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jarrod on 05 November 2010
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Solid_Snake4RD said:
jarrod said:

An R4 card isn't modding.  Flashing firmware is modding, and it's required for PSP piracy.  

Emulation itself isn't inherently piracy, but it can (and often is) be used for it.  At least with DS (or PS2/Wii).  People are pirating from these systems without even owning these systems.  And frankly, it's easier than PSP piracy.

Beyond that, pirated DS games from Asia are ubiquitous, and often sold as new (this is/was also true for Famicom, PlayStation, etc).  This is something that's not really an issue for PSP, at least not on a comparable scale.

And the PSP crowd is largely teenagers at this point, which is actually reflective of their marketing.  Almost every kid I see on the subway with a DS has some sort of flashcard sticking out it though.


i know R4 isn't modding and i put it in wrong way of saying

the main point was that PSP doesn't need an external parts to mod PSP

 

just keep the emulation part out,we are not considering it.people will continue to emulate games but it is minor and its not in the userbase so we aren't counting it.just leave it out

PSP crowd is largely teenage at thsi point?

so the older userbase just dissaparead and PSP crowrd is in late teens,it has nothing to do with the recent marketing

the recent marketing is for them to pull the entering tweens and younger crowd like the DS

 

this is exactly what you always do,bring in irrelevant debate and which doesn't even make sense.like the recent marketing is for PSP to get the newer userbase not the existing one

 

just because every kid on your subway has a flash card sticking out doesn't mean its the same,indication:just see the sales chart


Sales charts?  DS software has already bottomed out in Europe, there's articles everywhere in the press about flashcard (or Magicons in Japan)... I don't think you're really aware of how prevalent DS piracy really is.  It's everywhere, and reminds me a lot of the late term PS1 era (where *everyone* I knew had a modded PSX... me included. :x).  Actually, it's getting pretty bad for Wii too... the only easily pirated system that seems at all insulated is 360, probably thanks to fear of XBL banning.

And the point with emulation, it shows that DS piracy is even easier and less costly than PSP piracy.  You literally don't need any "external parts", not an R4, not a PSP, just your PC.

And when I was talking "teens" I was thinking mainly Japan, sorry I should've made that clear.  There it's (generally) teens have PSP, kids have DS.  In the west, it's more like kids have DS, no one has PSP (lol).