My so-called hatred is not unjustified. Over the past couple of weeks wee have had some developing studios visit my university for the purpose of a games expo. Of course, I got chance to have little conversations with them. Some had developed for PSP, DS/DSi/3DS, PS3, Xbox, the whole spectrum.
I quizzed a developer I think it might have been from Guerrilla Games or some other studio as to why there were so little games in the West for the PSP. He explicitly told me, the developer: "Because the PSP is so riddled with piracy one man will buy the game, upload it online and everybody and the mother will use the 'backup' (he made little quotes with his hands) to play the game instead.
I used to be in that position, like everyone else I didn't want to spend the money on games because they are a luxury. NOT a necessity. Because of how easy it was to circumvent security on the PSP people never even seemed to think about actually buying the game. People seem to think they're owed games at a lower price, and that they still should play games even if they can't afford them. Which doesn't apply to any other markets than multimedia. You wouldn't say that you can't afford a new fridge-freezer, and go out and 'borrow' one.
The PSP showed a lot of promise, but because of the hideous levels of piracy there was virtually no money to be made from it over here. The only companies that seemed to thrive on developing for PSP have been Japanese ones, because the PSP is in a whole other league of popularity over there, people still pirate, that's unavoidable, but on the whole the japanese consumer is more obsessed with 'collecting' than the average.
Because of the ill-fate of the PSP's piracy, people seem to expect the Vita to be hacked in the same way, as if it is a given or that they deserve the hack, doing everything to thwart the earning of the games studios that actually keep the console they play games on alive. Every copy lost to piracy is an extra $10 or so that wee could use making our next game that bit better, but no, people want that immediate satisfcation, blindly not thinking about the impact that could have on the developers who spend hundreds upon hundreds of hours making that game for their enjoyment, or the fate of the studio, the company that made the console, anything.
People can oppose piracy all they want, but there is no way anybody i ever knew with a PSP that pirated that bought the game when they had enough cash after completing it on a pirated version, not even myself. Who would buy what they already finished? They'd be basically buying the game for the privilege of it gathering dust.
The thought of 'I can't afford, I won't get' seems to be lost on any software, multimedia platform today. It's now a case of ''I can't afford, I'll pirate it and act as if I was never going to buy it in the first place" when in actual fact, if there was no such thing, people would have the patience to save up for a little bit and get what they earned."

Long-winded, and yes, I used to pirate games for PSP, hands-up, you caught me. But as assassinator said, the whole becoming a developer thing gives me a whole new sense of appreciation for the tireless work that devs put into games, let alone the OS and the hardware you actually buy and have a license to use.
Just to be ruined by people that think it's OK to do everything your license to the software does not state you can do. With the watery and quite frankly, completely bullchocolate excuse of 'backups' to cover it up. I don't know what the hell people even do with their games, to lose them so much they warrant taking 'backups' of them. I don't believe the word 'backup' for a millisecond, I'm not retarded. You wouldn't go into a game retailer and 'borrow' the game off the shelf, so why do it online?

Not once have I ever known anyone to buy a game after pirating it. I've known people get new games for PSP online without a single thought of ever buying it, no matter how much they wanted it. There are some people with a conscience, but seriously, they are in the devastating minority.

What happened to the days when people were people were happy with what a device did as standard? People seem to expect every single device to be an all-singing-all-dancing supermachine that does everything ever. Or more irritatingly, that they are owed that super device and complain to "Sony" when their device doesn't let them (for some reason, I wonder what it could be) do that.

Companies, developers, studios are not your friends. They don't owe you anything. You shouldn't expect them to bend over and do everything you ask. They are businesses, they aren't here to please you. They're here to earn as much money as they can. And that is it.

None of you will listen anyway. People always want what they can't or shouldn't have. And as a prospective PS Vita developer, (I'm developing for it next year), if i could i'd personally go around and punch every single arsehole who took my work for free, that I slaved on, worked to the bone for, to provide a fun way of earning money, where it hurt.

The tone of all of these articles is all geared toward the coming closer to running 'backups' you know my feelings on that poo poo. All everyone is waiting for is that green light to piracy. I know a few people who won't even get a Vita until it can pirate.

And just to let you know, I couldn't care less about what any of you have to say against me.