Portable Positioning Comments by Rob Fahey

I love downloads compared to boxed products for portable devices, much more convenient. I also accept that sometimes, retailers will discount stuff cheaper than the download. But stuff like Everybody's Golf shouldn't be more than a tenner.

If Sony chose to release more PSOne titles and snared a few Sega classics like sonic etc, selling for less than a fiver, I think they'd sell a good few.

If they want to sell 100m though, they also need to get some good horse grooming and cake making games out... :s

I'd like to have a NDS with the graphics of the PSP @ Nintendo...

The PSP didn't fare bad - although NDS outsells 2:1 the PSP, I think Sony is "content" with it.

Personally I prefer the NDS to the PSP because the stylus/touch input is just better. From design and quality the PSP is superious but Sony made the same error with the PS3. It's labelled "entertainment device" (a term which transports almost no meaning to the customer) while Nintendo cleary states that the NDS is a "handheld game console" (a clear positioning).

LOL @ theninkynonk and his self righteous indignation.

Programmer are we ?

BTW do you have the consent of the copyright holder to be using the name of an "In the Night Garden" vehicle ?

Organized crime my arse

"The PSP is a great bit of kit, don't listen to the Internet. However, I disagree that piracy doesn't affect you as a paying customer. You're paying more, for creatively restricted games, because of piracy."

Anyone who thinks games would get cheaper and/or more innovative if there was no piracy needs to be locked up and kept under constant sedation for their own protection. As a bonus, it'd save the rest of us from having our consciousness violated by complete fucking idiots talking laughable bollocks which is comprehensively annihilated by the simplest observable facts.

I bought my PSP for FFT:tLW and am more than happy with it. A few bouts of powerleveling is all I need for those long train trips to work and back. The Patapons, Monster Hunters, Metal Gear Ac!ds, Locorocos, Syphon Filters, Crush, etc. are nice bonuses. Hence no immediate need for a PSP2. Perhaps once it's software line-up of actual realeases (and not a slew of promised exclusives which turn out to be cross-platform and appear waaaaaaaayy beyond their original target dates) is impressive enough...

@bdaggers

No, I'm not a programmer and don't personally know any. You don't need to to understand that (as cliched as it sounds) piracy is theft. Plain and simple. Twist it any way you like it but the fact remains it's wrong. And yes, many organised criminals DO use film and game piracy as an easy means of generating cash from idiots willing to ignore the law.

Permission from the night garden producers to use the ninky nonk as a tag? Get real.

Clutching at straws, are we?

TheNinkyNonk is a bit right, obviously the "DVD?" guys are in it for the cash (and could be terrorists or something...) but most pirates download their own these days I would imagine (certainly with regards to PSP I've never seen ISOs sold). I can't see free funding crime TBH.

Been forced to watch the "WOULD BEAT YOUR GRAN?" ad too many time TheNinkyNonk?

Oh once again piracy IS NOT theft (if it was people would be charged with theft and convicted...of THEFT), if anything it's rather dodgy borrowing but keep up those "why aren't people buying our expensive shite?" excuses alive for these industries. ;)

Unless the software improves (not the "theft" protection) PSP is still doomed to poor sales, piracy, CF DIY with people preferring "stealing" emulators to wasting good money on new PSP software TheNinkyNonk, people who pirate (mostly) do so as they DON'T BUY media and they still won't pay if the picarcy stops.

Stop playing into the hands of industries who want to scare us on piracy, not to save a handful of (possible) sales, but stick us all into CONTROLLED PAYMENT/MONITORED/DRIP FEED online media.

"Oh once again piracy IS NOT theft (if it was people would be charged with theft and convicted...of THEFT)"

As most of the law systems already had an article for the unlawful appropriation of other people's goods before the digital age, without actually modifying the articles themselves, theft of IP can't be covered with those articles. Hence the creation of new articles that specifically target the theft of IP.

The fact that regular property and IP are not covered by the same penal articles does not mean that the idea behind making the covered actions illegal isn't the same: They both address illegal appropriation of something that isn't yours.

