Is the Playstation Portable doomed?

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davygee said:

Christopher_G2 said:
20 million for the PSP actually isn't bad at all. It has already sold GameCube numbers in two years time. The bigger issues for the PSP is software sales. For whatever reason the average PSP owner is buying far fewer games than the average DS owner. Actually if you look the PSPs software to hardware sales ratio it's the worst for any major system that I can recall, even conciderably worse than was that for the GBA. You can explain that away with it having other features, and with the emulation factor, but that's really the 800 pound Gorilla in the room. The PSP was supposed to be the hardcore gamer's handheld, but the software sales don't reflect that at all.

That truely is bizarre.....I cannot understand anyone going to extreme of purchasing a PSP and only buying 1 game.  I have 17 games for the PSP and love most of them.....and I'd expect to have another 5-10 by the end of the year.

Even if you bought the wrong game and hated it...surely you'd get another totally different game to see what it like considering you've spent around £180 for it????

Gamers are the wierdest sort. 

Piracy my friend, PSP has a big big piracy problem. The only one I know that own a PSP is only playing pirate games.

I personally don't think PSP is doomed and mayby the PSP price drop will give the system more sales. It wont be the first handheld ever, but mayby some game actualy can drive sales. So far it seems that PSP and PS3 has the same problem, a lot of featurs but no games to drive sales.