ShopTo: PSPgo "ALMOST DEAD" on arrival !!

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Avinash_Tyagi said:

Dinomax said:

Heres a question. How are you meant to sell a product when the stores that sell your product dont want to stock it because your admitting once it sells you will take away all there business?

Sony- HAHA! TAKE THAT GAME SELLERS....wait...can you please stock the system so I can eventually take all business away from you? Hello game sellers? *knock knock* anyone there?

yeah i'm actually surprised any store is going to stock the go to be serious

It only really hurts the used game retailers.

Stores that sell electronic devices, like the iPod, will still carry it, thanks to the pricetag and profit margin.  In other words, stores like Target, Best Buy, Walmart, etc... any place that doesn't do used games.  Used game retailers, like GameStop, and a lot of smaller retailers, are the ones who really dislike it -- hence the reports you hear from said retailers about how much they dislike it, and how its "almost dead" etc.

Industries move on.  Big retailers deal with it.  The little ones, who have thrived on the resale value of the industry's products, are the ones who will have to change their business model to survive, if DD takes off.

I'm not sure why they aren't bright enough to work out a deal with Sony and the 3rd party publishers to sell "coupon codes" for DD at their stores, and get a somewhat proportional cut of DD game profits, based on the number of hardware units they've sold over the product's lifetime.  They are retail *partners* after all -- they just aren't acting like it.