PSP World Writes:
"Sony may be struggling to wrest market share away from Nintendo in the handheld gaming space, but in at least one territory they have already achieved what some thought was impossible. The PSP has sold more than 10 million units in Japan alone, and the success of the console seems to be accelerating. During much of 2008, the PSP sold more on a weekly basis than even the mighty Nintendo DS, proving that Sony had well and truly sliced off a pie of the Japanese handheld gaming market."
A posting on the well known hacking site Wololo has revealed that the PSP Monster Hunter games are capable of allowing PSP emulation on the Playstation Vita. This is bad news for anybody who wants to actually play the series.
I'm mostly worried about the last time a game was removed for exploits. It took them forever to put it back up. Luckily I still have my physical copy of Monster Hunter though. Of course my PSP screen is busted however...
It was actually a bit over three weeks, which is practically the same as forever.
You should read what Wololo said stupid.
He said "We expect Sony to pull the game from their stores within the next 48h, so if you are interested in homebrews, you might want to buy that game asap before it is out. For those who worry that we are sacrificing one of the best titles of the PSP in the name of homebrews, please keep in mind that so far the PSP games used in VHBL exploits have always returned to the PSN after a patch has been pushed by Sony."
There is no guarantee on that. And besides, why don't they just leave this thing alone? Do you really have to hack something like this?
"You should read what Wololo said stupid."
And ? how does it contradict what he says ? It basically mean that because of hackers crap , the game might not be around for people wanting it for at least a month
That click is basically as annoying as a drm in their consequences for other people
I love all the dislikes for the simple reason that shows how much people are willing to take it up the azz from corporations and how much mindless fanboys are on this site because god forbid that you get to do what ever you want with your console that you paid 250-300 dollars.
There aren't even any piratable vita games on the internet, stupid, this program is mainly for home brew games
You can do whatever you want with your console... as long as it's legal. Once you start pirating games, it's not legal and you cannot do whatever you want. That's like saying because you paid for your blu ray player you should be able to steal blu rays. It doesn't make any sense at all.
Your right shouldnt be interfering with the basic rights of others to just enjoy their system and stuff as is .
And right now that kind of crap is
Let's see what hackers have done for us...Aside from the DRM and the Playstation hack...Which punished the gamers instead of anybody else...Nothing good comes to mind.
Hackers only keep us from having nice things.
Now they're robbing us of a most beloved franchises in the US!
So, I am a tool for just playing and paying for the games I like?
I don't mind hacking and modding at it's base level, but the endgame is always the same: Piracy. The PSP had a HUGE problem with it, and if it takes off on the Vita, it just might as well.
But I am a tool for wanting to support devs that I like, and play games I enjoy. But they are Martyrs for paving the way for piracy and possible closed dev teams.
Okay... Whatever.
Dont bother , they'd righfully b*tch about the grievances of drms , yet basically worship someone with the same nasty after effects
@LordMe
This. Absolutely this. I always get the same criticism for saying how I enjoy supporting the people who make the games I enjoy.
As far as I'm concerned, piracy is theft and modding a platform can and probably eventually will lead to piracy on that platform which leads to more crappy regulations pushed on to the consumer.
I already D.L MHU on my Vita from the PSPgo in March when i frist got my Vita and I put VC2 on it to.
What's the point of PSP emulation on the Vita again? Doesn't it already support many PSP games already?
but it's not like the PSP emulation that we're talking about here lets you play free games anyway right? or am i just ignorant?
Some say the PSP is failure compared to the DS. Would a failure have sold over 71 million consoles worldwide? Would a failure have some of the best handheld RPGS a gamer could get? The PSP is still one of the better portable media and region free gaming devices on the market and best of all, its so affordable.
Sounds about right, I sold mine on feebay for £50 which would be about $75. :D
Put about 100 hours into Initial D: Street Stage but couldn't find an RPG that was worth investing much time into.
All in all it was a decent handheld.
Im not sure the PSP was ever deemed a failure, it was just always 2nd fiddle to Nintendo handhelds (until Nintendo shit out the 3DS). It had a lot of amazing games for those who didn't want to play Mario games.
So did the ds.
I'm going through a major rpg marathon this week. And all the games are for the 3ds.
Edit-Ugh, ds. DS. Not 3ds.
It sold over 71 millon units, and millions of games along with that. Doesn't sound like a failure to me.
it was never a failure the media just wanted us to believe that. and quite honestly thousands of people did
Siliconera: Monster Hunter is Capcom’s go-to franchise for Japanese sales. It may not sell by the bucketload overseas, but in Japan, it’s a social phenomenon with sales of recent titles in the range of millions of units.
I wonder if piracy is less of a problem in Japan? For some reason, Japanese developers have not been scared away from the system the way western devs have.
In fact, it seems like Japanese publishers are tripping over themselves trying to get new titles onto the device over there.
-RPGs
-coming out with new skus with different colors
-a ton of services that PSPs in NA dont have.
-its a very attractive portable.
@clinker
thanks for telling him what I meant by that. bubbles up
Rpgs?
is alot more popular in Japan and PSP have alot of games specific to the Japanese market.
RPGs
which consequently explains the PSP's ho-hum performance outside of japan.