Sony have always stated that piracy harms consumers by forcing publishers to raise prices. Problem is that on systems that are rarely hacked we don't see any reduction in price, certainly not in UK. Stands to reason that if Sony uses this reason to stop piracy they can't then rise prices.

I find the opposite happens, pirated systems have their game prices drop in prices such as with the PSP and PC. There is a far worse danger at hand and that is the drop of support from developers. This is the case with the PSP, brilliant game system but go into any shop and the PSP game shelf space gets smaller and smaller and stores aren't refreshing supply. Shame cause the PSP is such a good system that hackers have just about killed it off.