Asked why Sony can’t release PAL region games for the PSP in a more timely manner even to English-speaking countries like the U.K. and Australia, SCEE CEO David Reeves gives some great advice:
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.
Thanks for the refreshing honesty, David. Now if Sony would start releasing games for the PSP even worth torrenting, let alone buying.
NOTE: The advice of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe CEO David Reeves in regards to procuring the latest excellent Sony releases do not necessarily represent those of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
Amen. Can you expand this last sentence out? You go to the mainstream videogame review sites and they’re still half praising all of it, but the most recent final fantasy feels like it was molested by some sort of pokemon game.
My expansion would basically be there’s tons of games on the PSP worth buying… but there hasn’t been any must-haves since the God of War, and nothing seems likely to come out for the rest of the year on the platform. PSP’s best library is in the past, with nothing coming in the future that’s very interesting, which is a big part of what makes the complaint about lack of PAL releases seem so absurd.
I liked Crysis Core, for what it’s worth.
Why the disclaimer? I didn’t see anything on Escapist or ButtonMasher to suggest that Reeves was not speaking for Sony. When a CEO of a company speaks publicly on a business-related topic, isn’t it assumed that he or she is, in fact, speaking for the company?
Pliny, I’m pretty sure that was meant sarcastically.
Something I find confusing about the quote is he talks about “quality”. Now I know that bootlegs of movies and music are often of very low quality because people record them with camcorders in movie theaters or perform some other similar shenanigan to make it possible, but isn’t a torrent going to be based on an image of the actual game disc and therefore basically as good as the real thing? He makes it sound like it has something to do with wanting a PAL specific version of the game(I honestly have no idea how much difference this makes), but how is that a concern on the PSP?
@#4, Shmerker: He’s using PAL metaleptically (or possibly synecdochically – I always get the two mixed up). He means the region of PAL-using countries which form a single logistical unit as far as Sony is concerned, even if products are no longer differentiated by video formats.
The quality issue presumably relates to the traditional torrent problems of trojans, duff images and whatnot.