Let's hope that at least a few of those 12 are PSP titles.

PSP DRM would help keep the theivery from being so rampant.

I'm also thinking that Sony may be going more towards PSN only games for the PSP, because the UMD games are so easy to steal.

Shops here sell "PSP Games Collections", which consists of over 1,500 PSP games (many are different region versions of the same game) on 130 DVD's for $100.

PSPs are sold with a memory stick included and the hacked FW already installed

I see many people playing PSPs on the metro etc, but I doubt many have ever bought an original game for it.

Piracy is a big problem for all consoles (except PS3) here though, so I wouldn't say PSP is hurt by piracy anymore than PS2 is.

I've censored out the website I got this image from as I don't wish to promote piracy.

BKK2 said: Shops here sell "PSP Games Collections", which consists of over 1,500 PSP games (many are different region versions of the same game) on 130 DVD's for $100. PSPs are sold with a memory stick included and the hacked FW already installed I see many people playing PSPs on the metro etc, but I doubt many have ever bought an original game for it. Piracy is a big problem for all consoles (except PS3) here though, so I wouldn't say PSP is hurt by piracy anymore than PS2 is. I've censored out the website I got this image from as I don't wish to promote piracy.

wow

PSP has another year or two in it easily. Possibly more hardware sales continue and software stays around the same...

PSP piracy is even bigger in Europe, just take a look at the legitimate SW sales and afterwards take a look at the amount of psp rips of pal psp games and the amount of their peers and leechers...

i don´t think there´s a technical way to stop psp piracy. In order to limit it, they should also limit the freedom of the platfrorm. Otherwise, spreading the word that piracy is bad and legally pursuing all those involved with piracy are the only viable way.

I think PSP use will grow along with the PS3. There's a lot of stuff you can get from PSN which has got me thinking of getting one. Still, it's too expensive at the moment to think it can seriously take on the DS which has a much stronger library.

psp has a huge piracy level but so do all consoles except ps3. Ds has a bigger problem it doesnt even need a custom firmware.I think the biggest reason piracy affects psp more than the other consoles is umd.People hate umd,its big and its not the easiest thing carrying it around>Sony did a huge mistake introducing umd because the time they introduced umd flash cards were getting the upper hand.I mean umd can hold 1.8gb maximum ,now a microsd card with a capacity of 2gb costs 7 euros,and its 1/25 of the size of umd and did i mention loading times??well there would be no loading times if sony was using flash cards.

Its a pity because the psp is the most powerfull portable system ever,and if developers tried to focus on it then more great games would come

BKK2 where are you from?

I'm not into handheld gaming anymore (last handheld I bought was a PC Engine GT over 15 years ago), but I'm thinking of getting a PSP as a peripheral for my PS3 along with the other multi-media stuff it can do. I'd probably get some games for it (I already own MGS: PO as it was included in MGS collection), but I wouldn't use it primarily as a gaming machine.

So I kind of agree, PS3 sales should help PSP HW sales as they have some cool connectivity features, but it won't necessarily help software sales in a big way.