@bad09

Stop playing into the hands of juvenile individuals from the Web2.0 generation who show complete disregard for the property of others and feel it's their god given right to get their hands on whatever they want, whenever they want.

These 'evil' companies are run by human beings with mortgages and kids. Are you seriously saying they should work for free just so that you can feel better about 'sticking it to the man'?

@ TheNinkyNonk

We all have responibilties and worry how the next pay will stretch, cry me a river.

I'm not saying they should work for free of course not, but piracy is not "killing" the industry like many like you to believe, certainly with PSP hardware it's practically saved the console I reckon as the software is dire! If piracy stopped tomorrow money would not start showering pub/devs in an orgy of profit, and many don't seem to grasp this simple notion. My REAL WORLD experience of people who pirate tells me if they HAD THE MONEY TO BUY IN THE FIRST PLACE, and the industries didn't FLOOD markets with EXPENSIVE products week on week month on month, a huge percentage of pirates probably would buy.

And seriously you haven't done much sales have you, business does not care for the consumer in any real non marketed way. other than profit (of course some want praise but in this day and age gaming is about profit - looks at the charts). The games industry is not different than any other industry/company in the world in that repsect.

@ Les

IP theft. God I hate that term. It basically says I've done this bit of work, made some cash but now I'm gonna live off the same idea for the rest of my life. If only all careers were so good! "right I worked for a year, now I'm off home you just keep on paying me OK!"

@bad09

"piracy is not "killing" the industry like many like you to believe" - which makes it OK?

"My REAL WORLD experience of people who pirate tells me if they HAD THE MONEY TO BUY IN THE FIRST PLACE, and the industries didn't FLOOD markets with EXPENSIVE products week on week month on month, a huge percentage of pirates probably would buy"

So you agree with me that pirates are greedy and impatient and that their moral code is ruled by how much money is in their wallet?

And you're holding the industry to blame for releasing so many titles that people want to play?!

Dude, just listen to yourself.

Well we're kinda moving off PSP TheNinkyNonk but you missed my point entirely. Are you sure you don't work in the ents industries?

Why not make piracy OK (well quietly ignored)? We have charities for this that and everything, why not let poorer people have some entertainment, these companies can make obscene money out of us with a decent product (you may notice it's normally the makers of shite sellers that cry "PIRACY KILLED MY DOG!" in the first place).

Personally I don't hold that self centred view of "why should I pay and not them!". If I like a product I'll throw some money their way, if I dont I won't, I don't care what other people are doing I pay for what I want and that all a consumer should do.

1. Make a good product THAT PEOPLE WANT
2. Stopping trying to convince people they want something they don't with HUGE marketing budgets which eat your cash
3. sell it CHEAPLY
4. Make a profit
5. stop bleating on about people who weren't gonna pay in the first place (why they are file sharing) and let 'em get on with it

There piracy problem solved, EASY!

In todays market £40 a game is just too much for most to game the way they want to and it's high time the industry woke up to this before bleating on about "wah! no one wants to buy our crap it MUST be evil piratings fault!" . The move to digital isn't bringing a reduction in cost either. If anything piracy will increase to the point our stupid governments will listen to the very people turning us away from buying and close down sharing on the net, people will resent the industries even more and sales will still slide. At that point though....no piracy excuse for poor sales of tat....

@bad09

"IP theft. God I hate that term. It basically says I've done this bit of work, made some cash but now I'm gonna live off the same idea for the rest of my life."

It's of course a little bit more complicated than that but ultimately it is indeed firmly grounded on capitalist principles: If you create something of value, you should be rewarded. If your idea is ground breaking enough it might actually earn you a decent living for the rest of your life.

Given our current understanding of the importance of genetics in determining a person's 'potential' it's debatable whether this is actually that fair...

Les I hate to go on the "terror" list but capitalist ideals mean less to me more and more as I grow older...comrade.......

/ checks phone tap...