Pirates! Yarrrr! T’is why thar be no sissy PSP games!

***wraggster*** · July 19th, 2008, 19:36

I’m not gonna sugar coat it for you PSP fans out there; Sony’s CEO Jack Tretton told Engadget that the reason there aren’t any new PSP games coming out is, you guessed it, pirates! Tretton said that "piracy in the hundreds of thousands of units are preventing software sales. It’s a problem that affects our software sales right now."

He also blamed the PSP’s media functions and PS2 games being ported for the unit, saying that people don’t want to buy the same game twice. Back to the piracy thing, though. John Brownlee of Boing Boing Gadgets says it best…

“So the loss of hundreds of thousands of totally imaginary, theoretical sales are preventing developers from generating hundreds of thousands of real ones? That’s not what’s going on. If that were true, the DS (which has a far more easy-to-access piracy scene than the still-difficult-to-hack PSP) would be a total ghost town.”

It’s likely that the real reason we’re not seeing the volume of PSP games in comparison to DS games is that the DS appears to be much easier for developers to work with and there are a lot more DS owners out there than PSP owners.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/17...ssy-psp-games/

**blazsly** · July 19th, 2008, 19:52

are u kidding me? The psp is FAR easier to hack then the ds. Ds actually requires u to buy something while the psp doesnt. U just need one psp with cf to make a pandora battery and bam u could downgrade anybodies psp around u.

**Dembonz** · July 19th, 2008, 20:35

Originally Posted by blazsly

are u kidding me? The psp is FAR easier to hack then the ds.

Yeah but the PSP hacking is far more technical. I see your point, but I don't know anyone who owns a PSP that would have any clue how to do it. I put CFW on one unit for a friend and he has no idea what to do with it. He'll probably update with official FW.

I guess I'm saying the DS only requires a flash cart like R4 and basically no work, just a purchase. To the average person, who maybe isn't really tech savvy at all, PSP CFW and using it to it's potential might be confusing and out of reach.

But yeah both are generally easy to hack. But I guess the diff is the DS demographic is basically children and casual gamers. Nintendo is the "Disney" of the videogame world after all

**osgeld** · July 19th, 2008, 20:40

i sorta disagree on "people dont want to buy the same game twice"

if one looks at the sony forums people are using any chance they get to holler about getting more ps1 titles on the store

and thats sonys problem right there, they dont give you what you want anymore

**cozy** · July 19th, 2008, 21:01

The roms on the ds are only about 40 to 120 mb big,the carts that u buy are $19!!! and theres no risk of bricking your DS!!!and its still going...........I think the psp is dead now

**sappo** · July 19th, 2008, 21:07

Sony fails, Nintendo owns.

Easy as cake why games suck on PSP.

Still, it's a good handheld for emulation.

**Harshboy** · July 19th, 2008, 21:38

Sony sucks
Microsoft is meh
Nintendo is cool
Piracy is awesome

**alanparker05** · July 19th, 2008, 22:04

I've always said the biggest problem with the psp is sony's arrogance they had it so easy for so long with ps1 and ps2 when people just blindly followed them but now people have other choices with other consoles sony just does'nt know how to work to get people back

**osgeld** · July 19th, 2008, 22:17

Originally Posted by alanparker05

I've always said the biggest problem with the psp is sony's arrogance they had it so easy for so long with ps1 and ps2 when people just blindly followed them but now people have other choices with other consoles sony just does'nt know how to work to get people back

aye thats what i was sorta getting at, back with the ps1 you didnt even have a chance to think

"hm maybe that analog stick nintendo has is a good idea" before it was out in the store

and never once with the ps1 did i ever say "theres nothing really worth playing on it"

sony gave it to us in a pretty package before we even knew we wanted it (such as 3d games)

now we have to beg, and this trend started after a while on the ps2 and never stopped "wheres my network adaptor" "wheres my hard drive" "wheres my wireless controler" ect