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roccerfeller on 18 July 2010

Even the largest sites where people can download games, DOES NOT make up for weak sales. 

Piracy is even more popular in Japan, yet the game is doing fine there.  Some people cannot come to realize, the PSP is just not a software beast.  It never was.  It took too long for it to get its mojo going. Initially it was PS2 ports, at a time when PS2 was king.  It set up a weak couple first years, weak first impressions, and thus momentum was killed.

The system is a great system, with some solid games, but Sony really made this thing with a lot of arrogance, assuming people would get it regardless of sticky square buttons.

The truth is Sony learned from that, and today is a better company for it.  I am happy the PSP has poor software sales, cause now it means their next system will be better.



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Solid_Snake4RD on 18 July 2010
roccerfeller said:

Even the largest sites where people can download games, DOES NOT make up for weak sales. 

Piracy is even more popular in Japan, yet the game is doing fine there.  Some people cannot come to realize, the PSP is just not a software beast.  It never was.  It took too long for it to get its mojo going. Initially it was PS2 ports, at a time when PS2 was king.  It set up a weak couple first years, weak first impressions, and thus momentum was killed.

it was a good software sellar at first with high selling GTA's andf other titles

The truth is Sony learned from that, and today is a better company for it.  I am happy the PSP has poor software sales, cause now it means their next system will be better.

poor software sales doesn't make the next one great same as the the first one being good doesn't mean the second one will be good too





arcane_chaos on 18 July 2010

man, I hope Sony can reduce the piracy rate one their next handheld console.



Solid_Snake4RD on 18 July 2010
arcane_chaos said:

man, I hope Sony can reduce the piracy rate one their next handheld console.


i think they will eliminate it



arcane_chaos on 18 July 2010
Solid_Snake4RD said:
arcane_chaos said:

man, I hope Sony can reduce the piracy rate one their next handheld console.


i think they will eliminate it


yeah, that what I meant to say.



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Bruno Muñoz on 18 July 2010

IGN: "Peace Walker Sales Difficult To Judge"

C'mon this is ridiculous, MGS:PW is by far the biggest bomb of this generation.



Solid_Snake4RD on 18 July 2010
Bruno Muñoz said:

IGN: "Peace Walker Sales Difficult To Judge"

C'mon this is ridiculous, MGS:PW is by far the biggest bomb of this generation.


we don't know all the sales



Christian973 on 18 July 2010
arcane_chaos said:

man, I hope Sony can reduce the piracy rate one their next handheld console.


PSPgo2 everyone?



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Boutros on 18 July 2010
Bruno Muñoz said:

IGN: "Peace Walker Sales Difficult To Judge"

C'mon this is ridiculous, MGS:PW is by far the biggest bomb of this generation.


It's not even the biggest bomb without digital sales. This one is:

http://www.vgchartz.com/game.php?id=24661



Boutros on 18 July 2010
Christian973 said:
arcane_chaos said:

man, I hope Sony can reduce the piracy rate one their next handheld console.


PSPgo2 everyone?


No I don't think we'll see another PSPgo-like handheld from Sony anytime soon. They said they learned from that failure. Which is good because I hate downloadable only games.