Piracy is given way too much credit for the PSP's weak software sales. The price of the games and the fact that the device does a lot more than just play games is really what hurts it. Only PSP games I've seen are Daxter and CastlevaniaX, because my roommate uses it more for its media capabilities (though he likes playing games on it just fine). Though he does want to hack it, he would still purchase worthwhile games if the opportunity arose.
Anyway, the PSP doesn't need to be saved. Handhelds traditionally have low attachrates and they'd be worse if you took Nintendo out of the picture, which is pretty much how the PSP has played out. Given that it's more than just a game device, it's actually selling fairly well. They'd like more, no doubt, but the system is so far only halfway through its life or so (maybe less, who knows) and it has already well outsold many a console so far.
Before long the PSP will have outsold any non-Sony, non-Nintendo piece of videogame hardare, and if it does as well for the next 3 years as it has doen the last 3 then it will likely pass the NES in hardware sales. Hardly in need of a savior, I'd say. They just need to actually put good games on the system. Really, it's only a lack of decent titles that makes it look like such a joke. People could deal with it being a lower attach than Nintendo due t its nature, but selling more hardware than software some weeks in some places is just plain bad.
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