PSP piracy on the up
Sony worried about handheld sales
Peter Dille, an exec at Sony Computer Entertainment America, has said that the PSP is being weighed down by an epic piracy problem.
Sony are adamant that piracy is seriously hurting sales on the handheld format, also acknowledging that it is a problem that the business in general needs to face up to.
"I'm convinced and we're convinced that piracy has taken out a big chunk of our software sales on PSP," Dille told Gamasutra.
"It's been a problem that the industry has to address together; it's one that I think the industry takes very seriously, but we need to do something to address this because it's criminal what's going on, quite frankly.
"It's not good for us, but it's not good for the development community. We can look at data from BitTorrent sites from the day Resistance: Retribution goes on sale and see how many copies are being downloaded illegally, and it's frankly sickening."
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