{"id":8243,"date":"2010-10-28T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"god-of-war-dev-psp-piracy-means-it-doesn-t-make-sense-to-make-games-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/8243-god-of-war-dev-psp-piracy-means-it-doesn-t-make-sense-to-make-games-for-it","title":{"rendered":"God of War dev: PSP piracy means \u201cit doesn\u2019t make sense\u201d to make games for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2010\/10\/26\/interview-ready-at-dawns-ru-weerasuriya-on-god-of-war-ghost-of-sparta-wii-development-piracy-and-more\/  \" target=\"_blank\">VG247<\/a>, God of War: Ghost of Sparta creative director Ru Weerasuriya admits he&rsquo;s a bit anxious about the November launch of the game. &ldquo;The biggest problem we&rsquo;re fighting against at the moment,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;is seeing how piracy is going to affect sales on PSP at this point.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;Both [the DS and PSP] have problems,&rdquo; he goes on to explain. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not very familiar with how it is on the DS, but on the PSP it&rsquo;s pretty rampant now all around the world. It&rsquo;s getting to the point where it doesn&rsquo;t make sense to make games on it, if the piracy keeps on increasing. It&rsquo;s a tough call right now to say what&rsquo;s going to happen to it and where it&rsquo;s going to go, but it definitely hurts a lot of developers out there who are trying to make great games.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He also mentions that, &ldquo;You can go to Hong Kong and get one cart for the DS with practically every single game that&rsquo;s ever come out for it. It&rsquo;s pretty scary to think that it&rsquo;s got to this extent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So, kids. If you want more God of War on your PSP, don&rsquo;t copy that floppy. Er, UMD-dy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsflash: Piracy hurts developers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}