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dgm6780 on 28 February 2008

it has 21 games at .98 million or better

17 are clear over 1.00 million



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Lone_Canis_Lupus on 02 March 2008

I am a PSP owner myself and love it. People use sales as a reason to why it's games "suck" while I think quite a few of them are really good. But that's just me. What I want to take on is "the game sales are low, so the games suck" argument. Do people realize just how easy the PSP is to hack? The pandora battery has pretty much made it impossible for Sony to stop piracy on the PSP.

What's killing the PSP is piracy. The PSP isn't selling well while it's software sales are suffering because of it's features. I honestly believe a good chunk of PSP owners pirate the games they want. Look at the PC, extremely easy to pirate games on it and use them. The PSP isn't like the PS2 or other hacked consoles where you have to mod it physically to play pirated games....all it takes is a soft mod. No warranty is voided or anything. The PSP is kind of like the PC in the way of piracy.

The PSP isn't outselling the DS...but it is succeeding and doing well.



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kingofwale on 02 March 2008

I think if you are a PSP owner, you have to be pretty happy with it.

Hardware wise: it's a BEAST, and does pretty much anything.

Software wise: It has awesome games and more coming out.

The only soft spot people pick on it is software sales, Seriously, we don't even track all PSP games here, it's so unfair to pick on it constantly.

As for PSP being dead? LOL, It's the third best selling console (handheld + home) still in the market. Next to PS2 and DS



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__XBrawlX__ on 02 March 2008

^I agree. Just because it is not selling anywhere near the DS, you have to think,

Who has been the market leader in handheld gaming since handheld gaming emerged? Nintendo

Which has been the only system to take away much of Ninty's market share?
PSP

It is making money, believe it or not.



 

 

 

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hunter_alien on 03 March 2008
dgm6780 said:
it has 21 games at .98 million or better

17 are clear over 1.00 million

Yeah , and those games have probably passed the million , or reached it , but agagin , in Others they undertrack games by a lot .

 

Im happy to se that people arent influenced by this kind of threads , and they actually see that the PSP is closer to be called a success than a failure . Well all except a few rabid fanboys/girls ... 



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