PSP Trophies Have Been Denied
Time and time again, developers and publishers alike have put blame on the PSP piracy pandemic. Yet certain gamers are still adamant about piracy having any kind of effect on the lackluster sales of PSP games, instead passing the blame onto things like marketing, the 50+ million unit install base, and competition from other handhelds. However, the PSP hacking community is not only limiting PSP game sales, but also PSP functionality–more specifically, Trophy support.
Eric Lempel, director of PlayStation Network operations, revealed that the reason the PSP has not received Trophy support is because of inevitable exploits to the Trophy system infrastructure in the firmware. In other words, hackers could get credited for Trophies they never earned.
Because of the lack of “security”, Trophies will not be coming to the PSP. At least not the original PSP. Thanks, pirates. Trophy whores are just going to have to wait for the PSP 2 for a chance at Trophy support.
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June 10th, 2009 at 3:20 AM
Now, I officially hate hacking.
June 10th, 2009 at 3:29 AM
Trophies for the PSP GO! surely…
June 10th, 2009 at 3:50 AM
@Sig,
It uses the same firmware, and the hardware change doesn’t seem to have any new security features. They’d pretty much have to use a Cell processor in order to prevent piracy 100%.
06/10/2009 at 3:52 AM
Confirmed! PSP2 to have Cell Processor! Haha J/K That would be awesome!
June 10th, 2009 at 4:03 AM
A few people ruin it for everyone. Again………….
June 10th, 2009 at 6:28 AM
@Jeff if it was just a few people then the software sales wouldn’t be so bad. This was a group effort
June 10th, 2009 at 7:55 AM
did you just announce the psp2?! nice!
June 10th, 2009 at 9:15 AM
The arguments I have had on the official forums about hacking and piracy are amazing, especially with those who condone the practice. It seems some people will find any excuse to continue in their illegal activity. The most often cited reason for piracy is the “mega corporation” argument. Similar to the “Tom Cruise doesn’t need to make 20 mil a picture so I’m gonna do a torrent of Mission Impossible 4 the day it comes out”, this argument supposes that a profitable company is an evil one, and deserves to be robbed. I also love the “Well, I wasn’t going to buy that game anyway, so they didn’t really lose any money on it” argument. LOL
June 10th, 2009 at 9:53 AM
June 10th, 2009 at 10:12 AM
I’ll stick with our previous article about memory issues (and security). They are coming though, don’t think their not working on them.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:26 AM
who the hell cares if hackers take illegitimate trophies? i mean do you get paid for how many trophies you have? this is beyond ridiculous… why would this even be a factor? am i the only one who sees this to be crazy? i mean seriously who is losing anything from someone getting illegitimate trophies? let the gamers who want the trophies and are going to earn them have them… this is a completely ridiculous excuse not the have trophies…. like i give a crap that someone is stealing trophies… hes not making my day any worse for it. i dont understand the problem.
November 14th, 2009 at 10:02 PM
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