Blue Submarine No. 6
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I love how everyone is trying to spin this into the "you can still play" while going thru a lot of hoops.
Then it will get custom firmwared, then rampart piracy, and it will be the 2nd psp all over again.
*at least the hardware will sell
This is ridiculous...
First of all, any sensible person realizes that of the 70 Million PSPs sold, far fewer than 1% of them ever saw someone managing multiple user accounts on them... This is not an issue for the majority of users...
Secondly, CFW and piracy on the PSP had nothing to do with the number of PSN accounts people could or couldn't manage on the system - it had to do with the fact that someone's always going to want to break open the hardware, and when that happens someone else is always going to want to leverage that to steal games rather than pay for them... When you make it very easy to do both, then it can get a little out of control nowadays thanks to the rudimentary technical ability of a lot of people (they can unzip files and copy them to a memory card and follow instructions) and the ubiquity of the Internet.
Reality check please: anyone who thinks that it will be a small matter to crack the Vita or create CFW for it is clearly not paying attention... It took more than THREE YEARS to crack the PS3, and it had a GAPING flaw in it's security. The PSVita is going to be much, much harder to break into than the PS3 was; it will take a significant investment in time and resources to do it. I wouldn't be surprised if it never actually happened in more than the most superficial fashion. No way we'll see the kind of piracy the PSP was subject to on the Vita, at least not in the first five years...
...anyway, back to the OP, since only a handful of people care at all about managing multiple accounts on a handheld, I seriously doubt this will have any significant effect on sales at all... And at any rate, if Sony see it as a problem later on, they can easily fix it with a firmware update.