How the psp has fallen

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kingofwale said:

Man said:

I just clicked on the blast from the past chart. It was American chart for the week ending 20th August, 2005.

http://www.vgchartz.com/aweekly.php?date=38585

As youd expect, the ps2 dominated with 21 of the top 50.

The psp however, was second with 18 of the top 50.

 

The psp also had much better software than the gamecube, the ds, the xbox and the gba. Keep in mind that for this week, the ds had already sold more hardware than the psp.

I find it amazing that it was so succesful in the beginning, and now its got decent hardware sales in Japan, but little to brag about in the US and Europe... Is this all to do with piracy, or was there another cause?

I think the title should read, "How the PSP software sales have fallen".

I find it progressively unfair to target PSP as the "king of piracy", when DS pirates have a MUCH easier time, cheaper cost and less chance of bricking their system when it comes to "stealing games".

Why is PSP software low? I don't know. Maybe people rather use it to listen to music/watch movies... I can probably name about 10 other reasons.

 Psp hacking is free. You get everything you need with the PSP. Nothing to buy. Nothing to order.

How is the DS 'MUCH easier time, cheaper cost" than that? There are  68,000,000 DS' out there. How many of these modded DS carts have been sold? 1million? Less?  There are 32M PSP's out there. Every single one is hackable out of the box. The PS2 had hardware hacks as well, and hardware hacks are used by a small percentage of the ownership population. PSP doesn't require any hardware hacks so it if ar fare more widespread.

It's not unfair, it is the truth. PSP is effortlessly hackable. There hasn't been any bricking issues since 2006.