Sony Europe president talks PSP piracy, promises clampdown

Sony Europe president David Reeves has never been one to shy away from making bold statements in the past, and he's now come out and weighed in on another touchy subject, with him flatly telling attendees at the DevStation conference in London that "there is a piracy problem on the PSP." What's more, Reeves went so far as to admit that it "sometimes fuels the growth of hardware sales, but that "on balance", Sony is "not happy about it." To that end, Reeves says that Sony will soon be unveiling new ways to combat piracy on the handheld, although he unsurprisingly isn't getting a whole lot more specific than that at the moment.

[Via PSP Fanboy]

[Jhongerkong @ Jun 19th 2008 6:00PM]

"To that end, Reeves says that Sony will soon be unveiling new ways to combat piracy on the handheld"


LOL

[oGMo @ Jun 19th 2008 6:16PM]

Hopefully, this is an allusion to a ninja game.

[Elora HRanma @ Jun 19th 2008 6:34PM]

Sunset Riders Vs One Piece I say!

[Elora HRanma @ Jun 19th 2008 6:42PM]

My internet connection wants me Low Ranked and doesn't show my messages =(

[Kyakko @ Jun 20th 2008 1:53AM]

jaalin: too cutesy for me. imo, the only psp game worth paying 45 bux for recently is god of war and metal gear.

[BliteKnight @ Jun 19th 2008 6:03PM]

Dark-Alex FTW!!! Thanks for keeping my PSP alive.

[Chirag @ Jun 20th 2008 2:39AM]

Hear! Hear! for custom firmware... Sony Pres. Go suck eggs...

[Wolfticket @ Jun 19th 2008 6:03PM]

"Bit late" springs to mind...

[Darkroom @ Jun 19th 2008 6:04PM]

"we are not happy to have increased hardware sales!! not happy one bit!!!"

[Will @ Jun 19th 2008 6:04PM]

They'd be happier to have software sales. Better profit margins.

[Mam00th @ Jun 19th 2008 6:31PM]

Sounds like "Now that peoples bought our PSP to hack them, let's force them to buy our softwares in any way we can"

[Kyakko @ Jun 19th 2008 6:54PM]

there's no good software for the psp recently. the only reason why i bought a second one (gave the first one away) is cuz i can hack it and play old emulated snes games/neo-geo games on it.

[jaalin @ Jun 19th 2008 9:57PM]

kyakko: lego indiana jones !!!! secret agent clank !!!!

[Jamar @ Jun 20th 2008 2:06AM]

Exactly. The only software I still play on PSP is Densha de Go and Jet de Go (apart from Phoenix Wright, emulated).

[thedesolate1 @ Jun 19th 2008 6:09PM]

UMD=FAIL

[Low Ranked @ Jun 19th 2008 6:11PM]

"Ultra Mega Doomed"

It was written all over it.

[Low Ranked @ Jun 19th 2008 6:10PM]

Is this David Reeves by any chance related to the late Christopher Reeves and the hopefully-soon-to-be-late Keanu Reeves?

[phanbouy @ Jun 19th 2008 6:14PM]

whoa

[LiQuiD_FuSioN @ Jun 19th 2008 6:26PM]

hai. pls dnt hate on Neo.. stpd nub. shutdown -i

[Jherez @ Jun 19th 2008 11:36PM]

You gonna kill him? I know the number to 911 so tread lightly.

[phanbouy @ Jun 19th 2008 6:11PM]

he looks like such a leader with that partially obscured shoulder

[Low Ranked @ Jun 19th 2008 6:12PM]

A modest leader perhaps?

[The Dude @ Jun 19th 2008 7:02PM]

It looks like a stock-photo from the '90s. The angle is off, part of his shoulder is obscured, he's smiling, and he has no tie on, "Hey, this guy's not an asshole." I don't buy it.

[Norock @ Jun 20th 2008 1:47AM]

EUROPE

[mmendoza27 @ Jun 19th 2008 6:13PM]

Yeah, PSP piracy FTW!!! I really got a lot of use with a hacked PSP, made imports really easy to get. Too bad it's bricked now...

[phanbouy @ Jun 19th 2008 6:25PM]

Ha ha!

[Joshua Walters @ Jun 19th 2008 6:26PM]

Only idiots brick a PSP.

Even then, most idiots can fix it with a Pandora's battery (or whatever the hell these kids are calling it these days).

To me, it got old quick. I was really into it for a little while, but Ive since sold one of my PSPs, and I havent powered on the other in forever.

I think the FW installed on the PSP I just sold was on 310OE-A. Of course, the one I kept is still at its virgin 1.5 firmware.

Yeah, its an original, an update has never touched my gorgeous PSPs memory slot.

[mmendoza27 @ Jun 19th 2008 6:41PM]

Yeah, I just need to buy a service battery (I saw one on the nets for like $37 or something like that) and I can revive it. I just haven't been able to play it that much, just like my PS3, I've been so busy.

I dunno, I had a couple of good games, those Bleach games are really awesome!

[Andy @ Jun 19th 2008 6:14PM]

Well sony were not happy with you putting shitty parts in your products and over charging us with your bullshit! I hope this guy dies or falls off a 50 story building.

