Why are so many American games so up in arms against piracy?

[soulsamurai]

Onyxmeth said:

HappySqurriel said:

DTG said:
pirating a psp is a much more difficult task then pirating a ds. With that said why is piracy on the psp so much more extensive and detrimental than on the ds?

 

The PSP is considered easier because all you need to pirate games on the PSP can be inexpensively bought at any store that sells the system ... The DS is as easy to pirate but (from my understanding) you have to buy a micro-sd adapter card from a questionable website.

I don't think that's really the case. Pirating the PSP involves downloading fimware consistently and creating a hybrid contraption out of a Pro Duo and a PSP battery. You can risk bricking your PSP if unsuccessful. Pirating the DS is a matte of purchasing a card that plugs into either of the two slots and dag and drop games into it's root file. I don't think PSP games are piated more oftenly than DS games. I think the DS just reaches into many more demographics that don't typically pirate, which keeps it's sales healthy. Notice how the games that reach farthest from technophiles in terms of interest also happen to be some of the best selling. The problem with the PSP is, it was marketed directly to the kinds of people that are knowledgable enough to pirate the games, while the DS marketed to those same people, plus countless other age groups.

To those that condemn video game piracy but don't have a problem pirating other industies, please quit being hypocrites. There is no right industry to pirate or wrong one. It should be either pirating itself is right or wrong.

 

heh never thought about that with the PSP. I was smart enouph to hack mine myself. The only game i have pirated though I bought a copy. Reason why i did this is because it is monster hunter portable 2 G. I can't speak japanese, but if i have the iso of it I can put a english patch on it. Back to the main topic. PSP is a great system and after looking at it everyone i know who has one can read the scripts on it. They're smart enouph to make there own firmware and we do, but usually its just so we can do something stupid. For me when I made it i put some GPS on there and loaded some maps up for my airsoft games. Gotta love knowing where all the good sniping spots are :)