| RolStoppable said: The more you fight piracy, the more resistance there will be. And having a system that is supposedly unhackable will only encourage hackers more. The battle against piracy usually leads to honest customers suffering, like all that DRM stuff on the PC. People who actually buy the game have to deal with crap while the pirates enjoy superior versions of the same game. Now the thing with Geohot hacking the PS3 and Sony taking him to court is something that I honestly don't quite understand. What is the big deal? A console open to piracy sees an increase in hardware sales. There will always be people who don't buy any games, but if the hardware is sold at a profit, it ultimately doesn't hurt the company much. It's not like every pirated copy translates to a lost sale. Sony should have just accepted that their console was finally open to piracy and enjoyed how easy the PS3 would overtake the 360 in lifetime sales. Also, I am pretty sure they have the necessary tools to identify people who cheat on PSN and the like and kick them from their servers. |
Not so fast there. PSP, anyone? Not to mention a decrease in software sales because people won't find the need to buy games anymore. And guess who makes games? Sony, right? So that does affect them.
Not to mention 3rd parties, as well
