I'm all for DD and basically cutting out the middle man. I one day will like to be a game developer, and retailers like gamestop cutting into the money that the devs make by advertising their used games and making tons of money off of it disgusts me. I mean, how many times does gamestop have a "trade-in" deal where if you trade in 3 specific games, you can buy a new one for 20 dollars. Those 3 specific games are either recent, or big sellers so they will be able to sell that used copy for like 50 dollars or so, ridiculous.

I know its just business, and they are doing what they can do to be more profitable, but they can't forget who it is that is keeping them profitable. Don't bite the hand that feeds you, in this case, its the devs.

I"M interesting in the PSPGo, but the price is wrong for me. So I'm actually enjoying the retailers over reacting. It might put pressure to put the price to the percieved value level. Closer $150-200. Seriously they got rid of the UMD and increased the internal memory? should be cheaper.

The fault is not with used games or retailers, the fault is with the games industry and not realizing what customers want, its why so many companies are having so much trouble

I don't see what Potential PSP GO! has... I mean it's expensive and retailers are hatin on it. Well I never really liked what they did with PSP GO!. I felt it was unnecessary.

Well I still have my PSP-2000 so it'll be fun to see how the market receives this.

Heres a question. How are you meant to sell a product when the stores that sell your product dont want to stock it because your admitting once it sells you will take away all there business?

Sony- HAHA! TAKE THAT GAME SELLERS....wait...can you please stock the system so I can eventually take all business away from you? Hello game sellers? *knock knock* anyone there?

yeah i'm actually surprised any store is going to stock the go to be serious

Why do you think the thing costs as much as it does? Do you think Sony just decided to charge more for the hell of it?  Do you think it actually costs that much to make?  It requires less parts than the PSP-3000 (no UMD drive), and thus probably costs less to make.

The reason it costs so much is to give retailers a decent margin on the item.  However, retailers are scared of DD, and thus still refuse to carry it.  I wouldn't be surprised if retailers make as much as $50 USD per Go sold in the States.  The only problem with that is that they can't hope for 4-5 games sold per system anymore (and that's just *new* games), and thus they still lose out in the end.  Plus, if the PSP Go becomes a successs, this leads to more DD-only consoles in the future, and that leads to less and less retailer control over the market.

Retailers are scared.

Retailers have literally no margin on ps3s.  Nor 360s, and very little on the Wii.

Retailers, much like the manufacturers themselves, generally sell consoles at ethe break even point,a nd soemtiems even at a little loss, because they expect to make that back and then some via games and (most importantly) accessories.  Controllers and cables have probably the highest margin of anything a retailer might sell to accompany said console.

Won't widespread DD eventually push up the price of consoles? With no software retailers will have to get a cut. I think it's a bad thing, really. No cheap used game deals, no nice physical backup. I suppose for a portable system it makes some sense, but definately not on home consoles. I hope it doesn't take off.

In any case Media Markt is already promoting the PSPGo launch for the 1st of October. So no worries there.

Also nice to see the local Media Markt store is currently completely sold out of PS3 slim stock. They had tons of them a few a days ago, in the meantime the 360 stock seemed to have remained as good as identical.