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Forums - Sony Discussion - What Was It That Killed The PSP?

gamefreak4ever on 07 January 2010

As a previous owner of the PSP there was alot of things. The software fell off and it may have been due to the financial crisis the economy has experienced. I remember companies not wanting to invest in the mini disk. The cost of the PSP was crazy. The PSP GO was a no GO! Man Sony should just drop the price and pray for a miracle.



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NanakiXI on 07 January 2010

If Sony stopped every game in production for the PSP right now it would still be a success since every PSP sold is profit. Don't know how it was killed. The DS is just a beast that's all.



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llewdebkram on 07 January 2010

PSP is like those plastic bows and arrows and fairly wands ever kid wants from the fair.
They get one then realise after they have played with it once it isn't all they thought it would be...
Then throw it up the corner and forget about it.



RageBot on 07 January 2010

The difference in Piracy on the PC/PSP and PS2/DS is that, if my memory serves me right, in order to pirate a PSP you only need to download some software that hack the system, in the case of the DS/PS2 you need to physically change the system.

Once Sony made the PSP-3000 (that in order to be hacked needs to be physically changed as well) the attach rate for the PSP began rising again.



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ryuatsui on 07 January 2010
ShadowSoldier said:

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Personally I think it was the piracy that ended up destroying the system's potential, and made devs weary about putting their titles on a console with such a high piracy rate.

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No, because with R4 an M3 and so on there are a lot of piracy in NDS, on really don't know, Nintendo is Nintendo, and is always trying something new.



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lolage on 29 January 2010

Piracy did!



dsister44 on 29 January 2010
lolage said:
Piracy did!

Piracy is much easier on the DS. I doubt that is the problem...



leo-j on 29 January 2010
kowenicki said:
It wasnt anything sony did too wrong, it was just that Nintendo got it so right with the DS

this and sony stopped giving the PSP the support it had its first year



 

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kjj4t9rdad on 29 January 2010

I don't think piracy had anything to do with it. The DS, the wii and the 360 are all pirated a lot and the all move a bunch of software. I think the main problem is, it doesn't distinguish itself from the PS2 software whise. The DS has its own identity compared to the game cube and wii. The PSP is the exact same as the PS2. IMO there is very little difference in the type of games.
Still, saying something with 50 million in sales and is very profitable has been "killed" seems wrong, it's just the DS did everything right.



hduser on 29 January 2010

I think the PS3 has hurt the PSP a bit. Sony had to shift it's focus to get PS3 going otherwise the core business would be in jeopardy. Plus the ill fated PSP Go didn't help and the lack of games has hurt the franchise and virtually no marketing. Rumours of PSP2 didn't help either as people are holding out for the latest/greatest.

I hope Sony will get to release a new next gen PSP soon to show that they're committed to this platform.