GCN Exclusive: Say hello to the PSP Go - First pics of PSP Go

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naznatips said:

hunter_alien said:

Lostplanet22 said:
Brett is going to have a hard time to get now sales numbers of new PSP games.

 

 

Yeah, well for Others its not an issues, because that region is terrible innacurate anyways. The only difference will be that if a game is released then the opening will be even lower because of all the gamers whom download the games day 1, and even more PSP SOFTWARE DOOOMDZ threads will apear ;)

Did you ever consider the effects this will have on PSP software sales?

UMDs sell terribly already. So bad that back in 2007 some stores in the US were threatening to stop stocking them. Consider what will happen if a large portion of the already poor sales suddenly goes downloadable. Oops. Suddenly that threat of dropping PSP games becomes real. Retail stock of UMDs will be slim, and smaller games probably won't be stocked at all.

Let's look at another major issue here... pricing. We are looking at a handheld system that will start for at LEAST the Wii retail price. Oh! But wait! It gets worse. Because PSN games never drop in price (unlike good DD services like, say, Steam) you will have to pay full launch retail price ($30-$40) for every PSP game you ever buy. Cost of ownership by that alone more than dobules.

 

First of all that was for UMD movies, and NOT games. Second of all, most stores did drop tehm :P For games they only made the stands smaller, and except some rumors there where no real threats to drop games.

 

Also, I highly doubt that the PSP GO will retail at 250$, IMO it will be in the PSP3ks pricing region, and some articles even claimed that it might drop from 170 to 150$...

 

If games are going DL only, I dont see that as a bad thing at all. There are over 50 million UMD capable gadgets out there and software sales are still far from stellar. With putting them on the PSN dirrectly developers can have their game start at ~25-30$ and make the same profit from them as they would on a full priuced UMD game. Then there is the rental service that will launch, and probably other pricing arrangements that I bet Sony still didnt revealed. Hell, we barely know anything about the hardware itself.

 

I say lets wait for e3 and only after that discuss that was it worth it for Sony to make a DL only handhled or not.