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Piracy and the PSP

Posted by Soulskill on from the arrr-ye-hearties dept.

In a lengthy interview with Gamasutra about the state of the Playstation brand in 2009, Sony's senior vice president of marketing, Peter Dille, made some interesting comments about how piracy has affected their popular portable console, the PSP. He said, "we're convinced that piracy has taken out a big chunk of our software sales on PSP," a platform that was slow to start anyway due to the lack of early interest from game developers. Dille mentions that while they can fight piracy with hardware upgrades in new versions, that doesn't do anything to help the roughly 50 million PSPs already out there. He goes on to address other aspects of the PlayStation line, including complaints about the pricing and exclusivity.

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  1. Re:Emulation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I do the same thing. Even in the protective caddies, the disks get damaged.

    What is up with disk manufacture recently? I recently paid full price for one of the few remaining copies of Windows XP at my local computer store. (I'm a Linux guy myself but my kids need their PC games). The price was insanely expensive. I tried installing it and kept getting disk failures. I thought it might be my CD/DVD drive but it wouldn't work on another box, either. You'd think Microsoft would have some quality control on their disks, especially for the huge price I was paying.

    So instead, I downloaded an, ahem, shared copy on the Internet. Worked like a charm when I burned it to my own disk. I don't feel guilty because I bought the damn thing, full price, but I was surprised because the last time I bought an OS on a disk was back in the Windows 98 days and that CD was rock solid and thick. Same thing with my Win 2K OEM disk - it was thick and solid, although it scratched eaily. But this XP disk was flimsy and you could just about see through it.

    C'mon, Mickeysoft! If you're gonna charge $300 for an OS, at least have it printed on a solid CD.

    I know this is off-topic, but actually, not really. Crappy products and service by companies will always lead to their customers looking for another way.