What would really be revolutionary is for some company to slash games prices to a reasonable level.
This would cut piracy because all the hassle of bricked consoles and installing custom code wouldnt be worth it if the games were reasonable priced in the first place. The only reason there is so much piracy is because of the inflated prices in the first place. It's just a neverending cycle.
Totally agree. There will always be a core of people who simply want everything for free (try getting free electricity from your supplier - odd how it doesn't work in real life isn't it?)
However, the vast majority are happy to pay for their games and I have no doubt, if a game was priced at a realistic price, then piracy would drop.
The problem is though that games these days cost so much to make, its going to be hard to see how a big publisher would keep their shareholders happy if they chose to chop the price of their games.
What it really needs is someone like Sony to take the lead and start selling games at say an RRP of £29.99 rather than £49.99. After all savvy games companies can always make collectors editions for £49.99 that include crap that noone apart from collectors wants, so the collectors get their tat and everyone else pays a decent price for the game.
However, seeing the price of games on the PSN, I have absolutely no hope in hell that Sony are about to do this. Just thank god you can get Vita games on cards as you can get them 2nd hand, or at the very least, from shops at a discounted price new.
Why Games on the PSN are the same price as in the shops is a prime example of what's wrong with the system. They should be FAR cheaper to buy online, primarily because you can't copy them at all and you can't resell them. But no, corporate greed takes over.
Tell you what, unless the PS4 is blow-me-away-fantastic, I'll probably stop with the PS3. It does all I need it to do and as I don't have a 4K screen, I'm unlikely to need a console that could output to one for the occasional graphically-untaxing game - ala the 1080p output of the PS3. Only a handful of games actually use it, GT5 being the odd exception.