I suspect that PSP game sales are down because there haven't been as many titles release this year. Less than a dozen titles were released in the US over the summer. People can't buy new games if there aren't any new games to buy.

piracy????

Unfortunately Sony can't force devs to make games for the PSP. I'm sure there are several reasons why the devs aren't making games for the psp but I believe that the fact that it's so easy to pirate games is a big one.



I don't blame the homebrew community for allowing you to play emulators and have cool apps but the pirating is killing the console. People complain all the time about the system not having alot of games but it's because of the pirating why there aren't alot of games. Devs are going to think twice about making a game because they know that they will never make all the money they can. When I first heard that you could just download games, I thought that's cool, I never have to buy a psp game again. But when I stopped and thought about it I realized that doing that would eventually kill the console. So I stopped and now I buy a game if I want it.



It's too late to change it, but I think people need to think twice before they pirate a game because if it doesn't get any better there may not be a psp2. And that would be sad because I like my psp and can't wait for when the next generation comes out.

you do realized that ALL THE CONSOLES (except PS3) are already hacked and can play Piracy games ?

Of all the systems that eventually got hacked, wasn't the PSP the first to get hacked so soon after it's release? It's different for a system that's been out for awhile to be hacked when it already has a solid user base than a system to get hacked when it's still trying to build a user base.

It could be that the PSP got lower sales is because Sony is trying to kill homebrew with their dumb mother boards.



PS3 had great homebrew, too! Which could have brought the PS3 Sales high. But then they destory homebrew on newer updates. Now they have the recovery menu, I don't think ps3 sales will be affected

the reason the sales of psp is doing real bad is the poor ratio of available games. More funding should be made to make exciiting games like GOW, custom firmware as shows before on an article is only used by a small % base of all psp owners.

Silver-Tiger, I completely disagree with you.

The main reason PC game sales are down is becuse of the consols, not piracy. I was a big PC gamer back in the late '80 and most of the '90s, and if piracy had an effect it would have been in the mid to late '90. But it did not.

What is realy killing PC sales is that game makers, and gamers are looking at the fact that on the PC side is that you have to upgrade every two years at most to keep up. With consols you only have to upgrade ever five years at most(I feel that will change to a little bit longer.) It cost less to have a consol then having to upkeep a PC. And you do not have to worry if the game will run on a consol.

Also, you do not have to wait to install the games on consols.(most PS3 games you do.)

That is why PC game sales are down, not piracy,but the fact that consols cost less in the long run, and you can play the game right after you get it. You can also go to a friend, who has the same consol, and bring a game that you have but he does not and play it there.

The one major flaw I found in your piracy argument is that the "investment" you referred to on some of those systems cost LESS THEN A GAME and ANYONE can do.



"You think piracy did not influence the PC game sales?"



Of course it did. Where did you get game sales from?



"Firstly, PCs are multimedia hubs. They are not only designed for games. So they will still sell even if there are no games. DUH!"



Who said anything about PC sales? We're talking about GAMES.



"Secondly, you think piracy had only a little impact on PC games?"



I know that as fact. It only has a LITTLE impact.



"Then tell me why are the sales for PC games are so bad?"



They aren't. Where are you getting your information? My company recently looked into and research EA greatly because we just signed a contract with them. We're making "something" for one of their games. The details are not released to public yet. EA game sales outweigh most consoles and that's JUST EA.



"Yes, I said bad. Even when you combine all consoles ever made you still won't even reach half the amount of PCs sold."



That's a bunch of bull. You're just pulling stuff out your ass now. Plus, not all PC sales are for gaming. In 2007 over 200 million XP licenses sold. Those where NEW MACHINE licenses. So that doesn't even count Linux and whatever else.



To date, there have only been ~ 72.31 million Wiis, 360s and PS3s and those sales include ALL sales from EVERY year. So your math is pure crap.



FACT - PC games have been piratable from day 1 and PC gamming is still around. You've done nothing to refute that FACT.



@Darkthunder90 - Yeah, what about it? It was no more or less easier to pirate then some other consoles and PC. Just because ONE console tanked doesn't mean THAT WAS THE REASON.



You can buy a Wii and all other consoles pre-modded. Then you don't have to do anything harder then copy games the same way the dreamcast did.