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KillerMan said:
kitler53 said:
KillerMan said:

Considering how dead PSP is software wise already in west this really doesn't matter that much. Actually as this probably leads to increased hw sales for PSP Sony could get more money out of PSP this way (PSP hw must have pretty high profit margin). PS3 is of course different thing...


....hmmm, i wonder why that would be. 

humanity, a long history of fucking themselves...

It's not solely because of piracy . DS sells software just fine even though piracy has been easier on DS than PSP, PS2 sold software just fine even though it had massive piracy, Wii, PS1 etc. Bigger reason for lack of PSP software sales is its game library. Yes there are some critically amazing games but even these are seen little watered down PS2 versions with nothing unique. They are typically home console games turned to portable but with inferior graphics and gameplay. Nintendo has been able to create games that work better on handheld. Also first party line up for PSP has been pretty much disaster. Compare that to PS3 and it has been pretty bad. It feels that when PS3 started to stuggle Sony somehow forgot they had PSP and it has been that way.


Exactly, and look at Japan software sales compared to the West on PSP, they have games that appeal to handheld J-culture (Monster Hunter especially) and that software sells like hotcakes... What Sony needs to do about the PSP2 is to appeal to handheld W-culture (game design especially but one thing i would do is to use cartridges instead of UMDs, loading times, noise and poor battery life are not for handhelds, and UMD compromises all of them)...