Piracy "killed" the PSP or so claims Sony.


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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.

That's true, but with the PSP you have to worry about which firmware you have . With the DS you just buy a flash card.

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That's true, but with the PSP you have to worry about which firmware you have . With the DS you just buy a flash card.

Even now it's still harder on the PSP (many new games (pirated) are not working on the psp without patching). It's really unusual for a game not to work on a flash cart (there's some but not many)

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I always got the jive that it was UMD, Sony expected it to be the mobile equivalent of DVD's but nobody ended up caring about it.

Yeah, I get the impression Sony have a habit of making a new media format and it failing (See: Betamax, Laserdisc, Minidisc e.t.c.).

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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.

this tbh, before steam i pirated everything unless it needed a code to play online (call of duty style)

post steam i have around 60 games now on my account and am constantly buying more, the lack of intrusive drm and limitations and frankly the convenience of it all makes it a winner in my book

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I had a PSP about 3 years ago now. It sucked. The only good game i had was loco roco... Yeah. That's it... It's not piracy that killed the PSP. It's the lack of good games.

Edit: I had F1 game too, That was good.

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I had a PSP about 3 years ago now. It sucked. The only good game i had was loco roco... Yeah. That's it... It's not piracy that killed the PSP. It's the lack of good games.

Edit: I had F1 game too, That was good.

What kind of games do you like? I found so many more good games on the psp than on the ds

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What did Sony think was going to come from this? This is what happens when you do not spend the time and money into security. Leaving your devices wide open for hackers to exploit is going to cost your company money. The Playstation 3 is going to face the same tragedy as the PSP.. they aren't spending enough in security.

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I had an PSP, non-CFW as it was the psp-3000 I must admit the games available was pretty poor. FFVII - Crisis Core and God of War were the only games I really liked. Other than that the other games were rubbish, the device was good as a media player too. But since I got an iPhone I felt no need to have a PSP so I sold it.

Rubbish games caused its failure, I din't feel the need for getting the 2000 to CFW...... :x

Edit: I used to own a DS, but due to the lake of interesting games (for me) I sold that too.

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What did Sony think was going to come from this? This is what happens when you do not spend the time and money into security. Leaving your devices wide open for hackers to exploit is going to cost your company money. The Playstation 3 is going to face the same tragedy as the PSP.. they aren't spending enough in security.

so DRM is evil... but not having security makes it "too easy" to not pirate on... awesome

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The Playstation 3 is going to face the same tragedy as the PSP.. they aren't spending enough in security.

That's a pretty bold statement considering its the only gaming system that hasnt been affected by piracy. They got a glimpse of it possibly happening after so many years of it being on the market and shut it out by ridding off the Other OS feature. (which i believe just shouldnt of been there to begin with) The psp was hacked early in its life. The ps3....still to do date, on lock down. Safe to say it's well off from suffering the same fate.

IMO, piracy is the last thing that could ever cause the ps3's demise. The thing is pretty well locked down. By the time anything arrives (assuming something does), everyone will have moved on to the next big console.

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What did Sony think was going to come from this? This is what happens when you do not spend the time and money into security. Leaving your devices wide open for hackers to exploit is going to cost your company money. The Playstation 3 is going to face the same tragedy as the PSP.. they aren't spending enough in security.

Wooh!!

You're kidding right? The PS3 so far has proven to be unhackable, the moment someone even seemed to get close they shut the methods route off. Sony have done everything RIGHT in terms of security on the PS3 so far, the PSP was a joke though.

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Uh, while I realize people would prefer to make fun of Sony, as a PSP owner, I can totally believe that piracy had a huge impact on the PSP's weakness. It is, after all, a VERY nice piece of hardware, and is fantastic for homebrew and emulation. The process of making or acquiring a Pandora battery, however, makes me wonder if piracy really had that much of an impact.

However, dissing on UMD is just a load of BS crap that nerds throw around to make themselves sound stupid. If you think of it as just another cartridge format, it's no big deal. People only rag on it because they tried to turn it into a movie format as well, but as a game format, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, and I don't see how a DS cartridge is somehow less restrictive than a UMD cart.

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Gamers: "There's no good games on the PSP so I pirate!"

Developers: "The PSP is full of pirates so I'm not going to make any games for it."

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Gamers: "There's no good games on the PSP so I pirate!"

Developers: "The PSP is full of pirates so I'm not going to make any games for it."

That sums it up. The only thing holding me back from getting a PSPGo is because I own close to 30 games on UMD that I will otherwise have to buy again or deal with not playing on the new system. There were definitely good games on the system, but some developers were held back from even wanting to make games due to the piracy on the system. And you can't compare it to the XBox 360. People still bought games so that they could actually play them on Live. For the few games that are even worthwhile to play on the PSP, I don't think the checks are good enough to keep them off.

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Only reason I ran custom firmware on my PSP was to take my PS1 collection on the go. Everyone I know with custom firmware use it to play NES/SNES/Genesis/GBC/GBA/PS1 games, no one bothered with PSP games.

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Off-topic, but I wish some of the fantasy RPGs available on the PSP made it to PS3. Maybe someday they will add a PSP emulator through PSN for the PS3 when the PSP dies off from the market or something.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Well it is pretty bad when everyone I have talked to about my psp makes fun of me for *buying* games for it. I didn't think the psp gos or even the new PSP 3000s could be hacked though, can that still be done with a pandora battery?

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I bought a PSP because of the homebrew community and as a PMP... UMD was crap, loud and ate battery...

PSP games never really interested me apart from tales of eternia

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Piracy my arse, its the PSP Go that has killed the PSP franchise :p

Yeah that was their chance to try to redeem the PSP and instead they buried it further into the ground The go itself isn't even bad it was just horrible pricing combined with poor PSN support combined with horrible pricing for games on PSN.

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the wii can be modded with an sd card and its the top sold console.

The psp itself didn't have the success of the wii but it sold well enough and it did turn a profit, and now the result of that this late in it's life cycle is that few developers want to touch it because their game will just be pirated. The problem with game piracy is game sales not console sales. If Nintendo doesn't do something about piracy soon they could see a similar problem in the future where they can sell wiis but can't sell games for wii, and the wii is already overloaded with shovelware as it is.

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Piracy killed PSP, so it was nothing to do with UMD trojan format, expensive hardware and ported ps2 games that really need 2 analogue sticks???

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