Answer one is the most praising of the handheld. "Multimedia functionality," Tretton says. "There are more things to do with it, so you're not just turning it on to play games, which isn't the case with the DS."
The next one caught us off guard. "Quality of games," Tretton confides. "People will go out and buy a God of War or a SOCOM," he remarks, "but they're not necessarily as interested in buying a PS2 port." So ... people like good games that are original for PSP. Luckily there are some on the way.
Tretton says the "third and almost biggest reason as of late" is piracy. "We have been able to track with releases like God of War that hundreds of thousands of units in potential sales are walking out the door through piracy on day one," he reveals. PSP Fanboy reported on this back in March.
So, is there a solution is in the cards? Tretton says that Sony "has remedies moving forward," but that they won't help with systems already on the market, adding: "That machine is already out there." That machine? Is there a new pirate-proofed PSP revision on the way? Is that even possible? Doesn't Sony realize how popular pirates are these days?
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Fuck Kotaku commenters... they are bashing Joystiq bloggers!
http://kotaku.com/5026035/ps3-press-conference-rehearsal-crashed-by-mystery-blogger
Check the first comments.
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Lol that's funny.
On another note Kotaku's layout is as ugly as ever.
Fatal Frame 4:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36708.html
Is this old news? I never knew a thing about it until now. Looks nice.
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He's not using this as an excuse as to why the PSP is not selling as much as the DS, he's citing a reason as to why PSP software sales aren't that great (in the US, presumably). Nintendo has made more or less the exact same comments regarding piracy on the DS.
I'm surprised at his honesty though. I use my PSP a lot as a video player, and would love to buy more games, but there really aren't a lot of good PSP games out there.
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I can't find anything on it, so i'm wondering if it was just a fluke
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Nah, I didn't even know of it's existence. If it happened, i hope something good came out of it.
I think that's the main problem that the PSP has with regards to its sales. It seems that during a standard 3 minute advertisement block, on the TV channels I watch at least, there'll be at least one Nintendo DS game advertisement. Sure, most of them are absolute Betty Swallocks, but someone out there will be thinking "Hey, that looks interesting, I might buy that next time I'm out".
What I'm trying to say is that if there were more PSP advertisements, then there'd probably be more PSP sales.
..then again, looking at Sony's previous advertisement attempts.. Well, if Sony could sell WTF moments then they wouldn't be worrying about profitability.
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But to be honest, i haven't purchased a PSP game in a year and a half. The last one i got was GTA, so i could hack it. I've never downloaded a PSP game before, but i use it for NES and SNES emulators, and there's nothing i want to buy anyway.
Also, if they expect me to pay 40 dollars for a handheld game like God of War, then they're out of their damned minds. Make the prices 30, 40 is too much money. It's a handheld. I can get a real game for 10-20 more.
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The software companies don't want to spend money and work hard on a game if people are just going to steal it. That's why we end up getting so many ports of games instead of new quality games.
I've got both, and I have an R4/AK2, and my PSP has the latest custom firmware. I almost solely play games on my DS, but for the PSP... there's some decent stuff, and it's a far cry from the Neo Geo Pocket Color (we hardly knew thee!), but if it were not for the ability to emulate older systems, the PSP would definitely have been money wasted.
wait, that came out wrong.
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Too controlling. Fuck em. I don't use my PSP for much but internet anyways anymore.
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However, even with a cracked PSP I can also admit that I have NEVER played God of War Chains of Olympus. Never played it. Only ever seen the demo. But I was more than happy, thrilled in fact, to buy Crisis Core, Patapon, the 20th anniversary Final Fantasy's and downloads from the PSN store like Echochrome and like the 2 decent PS1 games available in the Classics menu.
The PSP suffers as much as the PS3 in terms of Sony simply not delivering enough on the types of games that people want to play on those platforms.
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And Ds games are way smaller downloads as well.
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