The console can be easily hacked HOWEVER the hardware has sold very very very well. PSP2 should hopefully fix the piracy issue so more and more devs make games for the system. Dissidia is my GOTY though so the PSP is anything but dead.

Is the PSP dying - let's ask Capcom!

Lastly, to counter a few people's comments here, the PSP is an extremely viable platform in all three territories. As I've stated before, we have a number of new, interesting projects coming to the platform in 2009.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/ask_capcom/go/thread/view/7371/5524246/Speaking_of_Capcom_games_for_the_PSP

 We get a lot of that with the PSP.

But STILL not a lot of games!

All talk I tell ya!

The person I quoted is Capcom's VP of R&D, so it's hard to discredit his words...Especially like that.

And how would talking about psp games benefit capcom ?

Its exceedingly easy to hack it, its easy to hack anything if you have the correct sized screw drivers, a steady hand and any gubbins that is given to you in a step by step guide you might need.

In the case of the PSP its on the easy end of the scale.

You need....

1. Pandora Battery (an offical Sony battery that has been software modded to think its a "service battery") OR a pre-made jobby like the Datel "TOOL" battery.

2. 512mb Pro Duo card.

3. About an hour to have a look on google how it works.

If you have a friend who has a hacked PSP already they can help you make the "pandora battery" with the hacked PSP (an unhacked one can't make it).

Once hacked you can rip your UMDs to a memory stick and then compress the the ISO images even smaller -> then load them from the "game" menu on the PSP as if they were normal UMDs etc.

Anyway's I don't think me posting this is against the rules, hacking your PSP isn't illegal.

Just so you're aware the latest PSP3000 and the PSPs with mobo revision TA88v3 haven't been hacked yet so don't get a "new" PSP.

If I were you I'd just get one on ebay, much easier!

I don't want the PSP to fail, I want some good games. It doesn't really matter because it is all talk until it's happened or looks very likely it's going to happen.

Its been 3-4 years, I think that's long enough to realise we're not going to be suddenly inundated with good games like the DS is.

No matter what Capcom say.

Oh and what games did Capcom release for the PSP is 2008?!!!!

I dunno, what's the best selling game in Japan this year?

@frosty

cant be bothered to check.

total psp capcom games = 12
total psp sales 6-8million

Capcom is one of the companies that for sure is going to support PSP due to Monster Hunter success....maybe a new version of the other new version of the last Monster Hunter Freedom? Jeje, talking seriously, I heard that the users have been asking Capcom to make a new Resident Evil for the PSP, maybe that is one of the projects, which one may be the others?