Why is the PSP Dead?

[Zim]

dgm6780 did you just call patapon a huge game? O.o; It is like locoroco only with less appeal. Do not expect good sales from it.

Also I would slightly agree with this. While the psp itself is selling well, that really means nothing. It's common for companies to make a loss on hardware. So are Sony making a profit or loss on Psp hardware sold?

As a gaming system the psp has failed pretty awfully. As a media device it did pretty bad. I say that as although the hardware sold well, the umd format failed. So there can't have been huge profit there. Software sales are horrendously bad, in Japan the wii software has already outsold psp software.

In america this week the psp came an extremely distant last place in software sales. Selling half the amount as the PS3.

The real problem though is you have basically stopped hearing about new games coming out on it. After FF7 and GoW what is there? Patapon which well be a niche title. And then? You just don't hear much about upcoming games for it.

Just because it isn't selling as well as the DS doesn't mean it's a failure. It's movie format dying, horrendous software sales however do. If sony make a loss on the hardware then I would be surprised if they even managed to recoup all the R+D costs + loss from hardware sold yet.