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Squilliam on 27 January 2011
Rainbird said:
Squilliam said:
Rainbird said:

Nothing is confirmed from the way he said it. Could be $250 or $500 for all we know.

Given the 'rich features' a rich price could be expected. Im also expecting it to launch Q1 2012/Q4 2011 Japan given the fact that the spec sheet includes a CPU which isn't even in mass production yet!

I think it may be something like $299 for the game only version and $399 for the tablet version with the average cost of production splitting the two so they break even at launch.

Of course we can expect the price to be high, but he didn't say Sony wouldn't take a loss on it either. He just said they'd rather not, which leads me to believe that Sony may be reado to take a small hit on the hardware at launch, and that they're shooting for a price close to the point of breaking even, but may not be achievable in the time frame. My guess would be $299 for the cheapest version, and a few more SKUs from there.

What makes you think there'll be a tablet version though?

I meant the 3G version which is sort of more like a tablet than a portable media player. If Nintendo sold it however you'd add at least another $100 onto each version! I think the 3G version may somewhat subsidise the lower price version like how Microsoft did with the 360 Arcade and Premium SKUs.

I don't think the PSP2 is coming this year in the west at least. They won't have time to ramp production...



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Rainbird on 27 January 2011
Squilliam said:
Rainbird said:

Of course we can expect the price to be high, but he didn't say Sony wouldn't take a loss on it either. He just said they'd rather not, which leads me to believe that Sony may be reado to take a small hit on the hardware at launch, and that they're shooting for a price close to the point of breaking even, but may not be achievable in the time frame. My guess would be $299 for the cheapest version, and a few more SKUs from there.

What makes you think there'll be a tablet version though?

I meant the 3G version which is sort of more like a tablet than a portable media player. If Nintendo sold it however you'd add at least another $100 onto each version! I think the 3G version may somewhat subsidise the lower price version like how Microsoft did with the 360 Arcade and Premium SKUs.

I don't think the PSP2 is coming this year in the west at least. They won't have time to ramp production...

Then we agree. And yeah, just going by Sony's own comments, the likelyhood of a worldwide launch in 2011 doesn't seem guaranteed, even if Sony would like it.