Get the anime too. Lots of upskirt shots to go with the b00bs.

Nope, the US market has been all but completely abandoned by Sony. We have a few local devs still making games but how long that'll last with software sales in the toilet is anybody's guess.

With no effort being made to port over the fairly diverse and Anime (and Adult) oriented titles like this, you can bet the USA PSP's days are numbered.

The incredibly weak dollar has something to do with it, but you have to wonder what Sony's thinking when the PSP is clearly their breadwinner system after the relative flop of the PS3. *shrug*

This reminds me of Sony's Clie line of PDAs. They were GREAT PDAs. But due to their high price, US sales were too low that Sony discontinued the line in the US, and preferred a Japan-only business.

Is this scenario going to be repeated soon? I hope not.

The Clie line was the best PalmOS non-phone series, hands-down. But they screwed up with their enforced lack of NR/NX CF compatibility (at first), locked-down proprietary sound hardware API and high prices to the point where the alienated their target market (high end tinkering PDA users). Even their lower end line like the SJ series was far superior to the Palm Inc counterparts, but they insisted on Memory Stick for flash storage which, at the time, was much more expensive that comparable SD or CF cards.

Sony's track record for good hardware is excellent -- but their ability to follow through with software support and customer relations is awful.

The PSP itself is hardly a failure. The hardware has been selling pretty solidly, though naturally not as well as the DS. The problem, probably, is that the people buying PSPs don't necessarily have to buy software to play games.

PSP software actually sells in Japan. Not great, but it often hits the top 10 for a week or so when a new game is released. But it doesn't sell in the West. Even big expensive projects are major flops.

Conversely, PS3 software seems to be selling okay in the US and West. Maybe not as good as the 360, but given the disparity in userbase, quite good all things considered. Not so much in Japan.

It's so sad that all us are so desperate for a good new psp game. We're complaining about how this game - which clearly is aimed at Japanese - won't be released in English.

If this game turns out really good, it could be an import.

only around 2934809million of them use custom firmware and kill gamin industry

293 billion huh? There are only 6.7 billion people in the world. Sony could live off of hardware sales forever with those kind of numbers.

Oh and just because you have CFW that doesn't mean you are a pirate. Only if you misuse CFW for piracy. Duh!