hunter_alien said:
Kasz216 said:
hunter_alien said:
Kasz216 said:
When was the firmware cracked anyway
Looking at FIFA for example
FIFA Soccer (05) .11 due to no europeon sales
FIFA 06 .57
FIFA 07 1.03
FIFA 08 .81
Grand theft Auto Vice City - 2.44 Mil San Andreas - 4.78 Mil |
The FW was cracked in 05 , but it became rampant ( and usable for most ) only at the beginning of 06 . Untill then dozen of showelware games where announced for the PSP , and then , afther Sony just couldent handle the issue with FW updates there where far less games announced . The best example of sales going down is what you showed : GTA : LCS is the best selling 3rd party portable game this gen , while VCS could only sell half . NFS : MW sold nearly 2 million copys on the PSP while Carbon still didnt hit the million . Madden sales went down for 3 years , even though hardware is going up ( stillf far better than on the DS true) . Smackdown ... well I dont know its still selling . There are some differences , but most of them came last year when the S&L came andmany new addopters came . So yeah , I balme piarcy for the lower sales of yearly franchises , especially when Madden 08 for the PSP often appeared as top downloads on torent sites ... |
Madden slaes went UP. It went down in 08 and that was it... note that Madden sales in general were down in 08
NFS Carbon was just a bad game. On average most games sales have gone up. Even then if they didn't, you couldn't argue it was piracy without knowing how many people who got PSP's still use their PSPs. How many still use them for games... and how many people that used to buy games now use them to pirate... and how many of those people planned to continue to buy games instead of pirate them. A number of Slim sales after all are likely people upgrading their PSPs. How many of those people.. just bought PS2s. Or DS's. Or just thought PSP games weren't worth the money anymore. How did the entrace of the DS effect software sales? And the DS catching on and userbase growing. Looking at the montly and yearly charts this trend you think exists just doesn't present itself. Honestly it's just a lot easier to say "This game is canceled because of piracy" then "This game is canceled because it wont' sell enough." Reason being, then the people are mad at the pirates and not you. |
Actually I know that those games where canceled because low software sale and rampant pircay because in every case I read an interview with the developer saying it .... did they lie , and the reason was completly different ? Maybe , but thats what they stated . I check out several PSP sites /day and read mnay interviews . Will I provide you a link ? No , Im to lazy to search for 06 articles :P PS : NFS : Carbo actually has a higher rating on Metacritics than MW ( 7.3-7.2 ) so its not because of quality :) |
No, I mean it's easier for the developer to say and use it as a scapegoat. Ever hear a developer quote their "lost profits" from piracy?
They lie right there. What they do is... take every single sale then multiply it buy 50-60 dollars. As if they got the full price of the game and that every pirated copy would translate into a sold copy.
People constantly lie on the overarching effects of piracy because it either benefits them or they are willfully ignorant of it.
To compare however.
Total Software sold for PSP
2005: 11,000,000
2006: 16,000,000
2007: 17,000,000
2008: 4,000,000 so far.
Would seem to suggest 2008 will be a bumper year for PSP sales, likely due to sales blowing up due to the PSP sales blowing up around late 2007.
Christmas quarter being 3/4ths year sales.
This is with, as you put it... less games being announced. There is a big jump from 2005 to 2006 when you claim piracy was most rampant.
Seems to make sense as a software curve for a system that was considered to be dying for a bit, who likely lost users bitter of UMD and who's system has a lot of multimedia functions.
