While the PlayStation 3 continues to be regarded as the runner-up in online console gaming, the system's growing library of free to play online titles has helped PlayStation Network (PSN) grow to double every year, and the growth continues.
Last year, Microsoft said it had reached the 17 million subscriber mark for Xbox Live, but more recent numbers are not yet available. The company made a strong push early this year to attract more users to the online gaming service by dropping the price of an annual subscription to $30 from the customary $50.
Though direct competitors, it sometimes appears that Sony is in a different boat from Microsoft altogether. While Microsoft has to move to attract console owners to its online service, Sony has to use the online service to attract users to its console.
When considering this, it's no surprise that nearly 95% of PS3 owners are also PSN members (20 million PSN members out of 21 million consoles sold), while only 66% of Xbox 360 owners are Xbox Live subscribers (est. 18.5 million users to 27.93 million consoles).
If you are an Xbox, Wii or Playstation fanatic and would like to know how to copy games than you came to the right place! Today we are going to discuss a new way to make backup copies of all your favourite games in just seconds.
In the past, if you lost one of your games or one of your games got badly scratched and you couldn’t play it anymore, you only had two options. Either you lived without it, or you went out and bought a new one. Of course that all changed though with the advent of game copying software.
You might have even tried to copy video games with the same software that you use to burn music CD’s. Guess what? It doesn’t work! The reason is because Xbox, Wii and Playstation games are all protected with state of the art copy protection technology.
The reason for not being able to copy these games with regular software is because the built in protection essentially prevents a computer from being able to read the disk. However, with this new game copying software installed, your computer overcomes this problem and is then capable of producing good reliable copies in the space of a few seconds.
Once you’ve installed the software, copying games really could not be made any easier and instead of asking how to copy games, you’ll be asking why you hadn’t heard of this software any sooner. Simply place a game disk in your CD or DVD writer and hit the record button, which in turn will cause your PC to take an image of the disk. Once you’ve done this, you can remove the game disk and then when you insert a blank disc, the computer will copy the image to the disk. That’s all it takes in order to have a reliable copy within seconds.
Best of all, the software is so user friendly, that even a completed beginner can use it.
Keep in mind that we are not trying to endorse copying every single game you can get your hands on. It is completely legal to make backup copies of all your personal games, however you will run into copyright infringement problems if you start to copy games that do not belong to you.
With your newly acquired knowledge, you’re more than likely eager to get your hands on this software but before you rush into anything, it’s really worth your while to take a few points into consideration first. Any game copying software you want to buy should always include an instructional video, it should provide the buyer with customer support and of course, it should come with a full money-back guarantee. This should really be the minimum you’re willing to accept because the game copying software currently rated as being number one, Game Copy Pro, even gives buyers free access to a monumental game download service. Here you will, with a few quick clicks, be able to download just about any title ever released, whether it’s for Wii, Xbox or Playstation.
As an avid game player you simply have to know how to copy games and with competition being so fierce between software manufacturers, the No1 game copying software costs less than $30, which is even less than the cost of a single game.
After 10 years, Sony's PlayStation Store in San Francisco's Metreon shopping center - the only store of its kind - will close sometime this summer.
The lease on the PlayStation store, home to many a launch-night lineup (the PlayStation 2, PS3, PSP, and pretty much any major title all had events there) runs out this summer, and Sony told GameSpot it will not be renewed.
Sony developed the 350,000-square foot Metreon and opened it in June 1999. Sony sold its interest in the shopping center in 2006, but kept open its PlayStation and Sony Style stores. The Metreon's Sony Style will close after its lease expires March 31.
Although there is no other PlayStation store, there are Sony Style stores at numerous retail locations around the country.
Said a Sony rep to GameSpot:
"Our lease with the Metreon for the PlayStation Store will expire this summer and we have chosen not to renew it. While we are always looking at new avenues for additional retail exposure and space, we felt it best not to continue with a dedicated PlayStation Store at the Metreon at this time."
The PlayStation Store was a slick retail outlet and a great place to kill time waiting for movies or for your friends to finish shopping elsewhere. And, of course, it was the scene for launch-night hype for the past 10 years.
PlayStation gamers may feel a twinge of nostalgia, but it's not like Sony is shutting down an entire network of retail outlets. Anyway, if you're in the Bay Area or visiting, you have until the summer to pay your respects.
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Last year, Microsoft said it had reached the 17 million subscriber mark for Xbox Live, but more recent numbers are not yet available. The company made a strong push early this year to attract more users to the online gaming service by dropping the price of an annual subscription to $30 from the customary $50.
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