Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G.

It`s a very "real" release, and is the fuel for this sales streak. If I hadn`t already had a PSP, I would have bought one for this game.

i meant after the release of monster hunter 2nd g, crisis core and god of war. There hasn't been that many releases in a while and psp is selling like crazy

Don't forget that Japan has the most colors and other countries want them as well :)

Bullshit.

I have never pirated psp games.
I use my CFW psp for playing cave story, using homebrew games/emulators and playing BoF4 which I own the original disc for, bought it years ago at the Caboolture markets.

Keep in mind that CFW was made for homebrew and NOT piracy. It is the user who defines the intent, not the tool.

I hate how piracy is ruining the PSP, but I also hate how people are so eager to blame or accuse the PSP homebrew scene for piracy. Have you used CFW? Do you know anything about CFW? Do you have any knowledge in which to base an opinion or are you most likely making an assumption?

I am so sick of this I swear.

How is that "bullshit" You need homebrew to pirate. Not once did he imply all CFW users are pirates so.......STFU no one cares about the fact you don't pirate. NO ONE.

I am sick of people saying about how they never pirated a game.

I don't think it's fair to blame all poor software sales on those dirty, rotten pirates. They certainly don't help, but the next two games I'll pick up are Clank and Space Invaders, and they don't come out until mid-June. I really don't need a new game right now, but May doesn't have a single title that fits my interests.

Jacksons,
You are totally right that poor sales are not 100% due to piracy. But we get nowhere when we throw out the most likely answer because it doesn't fit 100% of the time. Sure, there are other reasons why Japan gets a ton more games than we do. But piracy is easily 90+% of the problem. Programmers don't want to spend time coding stuff people are going to rip off.

:-(

First off, 'coders' aren't the only ones working on games. Ever heard of artists, designers, producers? No?

Second, your original comment that the "vast majority" of US PSP homebrewers are playing "stolen games" is utterly baseless. While the incidence of piracy may be higher per capita than the DS because you don't need to buy hardware to hack the unit, there's simply no proof that homebrewers a). constitute any significant percentage of US PSP owners or b). the majority pirates (doesn't pay for) all their games.

Third, the main reason US game sales are in the toilet is mainly due to SUPPORT from SONY. Lack of localized games from Japan, slow support for the barely mediocre PS Store, slow, sporadic release of demos, utter refusal to properly market the thing and flat denial to bring over many accessories. Why is this obvious? Because PSP owners in Japan, other Asian countries and Europe have access to the very same homebrew utils and let me tell you brother, the USA doesn't hold any exclusive bragging rights to software piracy.

Fact is, if your system is properly supported and penetrates the market, piracy is not as big a deal. I don't know about the DS, but flash cart piracy on the GBA was RAMPANT. Last I checked, that system did pretty damned well, and the software market was seen as perfectly 'viable' up until only recently as the DS took over (so much for the 'third pillar' tripe Nintendo spouted in 2005, btw).

Blaming piracy for the woes of the PSP in the USA market is to ignore the biggest gorilla you've ever seen crammed in the room. We're talking Kong size, here! Sony has nobody to blame but themselves for the software attach rate being in the toilet in the USA. Their constant officer shuffling and endless marketing realignments underscores this perfectly.

Very few gadgets do some of what the PSP has been doing for a long time, fewer still do it at an approachable price. I think the iPhone/iPodtouch can do wireless podcasts but I'm not sure if it is a Apple supported default feature if it even exists.