Hey,

I am just wondering why the PSP just can't sell games. There are only 5 games in the worldwide top 100 this week. The best one is placed on No. 38! The DS sells so much more. I know the userbase is bigger, but not that much bigger in relation to the gamesells.

Could u please give me some thoughts about it. I just don't get it. Nearly 36 million PSPs are sold, there should be some software moved.

It's a combination of piracy (everyone I know with a PSP has custom firmware and never buys games), and the fact that just nobody's releasing software for the thing.

Yeah, its mostly piracy. I buy games for it. They really aren't that expensive, and some of them you can get digitally distributed now.

Exactly--most people buy their PSPs to play pirated games on the go, listen to music, etc. They basically have a NES/SNES/GBA/Genesis, etc, in their pocket, and a portable player for music and pirated movies. It's odd, because PSP has more games in the 90s than DS, but it seems that for the most part people don't necessarily care about having a 'portable console'.

No it doesn't. The ds has 3 games above 90 the psp has 2. This is from gamerankings.

Piracy in combination with it being a more hardcore system, meaning that people who buy it are more likely to have the knowledge of how to pirate software in comparison to the DS.

A bunch of reasons :P

It's a very attractive media player (the reason I bought mine :D ) Far more useful as such than a game player sadly :x

Battery life while playing games bloooooooooooows. I have the upgraded battery pack, and I can get at most 6 hours of constant gaming with the brightness up all the way. The CPU in the PSP is some 3x more powerful than the competition, and it's graphical capabilities cripple those of the DS, same with the amount of content that can be stored, the UMD's hold 1.8 gigs of data, but man, none of that comes without a price. The battery life is morbid -_-; no joke.

Games are very similar to the consoles. That's just bad business all over the place, I LOVE my rpg's and I'm using my PSP to catch up on some great games :D But when it comes to new RPG's, or new anything the PSP has to offer, I'd almost rather they just make the game for the PS3 xD I prefer playing at home to a handheld any day. They need more games that are geared for portable gaming. Not a console experience on the go.

Piracy. I know about 20 people who own PSP's, and about 12 of them have hacked a PSP (ironically to play SNES games), but because it's already hacked for one reason, it generally leads to another. I would hack my PSP to download purchased games just for the increased battery life and reduced loading times alone.

I've been considering hacking mine as well to put some emulators on it, but I do buy games for the PSP, 6 so far, although, I refuse to pay $40 for a PSP game, that's just way too much IMO.

When commuting or on the move, games need to be playable in very short chunks of time. The slower load time of the UMD combined with more console like gameplay means that the games aren't really designed for these short time periods.

That's something I don't think the game reviews really reflect as they are usually reviewed in a setting where the game is played continuously.

Piracy and Multimedia functions inflate the hardware numbers.

It sells a decent amount of software... it's just that tons of people have bought it who would of never bought it if the only thing it could do is play released games.

That and it basically just has games just like the home consoles... but shorter. So why not just play the home consoles?

Unless your traveling a lot you really don't need too many portable system games if all it offers is expierences less then what you can get out of a PS2/PS3.

I mean how many Gameboy games did you own vs NES games?