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SCEA exec talks about the piracy problem facing the PSP...
Handheld formats appear to be having a tough time in the fight against piracy. The notorious R4 cartridge has long kept some DS gamers entertained with hours of pirated software, however it seems the PSP also has its problems despite Sony's regular firmware updates and hardware revisions.
Speaking to Gamasutra, SCEA's Peter Dille reveals that the third-party publishers were on the verge of pulling support for the beleaguered format completely and suggests that piracy is a considerable problem for developers and publishers.
"I'm convinced and we're convinced that piracy has taken out a big chunk of our software sales on PSP," Dille explains to Gamasutra. "It's been a problem that the industry has to address together; it's one that I think the industry takes very seriously, but we need to do something to address this because it's criminal what's going on, quite frankly."
"It's not good for us, but it's not good for the development community. We can look at data from BitTorrent sites from the day Resistance: Retribution goes on sale and see how many copies are being downloaded illegally, and it's frankly sickening. We are spending a lot of time talking about how we can deal with that problem."
The solution according to Dille appears to be a mixture of legal and educative motions, while Sony has put a greater emphasis on digital downloads for the platform and suggests this could be the sole distribution method for the formats rumoured successor.
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Added:Thu 27th Nov 2008 19:35, Post No: 30
eeeeee yes imtec(Imagination Technologies) makes the best graphics chipsets some of them chips can supas the wii in graphics performans and is also use by iphone and was by dreamcast
Added:Tue 09th Sep 2008 11:29, Post No: 29
xbox36O broken DS and wii a gimmick ps3 2 expensive PSP got everything u need plenty of gr8 titles and more on the way yes it will always lag behind DS sales but then ever spoilt tantrum throwing ankle snapper has a DS or a Wii
Added:Tue 09th Sep 2008 11:02, Post No: 28
I have a psp lite which I bought after I was let down by 2 xbox 36Os. For me this console is tops, already looking 4ward to the release of the psp3OOO. I use it to play games and do all my emailing etc. A good reliable handheld.
Added:Thu 21st Aug 2008 17:26, Post No: 27
y wud a portable CONSOLE come with a phone...tht wud just be pointless, it wud take a massive amount of power to make all them things work in such a small space and a camera??? wtf wud be the point??? " ooo luck at me i can takie pictures of ppl while playin a game" keep dreamin m8 lol
Added:Wed 20th Aug 2008 21:46, Post No: 26
lol an 80 gb psp is not possible unless they use ssd hard drives which cost sh*t loads to buy independantly maybe you should get used to dreaming, though if they stop making any games for it or make a psp that could only get games from the ps3 then you could have maybe a 20gb max where the current disk drive is. apart from that the psp is getting more like the ds minus the touch screen which no doubt will probably happen in the no so distant future.
Added:Wed 02nd Jul 2008 17:01, Post No: 25
I want to see the Sony Cortina...or even the Sony Quattro!
Added:Wed 09th Jan 2008 00:31, Post No: 24
UMD already dead. Sony has nothing to lose by adding SD stuff on the Blu-ray discs for PSP viewing.
Added:Tue 08th Jan 2008 21:04, Post No: 23
good point but i think i would only pay about $250 and not bother with the touch screen.with mobile tec in there you could play games over the net any time any where but only at a reasonable price of course.
Added:Tue 08th Jan 2008 18:03, Post No: 22
Sony should have added a 40 or 80 gig internal hard drive like the ipod to the psp instead of making it thinner and lighter! With the extra space it would be the same size as the Orignal psp but with a hard drive! get the word out maybe they will hear our call! touch screen,Phone,internal camera, calender! I will pay $500 to $600 for this better then iphone because of games and UMD but same price!
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