WereKitten on 05 October 2009
| Reasonable said: Nope. Not a flop. People need to go back and look at pre-launch statements - 'premium priced new model for early adopters' being the key one. The Go! was priced to start fairly muted to only those willing to pay it's hefty price tag to get a digital distribution based PSP vs a regular PSP. Still, watch for lots of people comparing it to the Slim launch, completely incorrectly but just because it seems so tempting to do so. |
I agree and I'd add another few things: every single PSP Go that is sold instead of a PSP 3000 brings
- higher revenue from software licenses and first party games in the long run, because of the nonexistent second hand market
- more credit with third parties about the viability of the digital distribution model and its implementation by Sony
I think those are actually more important than the revenue coming from selling the hardware itself at a premium. They also make much more sense on an optionally premium model than for a total replacement of the PSP line.
