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"Eradicate Piracy"

How many people only a bought a playstation when it surfaced that, a little chip or "Cheat cart" could let them play back-up games, which a mate of a mate could get. With-in a couple of years of this the cd-r market was in lift off. But wait who made the best cd-r's and the best cd-rw drives to back up Playstation games, Sony. Sony knows fine well that it made a back-door killing on the playstation through piracy. 75 million ps's sold worldwide, but the number of games sold is minimal for a figure this size. Sure it would have made more money if everyone had bought all of the original games and piracy ad never existed, but in reality it wouldn't. Now everyone knows someone with a CD-r drive, everyone knows someone who copies games and anything else worth making money from. Even sales on the dc picked up once the news that pirated games had been produced whilst the n64 fell by the wayside. But at least Sega had made a valiant effort to curb piracy by producing GD-Roms. One of the first big news stories about the ps2 other than record numbers being bought worldwide, was the fact that it could be chipped. Piracy is a scurge on the face of gaming, even the most law abiding of people seem to have a disregard for thier morality when it comes to piracy. I'm sure once the ps2 drops in price that sales of pirated games, cd-r's and cd-rw drives will again hit record levels worldwide, as people will not be so worried about having to replace faulty ps2's out of thier own pocket. But at £300 each they'd think twice. Here is where console manufacturers are in a catch 22 situation, high console prices and low software prices inhibit piracy, but they make very little money, as do the games firms themselves. Low console prices and high games prices sends piracy through the roof. Sony made a lot of money out of the Playstation because early on it was expensive and there was little piracy, no one had really thought of it. Now, people will hold off buying games and consoles until it is as cheap as possible foe them to break the law but still make great games.

But how does the games industry stop piracy???

How many people only a bought a playstation when it surfaced that, a little chip or "Cheat cart" could let them play back-up games, which a mate of a mate could get. With-in a couple of years of this the cd-r market was in lift off. But wait who made the best cd-r's and the best cd-rw drives to back up Playstation games, Sony. Sony knows fine well that it made a back-door killing on the playstation through piracy. 75 million ps's sold worldwide, but the number of games sold is minimal for a figure this size. Sure it would have made more money if everyone had bought all of the original games and piracy ad never existed, but in reality it wouldn't. Now everyone knows someone with a CD-r drive, everyone knows someone who copies games and anything else worth making money from. Even sales on the dc picked up once the news that pirated games had been produced whilst the n64 fell by the wayside. But at least Sega had made a valiant effort to curb piracy by producing GD-Roms. One of the first big news stories about the ps2 other than record numbers being bought worldwide, was the fact that it could be chipped. Piracy is a scurge on the face of gaming, even the most law abiding of people seem to have a disregard for thier morality when it comes to piracy. I'm sure once the ps2 drops in price that sales of pirated games, cd-r's and cd-rw drives will again hit record levels worldwide, as people will not be so worried about having to replace faulty ps2's out of thier own pocket. But at £300 each they'd think twice. Here is where console manufacturers are in a catch 22 situation, high console prices and low software prices inhibit piracy, but they make very little money, as do the games firms themselves. Low console prices and high games prices sends piracy through the roof. Sony made a lot of money out of the Playstation because early on it was expensive and there was little piracy, no one had really thought of it. Now, people will hold off buying games and consoles until it is as cheap as possible foe them to break the law but still make great games.

But how does the games industry stop piracy???

I thought the PS2 used DVD's? If so they can't be copied, as CD's arent big enough.



Unles you want to spend vast amounts of money on a DVD writer of course.......

The blue ps2 discs are cds, he silver ones dvds, how many games and you got which are on silver discs not many.

How much were cd-r drives when the playstation arrived?? There is a trend there, demand will increase competition, competition will deflate prices and Sony will release the best DVD-r drive for reproducing ps2 games.

Hopefully the PS2 will avoid the piracy problems that the PS1 was plagued with, as manufacturers will no doubt start using DVDs instead of CDs for PS2 games. After all DVD writers are rare and DVDR media expensive.

Although your point is a valid one Sony make little effort to protect their machines (Compared to Sega and Nintendo). They also want to profit from piracy, through increased playstation 2 sales and also through sales of DVDR drives (Sonys latest DVDR drive supports both DVDR+ and DVDR- formats well atleast according to my PC magazine).

Sony have released the best DVDR drive, it supports all know DVDR formats, and will cost £600.

DVD piracy will be as big as cd piracy in the next 2 years, as there will be a demand for copied dvds.

Apparently Sonys Companions who developed DVDR+ with them werent to pleased when the news of their dual format drive came out.

Sony are the new Microsoft of the far east, it's just that nobody knows who thier bill gates type figure is.

Shigeru Miyamoto

He's ninty. Isn't he??