PSP Piracy Making Square Enix Nervous
Sony has done everything possible to ensure the PSP remains pirate-free. However, Square Enix, one of the biggest publishers on the PSP, fears piracy on the PSP.
Takeshi Arakawa, director of Dissidia: Final Fantasy, recently spoke about Square Enix’s fears of rampant piracy on the PSP.
“We are really worried about this issue [piracy]… extremely worried.”
The issue of piracy is quite concerning on PS as well and our basic stance is that it’s unfortunate, but what’s been done has been done and we can’t do much about it. We want to stick to a policy of making a game that the player would be proud of owning, so even if you play the pirated version, the game should be good enough to convince them that they should purchase the game. So long as we manage to do that, the issue doesn’t really exist.”
“Hmmmmmm, *laughs*. The piracy has been quite bad in Japan as well, but we have enjoyed quite good sales wise for two reasons. One, it came out in the Christmas season when people are more prepared to pay and we have lots of fans who have been playing the series for the last 20 years and they don’t mind paying a bit of money to get Dissidia.“
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14 Responses to “PSP Piracy Making Square Enix Nervous”
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May 10th, 2009 at 4:28 PM
what about digital download? ohhhhhh thats right.. bigger audiance…..
May 10th, 2009 at 4:44 PM
they are so afraid of the PSP piracy yet have no problem releasing on the 360 which is also heavy on piracy… just make everything for your new butt buddy SE and get it over with..
May 10th, 2009 at 4:45 PM
people need to stop the piracy.
May 10th, 2009 at 6:07 PM
@voyou San
Damn u, u stole my thoughts.
May 10th, 2009 at 6:07 PM
@ voyou san – lol
May 10th, 2009 at 6:45 PM
@Gunak people dont’ need to stop pirating. Pirating is how a lot of bands were discovered, it’s how a lot of cds have enjoyed boosted sales, it’s how I found out about almost all my favorite animes which I now own, it’s how games without demos can be sampled.
Honestly in a way I kinda blame Sony for a lot of the piracy stuff. If they had just left Homebrew in the PSPs there would have been a lot of people enjoying free apps on their PSP without the worry of pirating.
IMO
May 10th, 2009 at 6:53 PM
The reason that piracy happens is that some people just don’t want to pay for something they feel is to expensive. Although I can’t afford a lot of video games each year I don’t like piracy. I think it dimishes the developers revenue and when they have less revenue then they can’t put all the things in the game because they don’t have the money for R&D to find out if they can actually do what they were thinking of..
It is why technology in the market place is behind the curve. Of what R&D has sitting on the shelve waiting to make money with… One idea is video phones, they were actually developed in the late 50’s and have been sitting on the shelve in the labs until the phone networks could handle the data across the wires. Now there is Fibre Optic lines installed and still now video phones on the retail market…
Well a lot has to do with piracy in China and the rest of Asia…
May 10th, 2009 at 8:40 PM
piracy has been around forever…. and i dont think its going away. Either way SE is right, they should be proud to own a copy of the game.
May 10th, 2009 at 11:53 PM
cant say i could care less about square enix.
May 11th, 2009 at 2:33 AM
I’m not a fan of SE, but anyone else that has read my post in the other SE news posts can see that.
May 11th, 2009 at 7:18 AM
I agree with the thought of feeling proud to own an actual copy of the game. That’s why I searched for months to find an affordable copy of ICO for PS2, when I could’ve easily just downloaded the ISO if I felt like it.
May 11th, 2009 at 2:14 PM
@ TheHater
exactly my point..
May 11th, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Isn’t the 360 kthe king of pirated games hmmm , seems a little stupid dosn’t it?
August 9th, 2009 at 7:00 AM
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