Over here the PS3 (80g) still has a price of 520$ - and i belive the PSP Go will be at 350$ or so.
yes psp is over priced sony is trying to make money (big news there the wii is over priced and the psp has better games, Xboxlive and the harddrives for xbox are over priced Plus a wii controller with WM+ is 80 bucks if you get all the parts. o yea the DSI is completely over priced also. thats what companies do.)
But there is a perfectly wonderful Psp-3000 thats the same price 169.99 so if you dont want the PSPgo stop bitching and get the 3000.
Yes, the PSP Go is overpriced. Most have indicated that this is probably because Sony need the profits. On the other hand it wouldn't suprise me if Sony uped the retail price so that retailers would get more profit per unit sold from the PSP Go. Why you ask? If the PSP Go is a download only console, then retailers aren't going to be able to sell any games for the system, which is where they make most of there money. What incentive would retailers have to stock the PSP Go with no games to sell on shelves? Only selling hardware would equates to very little profit for the retailers, unless Sony give them a bigger share.
If this is the case we could see some online retailers dropping the price early to be competitive.
It's overpriced because it's sexy and portable, like every Apple product that sells millions by the way. It's more or less the same target customer by the way, older people like me (34) who don't care that much about the price as long as it's... portable, powerful and sexy.
Comparing PS3 and PSP doesn't make sense.
Day one buy for me.
| Tim_Duncan said: It's overpriced because it's sexy and portable, like every Apple product that sells millions by the way. It's more or less the same target customer by the way, older people like me (34) who don't care that much about the price as long as it's... portable, powerful and sexy. Comparing PS3 and PSP doesn't make sense. Day one buy for me. |
I think comparing it to Apple products is a big mistake. Apple products sells like gothcakes even when they're super expensive because Apple is selling a lifestyle. You buy a 1200$ Macbook Air not because it's a good computer, but because it makes you cool. Same thing with iPods, iPhones, and all the other computers they sell.
No matter how small or 'sexy' a video game console is it's still a video game console. It doesn't make you cool.
Wii has more 20 million sellers than PS3 has 5 million sellers.
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I think PSP Go will make you 'cool' the same way an Iphone does... (and they look exactly the same) PSP Go is not just a game console the same way the Iphone is just a phone. You can browse internet with both, or stream music and videos, with both...
Showertea said:
I think comparing it to Apple products is a big mistake. Apple products sells like gothcakes even when they're super expensive because Apple is selling a lifestyle. You buy a 1200$ Macbook Air not because it's a good computer, but because it makes you cool. Same thing with iPods, iPhones, and all the other computers they sell.
No matter how small or 'sexy' a video game console is it's still a video game console. It doesn't make you cool. |
They also use gimmicks that are generally user friendly and make there products easy to use and makes you appear cool. Something that Sony seem to be failing on recently.
| Lafiel said: @ S.T.A.G.E. ) Sony can't use the "sell hardware at a loss and make money with software" strategy with the PSP, because it doesn't sell enough software. I think that's the reason the PSP Go is 249. It's manufacturing costs should be lower than the PSP-3000's (if manufactured in the same quantities), but it has to redeem it's R&D costs first. |
Um....the PSP isn't being sold at a loss. They are selling the PSP for the price of the Wii.
PSP at the Wii's price=Fail. As I said, Sony thinks too highly about their products and no better a dick to tell you live and on stage than Kaz Hirai. PSP's right now are selling at $199. So I guess Sony believes they will make more money by dumbing down the product and increasing the price? Um....they aren't Nintendo. Nintendo got away with that long ago, making profit off of a system that only costs $180 dollars to make.
The PSP Go is probably priced like it is because of retailer relations. According to my district manager, corporate GameStop were threatening to stop carrying the PSP if it went UMD-only. Retailers, much like the console manufacturers themselves, generally don't make much if anything on hardware sales, and instead make their money on software and accessories. They wouldn't be able to make any money on the Go from software, so Sony probably allowed them a higher margin on the product just so they would even carry it.
They do not have this issue with the ps3. Ultimately, the price of the ps3 needs to drop, and everyone, including GameStop, is telling them to do so. Sony obviously has something up their sleeves if they plan to ship 13 million ps3s this year, and I don't see how it could be anything other than a $299 price point.
| kowenicki said: @makingmusiuc I seriously doubt they have given the stores a higher margin with the GO... It woudln't work, it would lead to instant under cutting from maverick retailers. |
I could see maybe a sale here or there, but that's about it.
I mean, retailers have huge margins on controllers and things like, but you rarely see some company selling a DS3 for under $50.
And hell, look at GameStop who are charging $5 over the MSRP for WM+ ($25 instead of the normal $20).
High margins are by no means a bad thing for retailers.
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