The PSP has been stuck with the bane of piracy ever since its firmware was hacked to run homebrew software, which includes pirated games. How does Sony feel about it? In an interview with Gamasutra, Sony’s Peter Dille called the problem “sickening” and noted that the company loses a large amount of software sales due to illegal sharing.

"I’m convinced and we’re convinced that piracy has taken out a big chunk of our software sales on PSP," said Dille.

The problem got so bad that third-party developers were “just about ready to jump off the cliff and pull support for the platform” around 18 months ago. But Sony turned that around: Dille explained that the company has been “evangelizing” the platform since, touting it as an original platform and not a place to dump PS2 ports.

“[Piracy is] not good for us, but it’s not good for the development community,” he said. “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. We are spending a lot of time talking about how we can deal with that problem.”