The reasons are simple, really.
1. A lot of crappy games being released
and
2. Piracy
Now, piracy on the PC for example, is not as big a deal as the market is huge compared to the PSP market. A lot of us have been saying that pirating games on the PSP will have an impact on the market. The pirates poo pooed that rationale. Well, it's happening, just as predicted. The PSP market is just too small to handle widespread piracy. That is why Sony is clamping down on homebrew. I don't think Sony is against homebrew itself, I think it's the UMD loaders that have their panties in a bunch.
Now in the pirates defence, there are a lot of crap games out there for the PSP. Luckily we got a few great ones, but on the whole, the PSP games are mediocre at best.
If they released a REAL MGS game on the PSP,for example, instead of a MGS card game, the sales would have been HUGE. But they slacked and made a card game.
Rockstar worked their asses off and made a REAL GTA game for the PSP and sold a buttload. Hopefully enough to justify another GTA title for the PSP. We'll see...
Unfortunately we saw this coming a while ago. I hoped we were being chicken little with the piracy, but it looks like we are reaping what we have sown. I just don't want to see too much whining on the boards about it...
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