[Will @ Jun 19th 2008 6:18PM]

Instead of wishing Mr. Reeves' death you could always simply not buy Sony products.

[Jason @ Jun 20th 2008 12:58AM]

Is he talking about real life or is this more of that smoking hot new pirate-ey game? I'm serious got chillzabouddit.

[Nick Ritch @ Jun 19th 2008 6:15PM]

GO PIRATES!!! PUSH THOSE HARDWARE SALES!!!

[thedesolate1 @ Jun 19th 2008 6:21PM]

LMFAO!

[TareX @ Jun 19th 2008 6:17PM]

Probably makes your games much cheaper? On better formats? Use memory sticks? Improve online gaming?

Best gaming investment = a hacked psp
Worst gaming investment = an original unhackable psp

Yeah it's immoral, unethical and just wrong, but what non-multimillionnaire kid could resist the temptation of having an entire library of SNES/MAME games on his psp, and countless PSP game ISOs ready just a button press away?

The only reason stopping me from buying a cheap hacked PSP off ebay, is that probably a new DS-lite will be announced this year, and probably followed by a next-gen psp which is really what I'm waiting for... or an nVidia device who knows.

Buttom line is, a PSP is worth a lot when it's hacked.

[w00t @ Jun 19th 2008 6:31PM]

Whatever money they invest in new and complicated anti-piracy measures would have been better left as profit.

Not only would that money be totally wasted (just like everything else, if yau can build it you can crack it!) any restrictive protection is only likely to disadvantage the legitimate customer which will upset them reducing sales.

Channel your efforts in making better products if you really want to increase sales!

[w00t @ Jun 19th 2008 6:32PM]

Whatever money they invest in new and complicated anti-piracy measures would have been better left as profit.

Not only would that money be totally wasted (just like everything else, if yau can build it you can crack it!) any restrictive protection is only likely to disadvantage the legitimate customer which will upset them reducing sales.

Channel your efforts in making better products if you really want to increase sales!

[w00t @ Jun 19th 2008 6:32PM]

Ah crap. Sorry! Bloody comment system :)

[Jherez @ Jun 19th 2008 11:40PM]

Now folks we've got a unique situation here. One of these comments will be low ranked to hell....choose wisely.

[gabe @ Jun 19th 2008 7:33PM]

i have a psp slim hacked - it still sucks

work on the games sony -

[Benny McGee @ Jun 20th 2008 6:27PM]

I 2nd that.....I bought a PSP near launch time because I knew how easy it was going to be to hack after a freaking SwapTop for the PS2.
Unfortunately, the only thing I enjoyed about the PSP was the hacking itself.....I built myself up a collection of a good number of titles that I can literally say were collectively played a total of 15 minutes....and that's no exaggeration.
Back when I was a youngster and the Gameboy just came out I had the need for a portable system as I was always being taken to boring functions that no 11 year old could possibly sit through without the ol' Gameboy.
Now that I've grown up, I have no real need for a portable gaming rig.....so I gave my PSP to my lil bro, and it now is collecting dust in his closet instead of mine. Seems to me that portable systems are only fun when you're at age where you are forced to attend events you don't want to!! Once you've grown up, the only time I could see gaming would be on the seldom airplane fight or if I was in the unfortunate circumstance of having a long ride on public transportation.
So to sum it up, even a hacked PSP sucks balls because the games all blow.......unless you have a long commute via train/bus/plane or you are under 16 there is no need to own a PSP.....nuff said!!!

[Schfelzerberg @ Jun 19th 2008 11:50PM]

No one would be buying the PSP if there were no homebrew and 'free games'. UMD = Fail. Really...BTW I only use my PSP for watching videos on the go. The games just suck.

[tekdroid @ Jun 20th 2008 12:38AM]

"...and said that Sony is set to unveil a new clampdown on those responsible."
-------------
So no changes to the hardware, just 'those responsible'?

On DS piracy is a LOT simpler, so I guess Sony should be relatively happy (?) or sad. I really don't know. All I know is I would never have bought a PSP unless I could run some homebrew and emu on it, but I can't speak for anyone else.

MapThis! has also been a bit of a surprise (I bought Sony's PSP-290 add-on purely because of this app)... but definitely some work setting up and really needs more work to make it into a half-decent GPS app. I'm just using it for "oh this is where I am" situations, rather than it telling me where to go, which is a bit half-arsed but there you go. Tried Go!Explore thanks to the wonders of torrent, and would love to see an Australian version of this thing. Fine piece of software. Lucky Europeans!

Since Sony haven't released Australian GPS mappery, sometimes the only option is a bit of homebrew and it's a nice option to have.

Sony, add native FLAC support to the PSP please.
http://flac.sourceforge.net

Also, seriously look into the bugs in this thing:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/mm4psp
It's quite surprising to me that the masses don't yet have an easy-to-use app to encode movies and whatnot to your great little PSP machine, and instead have to resort to third parties to do the work you should be doing to encourage its use. But I guess on some level you fear piracy again, even though the UMD movie market is pretty much dead. Oh well...

Hope this was some useful feedback!

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