Piracy is dampening Q Games’ faith in the PSP as a viable platform, with company founder Dylan Cuthbert expressing intent to drop support for the handheld entirely in a Twitter tweet.

Apparently, sales of their latest offering – PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe – an enhanced port of the cult hit PS3 classic on PSP, aren’t up to par. However, BitTorrent downloads are depressingly sky high, which is leading Q Games as a whole to question the value of investing further in PSP projects.

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.

It’s a shame, but not entirely unexpected. As a platform, the PSP has been hit hard by piracy over the years, and with subsequent firmware updates doing little to alleviate the problem, it doesn’t look like Sony will ever be able to pull through and topple the pirates. Until PSP2, that is.

Still, Cuthbert’s statements bring into question the sales of PSN titles. Currently at number five on the PS Store sales charts, if PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe is performing poorly, it makes us wonder what the sales are like for titles that rank lower.

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