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Originally Posted by meh
That's why I'm very leery of the idea that PSP piracy kills the US market. Because the console sales are just way too abysmal for me to believe that. I'm mostly just annoyed at how badly Sony marketed and supported the console. Allowing DS to dominate the market. Because I truly love the system itself, which I feel is just amazing. Now if only there were more games for it...
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The problem with the PSP isn't the installed base (~50 million units sold worldwide; with that large userbase, sales of key releases would normally be brisk) but rather the disproportionately low sales rate of software. In Japan, it's actually doing decently in software, so support has gotten better. However, elsewhere, third-party publishers/developers are avoiding the system because they perceive piracy to be too rampant (especially when PSP games are expensive to develop).