Doing Great with PS3... faltering with PSP. What happened?

[Euphoria14]

leo-j said:

Euphoria14 said:

leo-j said:

Euphoria14 said:
I could be wrong, but I have thought for quite a while now that $169.99 was much too expensive.

It should be priced around the DSL, $129.99.

With all the things the PSP does.. $129? Really?

It launched at $250 in March 2005.

Yeah the DS launched at around $160 long ago as well but it's sales allow it to keep the price above $100.

 

PSP still hasn't even hit the DS launch price after amost 5 years.

That is irrlelvent to what I said.. the PSP offers so many features that it makes most mobile handhelds that claim to be multimedia hubs look like childs play.

If you look at what the PSP offers, $169 can even be considered a steal. Though sadly, the consumer market doesn't see that. So I agree when it comes to the demand scale, it needs to drop to $139, and the PSP GO needs to drop to $199 or less, so that the PSP starts selling some good numbers.

Although at its current price, every PSP sold is great money to sony, and a PSP GO at $249 is like profit heaven for sony, selling like 50K of those a week may seem crappy, but 40-50k translates to huge profits.. especially if they make up to $100 of each. I expect that when the PS3 at $299 becomes profitable, they will cut the PSP's price.

I don't think the consumer market cares what extra stuff it can do. They see it in the video game section, they see it as a very expensive gaming handheld.

I agree with you though on why they probably won't cut the price yet.