Is the PSP dying?

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Grimes on 09 November 2009

nitekrawler1285 said:

Grimes said:

Icyedge said:

Grimes said:
That's the thing. Sony didn't really capitalize on the music or video features like Apple did. When Apple launched the iPod they made it easy to get their content onto the iPod. When Sony released the PSP they tried to force users to go through Sony for their content. Apple made it as easy as they could to allow people to buy music or upload their own. Sony forced people to buy UMDs or hack.

Are you serious??? It is way easier to copy and share things on PSP then on any Apple product (particularly Apple). Anyone that have a PSP and Apple product can confirm what im saying

When the PSP launched it was a very closed system. It wasn't until the PSP was hacker heaven did Sony change their policy to allow people to upload their own media.

Are you sure about that? Most everything with the exception of a few video codecs was available from the start in terms of media playback. And it's far easier than itunes. It's just plug play drag and drop.

Positive. It's one of the reasons the hacking community is so strong on the PSP. Nobody could play their videos on the PSP, so people hacked it.

Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

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nitekrawler1285 on 09 November 2009

You could play videos. they just had to be in the mp4 format which was kinda newer and uncommon in late 04 05.

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Loud_Hot_White_Box on 09 November 2009

Prices for the PSP-3000 and especially the Go are still quite high. They'll hit new plateaus of sales if and when they drop in price (IMO they should drop the price of the Go in 2010 and leave the 3000 where it is or raise the price, if people are buying it to pirate. Want to pirate? Pay a big premium on the unit to do so.) When go drops in price, PSN sales of the games will take off. Sony was happy just at the initial spike in software sales when Go launched. All the big sales are still to come when the unit is priced lower.

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ctalkeb on 09 November 2009

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/24/npds-latest-software-tie-ratios-for-consoles/

From last year. Couldn't find numbers from this year, but it makes quite a lot of people in this thread look a bit silly, I think.

FYI: The PSP was released after the DS.

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bugrimmar on 09 November 2009

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

Prices for the PSP-3000 and especially the Go are still quite high. They'll hit new plateaus of sales if and when they drop in price (IMO they should drop the price of the Go in 2010 and leave the 3000 where it is or raise the price, if people are buying it to pirate. Want to pirate? Pay a big premium on the unit to do so.) When go drops in price, PSN sales of the games will take off. Sony was happy just at the initial spike in software sales when Go launched. All the big sales are still to come when the unit is priced lower.

psp 3000 price is high? i thought it was relatively cheap already. i doubt they'll lower the price any time soon.

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raygun on 10 November 2009

Is the PSP dying...NOPE. Don't you guys look at the sales numbers before started a thread? Hardware sales, week of Oct 31st, from this site: PSP sold 174,442 worldwide. It beat the 360, which sold 162,901 worldwide. End of thread...

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johnsobas on 10 November 2009

ctalkeb said:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/24/npds-latest-software-tie-ratios-for-consoles/

From last year. Couldn't find numbers from this year, but it makes quite a lot of people in this thread look a bit silly, I think.

FYI: The PSP was released after the DS.

that's from 1 month in 1 region nearly a year and a half ago.

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ctalkeb on 10 November 2009

johnsobas said:

that's from 1 month in 1 region nearly a year and a half ago.

It's about software attachment rates, so clearly it's not from "one month". I also admitted that it was old and couldn't give a very good picture of the situation now. What it does say is that a year and half ago the PSP and the DS had comparable attachment rates in a country where everyone seems to be saying that the PSP is selling less software than in Japan/EU.

At the very least it indicates that for a portable system, the PSP hasn't (wasn't?) doing that badly and that the oft-repeated "sells no games" is just not true.

Trust me, I'd like to see more recent numbers.