, you guys do right? Some people, don't have enough money to go out and spend $30 on a game (not that it's right, because it's not) so they download it, but then theirs some people who are too damned lazy to go out and pay $30 when they can, but don't. Why? Because it's cheaper. If people can get something for free why would they pay for it? Whether it's right or wrong, they don't care. And the sad thing is that people will always pirate stuff, no matter what. I could tell you right now, any type of software, can be found, free on the internet, it's a very sad thing. What's even sadder is these people who say the people who download illegally should be beat down in the street, what kind of sense does this make??? Theirs already too much violence in the world and people like this just add to it. And yeah, more people should buy stuff instead of pirating it, but no one understands things, computers are getting more advanced, and so are the ways of pirating. Unfortunately, it's not going to stop. Atleast not soon anyways..