PSP games sales.

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The problem is that third party games still sell better on the DS, period, and that's all she wrote. It's nice that Capcom has found some modicum of success on the PSP, but they are the exception. Third parties sell more DS games than PSP games and they don't cost nearly as much to develop to boot. Monster Hunter 2's success may actually be a burden on the third party developers, I mean Konami or Square Enix don't go "WOOHOO Capcom is successful somewhere, this is a victory for all of us as third parties!" Square Enix got burned by the PSP crowd, considering at one point the PSP tie ratio was less than one, and their movie flopped on it too. So they bolted to the DS and have never been happier. They don't give two shits about how well Capcom's PS2 port did. Oh yeah, ports are another thing, considering that it (MHP2) will be the #1 selling game for the PSP, with its prequel right behind it. That's nice and all, but the disturbing fact about both is that they are PS2 ports. In fact, most successful PSP games ARE PS2 ports. This creates a terrible precedent where original game titles and/or games in a series that require new resources will do worse than click and drag ports from the PS2, and thus will cause third parties to not invest any real effort. It's nice that percentage wise certain third parties are doing better on the PSP than DS. But on the whole, they sell more ACTUAL games on the DS. So it's a no brainer which one is doing better on the third party front.