Oh come on, the most piracy-friendly system ever made (FAT PS2) was also the most money-bank system for developers and publishers (even now, when is in theory a dead system)
The PSP is just a 'market test' (a very sucessfull one by the way) just like the original Xbox was for microsoft.
Sony had learned a lot of things about the handled market with the beauty machinne and (take note about this) the next PSP could be the ultimate portable gamming device ever created (the current PSP is that... well some sort of)
The current PSP was a test... a test for technology, manufacturing process and planning, Engineering, etc, etc. Sony manage to introduce a new device in a inexplored market where other simply fail before (N-Gage someone?) and that was dominated by a single company (the big N) and now, several years after the PSP launch, sony really had made the things pretty good. The system has sells a lot of units, not much as the DS, but the DS was only a evolution of a well stablished system -Even if nintendo keep saying that the DS is not the new Game Boy- and have MANY great games (the 'Bring games' argument is just crap by now) some of them incredible for a portable device (Wipeout, burnout, MGS:PO, Daxter and now God of War who looks simple amazing).
The PSP have games of a massive degree of quality, Games witch the DS nor DS owners can even dream to have in their system, and is just a test-machinne.... just think about the next PSP... It will be just amazing
If the PSP is not profitable for developers and publishers -For price, piracy and installed user base-, then why the developers keep pushing the quality of the released games?
I don't support the piracy in any sytem, but i like some of the PSP Homebrew apps... (PDF reader for example) i could LOVE if sony release some kind of free application or developer tools for the independient comunity and allow developers to release applications -NOT GAMES- for the PSP in the original firmware. THAT could Boost the PSP market share and paint the sony-face with a diferent color.
Homebrew is GREAT, Piracy of games just are bad
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