waffle tray... :-P



but seriously... I might get this if it gets hacked :-D

Because all you are doing is destroying this new PSP 2 before its even released, if its hackable then developers will steer clear of it, and never release great games as has happened on the first PSP, only just now are a few AAA titles being released for our PSP's due to the fact the PSP 3000 is unhackable so far, so no piracy, its that simple, give the console a chance first.



Surely you can see my point of view.

So glad I didn't waste any money on the 3000.

Yep, just like piracy is killing the Nintendo DS. Yeah....

The DS piracy rate has to me many, many times higher than the PSP. First of all because it is sooo much easier - ridiculously easy in fact. For less than $15 one can buy a flashcard and the roms are all over the internet. Nothing could be simpler - copy the files over to a microSD, insert, and play. On the other hand, hacking the PSP is very difficult by comparison - you have to make sure you get the right version, right tools, figure out the custom firmware, etc etc. Long story short, Joe-six-pack can "hack" the NDS in about 15 seconds, yet it will take several hours of in-depth study to figure out the PSP. Cost wise, its about the same to hack either platform, but the PSP is much trickier.



Yet....mysteriously, somehow the NDS is printing money!



I think the real reason the PSP didn't take off was either marketing or Sony didn't encourage the developers enough. (I was going to say that maybe it was hard to program for like the PS3 -many argue that this is why the PS3 has been slow to take off- but, the PSP should be about the same to develop for as the PSOne.)



No, piracy has very, very little to do with the PSPs success rate. Maybe Sony should lower the price to compete with the NDS and make a point of showcasing them side by side in the stores. A couple of top-notch games would make up the lost revenue easily enough.

@PigVenus: That does not mean piracy is justified.



It might be true that piracy is not killing PSP, but it plays a part. Together with the lack of push from Sony, which leads to lack of interest from developers, and lack of quality games. In turn leading to lack of sales, which turn off developers even more.



In the end it's us PSP owners who lose out.



Now that Sony is trying to prove that they are supporting the PSP by getting first- and third-party games out, the least we could do is show our support.



And I'm tired of the excuse "Oh, I'm trying the game out first before I buy it". Seriously. Would you buy the game after you have finished it? If you're so afraid of buying a sucky game, read the reviews, watch the gameplays, heck, borrow one to try it out or something.

My guess is that this PSP will have BOTH UMD and Digital Media Download, much like current gen PSPs but easier to get hold of downloadable versions of games.



All they have to do is produce a better UMD drive that supports original UMD and a higher density & higher speed UMD. That way a backwards compatible disc drive is available then all thats needed is a PSP1 CPU. Infact it may even use 2 PSP CPUs.

I think you under-estimate the wide-spread of piracy on the PSP greatly. By your description, out of 50mil PSPs a few thousand are pirated. WRONG. Have you seen the amount of sites and pages dedicated to showing you how to hack your PSP for playing backed up games? Do you ever do a search for PSP on any torrent site? Honestly.



The DS has just as easy piracy... but! When you have the system selling like hotcakes to 9 year old girls and their grandma's - it just isn't going to be hacked in those cases. Where as with the PSP - there is a higher percentage of owners who do decided to hack the system.



That said, I don't think Piracy is the only factor. First off, Sony has been very slow in getting behind the PSP both with first party games and functionality. They also need to rethink their pricing for games. I can go into ebgames and browse some DS games, most ranging from $15-$30 brand new - where as PSP games are rarely below $30 new, some going up to $50.



At the end of the day, I have a lot of fun with my DS but honestly enjoy a number of games a lot more on my PSP and wish Sony all the best with it and it's future handhelds.

There will be UMD-less cause mini-Bluray disc here we come. HAHA. Anyway, yeah more and more companies are doing the digital distribution just ala iTunes and Steam. Now they're focusing on PSN store. I just hoped, once again it gets synchronize among regions so most titles will be available to whatever region you're at and also it should be centralize. Just the servers I think should be regional so it wouldn't cause that much traffic in case there will be more people preferring the digital download goodies.



All in all can't wait for more new good awesome updates on the PSP.

but it still fails to deliver sales even remotely close to the HIGHLY pirated Xbox 360....gee your "Piracy" theory doesn't seem to work here? Also kid, did you ever hear of the Nintendo DS cards that allow you to play on an unmodified DS? The point is..crappy games/poor marketing, or both kill systems, piracy might have SOMETHING to do with a lack of sales, MIGHT, but the majority of the people who probably pirate it don't even have an interest in buying it at all period...I own over 40 UMD games all original, bought on release date...did my contributions help? Probably, but not enough to pull the company's defecits out...so if someone wants to run a Sega Genesis or SNES emu on their PSP and relive past glory...hell even PSX Titles not yet out on the PS Store, ie: Project:Overkil l, or the FF series, then let them, they bought the PSP, whatever they do from the point they void their warranty on, is THEIR problem

Bad move SONY! If you guys cut out the UMD discs people are not gonna buy it I know I wont!!

the PSP2 never gets pirated. That way devs will make good games, and I can pirate them on my good ol' phata$$ PSP-1000



If they make PSP2 truly, extremely AWESOME however, then I may make the switch...

its because of piracy tht sony and other companies don't make good games 4 the PSP because they will waste good money on making a great game and then someone will just rip the data out of the umd and make it an iso so then they wont get any money back they will still be in the negatives but im not sayn that custom firmware is piracy because no games r being illegally downloaded (at times)

I'm a PSP owner, i've been buying UMDs since 2004 ! HEY its 2009 time to trash them now !! woohoo !

Again, Hacking the PSP has absolutely NOTHING to do with devs steering clear of it. If you look at the PSP Hacking community, the PSP suffered from poor title libraries long before the Hacking Community was able to start running UMD's on it. Devs have to want to produce for a platform. There are many other factors involved for them to decide to do so (Multiplatform, portability, potential sales, contracts, licensing, etc) that hacking has little to no impact. Piracy has little to no impact. They cannot know which games will be pirated and which will not, and do not make decisions based on that. Why? Because if they did, nothing would EVER get made.



This tired old broken record argument 'Wah, wish the new PSP was unhackable!' is really getting old. If you couldn't figure out how to hack your PSP, or couldn't figure out any useful applications you'd want to use, or how to use them, doesn't mean you need to be angsty about it. The rest of us who use our PSP for other things than officially Sony-sanctioned UMD Games, enjoy being able to use our purchase in any way we see fit and a majority of the time, piracy isn't even involved. Get over it.