Jetlogs said:
Please elaborate why you think piracy doesn't hurt sales? I understand that the PSP is also bought as a media player, but still the software is abnormally low for a hardware that is selling at a healthy rate. |
The mod/hacking scene for the PS2 and Xbox were just as big as the one for the PSP(if not bigger) and neither of those platforms had such low software sales.
The PSP was marketed and hence bought overwhelmingly as a multimedia device that also plays games instead of the other way around. It makes a very sleek mp3 player and portable video player, which has driven a lot of its hardware sales. It's also very attractive to hackers(as was the Xbox) because of its versatility, so that is also driving a lot of the hardware sales. The PSP also suffered from a severe gaming drought until the middle of 2006 with the majority of it's titles being PS2 ports(the term PlayStation Portable was being taken a little too far), and even after that, it still doesn't have a lot of pick-up-and-paly titles or must-have titles. If it didn't have the multimedia features and/or wasn't hackable, then its hardware sales would be significantly lower. This would have led to a higher attach rate, but its software sales would still be rather low.
Consoles owned: Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PSP, DS, PS3
