Vast majority are crap, hmm Metacritic disagrees.
And you can do the same thing with a DS or a G2PX. Not to mention the upcoming Wiz.
It's no coincidence that hardware sales remain steady while prices drop and developers are abandoning the system.
Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.
Verno, do not feed the troll!
So, the fix is to not make any PC game versions, thus throw away all the revenue you COULD and would make in total from PC sales.... all because you are losing any kind of monies from piracy????
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that most of the stuff that comes out on the PSP is utter crap..? UMD movies are a joke and the vast majority of games are shovelware.
Depends on where you buy them. You can get a PSP off eBay for under $130. GP2X is hard to find and pretty expensive at most places, considering you often have to import it.
Ah, right, because poor sales figures are always the result of piracy. Oh, wait, why does that sound familiar..?
I'm sorry, you said all of the games were crap. All of them.
The DS is $40.00 cheaper than the PSP and the GP2X is $20.00 cheaper than the PSP.
Incidentally the GP2X and Wiz offer more homebrew functionality and are arguably more powerful than the PSP.
I can listen to music in mp3 which is what the majority of the planet uses and probably other ones that I don't care for too.
Oh ok, your anecdotes beat retailers statistics and sales figures for the PSP, ok sorry I didn't realize!
No, it sounds like I'm mocking your hilarious attempt to make piracy blameless as usual.
Huh? When I check Metacritic, I see a lot more yellow and red (277 games combined) than green (115) when it comes to PSP rankings. 53 of the green rankings scored below 80. Only one game scored above 90. From a statistical standpoint, that means that there are at least twice as many bad games as good games on the PSP and that the good games are merely decent. You'll also notice that many of the decent games are ports or spinoffs of superior console games.
NDS and GP2X cost about the same as a PSP while offering less power and flexibility. PSP has a better screen than both.
So on an unhacked PSP, you can watch movies in non-UMD format and listen to music in a multitude of formats?
I never claimed to know the truth. In order to do that, I'd have to keep tabs on every PSP owner out there. I'm simply making a reasonable assumption based on PSP homebrewers I know, as well as general reception of PSP games.
That sure sounds like you are blaming it all on the pirates.
Your opinion on the majority of PSP games is inconsequential(not to mention loaded for your argument conveniently, MetaCritic's critical AND user reviews seem to disagree with you)
You don't need to hack a PSP to watch movies or listen to music on it first of all.
if people wanted to just play homebrew there are cheaper ways(NDS, GP2X, etc)and other handhelds to do that.
That's to say nothing of people already owning devices to do the majority of these tasks.
I know the truth, you know the truth, you're just excusing it as usual.
I never blamed it all on pirates
If there are no games worth playing on the system as Jerykk the pirate apologist claims then no one would buy one, there are cheaper open source handhelds to do homebrew on.
I am amazed by how so many developers got their start on the PC, were sustained by it to make console versions, then abandon the PC all together.That's called being a traitor, what I said back at the beginning of the thread.
While I haven't really been keeping up on the PSP "hacking" scene, I believe a large contributing factor for the poor PSP game sales is sony continually trying to kill the "unauthorized" software people keep creating for the PSP (emulators and the like).
I think quite a few people may be making the choice to continue, as you say, using their SNES emulator rather then playing the latest PS2 rehash.