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Sony Getting Owned By Piracy This Holiday

August 25, 2007 in News comments 13

Sony is really trying to boost sales this holiday season, beefing up the Playstation 2 with more games, giving it a motion sensing controller and sending out a new Playstation Portable 'Slim'. The PS2 plans to take on the Wii, the PSP hoping to gain more ground on the DS battle. Unfortunately, the PS2 is now available to play copied and pirated games and the PSP Slim, which was thought 'unhackable' has been hacked already, allowing PSP owners to downgrade.

Sony has branded its old console the PS2 a “Wii beater” this Xmas, by launching a large array of games and also having a motion sensing controller (much like the wii mote) for it, also relaunching the PSP (Playstation Portable) in a new thinner guise cleverly named “The Playstation Portable Slim” to go head to head against the excellent Nintendo DS.
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  • 1
    Jaw Knee Aug 26, 07
    lol wii beater lolol
  • 0
    Reenee Aug 26, 07
    Sony's security is ass. Everyone knows it. They got sued for it for crying out loud.
    • 1
      volacide Aug 26, 07
      Every console has gotten hacked. Sony is no less secure, besides, have you forgotten who you're dealing with, with XBOX. Microsoft? Is that a joke?

      The reason the PS2 is so readily hacked is because there are so many consoles and games out there. It's just like the reason there are more viruses for PCs than Macs, so many more PCs out there.

      Use your head. The reason the PSP has been hacked so much is because it's got so much untapped potential.
    • -1
      Final Blade Aug 27, 07
      All consoles get hacked, its a piece of electronics eventually someone will hack it, its inevitable.
  • 0
    Synergized Aug 26, 07
    Sony is getting hacked left and right. I don't think or know if the Playstation 3 has been craced yet, but I'm sure it will be soon. Sony needs to stop pretending that their consoles and handhelds are 'unhackable', trying to scare people off and wasting their time instead of actually making their consoles unhackable. Well, not that I would want them to, but you know, for the better of Sony. All gamers love when consoles get hacked.
  • 1
    Bale Fire Aug 26, 07
    All consoles get hacked, Sony is hardly a exception
    • 0
      Synergized Aug 26, 07
      True, but the Playstation Portable Slim got hacked(or more so the battery) before it's even going to be released.

      Is the Playstation 3 hacked yet?
  • 0
    BANDITO ATTACK Aug 26, 07
    What.. they DO know that the Wii has been hacked for a while now, right? It's just that most of the Wii owners are the more casual gamers who don't know how to pirate games, or don't know that it even exists.
    • -2
      Final Blade Aug 27, 07
      Or doesn't care as long as they are having fun.
  • 2
    metaldra0 Aug 27, 07
    PS2. Beating Wii.

    HAHAHAHA!
  • 1
    MetroidSeeker Aug 28, 07
    Add another entry to the things Sony is getting owned by:
    DS
    Wii
    360
    Developers
    Media
    Price Points

    and now Piracy, i feel bad for Sony, but there motto shouldnt have been "Tape the competiters technology and price points together, and charge developers 20 times what Nintendo charges them." Bad Karma, baby
  • 0
    Tom Aug 28, 07
    Go Sony! Hah, it's such a shame that they're getting owned by the competition, and as for the piracy thing, it's a real shame but that's business.
  • 0
    xegaldis Sep 6, 07
    Sony really need to learn when to quit, seriously. They're trying so hard on beating Nintendo, instead of concentrating on their own technology, I guess.

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