Piracy Destroying the PSP

[Veskgar]

Besides you enjoy a game much more when you buy than when you torrent it.

That is definitely true.

Rent games

Purchasing is a better long-term investment. A lot of games if kept pristine could be worth a lot 20 years from now.

Man oh man. How I wish I saved every box, sleeve, wrapper, manual, and all extras that would come in the NES games, Super NES games, etc. That collection would be worth a fortune.

[Larry]

I'll agree with you there, but for the people with limited gaming funds, buying every game they want to play could be out of the question.
Renting is good for the try before you buy kind of aspect.

If you rented a game you really like, buy it, i did, like Monster hunter freedom 1 and 2. rented them, loved them, bought them.

[jamotto]

but for the people with limited gaming funds, buying every game they want to play could be out of the question.
Renting is good for the try before you buy kind of aspect.

Although, I like the idea of places like gamefly, but for it to be useful for me they need to drop the monthly fee below $10 a month as otherwise it be more expensive to rent the games vs buying the games outright. It would work even better if they had no monthly fee and instead just charged per game rented.

[Larry]

Ya i don't use gamefly, i use a local video store, that 20$ covers video games for every console and any movie.
And i have the option to buy a game/movie at a used discount price, though i generally prefer not to.
I couldnt be bothered to have to mail stuff back and forth.

Also i can rent 1 game and 1 movie at a time, (though i cant do 2 movies or 2 games) and since it's a 2 minute walk from where i work, i do all that stuff during my break.
It works out well for me, 75% of the games i rent i take back the next day simply because i don't like them. Much better than a pay to rent per game. pay 5$ for a 5 day rental and then dislike the game.

[Psyberjock]

Only certain games, like Monster Hunters.

So only GOOD games sell well... Yeah, I agree with you.

If the PSN is so secure, why do I have a download of Beats I got for free? Why am I downloading Syphon Filter: Combat Ops for free right now?

Because you're a criminal, and a stupid one for posting it on the internet in a public forum.

Automatically assuming piracy is to blame just because PSP games have not reached some sales figure "milestone" is a pretty vague assessment.

I agree with you on this point and I blame the game companies for producing crap. Good games like Monster Hunter sell really well. 1.5 million games sold in just over a week is pretty damn good. If a PSP game is as good or better than the same or similar game on another system, it will sell well. The same goes for every console, portable or not. For some reason these companies have it in their minds that we will buy inferior products simply because they're portable. People who buy good games keep buying them. People who buy crap and get burned start to download.

Rent games, seriously you guys cant afford 20$ a month to rent a game for as long as you want?
It sure beats pirating games. Play a game until you beat it and take it back.
It's better than buying games, and better for sony than pirating them.

Thanks to the Sony and Nintendo monopolies, you can't rent games in Japan. Only movies and CDs. But thanks to the Music monopoly in the US, you can't rend CDs there. Does anyone else see what I see? Companies don't care about their customers, they only care about their dollars. Why can't it be both?

[RedMoogleXIII]

I don't know if Piracy is hurting the PSP or not, but the few PSP related ads that I have need on TV either for the games/system or both are disasters. Plus theres the fact that quite a few games are sucky scaled down ports of a PS2 title.. Also the major lack of selection of games at retailers also hurts.

I haven not seen a copy of Disgaea Portable or Silent Hill Orgins at all yet and thats 2 of the few PSP games I want that I currently dont have.

I did manage to get Jeanne D'Arc and Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles when they came out and also getting Valkyrie Profile for the PSP was welcome as I could never find the PS1 version back when that was released in 2000.

I hope that retailers will have those games appear and also want to get the 2 Star Ocean games for PSP...

[Art]

Yeah sure, the product isn't selling so it must be the customer's fault!

[ChaosCrypt]

I'll agree with you there, but for the people with limited gaming funds, buying every game they want to play could be out of the question.

It is not their right to play every game they want tho.....

Thats the problem, people must have what they want right now.

Now back on the real topic.

Could it be that so many people bought games at first and got REALLY burned by how bad some of them were?

£35 ($70 US) is a LOT of money to throw away if a game is rubbish.

Downloadable Demo's are not really the answer unless they give enough of a taste of the whole game - ie the demo may seem nice and fresh, but when you buy the full version you realise that the rest of the game is EXACTLY the same as the demo was hour after hour.

Downloading ISO's allows "try before you buy", which is how I look at it (and HAVE looked at it since I first got my Atari ST 20 years or so ago.

I have a large collection of games on UMD, some bought AFTER I had completed the downloaded version.

I think the price of games is ALSO too high - I remember the Codemasters range on the Spectrum/C64/CPC464 @ £1.99 - these were affordable, with the "bigger" games at £10-£15 being attainable but not so regularly. This means that most of the UMD's I have were bought after the initial price drop.

£20 would be a no-thought purchase for me, £25 needs some thought, £35 is too much.

I also like being able to carry 12 of them on my PSP and not have the bulk of a load of UMD's to worry about.

[bah]

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[Avenyet]

that is kind of sad considering a PSP game is normally only about £20.

I suppose people think its free i can go have 10 pints with that money

though I to admit I did download patapon to see what it was about (about 10 mins later DELETED)

looking at my shelf I must of account for half the psp sales last year then lol (its a bit full)