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Top 100 – #82 Piracy slows new PSP releases

December 16th, 2008 at 4:00 pm · 13 Comments

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What has Sony’s response been? A new PSP (3000) which is supposedly the hardest to hack. Too bad screen issues and its incredibly delayed (read: too little too late) arrival make the newest PSP a flimsy bandage solution to a gaping shotgun wound. I still recommend the PSP 2000 over the 3000 regularly and a new PSP that is harder to hack does not deter the majority of PSP gamers who own the older models.

Sony has released a bunch of improvements, but none of them address the lack of good games to look forward too or the rampant piracy going on (a robust online store full of classics will be nice…in the works yes, but we are STILL waiting for games). I don’t really care about Skype. I don’t really care about a headset, or glare, or weight. I don’t really care if the newest firmware update gives me some new option I will never use. What I care about is games! Which is why I bought the freaking thing in the first freaking place! FREAK!!!!

Of course, gamers are not innocent in all this. I know more PSP owners that play stolen games than I do owners who paid for them. Pirates can delude themselves all they want, but gamers need to take some personal responsibility for what has happened too. Don’t give me the “I’m a poor working student” or some such excuse. I was a (very) poor working student for years myself, and I did just fine. When I can not afford a game, you know what, I don’t play it! OMG!

I’m honest enough to admit I did download a game or two back in the day, but I quickly realized that it was counterproductive to my gaming. Sure I got to play some free games, but I knew that if I kept on stealing, I would not have games to play later on. Plus, PSP games are NOT expensive, nor do they stay full price as long as PS3, 360 and PC games do. If you can afford to have drinks on the weekends or go see a movie (with food), then you can afford a freaking PSP game.

Pirates only have power because we, the gaming public, take the lazy, cheap way out and let them convince us that stealing is somehow ok and that it won’t hurt anyone. Well it does hurt. It hurts the developers who can’t make money and it hurts the gamers who will soon find that they have no games to play because dev’s have moved on to greener pastures. I don’t hate gamers who have succumbed to “free stuff”, I know how hard it is to turn away. I don’t think I can describe my opinion of the piracy groups themselves because the expletives necessary to describe them have not been invented yet.

All I ask is that if you are a PSP gamer, and you enjoy the great games the platform has, support the developers and BUY YOUR PSP GAMES!!! If the PSP really does die and I am forced to re-purchase a DS in order to play new games while on the go, I promise to haunt you all for the rest of eternity! Trust me, nothing is more annoying than having a Canadian ghost scream “EH!” in your ear every time you try to go to sleep.

The impact of piracy on the PSP; scarring away big name developers, making the future release list look like a ghost town, Sony’s half assed PSP 3000 piracy fix failure, the apparent apathy of the general PSP gamer and the unbridled evil of pirates themselves is why Piracy on the PSP comes in at number 82 in Sarcastic Gamers Top 100 Moments of 2008!

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  • Nexus_

    PacManPolarBear, are you kidding me?! Look at the major public torrent sites, the DS piracy is booming right now, only 1 out of games is a PSP game. The difference is, the DS has more users who doesn’t give a damn about hacking their system, whereas most PSP users buy the system with custom fw in mind. So the simple truth is, the user base is higher on Nintendo handheld sytem, and despite the piracy, it’s still going strong.

  • http://sarcasticgamer.com PacManPolarBear

    ^ Lol. True, the DS has a lot of piracy too. But the DS has nothing to offer me in terms of graphics, or games I want to play, and is in no danger of running out of “quality” *haha* games…if you like the DS that is.

    I have seen a lot of custom fw that I really like, stuff I wish Sony would add, but the correlation between custom fw and piracy on the PSP makes it do more harm than good.

  • Cadaver Dog

    Don’t rag on the DS just because you want to be a cheer leader of the PSP for the day. Seriously, is this sarcasticgamer.com or PSP.com? I am being assaulted with PSP everywhere I turn.

  • Cadaver Dog

    I hate to be a conspirator, but maybe all that ps3 bashing done recently is being made up for with extreme gratuitous ass kissing.

  • http://sarcasticgamer.com PacManPolarBear

    ^ LoL That made my day!

  • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Yamster

    Great article PacMan. I certainly don’t pirate PSP games…but I’ve not played a game on my PSP in weeks.

  • Rich

    piracy is the end of all things as we know it, EA told me so

  • Diortem

    Piracy is never something to welcome, although I have to argue on behalf of the PC…. systems like Steam and Impulse are as much if not more then answer then MMOs… The day of going to your local game store and buying a PC title is going away fast, but the void is being filled nicely (and with a higher profit margine due to no physical media production).

    Well the other answer is for people to control themselves and STOP PIRATING, but Im not counting on that… after all, people have been stealing since people have been making… maybe before.

  • Kira Blaize

    So, piracy is killing the PSP, even though the DS has a MUCH more rampant pirating scene. Last I heard, the PSP ran a risk of becoming a brick if you put custom firmware on it and didn’t do it right.

    I seriously doubt that piracy is the main reason that the PSP isn’t doing well. When a system that has pretty much nothing to keep out pirates is doing better than you, you really can’t cry “piracy!”

    Instead, I think it’s the fact that developers are being lazy when it comes to the system. When was the last time we saw a MUST have PSP game?

  • http://sarcasticgamer.com PacManPolarBear

    ^ This year? Patapon – Feb. God of War: Chains of Olympus – Mar.

    If you brick your PSP adding custom firmware, with the insane amount of instructions available, you had no place trying in the first place. The fact it is so easy is why it is so rampant.

    The DS is also a much less expensive system, with WAY more owners and WAY more games that cost a fair amount less. The super low cost of being a DS gamer means that a lot of DS gamers don’t even bother stealing. Yeah you can find LOTS of torrents for DS games, there are more DS games…kind of a given. But I doubt the same percentage of DS users steal compared to the percentage of PSP gamers that do.

    DS games are also much cheaper to make, so they don’t take half the hit from piracy as PSP developers do.

    All that said, piracy DOES hurt the DS a hell of a lot too. Never said it didn’t and it was never a competition between the two. But the PSP is definitely suffering more.

  • Kira Blaize

    True. It is easy if you know what you’re doing, but I’m sure plenty of people don’t want to run that risk.

    I get what you’re saying, but I don’t believe piracy is the reason we don’t get many quality PSP games. It doesn’t help, but their are other factors too.

    If there were more games like God of War or Lunimes or Crisis Core, then we really wouldn’t be having this conversation.

  • anonymous

    im starting to lean twords piracy because after just a week of having my psp it wont read disks anymore. i mean common a week that’s ridiculous i even had the latest firmware installed.

  • Manish Vishnoi

    i don’t know where you are from but i m from india and one thing is sure that i cant waste my money on a UMD which costs me around 2000Rs. (its big amount in india) for a game of about 2 days.
    psp costs me around 10000Rs.