Scarface shows PSP software sales are lacking

[the_eternal_dark]

What a load of crap, the best PSP games are fantastic. Games on the DS do not make them look mediocre at all, take off your fanboi glasses.

Quoting sales figures for a rubbish game is pointless, sales figures of something like Need4Speed Carbon or Fifa 07 would be much more revealing.

Scarface on the PSP is a bad game that got bad reviews so it's not rocket science that the game isn't selling well. D'uh.

ISOs are affecting PSP software sales, of that i have no doubt, but on the other side of the coin ISOs are pushing sales of PSPs up. I'm aware of about 20 or so PSP owners and every single one of them has their memory sticks full of emulators and ISO games.

People have different tastes in games. I'm not big into sports games, so I and a few others could also disagree with your thought on those 2 PSP games are awsome/best sellers. Personally, I love RPGs, FPS, shooter games, weird games (Me and My Katamari, Loco Roco), and old school games. Nintendo has some of the best RPGs, one of the best being that they ported FFIII (oldschool and RPG, how much better can that get?), and a pretty good online first person shooter, Metroid Prime: Hunters.

Maybe you should take off your

fanboi glasses

and look to see what the DS has to offer instead of make assumptions from the sidelines since you don't have one.

I do agree with you on a few things, ISO's can hurt Sony, and do in some ways, but not enough that sales are effected to the point of crippling the system (like the DC). Scarface really sucks (I had it for about 12 hours and traded it in for Killzone: Liberation).

[MadMonkee]

ISOs are affecting the sales

Yes, indeed but there is something called supply and demand balance. Just like the CDs even though so many people are actually ripping music and digital media they are still buying DVDs, and buying CDs and the market is not majorly damaged because they have a budget for the theft amount.

When I go out and buy a DVD I believe that it is worth it, because it's 20 bucks and it's damn fine quality, I don't need to download a crappy quality and waste hard disk space, It's very convenient and reasonably priced.

I pay for game DVDs aswell, bought the Half-Life 2 when it came out for 80 bucks, though I thought it was overpriced a little, I really thought it was worth it.

But for a UMD, would you REAAALLYY pay 50 bucks? I mean come on, the damn thing breaks like a french toast. Games are not even close to being as good as the console games you have to admit this, 70% of PSP gaming market sucks horse caulk.

And people just see it as a waste of money to pay so much for something so crappy.

You have to make it worth it because why don't the DS and the other consoles have this major hacking and theft problem of the PSP? Because PSP attracts 18-30 year olds who are way more capable of hacking and more dangerous than a 5 year old with a Nintendo DS.

I mean PSP clearly has major issues which needs to be worked out, the analog stick is a pain in the ass, the digital could have been way better. I personally think PSP is a better portable movie watching gizmo than an actual game player. If only it played all the movie formats.

I only bought 3 games since I got the PSP, GTA, Tekken and Daxter. GTA sucked but it had the homebrew option. Personally I find myself using homebrew 90% of the time and actual games 10%.