I'm assuming it will be a big failure

people are used to downloading.buying music online

buiying games online is VERY NEW to most people (people not on PC).....& at its horrible price, it doesn't have a up-hill battle, but a up-mount everest battle to succeed.

This will only make it worse for retailers, Sony will continue to push PSP-go and it will sell, the gains for Sony from a UMD less PSP is far greater than loosening a few retailers.

All the negativity you are hearing about the PSP-go will fade once its launch and a lot of retail sources will look stupid and unreliable.

Michael Pachter just made a fallacy of analogy. The relationship between a gaming system, its software, and the retailer that sells them is nowhere near the same relationship of a refrigerator, food, and it's retailers or a MP3 player, music, and their retailers. It's a fallacy because he forgot to mention food needs special sections to be sold in the same area as a refrigerator which only superstores do. Even more so the same people that make them don't make the food. Same thing for iPods. Different companies that make the electronics that do the music and different necessities and needs when it comes to the music. But with gaming the same people in some cases make the hardware and software, ALWAYS sold in the same store and area, and of course have likeness between the two products where they can be put in the same store. Good job Pachter you just made a logically-impaired argument... which isn't surprising.

But I must say... I can't blame them. The retailers make more off software than they do hardware. Retailers make close to nothing off hardware really. Don't make too much off software either but a lot more than they ever could off of software. Can't say I blame their decision. I don't think it'll get them too far but I can understand their reasoning.

A few years ago people were new to downloading music online and look what's happend now. Buying games is fairly new to people but PSN and XBL titles have led the way and everything has to start somewhere. Also you have to take into account how technologically able this generation of young people are and this will only increase with time, heavily influencing their consumer habits. I'm not yet convinced whether the PSPGo will be a success (the price is stupid) but it could be a major catalyst in the almost inevitable switch from physical to digital media.

The problem with the PSP Go is that (a) it offers no real cost benefit for the consumer to buy digitally-only and (b) the device is admittedly over-priced for early adopters (Sony has said so).

Item (a) means no profit for stores who sell software. Item (b) probably means that Sony is keeping most of the excess profit rather than passing it along. So you have stores that are upset because they cannot make much on the hardware side and can make nothing on the software side.

So of course game-only-stores are cranky.

Mike from Morgantown

Yes! This is delicious. Die PSPGO DIE! And take Digital distribution with you down to H*ll >:D

(not hating on the other PSP's just on this one since it's a DD device, no need for the pitchforks)

Couldn't have said it better myself. It's not as if gaming stores have masses of space, if the PSPGo gives retailers very little profit, then that shelf space could be used for something more profitable.

Why are we just assuming that the PSP go gives no profit to the retailers. It has been suggested to me that one of the reasons for the inflated price is that the retails get a larger cut, which seems like a sensible argument

And wait for Sony to advertise it, which they should next week, but they are a bit busy with almost half of the buses that I see in London having Nate hanging from the side (and I see a lot of buses on my journey to school)

So it's a no go?

i understand their hate...i hate it too that the PSP Go got no UMD reader...i want Disc got dammit and no unseen nothing on my PSP and my closet!

i really hope rhey do a PSP 4000 or PSP Go 2000 that looks like the Go + UMD reader and a little bit cheaper...that would be easily 2-3 mill first week but this normal Go will sell but only for 1 week better than the DS if at all!