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[outrageous_French_accent] I fart in your general direction.[/outrageous_French_accent]

Fixed that for you. ;)

Maybe someone should clue Sony in to the fact that all the games they have "released" for the PSP fell into one of three categories:

#1 - Crappy "rpg" games that can't be played for anything less than a 2-hour stretch (Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core, Monster Hunter, Wild Arms XF aka Wild Arms Tactics, etc).

#2 - Re-releases of games people already owned a copy of for original Playstation.

#3 - UTTER CRAP (lookin' at you, Lumines, you cheapass soulless Columns-alike).

If there'd been some truly impressive, unique, and compelling games for the PSP, it would have driven sales. If they'd made the thing to function correctly, it would have driven sales.

Instead, compare PSP vs DS to Sega Nomad vs Game Boy. What do we have in each generation? Nintendo's had a lesser screen, less processing power, less cute/pretty visuals, but more battery life and kick-ass, fun to play games. Thus, Nintendo won.

Piracy, like communism, is just a red herring Sony is using to try to distract people from the fact that they're a bunch of half-wits who would no longer know a good game if someone shoved it up their whiny asses.

Game Boy's primary competition through life was the Game Gear... which I owned That thing mowed down a battery garden like a finely-tuned weed whacker in early morning dew. The screen resolution sucked and I was too young to figure out that they had already invented portable tv's... so I got suckered into buying one. I even bought the stupid magnifying glass hoping it would make it suck less.... it didn't.

Even Mortal Kombat II sucked on that thing... it only had six characters.

Maybe someone should clue Sony in to the fact that all the games they have "released" for the PSP fell into one of three categories:

#1 - Crappy "rpg" games that can't be played for anything less than a 2-hour stretch (Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core, Monster Hunter, Wild Arms XF aka Wild Arms Tactics, etc).

#2 - Re-releases of games people already owned a copy of for original Playstation.

#3 - UTTER CRAP (lookin' at you, Lumines, you cheapass soulless Columns-alike).

If there'd been some truly impressive, unique, and compelling games for the PSP, it would have driven sales. If they'd made the thing to function correctly, it would have driven sales.

Instead, compare PSP vs DS to Sega Nomad vs Game Boy. What do we have in each generation? Nintendo's had a lesser screen, less processing power, less cute/pretty visuals, but more battery life and kick-ass, fun to play games. Thus, Nintendo won.

Piracy, like communism, is just a red herring Sony is using to try to distract people from the fact that they're a bunch of half-wits who would no longer know a good game if someone shoved it up their whiny asses.

The whole premise for this story was stated back in 1994 in the movie "Clerks".

Dante Hicks: Theoretically, people see money on the counter, and no one around, they think they're being watched.

Veronica: Honesty through paranoia.

reference

This whole story is more about human nature and less about "big brother". I'm glad that we have "scientists" with the foresight to research such obvious topics ;-)

I thought it was 'sultry'?

(See this if you think I'm totally mad.)

You could replace almost ANYTHING. I think they have set a VERY POOR precedent.

But if somebody were selling guns saying that this gun shoots through schools or was just the thing for cop killing, then that would be a more appropriate thing to replace `copyright infrigement' with.

As found by this search on google (4th link from top): "what do we do" "we die".

Now we can all be part of the club!

• Yes, never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. I don't exactly remember the source of the quote (although I'm sure it's from a movie of some sort), but it sure seems to fit: "A person is smart. People are dumb."

Yes! Finally a gun worthy of Danny Vermin!

Nope, no good. there is only one way to be sure.