SCEE's David Reeves: "Either Wait For the PAL PSP Release or Get It Off of Bittorrent"

Akira_EX | July 31, 2008 | News | Playstation Portable

Talking with the New Zealand-based Button Masher at E3, SCEE CEO David Reeves was asked about the delays in localizing games for the PAL region. After being the bringer of bad news that the localization wait still exist, he gives yet another interesting quote for the embattled CEO.

It must be a little tough sometimes being in charge of a PAL region, getting berated by random people (me) about the delays experienced in one of the smallest markets in the world (NZ). David Reeves fortunately was brutally honest when we talked at E3 and some points rung true, others……

My question after talking about the video download service not coming to Pal regions (yet) was - what about the games in general? (Talking about delays) We have to wait 4-5 months for some games because of the localisation for the Europe region.

quote Reeves
I think honestly you will continue to do that because I don’t think that the localization is controlled enough in the USA to be able to put it into New Zealand……….

Here’s where it gets good.

quote Reeves
We are a PAL market and we are going to do it in PAL and we are going to do it properly, you can wait for it and you can have it in good quality, you know you can get the stuff from Bittorrent if you want to and download PSP games, it’s up to you.

Now I highly doubt David Reeves was advocating piracy but I think he did point out what a lot of people are doing to circumvent the delays that the PAL region experiences, importing becomes more and more popular as does piracy. Of the two options I know which I prefer and as prices remain high with continuing delays importing will only prove more and more tempting.

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Cruxis Mana | July 31, 2008

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... you know you can get the stuff from Bittorrent if you want to and download PSP games, it�s up to you.
I'LL DO DAT.
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Donnelly | July 31, 2008

I download all my PSP/DS games anyway.
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Deathsythe | July 31, 2008

They know it goes on, Sony and PSP game makers are not trying nearly as hard (if at all) in comparison to Nintendo and Microsoft to stop it because they know it will still happen.

Look at M$ releasing that ~~virus~~ patch that bricked modded 360s, or the Wii Menu update that disallowed homebrew (even though there was a 24 hour turn around fix on our end ).

Sony knows that they cannot stand in the way of it, and they get brownie points for respecting it as the driving force that it is.
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  Slumpy monkey | July 31, 2008
  
  It doesnt brick your xbox, It just allows MS to track you and ban you from XBL to stop you from cheating online.
  
  If you want to mod off-line more power too you, just don't ruin peoples games online. Also if you are too cheap to buy games then I think you console should be bricked.
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  Livewire_19 | July 31, 2008
  
  Sony is still trying to stop piracy. The brand new PSPs slims with TA-088 motherboards can't be downgraded yet. Thus downloaded games won't work on it. So if your in the market for a psp slim you might try for the older Daxter bundle.