Piracy Destroying the PSP

[The_Ultimate_Eggman]

$ony shafted their own machine not piracy...The lack of support and marketing from them doe's it no favours also the distinct lack of "AAA" games doe's little to help it..

[Larry]

People who think ISO's are better for "try before you buy". well..
Here a question that doesn't requires a public answer, but just ask yourself that question. Do you really buy games you like, after you've played them in iso format?

The answer would be on average, no.
Who in their right mind would buy a game that you already have? UMD's are slower, bulkier(especially since iso's take no physical size) and you cant have 10 on your PSP at any given time.

No one uses iso's as a try before you buy. Anyone who says otherwise is full of sh*t.
The games i own, i only got because they were onsale. and i only buy games i really like. If i kinda like it, i don't buy it, i have to really like it.

The PSP's game list is pathetic. No one's going to spend alot of money on a mediocre game, and no company is going to spend alot of money to make a better game if it's just going to get pirated.

PSP games should have a maximum price tag of 30$ USD, and thats only for the really-really good ones like crisis core and god of war. All other games should be 20$ or less, with an average of 10-15$. New, not used. Used would be under 10$USD.

I've seen the questions asked a dozen times.
If we make better games, will you be willing to pay more, or at least buy them?
Every one answered yes.
If we make games cheaper, would you be willing to buy instead of pirate, everyone said yes.
But the reality is, you could charge 5$ a game, and you still wouldn't sell huge numbers. Why spend 5$ for a game you can download in 10 minutes?

Be realistic. If you have a problem with the quality of games, it's your fault.
Those that don't buy their games, have no say in what gets made.

So you pirates that think these games suck, well guess what you didn't buy it, you don't have the right to an opinion.

I'm not the perfect person. The rental place i use doesn't have every game i want to play. Some arent even released in this country. So i have to take other actions to play them.
But i'm still putting money back into the business. Half the people i know with a psp, doesn't own a single game, even when running iso's required a umd, they used demo disk.

It's sony's fault, its the game developers fault, but most importantly it's our fault the psp sucks compared to other consoles like the NDS.

Edit:
The quality of games and the type of games are decided by what ones sell. Not what ones are most played, but most sold.
If we keep getting games we don't like, well guess what, the people that are buying them, are the ones deciding what kind of games are made.
monster hunter is a perfect example of this.
Read this, it'll explain what i just said. http://forums.galciv2.com/303512

[devdj]

i first heard of piracy with the psp a couple of years ago in an xtravison store from one of the staff members he was going on about how you could play roms and stuff on the psp right in front of customers and the manager of the store the next day i went in and bought a psp and about 20 other people bought psp's is well so the fact is piracy has allways been here at least in asia since it was allways there since the dawn of time there have been countless knockoff items for hundreds of years and piracy will never go away.

[oooooomonkeys]

yup i think piracy has killed the psp.
but at least we can look back in future and say wow the psp was good while it lasted. its just another step towards sony being out of the console war.
all hail nintendo:thumbup:

[staticshade]

The number of hardware sales to sofware sales is awful it begs the question what exactly where psp owners playing last year, and it would seem people are buying the console because they won't need to buy any games for it piracy seriously harms the games industry

Nds has piracy issues but still sold shed loads of games because most of them where bought by casual gamers who have no interest in flash carts and the like

my solution would be more demos and less piracy by people i mean who pays for a game rips it and gives it out on the internet for free have they got some personal vendetta against sony

this year is already looking bad downloads of gow chains of olympus already has more downloads than sales God help us

[omracer]

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?

thats either because u use torrents OR you have lots of PSN Vouchers.

One of the PSN Vouchers is a free download of syphon Filter.

If i had a credit card i would buy off the PSN Store.......Sadly im too young

[Art]

No one uses iso's as a try before you buy. Anyone who says otherwise is full of sh*t.

Speak for yourself. We're not all thieves.
The only ISO I have no matching UMD for is Mercury Meltdown,
and that wouldn't be the case if it were in my country for sale.

I only have two UMD games, but I had the ISOs running on my PSP
before I had the UMDs.

[John Vattic]

If i cry and whine that i'm not making enough money, nobody cares. If sony pisses and moans the world stops spinning.

I agree with art, they're blaming their customers for not bending over for the sony penis.

The truth is the psp games sell well, as A L L gamestop employees indicate. more especially during last christmas. so to bitch after they made good money is called greedy. i see no difference between pirates and corporations. same scumbags, different clothing.

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.

[omracer]

If i cry and whine that i'm not making enough money, nobody cares. If sony pisses and moans the world stops spinning.

Very good point. That statement proves 2 things

• How small normal average people really are. Not physically of course
• That to Sony & other multi million (even billion) companines think of us a gold or money they could just fish from by luring their stuff as bait.

Personally i've only downloaded 1 psp off torrents (which was Worms open warfare 2 if anyone want to know) but after my psp bricked & got a replacement from Sony (I had no choice & the replacement had 2.71 on it)
I brought it in the end.

[Jube]

The PSP is pretty hot right now in Japan. The Sony handheld is now spending its second week as the alpha platform in Japan's hardware sales charts. Not only that, but it's also its second week to sell nearly as much as the rest of the platforms did combined.

Its success has been attributed to the release of Capcom's Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, which topped Japan's software charts the previous week. It's no coincidence then that the game is still on top of the software charts.

All the platforms have performed just as well as they did the previous week. Here are the hardware sales numbers in Japan for the week of April 6:

* PSP: 120,964
* DS Lite: 55,190
* Wii: 44,618
* PS3: 11,303
* PS2: 10,423
* Xbox 360: 1,452

http://pspupdates.qj.net/Japan-PSP-s.../49/aid/117936

2007 was a pretty incredible year for PSP, wasn't it? It featured some fantastic games, such as Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, Jeanne d'Arc, and more. Unfortunately, too few actually went out to buy these games.

Next-Gen compiled a list of the bestselling games from 2007, and PSP exclusives managed to get zero games on their list of 100 games. (Data is compiled from the US and UK. Japan is not included.) That means no PSP games managed to break 460k sales (the total of the 100th ranked game) in all of 2007.

Is piracy making a significant dent on PSP software sales? We'd say "yes." No wonder Sony is asking about the homebrew situation; and no wonder the PSP library for the rest of the year is so slim -- publishers have been burned.

http://www.pspfanboy.com/2008/04/10/...stseller-list/