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goforgold on 06 April 2011
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RolStoppable said:
BMaker11 said:
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

Pretty much every video game system in existence is open to piracy and it didn't really hurt them all that much. Why is the PSP an isolated case? Because the people who actually do buy their games don't see the PSP as a worthwile system, that's why software sales are abysmal in the West. The PSP's problem is not so much piracy as it is the games themselves. Software sales suck, because the games are perceived to suck.

Would piracy really hurt the PS3? The 360 has a lot of the same games, so it's safe to say no.

such a Rol thing to say