| *~Onna76~* said: Personally I don't consider the PSP to be a failure when it comes to hardware sales, I think Sony will be pleased about that. But... indeed as you mention it and I've also have a conversation with Hunter_Alien about this... piracy is killing the software market. Therefore people who're downloading illegal games without paying a single penny for it are pissing me so off that they earn every single disrespect they can have from me. Due to all this downloading and therefore lower software sales, devs create less software for on the PSP, while the PSP most certainly deserves it as its certainly one heck of an amazing piece of hardware and that only in the palm of your hand. Therefore pirates, you're the biggest lowlife scum around the planet... Sorry mods for saying this  |
I disagree. Well I think piracy is wrong. But I think if the PSP wasn't so piratable you wouldn't see an increase in sold software. You would see a decrease in purchased hardware.
People are programmed to want to buy things legally from a store when it is priced as what they see as a reasonable value. People who pirate are either mini-sociopaths or people who don't see the value of the game as being worth the price asked for it, and therefore wouldn't buy said product, or a PSP in the first place.
The PSP's main problem selling games wise is that it's basically a mini PSP. Who wants a mini PSP when you could be playing the real PSP? That and due to it's multimedia features, you have way more entertainment options other then just PSP games when on the road.
While with the DS. That's a system that's so different, if you've got a DS game you might sit at home and play your DS.
