When it costs you 99 to make and you're selling it for 170 it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. He was just lying to pretect the fact that his company over charged due to greed. The tech inside of that thing is really out dated.

He's probably a dull child.

Yeah. Nintendo can't just come along and steal it from Sony. Nintendo needs to make up their own excuses and stop copying Sony for a change.

>_> yeah I won't get into the psp debate..it won't end if I do

OT: hope this doesn't harm 3ds or nintendo..don't care much for piracy

Wow I never agree with Rol until now. Is this guy re...... not so bright or something? What does he think this is the playground where you can just outright lie to people? If you lie to investors so blatantly about financials you are looking at a major day in court. Furthermore there is no such thing as overcharge unless you buy a product from someone and then upsell it. Check out every product in any store, a can of coca cola, a bag of potato chips, etc. Generally profit margins will be 200% + depending and it is understood that alot of that is to cover overhead costs. Finally, Japanese CEO's tend to make considerably less than CEO's from other developed countries around the world which is why Sony's own Stringer is criticized for making too much (that was in a thread here with a reliable source). This guy needs to seriously stfu and go play some marbles or something cuz he has no clue what he's talking about, and I want to see a reliable source that gives a break down on specs, who is the manufacturer of every part, who does the assembling, and where in order to get the oh so accurate price of 99.

he is half right though. software sales are abysmal outside Japn for this reason. 

I think annoying UMD drives were the reason for piracy=low software sales on psp, it was faster to download the game off your computer and not all of them were in the online store.

sad to hear

The points regarding PSP software sales in the west was effectively laid out, and this stems from the PSP debate we've had in the past (regarding how Sony treats the device). Sony did not make games that were distinctly compelling, compared to just buying those games on the PS2/3 (or on 360 in the case of a lot of western-oriented third party PSP games). Most are just junior partners of their console games, and therefore their sales were bad. The ones that had full effort in them went well

last time I showed how stupid some of the remarks you made about the sony and their treatment of psp first party sw. I really don't think many of you have a clue about the quality of those game you guys are addressing.and they didn't make compelling games for it? another ignorant comment added to the list of ignorant comments made by you about the psp.

but like I said, I really don't want to get into this again. it's a useless debate and one that's gonna make me type a lot lol which I really don't want to