Do the Japanese hate PSP software?

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Quickdraw McGraw said:
I responded in the Japanese weekly sales, but I'll do it again:

Homebrew/Hacking. I'm not sure if it is that popular in Japan, but that is a big reason PSP software oftentimes under performs.

That doesn't explain why the PS3's software totals are also very poor. I think the answer is that people really are buying these as multi-media devices in Japan. Logically, if only, say, 40 percent of your reason for buying a system is to play games, then you may only buy 40 percent as many games as someone who bought a system entirely for video game software.

This would also explain why the US/EU software sales are better, as well. There is very little evidence that US/EU people put much value in Blu-Ray/Photo playback/any other additional function; as such, the PS3/PSPs software sales are reasonable in those regions, as people largely buy the PS3/PSP to play games -- and thus they do just that, and buy more games. Just my hypothesis!