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Forums - Sales Discussion - PSP GO is a MISTAKE! (have SONY not learnt anything)!!

dharh on 06 June 2009
Strategyking92 said:
dharh said:
Strategyking92 said:

I'm glad we have finally reached a conclusion(?), but there is still the big elephant in the room, no matter what the arguement: price.

It's all about price right now.

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Oh what the hell, here's a quickie rebuttal to the ones I still have an irk for:

3. I am In no way saying UMD is a great format... The cases that hold the discs fall apart after a while in use, the games load slower, and it makes some minor noise.. This is all true. But having all of the games that I rightfully bought is priority. Sony said their main targets for this device were new users and psp-1000 users, primarily. In a perfect world, if the psp go! wasn't ugly, and all of your games that you bought worked with it, the thing would be a must buy, even at 250$.....Well, if it was a value pack with free games and stuff.

4. They have already released THE CON...... There goes the shovelware arguement :P Seriously though, Sony hasn't changed their attitude about the psp psn store... Actual psp games are released slowly on it. If I am not mistaken, there are more ps1 games on it than psp games. I am just going on the past here, and I don't see sony making a hugely drastic change in their attitude.

3. SONY sees where the profit is and its called the PSP, thats why there has been more activity for the PSP than PS3 for a while now.  I think SONY will, aside from any license issues, attempt to get every UMD game onto the PSN store.

4. I think they already have changed their attitude with the store, and it originated in Japan.  In the US/EU we haven't seen much but that already is changing.  Why wouldn't they release every game on the store, its basicaly free money when compared to UMD sales.

Honest to Chuck, i wonder what system you think would look good, cause I think it looks great.

3. I have heard 2 sides to this arguement 1. sony has priced it so high because of the inclusions of blue tooth, and the 16 gigs of storage. 2. sony is trying to make a profit. it could well be either one for what we know. I can only assume by "more activity for the psp than the ps3" you mean since this E3... Then you are correct? They are only trying to keep the system on life support since the absense of titles for the past 2 years has been taking its toll!

4. This is for the bolded. Because they haven't already? The fact that the store originated in japan has nothing to do with the fact that the NA/EU psp store itself has been out since 2007... It is not already changing. Bullcrap premium wallpapers, and ps3 game trailers are the only things consistently released every week (if anything). The only reason there have been a couple demos released these past couple weeks is because of E3 (I am so getting baddman).

And since you asked, the psp I want is right below.......

3. No I mean this year.  There's been more PSP activity.  After E3 I think it will be even more pronounced.  Bluetooth and 16GB of flash memory can't account for all of it.  Some of it must be the added buffer for retailers, the PSN cards were also a good step, and an added buffer for SONY. I think all those factors accounts for the $249 price tag.  In 6 months I think we will see a PSPGO 32GB at $249 and the PSPGO 16GB at $199. 

4. I can't argue that SONY hasn't been severely lax NA/EU.  What I can say is that there are/were major licensing issues that had to be overcome.  If they do in NA/EU what they've done in Japan we will be happy.



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mjk45 on 06 June 2009

@JEDE3,the psn card is only going to give the retailers a small % of the retail they get off umd's at most its a few bucks a card ,most stores that stock psn,xbox points tell me they dont sell as much as we the public think and only keep them as a service



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wenlan on 07 June 2009

found this article at destructoid.com
maybe it will change the way you feel about PSP Go

http://www.destructoid.com/e3-09-hands-on-with-the-psp-go-134707.phtml



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Rainbird on 07 June 2009
wenlan said:
found this article at destructoid.com
maybe it will change the way you feel about PSP Go

http://www.destructoid.com/e3-09-hands-on-with-the-psp-go-134707.phtml

Damn, now I'm even more sold on it!



Nightmare24 on 08 June 2009

honestly the psp go isnt even worth it



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XanderZane on 11 June 2009
wenlan said:
found this article at destructoid.com
maybe it will change the way you feel about PSP Go

http://www.destructoid.com/e3-09-hands-on-with-the-psp-go-134707.phtml

I still don't care for the design that much. The fact that the downloadable service will be available for the old PSP's negates wasting $250 for this smaller PSP. What can the PSP Go do that the original PSP can't? Just looking at the PSP Go and the design, it even looks cheaper then the current PSP 3000, yet it costs more. If the PSP Go was $100, I would definitely reconsider getting one, but at $250 it's way overpriced.



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thx1139 on 11 June 2009

I really believe that Sony wants to make extra on the early adopters to subsidize a PS3 price reduction in the fall.



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