Piracy "killed" the PSP or so claims Sony.


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Piracy killed PSP, so it was nothing to do with UMD trojan format, expensive hardware and ported ps2 games that really need 2 analogue sticks???

I think all of those things played a part, including piracy. It wasn't just one thing that killed the psp. Hell it's not even really dead, it's just not anywhere near sucessfully as it should have been. It definitely should have had more games that we designed for it from the ground up instead of ports, but ports are cheaper and cheaper is better in the eyes of a developer/publisher when you think your game will just be pirated anyways.

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It was piracy that made the PSP as popular as it was, ok so people didnt buy games but if it was still a closed system i think it would have flopped more than it did.

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It was piracy that made the PSP as popular as it was, ok so people didnt buy games but if it was still a closed system i think it would have flopped more than it did.

Flops get pulled off the shelves because they aren't profitable, the psp was not a flop. The fact that there is a still a UMD section at every Best Buy after all these years, albeit a small one, shows that it was not a flop. It also shows that UMDs themselves are still profitable.

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Doesnt have to be withdrawn to be a flop. Compared to DS it failed hard.

Making money isn't really a race where loser takes nothing. This idea of "someone won" the handheld race is just consumerism non-sense. Sony is making money off the PSP, when making money isn't good enough because someone else is making more money, well that is just stupid. That is like saying PS3 and xbox 360 are flops too because the wii is selling more than them.

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Doesnt have to be withdrawn to be a flop. Compared to DS it failed hard.

Reminds me of the last time I was looking at games in a store, the PSP had 2 columns dedicated to it, the DS had the rest of the aisle.

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Doesnt have to be withdrawn to be a flop. Compared to DS it failed hard.

and the DS has had to deal with more piracy problems than the PSP with the flash cards.

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and the DS has had to deal with more piracy problems than the PSP with the flash cards.

+1, if piracy was the only factor, it would of sunk the DSi as well.

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