top 100 best-selling games of the past 12 months

[Toaster]

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I wouldn't blame homebrew... I'd probably blame the piraters but that probably wouldn't be accurate either as the average joe doesn't even know how custom firmware works.

The problem with the PSP is that it doesn't have the strong franchises the DS has so it's hard to pinpoint a specific market. There's probably more people who own a DS and like Naruto than there are that own a PSP and like Silent Hill or Final Fantasy whatever.

I'd say this is true to an extent. Whenever I talk to someone about homebrew they look at me dumbfounded like I'm some computer whiz kid. It is pretty damn hard to figure out how to downgrade your PSP and in order to do it and it's a hell of a lot of leg work. And for the record, I don't pirate PSX or PSP games--I buy them like a normal person.

I personally love the system. It's stylish and sleek as hell. But I seem to be in the minority with Valk. Weaboos would rather play Pokemon or Naruto. What marcus said is true--the system doesn't have a lot of solid franchises to back it up. While the Nintendo DS has them in spades and seems to be constantly picking up more support along the way, not to mention it's a lot more accesible of a system. For example I couldn't get my girlfriend to want to play anything on the PSP aside from Patapon but everytime she saw my DS she wanted to play it. Professor Layton, Ninja Gaiden, Phoenix Wright, Trauma Center. Overall the DS is a more solid system with a much better library of titles. Yet I somehow don't regret selling it.

I love how I can now play Earthbound or Rocket Knight Adventures on the toilet.* That's a huge plus for me. It can also store a lot of music on it too seeming as I have an 8 GB card. It's a better piece of hardware but it's severely lacking when it comes to software, IMO. But that doesn't really matter, if they do someday get some really awesome and unexpected 3rd party support people will just steal the games anyways. }:[


* I do own those games and they're currently decaying somewhere in storage.

[Perversion]

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Meh...I bought my PSP in late Feb, I think, and I have 17 games/UMD movies/TV shows for it, including the two it came with. I'm getting a lot more use out of my PSP than my DS...but hopefully that'll change a bit, as an unwritten "goal" for my resolution thread in my game forum is to spread the love to all my systems.

I get the most playtime with my portables as I'm winding down, getting ready for sleep. That being said, I don't see myself messing with any homebrew stuff on my PSP. I don't want to have to give up all the cool stuff I can do on it now, and possibly risk bricking it.

[Sampson]

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It's not the pirates. That's an excuse. If the PSP didn't have homebrew, I would've never bought it, and I wonder how many other people would've done the same.

The PSP is dead in the water because it lacks quality, casually appealing games. It's that simple. Virtually all of great games that it does have, are only appealing to the so called "hardcore gamers". Without solid games for the casual video gamer, a system cannot survive.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

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wow a lot of those games are just meh or games i never thought would get the numbers. pirates of the carabean?

i guess the rpg world has been flat recently, i cant remember a new rpg that came out recently.

[Biggie]

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I'm amazed, but at the same time not, to see so much crap so high up on that list.

As for PSP, FFT and FFVII:CC kicks ass, and everyone should buy both.

[Kire]

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Even though I have access to hacked PSP roms and whatnot, I still buy my games to support the console and the developers before ripping them and selling them to Game Crazy (they're good people).

[Toaster]

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R-Type Command and the two new Star Ocean games. That's all I can think of. So what else is coming out for the PSP in the near future that might be worth buying?

dur

[Valkysas]

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Piracy isnt an excuse sampson.

look at the system sale numbers. look at the PSP's software sale numbers. then look at the torrent download numbers.

PSP owners arent even buying the quality games on the system. they're just downloading them.

yes, the casual PSP owner doesnt know about homebrew and the ability to pirate games on the system, but anyone with a PSP who goes to PSP websites knows about it.

R-Type Command and the two new Star Ocean games. That's all I can think of. So what else is coming out for the PSP in the near future that might be worth buying?

Not much. Publishers know that no matter what they release for the system, it's just not possible to make money off it in unless you're in japan and releasing a final fantasy or a monster hunter.

[Toaster]

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I know that I wouldn't have even bothered with a PSP if it weren't for the existance of custom firmware. I would've stuck with my DS and been happy.

We're being a little hasty with our conclusion of the PSP being dead, but more likely than not it's going to happen and pretty soon too. Only thing I can think of is if Sony came out with a PSP.2 or something like that. It could play original games along with the new ones--and custom firmware wouldn't be possible on it. But then people would just say "screw that" and stick with their portable emulator machines.

[DarkwingChuck]

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wow a lot of those games are just meh or games i never thought would get the numbers. pirates of the carabean?

i guess the rpg world has been flat recently, i cant remember a new rpg that came out recently.

You got to remember a lot of game sales come not from game players but game gifters. They don't know what's good but they see some movie licensed crap and say "Oh, Bobby/Julie/Tyrone liked that movie, he/she/they will like this game." And shovelware is usually cheap, that brings in a lot of sales too.

[Kire]

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BEN 10 AT #82!!!

I worked on it.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

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this is why i say cash is the greatest gift ever invented. i am not a fan of giving items, if i give its usually cash or something i am positive i know that they will like.

i also agree with valk, the piracy thing is HUGE! if people can steal something or scam it for free they will. its just like the mod chips of the early playstations or any of the other cheating stuff out there. since the psp is so "easy" to mod with the huge blunder that allowed firmware or whatever its called, its simple to see why so many are would rather steal games then buy them - especially if you consider the price of games these days.

if this same problem happened with any other console, where you could easily make a home brew cheat to steal games, you can be 100% sure that the game sales for that console would drop considerably, especially when you can download copies of past games (which would eliminate re releasing past game sales) and the ease and availability of soft data through the internet.

[Valkysas]

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Id like to add that piracy for the DS is actually much easier than on the PSP, but the DS' much wider audience keeps it alive despite that.

[Toaster]

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Damn Pirates. Stealing the top spots in the sales charts and ruining the PSP.

Even though it is easier to do on the DS.

None of this makes any sense.

The world might as well be flat.



I'll add this: recent sales of the PSP system in Japan.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

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wider audience. that makes all the difference. look at how many children games are for the ds, look at how many different successful franchises are on the ds. also look at how many solid games have come out for the ds and not to mention how many ds has been sold.

the psp seems to get much greater attention for piracy then the ds. i hadnt heard of the ds being pirate-able until valk mentioned it.