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Xoj on 03 July 2009
notAiemond said:
Xoj said:
i don't get it.

microsoft its going to digital distribution too, but i don't see people or retailers whining because of it.
the 360 will be digital like burnout paradise, warhawk and many ps3 games did on the ps3.

but it's only wrong when sony does it? WTF.

its not like they won't get the sell, they can sell code to download the game.
but i think why they crying it's because they want to resell used copies for fullprice and pay 2-5$ for them.

Well, MS still sells 360 games at retailers, the vast majority of them. The difference here is that all the psp go games are DD. Retailers would prolly be mad at PC games with the amount of games on steam and the deals there, etc, but they cannot really go out and say "we are not gonna sell PCs"

not true becaus psp 3000 will continue to sell and UMD version of it too and it's not like the sell tons of games to begin with.

they only reason to be mad it's because they buy used games for 5$ and resell it for more and this takes alot of that.



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Spankey on 03 July 2009

Leave it to France to put me in a moral quandary.

I can see where the retailers are coming from , but I can also see Sony's DD point.

what to do, what to do.

France is obviously not the first to get upset (look at MM's post) but it certainly won't be the last either.

Retailers could decide to pull Sony products altogether in protest. a Digital French Revolution.
1789 all over again. this time with extra silicon.



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Aiemond on 03 July 2009
makingmusic476 said:
Dark Chaos said:
makingmusic476 said:
NiKKoM said:
Hey.. now that I think about it.. maybe the high price of the psp go is not because of Sony wanting to make a lot of profit but that a larger part of the 250 euro's go to the retailer then on a PSP 3000 cause they won't make any money on software..

That's been fairly obvious from the beginning.

From what I hear from our District Manager, GameStop Corporate has been in battle with Sony over the UMD-less PSP for quite some time.  Patapon 2 being sold at retail via download voucher is a result of that battle.

Sony's caught between a rock and a hard place with the prices of both the PSP Go and the ps3. 

Deservedly so. They created these messes and are the only ppl to blame for the PS3 and the upcoming PSP GO failure

Those horrible Sony bastards.  They should just leave the hardware business.

Honestly, could you troll any worse?  Don't do it again.

How is this a troll? They deserve it because of the business decision. If i choose to try and sell something way overprice and it fails, I deserve to have low sales and lose money. And if I made the product with the impression that the high price point was the only one i could stand to sell it for, I should have trouble.

 

It is not that they are bastards (that's another thread and reason entirely), but they made bad moves and it is coming back to hurt them.

 

they only reason to be mad it's because they buy used games for 5$ and resell it for more and this takes alot of that.

So if they are making good money this way why would they support a handheld that does DD as its only form of buying games? It would not make sense for them to do so.



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Steroid on 03 July 2009
Aiemond said:

How is this a troll? They deserve it because of the business decision. If i choose to try and sell something way overprice and it fails, I deserve to have low sales and lose money. And if I made the product with the impression that the high price point was the only one i could stand to sell it for, I should have trouble.

 

It is not that they are bastards (that's another thread and reason entirely), but they made bad moves and it is coming back to hurt them.

 

they only reason to be mad it's because they buy used games for 5$ and resell it for more and this takes alot of that.

So if they are making good money this way why would they support a handheld that does DD as its only form of buying games? It would not make sense for them to do so.

Let's get real bro. You wish you had a PS3.

You want that sweetness.

 



Sardauk on 03 July 2009

Curious.. France is rather a pro-Playstation country...



 

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