98% Of PSP Owners Don't Buy PSP Minis

[Sonicslasher]

I never heard of a PSP mini until I saw this thread.

 

[Aeladya]

My PSP doesn't have working WiFi (it just mysteriously broke...I suspected a cat broke it, but that was just a dream) so I've never even been on the PSN...I don't own a PS3 so yeah...

 

[Cablephish]

I actually made a thread on the USN about PSP Minis.

Guess no one read it. That or you're all being sarcastic pricks.

 

[Technik]

Lets see. At least a quater of the psp population has a hacked psp so no shop for you. another percent of people dont have internet hooked up. Another percentage of the population doesnt use their psp, much less buy games they can get on their ipod.

 

[IBNobody]

Since it hasn't been said...

According to all the piracy statistics...

98% of PSP owners don't buy PSP games.

 

[Joe88]

I "obtained" a bunch of mini's
some are actually pretty good and are only like 30MB

 

[Finishoff]

I am one of the 98%.

 

[Ballistic]

I own only one PSP mini, Fieldrunners. But then again, I have that on my DSi and iPod touch as well. Both loaded with at least one other game from its AppStore/DSiWare, unlike my PSP.

 

[purechaos996]

never heard of a PSP mini before this lol.

 

[Magmorph]

Sony needs to advertise this better because hardly anyone has ever heard of psp minis.

 

[Terminator02]

I've heard of psp minis... but that might just be because i see em in the shop all the time, I have a ps3. I haven't downloaded any because I don't have a PSP tho, and playing a mini on my PS3 just sounds kinda dumb when I could go to my computer and play flash games.

 

[Cermage]

wasnt there a big announcement of the minis sometime last year? launching with 20 titles or something.

 

[Daizu]

Lol, I only looked at the mini's once and I don't remember what I saw. But I do remember hitting circle almost immediately.

 

[Rydian]

Lol, I only looked at the mini's once and I don't remember what I saw. But I do remember hitting circle almost immediately.

I looked through them for my "Decent PSP games under 175MB" thread.

... I didn't find anything interesting other than Bloons, and this port of it... it's not even good.

 

[Maikel Steneker]

I really like PSP Minis. There affordable and can give you hours and hours of fun. I also like how I'm able to play them on both the PSP and PS3.

2% of the PSP owners buying PSP Minis is not too much, but a low number is to be expected. It's difficult to know what games are any good without demos. Also, the price is too high in some cases. The standard price is about 5 euros. A game has to be pretty good to be worth 5 euros.

 

[Rydian]

It's difficult to know what games are any good without demos.

This. For one or two I could find demos, but not for a lot of them.

 

[Rydian]

EDIT: Double.

 

[XLarge]

wtf are psp minis

 

[Infinite Zero]

^Why dont you read the first few posts my friend?

 

[tuddy666]

I looked through them for my "Decent PSP games under 175MB" thread.

... I didn't find anything interesting other than Bloons, and this port of it... it's not even good.

It doesn't help that they're the sort of games you'd be okay with playing on a mobile phone... but instead, they're on a dedicated games system. I'd be fine with playing, for example, Bloons on my iPod Touch, or on a non-gaming computer to pass the time. But playing it on an actual games system, when there are plenty of decent games that I could be playing instead? No thank you.

The price of the minis doesn't really help, either - they're all much more expensive than their counterparts on other platforms, plenty of the minis are also available on the iPhone App Store or the Android App Store... and typically at much lower cost than their PSP versions.