Sony Shock: Sony President Actually Aware of PSP Piracy
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves has announced that piracy is a problem on the PSP. The contents of the rest of his talk aren’t detailed, but we can presume they include how he recently saw Spiderman 2, how he thinks Paris Hilton wouldn’t be a faithful wife, and this awesome new website he saw called “YouTube”.
The tragedy is that it isn’t the piracy that’s newsworthy – it’s the fact that a major Sony exec even mentioning the problem is so rare. That tells you everything you need to know about the monomaniacal delusionality that the company struggles under. Never mind technology that defeats piracy, or a sane pricing strategy that discourages it; even saying the taboo word is counted as a major event in the Big Brotheresque doublespeak that is Sony PR.
Reeves had to admit that piracy has actually boosted sales of their struggling hardware (probably because games actually run faster when hacked than from the official UMD discs), but Sony is still “not happy about it”. Listen up, David, you’re going up against the goddamn DS and losing like Kate Moss in a barefist fight with the Riker’s Island Synchronized Stabbing team. If Jack the Ripper calls and offers to sell a few units, you should think hard before refusing.
He states that they’re set to unveil a new clampdown, but unless they’re planning to include a Sony lawyer in every console it’s unclear what they could possibly do with the openly hackable hardware buffet that is the PSP. Maybe they could learn a lesson like “Increased sales from piracy mean that we have an excellent product that people genuinely want to play, and the only thing stopping them is our own medieval consumer-punishment policies.”
But that’s just crazy talk.
I own a PSP, which i enjoy, to an extent. You see I’m at a crossroads right now with Sony. I believe piracy in effect, had to be partially due to Sony themselves. When they first released the PSP, it was a very exciting piece of hardware, which had high hopes. People out there saw that potential, and wanted to reach it before Sony themselves could offer it. You pick it up and at first set, you like what it does, but then when you dive into it, you realize, it’s missing this, missing that, it’ll be much easier if they made it like this, why can’t I do that…..
Updates after updates after updates later, improvement is there, but why couldn’t your crack team of geniuses over there couldn’t put most of it there in the first place(entirely possible, not asking for perfection)?
I should have been able to listen to music while viewing pictures from the get go, why would you have a browser that can open three tabs, but the unit’s memory can only handle 1 1/2? How come I still can’t cut and paste, rename files within the handheld itself, watch flash movies online, bookmark videos that are on the system, the list can go on.
Maybe instead of trying, maybe you should start doing. Try hiring some of the creative minds that provide excellent homebrew apps, welcomed additions to the functionality of the device, and then we can get the ball rolling in Sony’s Delusional division that handles creative, necessary, implications for it to reach the potential a lot of us, saw from the very beginning.
Now the PSP-3000, that claims to have a screen that is brighter, has more vibrant colors, and faster refresh rate comes with a flaw that cannot be denied or overlooked. Top that off with a questionable battery life(if you call 30mins or so slightly or not, up to you to decide) that was release in the middle of the still strong 2000 and trying to phase it out has me saying to myself, why would you give me medium rare, when time and time again I come to your restaurant and I ask for and expect Medium well?
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