| FishyJoe said: Hardware sales are only half the picture though. Software is where the bulk of profits are made. The attach rate is shrinking which is not a good sign for software sales. |
But thats the thing... software sales are far from beeing bad... the lack of quality software is the issue IMO. Good to mediocre ports like MIdnight Club LA, Lego Indiana Jones/Batman, SWTFU are all on the route to sell pretty well for half-backed ports, and same is with yearly sport games like Madden/FIFA/PES 09....
Software buyers are there, the fact that games that are rarely rated above 70% are selling well ( true IP matters a lot to ) and lest be honest there are no gams that push the PSP or games that are advertised well on it... LocoRoco 2 was released last week and not one add for it. I bet that the same will happen with Patapon2.
Games can sell... the first Patapon , GoW CoO, Fifa 08 and CC prooved it ( this year )... yes I know that they are heavy hitters but in the same time they sold well over their profitability line ;)
Im hoping that sooner or later we will see a bigger software support in the west to and games like Ressistance Retribution, Dissidia, Gundam vs. Gundam will further proove my theory that the PSP can sell software, and 3rd party developers will jump on the oportunity ;)
Lets hope that
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