Psp Gonna Be Hurting Soon

[D.C.]

lubidog is definitely being sarcastic......or a monkey has taken over his pc

 

[tmcleroy]

There is a piracy issue but thats not the thing that takes away potential money from sony. People would rather play quality homebrew games than the crap that sony puts on UMDs (with the exception of GTA). They know that homebrew and emulator popularity will take some money away from commercial game sales, but sony should be combating the homebrew and emu developers with higher quality commercial games. start putting out some good software Sony! Come on!

 

[Alpha2]

You have a very narrow veiw of the issue. Sony only makes money on the software sold for the PSP not the hardware, to do that the system would have to be 350 bucks a pop. They make money off the games you claim arnt worth buying but seem to have no problem with the rampent stealing of. You can go to any Bit Torrent site and find atleast a dozen PSP games for download, these games are only possible because of Homebrew applications that allow the games to be played off the memory stick.

Yes there's a great deal of good that can come from Homebrew with fun original games and intersting applications but that's not what Sony built it for. They built it to make money and it cant happen if no one ever buys a game for it.

 

[shinneri]

Yeah, I think Sony has every right to try and protect its format from piracy. And I'm actually impressed with the incentives they offer to people who update--like the web browser and more video support and stuff.

 

[Radek]

You have a very narrow veiw of the issue. Sony only makes money on the software sold for the PSP not the hardware, to do that the system would have to be 350 bucks a pop. They make money off the games you claim arnt worth buying but seem to have no problem with the rampent stealing of. You can go to any Bit Torrent site and find atleast a dozen PSP games for download, these games are only possible because of Homebrew applications that allow the games to be played off the memory stick.

Yes there's a great deal of good that can come from Homebrew with fun original games and intersting applications but that's not what Sony built it for. They built it to make money and it cant happen if no one ever buys a game for it.

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Imho Sony overcomplicated the PSP technically. Just open it and compare its internals to the gp2x for an example. The gp2x is system on chip (SoC) where PSP has multi chip custom hardware. Nothing wrong with that however PSP is a handheld so it should comply with needs of a handheld.

Look at the Gameboy series from Nintendo - not most powerfull but small, power efficient and inexpensive. The way the portable console should be.

Soon the other mobiles (phones, generic media players and such) will get decent hardware 3d too and media playing capabilities. The importance of PSP's pros will only dimish with time. The cost however will stay as it can not be as cheap to manufacture as the SoC based based solutions using generic parts. The advances in the flash memories will make UMD looking more and more less atractive too.

Look at the gp2x - it's already can do few things better than the PSP (video playback) and it's only lacking 3d hardware accelerator. This will change in future as such functionality will get into a mainstream. So only point in longer run for the PSP is its titles libraries. Software support is deciding about success or fall of consoles and Sony should focus on it for the PSP if it's thinking making it something what could last for longer time.

 

[Rayek]

Next Generation Magazine? they still make that? I thought it was canceled along with several other magazines from that publisher a while back.

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Sorry to alter the flow of conversation, but I meant the Next Gen issue of EGM, not Next Gen Magazine.

 

[tmcleroy]

You have a very narrow veiw of the issue. Sony only makes money on the software sold for the PSP not the hardware, to do that the system would have to be 350 bucks a pop. They make money off the games you claim arnt worth buying but seem to have no problem with the rampent stealing of. You can go to any Bit Torrent site and find atleast a dozen PSP games for download, these games are only possible because of Homebrew applications that allow the games to be played off the memory stick.

Yes there's a great deal of good that can come from Homebrew with fun original games and intersting applications but that's not what Sony built it for. They built it to make money and it cant happen if no one ever buys a game for it.

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First of all i don't like the way you accused me of stealing sony's games (because i don't and i do agree that sony needs to protect their system but they should be combating homebrew with better commercial games instead of forced firmware upgrades. I was in no way advocating piracy on the PSP.

 

[grahf]

Imho Sony overcomplicated the PSP technically. Just open it and compare its internals to the gp2x for an example. The gp2x is system on chip (SoC) where PSP has multi chip custom hardware. Nothing wrong with that however PSP is a handheld so it should comply with needs of a handheld.

I changed two UMD drives in two PSPs a couple months ago, and i can attest to this statement. The PSPs are extremly delicate compared to what a portable device should be. Its painfully obvious that sony has no experience in building handhelds..

 

[Angel]

you work for the Sony plant out towards Mt. Pleasant Grahf?

 

[Alpha2]

You have a very narrow veiw of the issue. Sony only makes money on the software sold for the PSP not the hardware, to do that the system would have to be 350 bucks a pop. They make money off the games you claim arnt worth buying but seem to have no problem with the rampent stealing of. You can go to any Bit Torrent site and find atleast a dozen PSP games for download, these games are only possible because of Homebrew applications that allow the games to be played off the memory stick.

Yes there's a great deal of good that can come from Homebrew with fun original games and intersting applications but that's not what Sony built it for. They built it to make money and it cant happen if no one ever buys a game for it.

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First of all i don't like the way you accused me of stealing sony's games (because i don't and i do agree that sony needs to protect their system but they should be combating homebrew with better commercial games instead of forced firmware upgrades. I was in no way advocating piracy on the PSP.

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I never actually accused you of anything except that you seem to want homebrew without regard for the fact that it's being used to pirate their games.


Also: Sony made PDAs for years before making the PSP, so the innards of the PSP is evidence only that that wanted the PSP to be complicatedly made for their own reasons.

 

[lubidog]

Sorry, but it is useless to say that Sony should put up with MASSIVE piracy on their sysytem so that you can play homebrew.

I am sure that if it was only Homebrew, then Sony wouldn't mind. But this piracy is big. And it could really kill the PSP. Why should any company sell a product at a loss, and then see the games so easily duplicated on torrent sites and ebay sites.

I am not pointing any fingers here (I can't....!), but Sony have every right to try to stop piracy. Unfortunately that hits the homebrewers, but that can't be complained about.

 

[Goity]

Sorry, but it is useless to say that Sony should put up with MASSIVE piracy on their sysytem so that you can play homebrew.

I am sure that if it was only Homebrew, then Sony wouldn't mind. But this piracy is big. And it could really kill the PSP. Why should any company sell a product at a loss, and then see the games so easily duplicated on torrent sites and ebay sites.

I am not pointing any fingers here (I can't....!), but Sony have every right to try to stop piracy. Unfortunately that hits the homebrewers, but that can't be complained about.

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I don't think so. Piracy doesn't work with v. 2.00 onwards, and fanjita (hahahah) has no plans to support it. That hasn't stopped sony though. Or has it? I haven't seen a new firmware recently..
My my my, this is geting interesting.

However, a few more non-fps,tps,racing,puzzler games are needed desperately.

 

[Alpha2]

Sony dosent get worried untill people start screaming "2.4 crackedZ0R'D!"

They are still relaseing firmware, although I think the last couple where to add features rather than piracy fixes.As it stands there are still thousands of 1.5's out there slurping up games and people coming up with spoofs to allow ISOs to play on 2.0 (albeit without cinema intermissions).

That's problematic enough for them.