To Mod or not to Mod?

[High Roller]

Probably true for the unit itself. The debate is about continuity and longevity i guess for the platform and development

[xXHotfuzzXx]

Piracy does not drive sales of games!! I'm not accepting that. Maybe console sales, but don't forget sony has a vested interest in all it's systems and PS3 seems to be getting most of the attention of late. This I feel is because it's next gen...

Most people would rather play in comfort of their sofa, on a big scrreen with graphically enhanced games but they cost. Go figure!! Psp is owned mostley by 14-25 market and that's fact. Factor in to this accessable income, if you can get your games for free that's good right!! Most people go for the cheeaper option which is a shame in uk we pay half as much again for games as US.

Sony are in the proccess of lauching more downloadable games they are testing the market at present!!Piracy does affect Sales and also passes that on to the consumer meaning higher prices! Anybody that says otherwise is just trying to justify Piracy:shock:Sony underestimated the holes in their early firmware. This has led to where we are now, noone knows if it had'nt happened on the scale it's reached , if the psp would have generated more sales on games because they did'nt get the chance!!!!

Sometimes things get exploited and are moved in a direction that changes a products viable return. We can only hypothesise how this may or may not have eventually turned out. Umd was a good idea and with some added data protection Sony could still win through. This would leave only back ISO, CSO images avaible. It's up to current developers to engage with Sony and create their own encrytion on their new games. Sony may have decided to call it a day concentrating on other aspects of the psp.....

To be continued....................

[High Roller]

I dont think mim was talking about the sale of games. You really need some glasses dude!

Anyway, PSP sales are sky high in Japan, as you know and this is the article from my web travel i found

Simple 2000: The Japanese Hardware Chart: Your Weekly Update On Good PSP Sales, Lousy 360 Sales In Japan

Interestingly. I loved this comment. Beautiful Eloquent Writing

I was really surprised to know that most brand new PSP games these days retail between 30 and 40 dollars.
I totally regret buying my PSP in 2005 since it seems like Sony was doing everything in their power to make sure their product failed by not even bothering to show us more than 0.4 SECONDS of gameplay in a commercial (ITZ LIKE A NUT U CAN PLAY WITH OUTSIDE!!!!11 CLUSTER BOMBS! GET DA CLUSTER BAWMBZ!!!) and putting in demo systems many months after launch with the ****tiest games they could find. The Con (65% gamerankings) was the only playable game at pretty much any store in my city and perhaps the entire nation.
But, despite all that, the little handheld has finally become something I'm not embarrassed to own.
Sony still needs to be slapped for their garbage marketing campaign.

[xXHotfuzzXx]

Yes your right, May have jumped on the bandwagon slightly!!lol. Anyways I never meant any offence just my opinion!!Still I stick to what I originally have said... People will always go for the cheaper option hence piracy wins out. But the real players are those that hacked and opened up the UMD format. And of course Sony for being so stupid in the first place!!
Lots of lessons learned I feel.

[High Roller]

Better marketing (much better), more games, better and swifter realeases of developer packages to 3rd party developers (I believe they are making the same gaffs with the PS3, not enough games). Better online Play!! More secure firmware - maybe even allow homebrew development too (im not sure where the piracy comes in but they should allow homebrew instead of vehemently banning it) If they allowed nomebrew too, the platform would be enriched and people would be less likely to switch to custom firmware to do it

All this and you got a pretty sick ass PSP