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Munkeh111 on 05 April 2009

It should get better, but I don't think the problem is piracy, people are just not buying PSP games for some reason.

Sony have already got many great games out, LocoRoco 2, PataPon 2 and Resistance Retribution coming out recently, so the quality of the games is not the problem

The games announced for later this year might have more mass market appeal, especially with franchises like Assassin's Creed, but I still don't think it will be turned around.

I also think that PSP software is under tracked here, hunter_alien used to show all this stuff. Many PSP games just don't sell anything on here in Europe, but I'm not saying that are selling fantastically



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kber81 on 05 April 2009

Sony introduced downloadable games probably especially to counter piracy. They earn more on every copy. I think they will go even further with PSP4000. Solid easy to acces (directly from PSP) and navigate store with all games on board is definitely direction they should follow to. 



JRPG on 05 April 2009
Squilliam said:
Noone buys software, its because a large % of people either pirate or use it for its other functionality. I don't really see how they can change that... The 2.31 Tie ratio is appalling! The DS even by comparison has a much, much healthier 4.0 tie ratio which makes PSP exclusive software makers cry by both sheer number of sales for the DS.

That

 

Since the piracy rate is so bad no one releases games on it anymore. We are 4 months into this year and there have been less than 15 PSP games released. Most of those games are not even worth noting.

 

Its a shame really...I bought my PSP In may of 2005. I currently own 6 games on it and i've gotten rid of 2 others. Its just a damn shame.

 



Munkeh111 on 05 April 2009
The Anarchyz said:
The problem is UMD, the format is not good for portable, i mean, i was annoyed by the noise, the loading times but mostly, by THE BATTERY LIFE, so i installed a homebrew only to dump my UMDs in the Memory Stick, since then i play nicely on my PSP...

Now, i use homebrew only to smooth portable play, but what about the people that are annoyed by the UMDs and don't want to use homebrew? they'll pass... And what about the people that get the homebrew, and discover that with that the PSP is really easy to pirate? they count for hardware sales, but not for software sales...

So my point is this: UMD makes a lot of people to either not get a PSP or use it to pirate, and both are bad for software sales...

If they can distribute the games in both UMD and online until the PSP2 comes (i hope the PSP2 will get rid of the UMD once and for all), i think that can help to distribute more software without piracy...

In Europe and Japan they have already started releasing loads of games on the PSN, Resistance Retributon, Patapon 2, LocoRoco 2 and more are all on the PSN store, I am not sure what is happening in America. I don't think battery life and UMD are huge problems. Battery life is fine, I rarely have problems with it. As for UMD, it is a little noisy, but with the 2000 the loading times have been drastically reduced as has noise.



NNN2004 on 05 April 2009

its not out of control the psp 3000 still not hacked.



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Munkeh111 on 05 April 2009

@ nnn2004, I think that it just has been



NNN2004 on 05 April 2009
Munkeh111 said:
@ nnn2004, I think that it just has been

 

 when ? how !



Munkeh111 on 05 April 2009
NNN2004 said:
Munkeh111 said:
@ nnn2004, I think that it just has been

 

 when ? how !

http://hackaday.com/2008/11/19/psp-3000-hacked/

It is recent, I haven't looked into it much myself

 



NNN2004 on 05 April 2009
Munkeh111 said:
NNN2004 said:
Munkeh111 said:
@ nnn2004, I think that it just has been

 

 when ? how !

http://hackaday.com/2008/11/19/psp-3000-hacked/

It is recent, I haven't looked into it much myself

 

man this is fast lol

 



Lolcislaw on 05 April 2009

As much as i really like PSP (because its a great system with good games) it just does not sell software in the west, call it piracy, but there is more to it, many people use it as media device not really gaming machine. Many retailers (in the uK from what ive seen) reduce the amount of PSP stuff in shops regularly.

And new games such assasin creed or dissidia wont really help to overturn it, because system lacks a flow of releases or titles that continue to sell over time