Not really about pirating.. The PSP game library is pretty crappy at the moment in my opinion. I have about 30-40 UMD games and rarely even play them. In fact the only games I still play constantly are lumines and lumines 2. All of the other games are either ports (crappy ones with crap controls, glitchy GFX etc ) or games youd pass once and never play again. Don't get me wrong I love my PSP but with the games currently being offered for it, I'm using it more as a mp3 player nowdays :(

Funny how both Gamerankings and metacritic say PSP's games are rated higher on average than the DS's games.

Then let them have fun playing the games. IMO most of the psp games are underdeveloped and just not that interesting.

Thank god for Madden, Tekken, and Metal Gear Acid (guilty pleasure of mine), and homebrew of course, or else I would be kicking myself for buying this system. Hell, the least they can do is give us a halfway decent RPG, I can't get through the 30 minute intro to Valkarie to see if its a good game...

(goes back to playing Minish Cap on gpSP)

Why own all of those games and not even play them? I own 32 UMD games, yes owned, not pirated, and I enjoy them all. I'm still looking to buy another 30 or so. So for me, I think that the PSP has TOO MANY good games worth playing...while I only saw three for the DS that I would like to play. It's all about what you like....Me...I use my PSP as a portable PS2/Homebrew heaven machine No pirating here though, it is illegal and hurts the gaming industry.

I HAVE played all of my games, just most of em don't have that much of a replay value or were outright crappy to begin with. I love Tekken, MGA, and GTA but other than those, nothing really catches my attention. On the homebrew side tho I cant get enough, it's amazing (emus, ir remote, pda apps etc). But as for official Sony supported gaming, I'll pass for now

What good is hardware sales if no one is actually buying the games? Do you think the game developers would continue to come out with new and good games for the psp?



Maybe if the publishers / developers lowered their prices, more people would be willing to actually buy their games. Maybe have the games downloadable from their online shop?

Have you even tried playing Lumines, Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony, Killzone: Liberation, SOCOM FTB 1+2, MGS:PO?

I don't know why people are so quick to jump to piracy when sales numbers like this come up. Help me understand plzkthx



When I see teh lows like this I think in my brain, 'wow, public opinion must be games suck or not worth buying.' I really really really doubt that the games aren't selling because a significant portion of people are using custom firmwares or iso loaders. It's because Sony and game companies are doing a *terrible* job at marketing. The psp is more alluring as a portable media device w/ the mp3 and the movies. I think that's what most ppl buy them for, and a few games like Lumines or w/e.



The psp is an awesome portable solution for all sorts of things, but think about it. Why do most people buy the DS? For the games that appeal to all sorts of gamers. The only thing about the psp that appeals to all sorts of gamers imho is it's media playback powers. You may find a handful of games with a broad appeal, but most of the games that take the limelight are ps2 ports which prolly many would-be gamers don't care about. What that mean? People buy a psp for just a few games, but mostly use it for other thing like photo, mp3, movie, whatever. Even teh stevejobs said that compare to iPhone, psp is garbage. wtflol he doesn't understand 3.03 oe-b, JUST LIKE MOST PPL WITH A PSP, but please understand i'm not say if stevejob doesn't know 3.03 oe-b (which is the only reason i can think smart person like him let overwhelming stupid fall from his lip) no one does, but i do say it gives you an insight to common thought towards the psp: it's only a media device, which why iPhone go after it, which why it used to be called iPod killer, which why...



So now, we have a probably huge demographic of people not buying many games b/c they use for a media player, and we have the target demographic who love it for the emulation and maybe, just maybe the *occasional* iso hehe so you can see what happens.



Also, people say that the piracy is probably what killing software sales, but look at the DS. Playing 'backup' copies of games is incomparably more easy than on the psp. For DS, get a slot-1 cart (looks EXACTLY same size as regular DS cart) put like 1GB of DS games (16~128MB before trim, most 32MB) by drag-and-drop. Put in DS and have fun. For psp, ta-082 you must FOLLOW EVERY SINGLE STEP to downgrade to 1.5, pray you haven't bricked, get firmware 1.5 and 3.03, pray they crc pass, make a pxar, move that pxar to another folder then upgrade again. Pray you don't brick. Get a 800mb rip from your umd that you bought, move it to memory stick (which is $$$$) then go and load it. Of course, you don't hafta do most of those steps too often, but still it hassles. Easier on DS, they still sell many games. Target demographic doesn't know what flash cart is. Likely demographic prolly could care less/isn't big enough to affect sales.



Oh, and game rating. Lame. if you buy a game based on game rating, you miss out. opinion lame, subconscious influence by free stuff from game companies, not understanding the beauty of true games can lower the game rating. that said i leave you with a nice pearls. if psp has five 9.5 games and twenti 7.8~8.2 games, then game list is average, no? but if DS has 12 9.5+ game, and 100 not so good ones, the average lower no? but listen this, who cares of the 100 bad games on ds or the 20 average game on psp? i won't buy them, will you?

Lazy ass game developers!!!

That better games need to be made for the system and stop with the ports. Period.

ISO's...... Hackers have been a major reason most the games on the PSP suck ass.

Who in there right mind would make a game for a system that is SO easy to steal games for?