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Sony: PSP Hardware Sales Up, Software Attach Rate Dwindles

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In terms of global hardware sales, the PSP was Sony's top performer for fiscal 2007. According to a recently released financial report, the handheld shifted 13.89 million units, up from 9.53 million units the previous year.
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Published: 595 days 19 hours ago | News | Sony PSP
 
 

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Honeal2g - 595 days 15 hours ago
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1 - sales dwindle huh?
this couldnt be a direct result to modding? or the fact that u can download anygame you have a play that digital copy?..... God it makes me happy and sad at the same time. i think sales will continue to rise....its pretty much like a dvd player...bluray player....cd player, etc ,etc....i mean you buy a psp and just play copied games on it / end rant
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v1c1ous - 595 days 12 hours ago
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2 - yeah it's a double edged sword
hardware sales are definetely up!

but....what's the point when you try to sell a game, and if it doesn't have the words "final, monster hunter, god of war, *insomniac game*" in the title, it's just gonna get downloaded.
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f789790 - 595 days 11 hours ago
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3 - I have all my games I legally own on my memory stick
Its better that way. Plus my PSP is also a gameboy now.
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DJ - 595 days 11 hours ago
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4 - Software attach rates dwindle when hardware undergoes massive growth.
It's expected. BTW, is it blasphemy to have Nintendo games running on your PSP?
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zslash - 595 days 10 hours ago
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In the case of the video game industry, you would expect attach rates to go up or stay the same if more hardware sells. Doesn't everyone buy a game or two when they purchase a console/handheld?

However the PSP is a multimedia device too so it's possible that people are using it for other reasons than playing games.
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thehitman - 595 days 11 hours ago
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5 - umm
Did this guy take any business classes??? OFC when hw sales climb the attach rate of software is going to go down for awhile. The can have a 3:6 attach rate then they get a hw boom and turn it into a 6:6 for awhile then it would go back to a 3:6 after the boomers get settled in and start buying games.
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meepmoopmeep - 595 days 10 hours ago
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i've never modded my psp.
it's sad to hear that piracy is hurting the software sales.
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