Piracy "killed" the PSP or so claims Sony.


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I thought piracy is what had kept the PSP scene alive this long...

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I thought piracy is what had kept the PSP scene alive this long...

Back in 2006 and 2007 it was. Then people just sorta got bored with it tbh.

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Nah, the PSP failed because it entered a market that Nintendo has always dominated in. Honestly I knew it wouldn't do well before it was released because of how well Nintendo always does in the handheld market, it's their territory almost. :laugh:

Piracy doesn't make a system fail, or a game fail. Look at games like Modern Warfare 2, it got pirated a load, but did it stop it selling?

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The reasons I preferred the PSP over the DS are:

- No touch screen

- Only one screen (and a really nice one, not a crappy one like on the DS)

- The RPGs seemed a bit better (but I did enjoy a few on my DS too....and some I wish I could forget about like Lunar DS :x)

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piracy had a huge impact on the PSP.. i cracked mine and downloaded loads of really good games that i probably would have bought either used or in some cases new

real shame, but hey.. if people can, they will (me included!)

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Time to grow up kiddies. If you haven't figured out all the content providers are going to see piracy as is a bunch of lost sales then you need to work on your critical thinking skills. Frankly, I'm amazed that you guys haven't figured this out and come to the conclusion the piracy only exasperates all those things you complain about. Watch them start to server-side process your game.

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The PSP relied heavily on the firmware version installed and in some cases, once you updated you're **** outta luck and can't mod.

Firmware version has nothing to do with it. The pandora battery hack works with any firmware version (on moddable PSPs!) from what I've read. The newer revisions of PSPs are mod-proof (to date, long story short).

I have no idea about how easy/hard it is to mod a DS to play pirated/backup games but from the sounds of it it's quite simple as well.

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I have no idea about how easy/hard it is to mod a DS to play pirated/backup games but from the sounds of it it's quite simple as well.

- Get a flashcart

- Put games on it

- Play

On the DS you don't even need to modify the firmware

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Time to grow up kiddies. If you haven't figured out all the content providers are going to see piracy as is a bunch of lost sales then you need to work on your critical thinking skills. Frankly, I'm amazed that you guys haven't figured this out and come to the conclusion the piracy only exasperates all those things you complain about. Watch them start to server-side process your game.

Getting sick of your overbearing condescending attitude. If we just put up with it then of course they are going to server-side games its easy just to blame piracy for everything and we need to show them otherwise.

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Getting sick of your overbearing condescending attitude. If we just put up with it then of course they are going to server-side games its easy just to blame piracy for everything and we need to show them otherwise.

So we continue to pirate and they continue to blame all failures on piracy and implementing all kinds of DRM that all these pirates cry about? I don't see how "we" win in the end with this strategy. If you want things to change you factor out the scapegoat.

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Piracy Sucks, and the attitude of pirates suck more. Sony may be wrong here, but it's a big problem hurting developer after developer and costing the people that make the games the pirates enjoy jobs, fame, and rewards for their work. Why? Because of the DRM? The DRM that was required, even in the 80s, to STOP piracy? Because they don't have money? Games that you want to play aren't a RIGHT. You don't get to pick and chose how you obtain other people's work... the people that did the work get to. Because you can? If you feel like making the industry worse, hurting the people who make your passtime possible...

in the end, enjoy nethack, cause it's very likely what will be left if the industry cracks again...which is very possible... and there's another crash when companies realize there's no money in what they're doing.

hyperbolic-tastic assertions asside, pirates need to stop making asses out of themselves by assuming (ha!) that the gaming industry is this faceless wall that will continue to spew out good game after good game regardless of if they're making money doing it.

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anyone who things the piracy didn't hurt the psp (and badly) is pretty ignorant... It was such a problem for them. Their were luls in development because publishers didn't want to make games for them because people would just pirate them.

the difference between the PSP and DS is that the DS isn't targeting the hardcore gaming crowd (which usually know about how to pirate stuff) while the little girls and middle aged people the DS was after doesn't know or even care about stuff like that.

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Firmware version has nothing to do with it. The pandora battery hack works with any firmware version (on moddable PSPs!) from what I've read. The newer revisions of PSPs are mod-proof (to date, long story short).

I have no idea about how easy/hard it is to mod a DS to play pirated/backup games but from the sounds of it it's quite simple as well.

Yes today pandora batteries are all you need, but for a good 3 years it required exploits in the firmware/or a game to mod a PSP. I've been on the custom firmware train for the PSP since launch, so I do know what I'm talking about.

And like I've said, the past few years interest has died for the PSP. The damage was done back in 2005 - 2008, so before pandora's batteries were even on the scene. By that point it was just the final nails in the coffin for the PSP.

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I think piracy has effectively killed the way PC gaming does business, but with Steam it's slowly bouncing back. May not ever be what it once was, though.

...but piracy killed the PSP? Oh please.

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The DS is doing MUCH better than the PSP and the DS is WAAAAAAAAAY easier to pirate. All you do is buy a flash card. No soft/hard modding required.

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The DS is doing MUCH better than the PSP and the DS is WAY easier to pirate. All you do is buy a flash card. No soft/hard modding required.

The DS is easier NOW. This wasnt the case with the majority of earlier psp. All you needed was to inject code in just about all the earlier models. No need to buy a thing. No hardware hack what-so-ever. Piracy didn't just take affect now? It killed the psp from the beginning. It never was able to recuperate from it.

Everyone saying the DS is easier to hack has no idea about the psp's history with hacks apparently. There were a ton of exploits that didn't require a single piece of hardware modded onto it. The closest to a hardware hack then, was to buy a copy of GTA which was later used for a tiff exploit. A title oddly enough most psp owners had already. A lot of people even rallied together and started sharing their copies of gta online to get others on a cfw.

Tons of the early psp's were all hacked and stayed that way via cfw updates. hell, you could even updarte the cfw via the psp's own update check. the later crowd that needed a pandora battery doesnt even touch the multitude of folks already on a hacked psp. Piracy on the psp was around before pandora, and that's when piracy drove the killing blow, by pushing devs away from making any games for it from lack of profit due to piracy.

I know its a cliche now-a-days to blame piracy for every move these corporate ******* make to somehow suck more money out of us but in the PSP's case, anyone who's been around the psp scene long enough, knows for a fact, piracy killed it. As stated earlier, it would be ignorant to state otherwise.

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I know its a cliche now-a-days to blame piracy for every move these corporate ******* make to somehow suck more money out of us but in the PSP's case, anyone who's been around the psp scene long enough, knows for a fact, piracy killed it. As stated earlier, it would be ignorant to state otherwise.

QFT

I have both a 1000 and a Go!

I use the Go! as I like downloading games to it and it actually runs faster. Fair enough I can't use my UMD games, but there is little I want anyway.

... Except Ace Combat X, I wish they'd release it on PSN, I have UMD and want to play it on the Go! so badly.

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I'd counter this article with:

Game Prices too high for the device at start

Games were not that great, mostly due to the control scheme and how it was just awkward to use.

Little mini cd's are not what people want to lug around with them. If the content was downloadable or able to be stored on some sort of storage in the device, it would have had a better welcome.

Price of the PSP to start as well. DS came out a little later and was cheaper.

Marketing as well. There were hardly any real commercials that showcased what the product could really do.

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Marketing as well. There were hardly any real commercials that showcased what the product could really do.

Indeed, it was invaluable on long journeys, providing me with games, movies and music.

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