GT PSP sells 227K Week 1 = BIGGEST PSP Racing Game launch! (hooray)!!

[saicho]

NoCtiS_NoX said:

@ Atma

The best answer to your question is: About the piracy thing.

DS lots of casual gamers

PSP lots of hardcore gamers

@ Saicho

You need a DS flashcarts or something like that to be able to play pirated games.

I don't know if this will help but I will post some pirated numbers for the other games.

Total downloads on one torrent site.

God of War: Chains of Olympus - 94,154
Patapon - 112,183
Ratchet & Clank - Size Matters - 197,113
Crush - 48,959
LOCO ROCO - 163,904
Wipeout Pulse - 116,965
Castlevania X Chronicles - 102,354
Metal Gear Solid - Portable Ops (Not Including Plus) - 231,054
Burnout Dominator - 269,486

Link: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=251896

That is just for one site so imagine if you add it up with the other sites.

The numbers you posted don't mean much if you don't have DS numbers to compare with. As it is now, we don't know if DS games are in 50K or 500K range. Also, people can easily download DS ROMs directly without BT since they are usually much smaller games.

On the same thread on Neogaf, people also pointed out piracy is pretty bad for PS1, PS2, XBox and even Wii. However, I hardly see anyone use that as a reason for bad game sales.