Sony America scraps UMD-to-PSP Go conversion plans

[Onyxmeth]

ssj12 said:

Onyxmeth said:

ssj12 said:

You would be shock in learning i put my PSP titles at walmart at a sale price to just get rid of them out of my back room. Same with Target. It is not always because of competition that retailers or DD services lower prices to compete. Sony's reason to put a game on sale is its a limited time sale offer. Anything else is held up by B&M stores.

And why not blame GameStop? they absolutely hate digital distribution because they cannot make massive profits off used games because there is no phyiscal copies. This is why you wont see any games from Valve or StarDock, let alone PC games anymore, because GameStop cannot sell them used because either they are connected to a service that renders them useless or the game is tied to a license that can only be used once. I'm actually shocked they haven't tried to make Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to shut down the XBL Marketplace, PS Store, and WW/VC services.

I'm well aware of this. You might want to realize that this would never happen on PSN since there's nothing to clear out of stock. Everything can stay there forever, and it can stay there forever at whatever price, because the middleman(retail) isn't there to overorder and reduce prices drastically. I enjoy that retail atmosphere. I check Target's clearance section every week for deals, and I recently got Fallout 3's DLC retail package for $13.33 and NCAA Football 09 for $7.49, and I never would have gotten those prices online. I know for sure not the Fallout DLC since I can see it sitting at full price right at this moment.

I really don't know why you would say Gamestop hates digital distribution. I'm guessing you've never been to Gamestop.com, where there's a fully functioning digital distribution service for PC games and strategy guides. Also I just went on Steam and looked at a few new titles for sale, and then checked GS.com and noticed the same games for sale. They also have The Orange Box for sale for $29.99 on the site(retail copy), which I believe is a Valve game, and if you want it, it ships in 24 hours.

My point is that even if you get rid of every retail store, you still have the problem that there is no online competitor for selling PSP games. This is why Steam puts on sales, online competiton. Without competition there's less reason to lower prices. Don't like that $20 for Patapon? Tough, because there's no where else offering it to you.

GS.com isn't a B&M retailer now is it. You rarely see PC games at their retail outlets and never see used PC games since it can't happen ever. They can run DD sales out their website, but they do tend to refuse to sell phyisical media that contains competitors products.

http://www.edge-online.com/news/digital-remains-biggest-threat-gamestop

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57111

of course this does not mean GameStop couldn't have a change of heart considering the future. Their CEO does seem to be becoming a bit more open to the idea of DD. Even though he still wants to rip customers faces off with used game pricing. (Pay-and-Trade is so much cheaper and is running my local GS out of business).

Still that $20 Patapon is being held up in price due to retailer influence and distribution costs. If a publisher didn't pay UPS or Fedex to deliver their games to Day 1 to GameStop or WalMart or any other retailer and instead could just male a bunch of box-art sheets and DLC codes it would cut costs to nearly 95% making it so the cost of the game isn't based on what publishing/advertising costs are rather development and  advertising costs that $20 Patapon title just because a $10 Patapon title that can see another price cut once all other costs are paid off.

This entire Gamestop argument is ridiculous on your part. I've already presented that Gamestop does DD, and then you say it doesn't count because their retail stores don't embrace it? Why would a retail store embrace DD? That doesn't make sense. Gamestop as a company has embraced it the same way every other DD service operates...on the internet through a website. End. Of. Story.

Your two links don't say anything about Gamestop hating DD. The first has a man working for GS saying that DD is a challenge for their retail business, but with them opening up a DD service on GS.COM, it seems their strategy is to embrace it and be a big dog on both fronts. Your second link should be obvious. Since GS.com operates a DD service, why would they sell a product that requires a competitor's DD service to run? That seems more like the fault of THQ and Red Entertainment for favoring a DD service over the others. Why would Verizon sell the iPhone when you have to sign with AT&T to use it? I'm sure if Dawn of War II didn't require a Steam membership to run the DRM, it wouldn't have been singled out by GS. Give me more Steam games GS has banned, and I'll provide you 20 games they both share for every one GS doesn't allow to be sold. Got any other lame links to prove a company currently practicing a website with a DD service hates that very same service?