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hunter_alien on 16 March 2008
HappySqurriel said:

The PSP's hardware sales do not reflect how many people have bought a PSP as a legitimate gaming device, and you could argue that the PSP has not performed well as a handheld gaming system ...

From day 1, the PSP was another one of these "Trojan Horse" videogame systems being that it was trying to compete with Nintendo in the handheld market, Apple in the MP3 player market, and establish a new (pointless) video format with UMD. The problem is that some people bought into the PSP as a video/MP3-player and did not buy games for the systems.

On top of this, the PSP as a portable gaming device was poorly though out; it has a short battery life (compared to other handhelds) and most of its games are not well suited for "on the go gaming". When you combine this with how early and easily the PSP was hacked, more gamers were using the PSP to play SNES games than PSP games.

What this means is a large portion of the PSP's audience will never buy games for the system either because they have no interest in gaming or they will steal games anyways.


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Mnementh on 16 March 2008
leo-j said:
Ive said it before, and I'll say it again, homebrew killed the psp.

Yeah, sure. Homebrew killed the PSP, there you have to patch your firmware with risk to make the console unusable. And it didn't kill the DS, where you can simply put in a flash-cartridge to play homebrew. And where the old GBA-modules only needed some tweaks to work for the DS.



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leo-j on 16 March 2008
Mnementh said:
leo-j said:
Ive said it before, and I'll say it again, homebrew killed the psp.

Yeah, sure. Homebrew killed the PSP, there you have to patch your firmware with risk to make the console unusable. And it didn't kill the DS, where you can simply put in a flash-cartridge to play homebrew. And where the old GBA-modules only needed some tweaks to work for the DS.


The ds is different.



 

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hunter_alien on 16 March 2008
Mnementh said:
leo-j said:
Ive said it before, and I'll say it again, homebrew killed the psp.

Yeah, sure. Homebrew killed the PSP, there you have to patch your firmware with risk to make the console unusable. And it didn't kill the DS, where you can simply put in a flash-cartridge to play homebrew. And where the old GBA-modules only needed some tweaks to work for the DS.


 lol ... the DS is far from beeing as homebrew-capable as the PSP . You can run even PSone/N64 games on the PSP , while you have issues running SNES games on the DS ...



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Borkachev on 16 March 2008

Homebrew killed the psp

Homebrew didn't kill anything. Homebrew is a fantastic thing that only adds to the value of a platform. If Sony had embraced it, providing things like free development kits to customers, the PSP might have been a far more attractive machine.

What may have "killed" the PSP was piracy, which, while maybe difficult to separate from homebrew/hacking activities, isn't even close to the same thing.



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kingofwale on 16 March 2008

I think PSP is the sole reason that killed any other ROM playing handhelds.

From a rom playing aspect, PSP is fantastic, and only adding that to its multimedia ability, and thus weakening its UMD playing feature.

I know a few people buying PSP just to play N64 and Mario games on it. *sighs*



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Sky Render on 16 March 2008

The PSP's hardware-to-software ratio is out of whack due to its potential as more than a typical game system that you have to buy media for to use it. The ease of pirating, and to a lesser extent the ability to function as a multi-purpose non-gaming device, has boosted the hardware sales far beyond what they would have been if the system was a typical handheld. So no, piracy is not affecting software sales; they're precisely where actual demand for the PSP as a typical handheld would be without it. Piracy has raised hardware sales. There is a difference.



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luckduck2 on 16 March 2008

psp is now beating the ds in japan, by a little bit, so maybe sony sent all their units to japan



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That Guy on 16 March 2008

Yeah, it's probably not too hard to put on every single N64, NES, SNES and Genesis ROM on a 2 gig memory stick and BAM there's your virtual console.

So there you have it:

MarioBoys are killing PSP because of their mario!



Sky Render on 16 March 2008

I re-iterate, piracy is not and cannot be "killing" the PSP. If you took piracy out of the picture, the PSP's attach ratio would be a solid 4:1 to 5:1... and they would have sold only about 12 to 15 million systems.



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