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PSP Piracy May Cause the End of Portable PixelJunk Titles
October 20, 2009 | 1:26 PM PST

by: Cory Dickson

PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe was recently released for the PSP on October 1st, but so far, it has not done well in sales because of the rampant piracy of PSP games. Sony has still yet to resolve this coding issue with their UMDs. A few months back SCEA's Peter Dille spoke about this ongoing issue.

"I'm convinced and we're convinced that piracy has taken out a big chunk of our software sales on PSP ... we need to do something to address this because it's criminal what's going on, quite frankly."

Rough PSP sales have Dylan Cuthbert, the president of Q-Games (the PixelJunk developer) disappointed. Recently, Cuthbert posted on Twitter "I don't think we'll port anything else to the PSP, we have to see how PJMD does as there's a *lot* of piracy". Fans were outraged, and so to clarify Cuthbert posted:

Interesting how my PSP piracy comment was taken out of context - I specifically said "we'll have to see how PJMD does"...


This still concerns many PixelJunk fans, including myself. This doesn't necessarily mean it's the end of portable PJ games, but I am almost positive the next PixelJunk game won't be on the PSP.


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