hunter_alien said: Kasz216 said: hunter_alien said: Kasz216 : Bealive me , hardware sales should be the same even without piracy ... why ? Because than we would see much more software on it , and eventually good games would sell the system . Saying that the DCs death had nothing to do with piracy is just being arrogant or fool . I dont want to offend you , Im just talking in general , but do you really think that Soulcalibur wouldent have done much batter if there wouldent have been so easy to get the game for free . Yes , the DC was a record breaker , but only in the hardware department ... it did well in software , true , but not even far as well as it could have done . Yes , I agree that homebrew sells the PSP , but when games like Crush or Silent Hill dont sell far as much as they should , than you cant blame it on games quality , the only thing that you can blame it on is piracy . It's not arrogant or foolish. It has everything to do with the scientific data conducted on it. You can look it up, piracy was not a problem with the Dreamcast, and was just something Sega used as an excuse to save themselves from the embarrsement. People would of kept buying DC's if Sega had the ability to sell them. Piracy helps hardware sales, not hurt them. It would of lasted on much like the PSP. Why wouldn't more people have bought the easiest piratable console created? It got plenty of great games. The reason was. The masses didn't want it because of Sega's prior mistakes. It was getting a lot of big games the PS2 got. The interest just wasn't there. As for not doing well in the software department... It did better then the PS2 did in software it's first year. With a higher attach rate no less. I agree : piracy helps to sell hardware ... 100% true , but saying that it doesnt hurts software ... thats just plain nonsens . Yes , the DC could have reached easily , maybe even pass the 20 million mark by the end of its lifespam , if Sega would have had enough money to support it , but software wise it was allready and it would have been an awful performer ... maybe even wors than the PSP is now ... Wit rising hardware sales the PSPs software sales will sooner or later pass the mediocre level , while Im not shure that the DC could have made that possible ... maybe with a redesign ...

Hey, i'm just saying what every independent study on piracy has shown. Plenty of games must have atleast shipped a million. The software sold on the dreamcast was respectable considering how much hardware it sold, even not discounting software bought by people to just pirate games. NFL 2K1 sold/shipped 1 million. The problem with the dreamcast was, like the PS3 they were selling it at a loss when they already didn't have much money to begin with. The piracy excuse was simply that. Game Quality doesn't matter if the people who buy your system are the kind of people who wouldn't buy games first hand. That's the kind of people who pirate games. People who either buy games second hand, or just wouldn't buy games at all unless they were piratable. Other people who pirate games mostly buy games they would but anyone and just pirate games they're not sure they would buy. Games don't sell on the PSP, because the PSP didn't attract the right auidence who actually buys games.

psp has good games,its that people dint buy games mostly because of the piracy

Piracy reads

Canadian Study on CD's (Entertainment media is often collorary, as it's found in this study, so it seems a fair comparison.)

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/

It might not mean much to the average Sony fanboy but even people at microsoft see the value of piracy.

http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198000211

I still think it's wrong. But to say it hurts software sales just flies in the face of all the independent research studies i've seen conducted.

Where are all the good PSP games? They're hiding...

The PSP only has one game that got 90%+ on Game Rankings, and that is Lumines...

Porky Pig Style, "A-bi... A-bi...A-bi... That's all folks!"

There are no good PSP games, the system is garbage.

Fimbulvetr said: There are no good PSP games, the system is garbage.

  Well I really hope that youl get banned soon ... for life ...

 

BTW : not only games that have an averege of 90% + are good games ... the PSP , as somebody had pointed out has much more 80%+ and 70%+ than the DS , and that really means something .  

hunter_alien said: Fimbulvetr said: There are no good PSP games, the system is garbage.   Well I really hope that youl get banned soon ... for life ...   BTW : not only games that have an averege of 90% + are good games ... the PSP , as somebody had pointed out has much more 80%+ and 70%+ than the DS , and that really means something .

Anything less than 80% is garbage. There isn't a single game, that was a universal success, that scored less than 80%, so by default, those get erased. Now, 80%-89.99%, are "good" games. 90%+ are masterpieces. That's just how it is. Why play a 75% game when you can play an 85% game? Sure, the PSP has more 80%-89.99% games, than the DS, but a console scores big with how many 90%+ games it has. And if you eliminate your typical sports games, racing games, and such, than the PSP's library of 80%+ games are severely stripped down. Now if you excuse me, New Super Mario Bros. on my DS is calling me... 

shows how big an issue piracy is if you allow it to happen if it were easier to write to a DS card, i'm sure piracy would be an issue there is a HUGE homebrew and piracy PSP community. that, and the fact that PSP games can all be found on PS2, is the reason why software sales suck

the PSP might not have dozens of 'good games'
but the good games it does have, are REALLY good

a.l.e.x59 said: hunter_alien said: Fimbulvetr said: There are no good PSP games, the system is garbage. Well I really hope that youl get banned soon ... for life ... BTW : not only games that have an averege of 90% + are good games ... the PSP , as somebody had pointed out has much more 80%+ and 70%+ than the DS , and that really means something . Anything less than 80% is garbage. There isn't a single game, that was a universal success, that scored less than 80%, so by default, those get erased. Now, 80%-89.99%, are "good" games. 90%+ are masterpieces. That's just how it is. Why play a 75% game when you can play an 85% game? Sure, the PSP has more 80%-89.99% games, than the DS, but a console scores big with how many 90%+ games it has. And if you eliminate your typical sports games, racing games, and such, than the PSP's library of 80%+ games are severely stripped down. Now if you excuse me, New Super Mario Bros. on my DS is calling me...

How many sales do you consider a "universal success". Crash Banidcoot: Wrath of Cortex sold about 5 million copies boasting a metacritic score of 66%.