2 posts tagged “ps3”

I don't know what to say about Sony's schemes. I'm referring to, in praticular, their closing the proverbial door on  PS1 emulation using the PSP.

Here's the score. Currently, there are only a few titles available that you can rip from the disk, to your PS3, and then send to your PSP. The PSP hacker community have recently announced they broke the emulation program so you can play whatever PS1 game you like on your PSP, so long as you are willing to send it.

This means that Sony is telling people who have likely spent over $750 (probably more, since the PSP originally retailed around $250, and at the least expensive, a PS3 costs $500, and odds are those same people own a PS2...) that they're not willing to give them something extra for how much support they've given to the company.

Obviously, Sony could be worried about piracy, since it's concievable that people could send their games to other people's PSPs. But at this point, numbers are down on the PSP, and really, Sony could use the positive PR and the goodwill, because right now, with their abysmal launch of the PS3 where they didn't have half the units they said they were, what goodwill they've got is pretty limited.

Why stop nickel and dime-ing your fanbase when you could lose money but gain back a bunch of support that was lost?

Shit, if you can get 50 gigs on a blue ray disc, then put some multi-disc TV seasons on those discs. I'm sure you'll get more of a market.

That would suit the people who are thinking about getting boxsets quite nicely, don't you think? Shit, you could probably put the entirety of the Batman animated series on 2 of those discs. Then I'd be real happy, and even consider getting a PS3.