Sony May Use Downloads To Fight Piracy

Gamaustra reports that Sony may be planning to use game downloads to deter piracy in Asia. From the article: "According to the article, Yasuda is quoted as saying that the 2006 plan of SCE Asia is to construct a PlayStation 3 infrastructure on which software makers can distribute software digitally ... selected developers will get prototype funding from KIPA, and additional post-prototype funding from SCEJ, as well as free technical support and PlayStation 3 development kit rentals. Further online reports have indicated that digital downloads of game material, as currently available for the Xbox 360, should be relatively simple with the PlayStation 3, though details of the PS3's online service are still closely veiled." Kotaku, meanwhile, reports that some Korean developers don't like this idea.

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Not the point

[SmallFurryCreature]

The goodies are there to give you the feel of opening a new game. Geez I can remember games with special made postcard even pins and god knows what else. Manuals that came with exteneded discussions about the history it is set in. Well done stuff too that was worth reading.

It is the new car smell idea and it clearly seperates you from the pirate. Remove the goodies and what seperates the buyer from the pirate is that the pirate doesn't have to hunt for the CD or to worry about loosing the key to play the game. Oh and that the pirate has 50 dollar bills still in his pants to stuff down the strippers panties.

WHAT? Yeah like you never had to choose between a game or a stripper. Geez.