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Riachu on 16 March 2008

I do not use homebrew. If I ever do, it will be PS1 games and not official PSP games



 

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gamerdtr on 16 March 2008

There is an interesting theory that piracy does not harm software sales because if the people who got pirated games were not able to get pirated games they would not have bought the original game either. So the software sales would still be what they are.



hunter_alien on 16 March 2008
Lone_Canis_Lupus said:

EDIT: I'm talking about software sales guys, not hardware. Sorry, the title is misleading, I know.

I've been seeing this far too much. People think the PSP's software sales are so low because the games "suck" yet they ignore the hardware sales seem to be doing fine. When piracy is mentioned, the person that mentioned it is called crazy because "piracy couldn't have possibly affected the PSP's software sales."

Just how big are the piracy numbers for the PSP? Lets take a look:

http://pspupdates.qj.net/PSP-piracy-numbers-on-the-rise/pg/49/aid/115545


And this is only one torrent site , while they are thousands online , so this numbers are only a fraction of the overall downloads . Yeah , people often say that sales are lacking because games are crappy , but dont even read those posts ... just let them think that they are correct , ad enjoy your games ;)



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Kasz216 on 16 March 2008
hunter_alien said:
Lone_Canis_Lupus said:

EDIT: I'm talking about software sales guys, not hardware. Sorry, the title is misleading, I know.

I've been seeing this far too much. People think the PSP's software sales are so low because the games "suck" yet they ignore the hardware sales seem to be doing fine. When piracy is mentioned, the person that mentioned it is called crazy because "piracy couldn't have possibly affected the PSP's software sales."

Just how big are the piracy numbers for the PSP? Lets take a look:

http://pspupdates.qj.net/PSP-piracy-numbers-on-the-rise/pg/49/aid/115545


And this is only one torrent site , while they are thousands online , so this numbers are only a fraction of the overall downloads . Yeah , people often say that sales are lacking because games are crappy , but dont even read those posts ... just let them think that they are correct , ad enjoy your games ;)


Yeah, crappy isn't the right word.  Of course neither is piracy hurting the sales.  Please read the other posts in a thread to better understand how piracy works in the economy.

 



mr-money on 16 March 2008

Everyone casual that I know uses the PSP for piracy and homebrew. It's just too easy.



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hunter_alien on 16 March 2008
Kasz216 said:
hunter_alien said:
Lone_Canis_Lupus said:

EDIT: I'm talking about software sales guys, not hardware. Sorry, the title is misleading, I know.

I've been seeing this far too much. People think the PSP's software sales are so low because the games "suck" yet they ignore the hardware sales seem to be doing fine. When piracy is mentioned, the person that mentioned it is called crazy because "piracy couldn't have possibly affected the PSP's software sales."

Just how big are the piracy numbers for the PSP? Lets take a look:

http://pspupdates.qj.net/PSP-piracy-numbers-on-the-rise/pg/49/aid/115545


And this is only one torrent site , while they are thousands online , so this numbers are only a fraction of the overall downloads . Yeah , people often say that sales are lacking because games are crappy , but dont even read those posts ... just let them think that they are correct , ad enjoy your games ;)


Yeah, crappy isn't the right word. Of course neither is piracy hurting the sales. Please read the other posts in a thread to better understand how piracy works in the economy.

 

Oh well here we go again ...

 



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Kasz216 on 16 March 2008
hunter_alien said:
Kasz216 said:
hunter_alien said:
Lone_Canis_Lupus said:

EDIT: I'm talking about software sales guys, not hardware. Sorry, the title is misleading, I know.

I've been seeing this far too much. People think the PSP's software sales are so low because the games "suck" yet they ignore the hardware sales seem to be doing fine. When piracy is mentioned, the person that mentioned it is called crazy because "piracy couldn't have possibly affected the PSP's software sales."

Just how big are the piracy numbers for the PSP? Lets take a look:

http://pspupdates.qj.net/PSP-piracy-numbers-on-the-rise/pg/49/aid/115545


And this is only one torrent site , while they are thousands online , so this numbers are only a fraction of the overall downloads . Yeah , people often say that sales are lacking because games are crappy , but dont even read those posts ... just let them think that they are correct , ad enjoy your games ;)


Yeah, crappy isn't the right word. Of course neither is piracy hurting the sales. Please read the other posts in a thread to better understand how piracy works in the economy.

 

Oh well here we go again ...

 


What it's actually explained in real you know... economic reasoning rather then "Think of the children... I mean PSP" hysterics of showing numbers that mean nothing.

If you have some logical discourse to deny the ideas posted in the thread, feel free.  However to just outright ignore them considereing what they are based on is just disrespectful.



hunter_alien on 17 March 2008
Kasz216 said:
hunter_alien said:
Kasz216 said:
hunter_alien said:
Lone_Canis_Lupus said:

EDIT: I'm talking about software sales guys, not hardware. Sorry, the title is misleading, I know.

I've been seeing this far too much. People think the PSP's software sales are so low because the games "suck" yet they ignore the hardware sales seem to be doing fine. When piracy is mentioned, the person that mentioned it is called crazy because "piracy couldn't have possibly affected the PSP's software sales."

Just how big are the piracy numbers for the PSP? Lets take a look:

http://pspupdates.qj.net/PSP-piracy-numbers-on-the-rise/pg/49/aid/115545


And this is only one torrent site , while they are thousands online , so this numbers are only a fraction of the overall downloads . Yeah , people often say that sales are lacking because games are crappy , but dont even read those posts ... just let them think that they are correct , ad enjoy your games ;)


Yeah, crappy isn't the right word. Of course neither is piracy hurting the sales. Please read the other posts in a thread to better understand how piracy works in the economy.

 

Oh well here we go again ...

 


What it's actually explained in real you know... economic reasoning rather then "Think of the children... I mean PSP" hysterics of showing numbers that mean nothing.

If you have some logical discourse to deny the ideas posted in the thread, feel free. However to just outright ignore them considereing what they are based on is just disrespectful.


 Your wrong , Im not ignoring them , just that there is realy nothing new there that could convince me otherwise ... bealive me , I read over most of the posts before I start posting ...



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