Is the PSP considered successful for Sony?

[Kasz216]

hunter_alien said:

Kasz216 said:

*~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.

You ment PS2 right ? ;)

 

Anyways , I dont think Onna76 is wrong . True , games should be more handheld-oriented , but in the same time just look at all the games that where canceled due to high piracy numbers :

Devil May Cry : Dance of Sparda ( the game is TBA for more than 2 years now ) , Earthworm Jim ( the game was canceled due to immense piracy issue as stated by the developer ) , Gekido : The Dark Angel ( again , developers have presumably shifted game development to the PS3 because of financial insecurity of the PSP ) .

Also there where tons of other games that where canceled due to piracy from many companys ( Ubi is the best example by canceling RRR , Blazing Angels ) . Games where selling pretty well before the FW was cracked . Shure you can say that they where selling well because the PSP was new , and at first it was impressive to be able to play PS2 ports , but you just cant blame the huge dip in sales just on this , because even than we would still see most game performing at least 100k more or so , and not as some games , wich just bomb in the 30-60k region ...

If they weren't canceled by piracy, they would of be canceled by the PSP just not selling games or consoles. Developers and Manufactuerers will maintain that piracy is a problem, just because it's easier to blame it on piracy then on their own failings. Manufactuerers are well aware of piracy not being a problem, yet still wish to maintain it's a problem because then they can claim all sorts of phantom loss revenue and use that as political bargaining power.

Also "selling well" is a relative term... that's actually quite hard to prove since the sales on the PSP games here just aren't updated a lot.