Piracy Destroying the PSP

[sammiesosa#1]

A pirate life 4 me.

[jason_r90]

This article doesn't take into consideration the amount of used games purchased.
My son and I both have cracked PSPs.
We have only bought 1 new game Socom Fire Team Bravo 2. All the rest of our collection we bought used from Gamestop.
Plus we have a few .isos (1 of Socom2)
Friends of ours without cracked PSPs have never bought a new game only used ones.
The sale of used games is quite a large part of the total game sales per title and should be included in surveys like this. I'll bet it is on par or greater a cause why people aren't buying new games at launch.

[Rocksil]

tbh all this priacy topics will be brought back up numerous times and to say the truth its not going to ruin the psp. The thing with the dreamcast is that ps1 demolished it. Even piracy was part of it, but it wasnt the killer. Every console has the piracy issue. Look at the NDS, once you obtain a flash cart you can basically tell they are made for piracy. But do you see Nintendo trying to blame anyone NO!!!!. Because they are still making cash. Sony are just GREEDY sons of b@"?#!÷¢.

[jamotto]

also, with silent hill origins (good job climax!), sony has proven they can have good games for psp. i believe developers are very lazy indeed. i know what happens if i don't do good work, i get fired.

Yet, if you take vgcharts with a grain of salt, you would find that even with good work they still get fired as Silent Hill sold horridly.

[osgeld]

This article doesn't take into consideration the amount of used

thank you!

i own 5 psp games right this moment 1 of them was brand new (d&d tatics) and only cause is was 50% off during the compusa store closings

really why am i going to pay 40+ bucks for a game that has a 80% chance of total crap (yes 80% crap factor is fair for the psp)

ill wait a week pay 14.99$ and when i get board ill take that bugger back and get 6 or 7 bucks out of it twards a different used game

piracy isnt killing the psp, crappy games and EB are

[jamotto]

I don't think they can track used sales. mmm, maybe it is not piracy that leads to poor sales but gamers who are too picky about their games.

[Ultima Chocochu]

Eeh, not cool really
Yeah they didn't use ALL the facts, but piracy for the US is possibly hitting it that bad, the PSP has some great games but like some people think...
Why buy it, if I can have it free?

[Aryn]

I do not believe that piracy is the main cause of lack of sales regarding the PSP, there are other factors involved here.

1. The games on the DS often seem to be more fun. I played games on both systems and while I could not really get into most PSP games I usually find games that I can easily get into and enjoy on the DS. In fact, I know of several people who willingly traded in their PSP for a DS because they enjoyed the DS games more.

2. The games for the PSP are too expensive for the most part, anytrhing over $40 is considered to be too pricey for most people who earn a lower income.

3. There is software for converting the old PS1 games you have laying around to a format that you can run on your PSP. Why purchase a new game when you can just play an older game that you still love for free? And many PS1 games actually look pretty damned good on the PSP.

4. The PSP is not just a game system, so more people often convert and play movies on their PSP systems, listen to music, etc. instead of purchasing more games.

5. SONY has committed a number of public relations blunders in the past ranging from making importing PSPs to certain areas illegal and making an example of a certain online store to suffering a severe shortage of PS3 systems on the PS3's launch. Most of this is in the past and should stay there, but people remember these things more easily than the good things a large company does and this in turn affects sales.


Oh, and the DS is as vulnerable to piracy as the PSP. A cheap cartridge that you can use to play pirated DS games costs not much more than a modded PSP battery and is easier to set up (that is, unless you are one of the lucky few people who happen to know somebody who has a hacked PSP and is willing to mod your battery and memory card for free).

[F9zDark]

No, Sony killed the Dreamcast.

Piracy certainly lent a hand. Sega's choice of CD format made it insanely easy for hackers to play burned discs without ever touching the hardware.

Sadly the PSP is in the same boat. We have a software mod that allows people to play ISO games. What makes software mods so promising for homebrew is that its very easy for EVERYONE to use. Sadly, this makes it widely available to anyone no matter what their skill level is, and therefore very promising to pirates as well.

Yet, if you take vgcharts with a grain of salt, you would find that even with good work they still get fired as Silent Hill sold horridly.

Sad because Silent Hill Origins is a good game. I believe this falls on MARKETING. These companies leave it to Sony to advertise their games for the PSP. And thats not right (for Sony and for the company making the game).

Sony hardly advertising anything, and when they do, they end up drawing negative attention to themselves.

[triverse]

I have bought several PSP games before, and after, modding my system and would much rather own the game. I modded my system because, well, my copy of the Capcom arcade games missed a couple of really good games that I wanted to play.