Sony is a company that prefers to take a profit-driven perspective, and a long one at that. That's why the PS3 took a while to get down to 1/2 price, until Sony could have it made for cheaper, but they did it, and neither nintendo nor microsoft has been able to cut their console prices in half yet.

That is why, they are content with keeping the price of the PSPgo higher than ideal, and I see no reason why it won't be lowered to something that would make it a big item. Sony has just TOO MUCH money to make from this, they don't need to give retailers or distributers a cut from the price of games, or pay for packaging or shipping either. So they will be able to make the software sell for a cheaper price.

Pachter himself said that the PSPgo will be $200 by XMAS or mid 2010 at the latest which should appease a lot of the complaints. A cheaper system that doesn't have EVERYTHING perfect will still be popular look at the 360 with its record of failure. The PSN is just getting started on offering games online, the library will only grow from here. So, this is going to be a easy way for Sony to make come $$$$$ and they really won't have to have a lot of marketing above and beyond what they have for the PSP either.

Yeah i agree that DD should never go mainstream.

Once again, it is the same price as an Ipod touch or zune, have bigger screen and plays PSP games, so no its not stupidly uncompetitive.

PSP Go I suppose might be profitable (depends on how much Sony spent in R&D though). If you don't already have a PSP then PSP Go wouldn't be a bad buy. But if you already have a PSP and you have UMD games, what's the incentive for buying a Go?

Well, Sony definitely spent a fraction of the R&D that Natal needs, especially considering the SW R&D that this odd controller will add onto whatever the developers would have spent in the first place.  So, this is going to be costly for MS and the developers as well in some respects.

hmmm. Saving this post for later...it certainly says a lot about your alliances.

Edit: forgot to add my two cents worth.

Perhaps the PSP Go will fail in his store?

Its actually 3 days of PSPgo sales, vs all of last weeks sales so its actually slightly better than youre leading on.

The PSP go is nothing more than like whne MSFT introduced the Elite. Simply a different SKU to the family. PEople thinking its an evolution, or the NEW PSP are th eones saying it flopped.

I dont remember anyone making 360 fail threads when the elite was released, in fact, lets look at the Elite launching and its subsequent bump to overall 360 sales in the states.

http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=America&cons2=PS3&reg2=America&cons3=X360&reg3=America&start=39194&end=39222

as we see, it increased roughly 20k from 40k and back down to 40k about 3 weeks later. PERSPECTIVE.

It would shame if it fails. PSP GO is an amazing gaming device.

Exactly. All the Elite was there to do is give people who were already interested in buying a 360 another option to get a premium system and raise profit margins for MS. The Elite didn't target a new market. It didn't make people who weren't interested in a 360 all of a sudden want one. I can see the PSP sales go back down to 100k weekly. That doesn't mean it flopped. It wasn't suppose to spur sales and interest in a PSP. As long as some of those 100k buy a Go it would have done it's job. Get people who would have bought a 3000 to buy a higher priced more profitable model.

Thanks. I agree. Granted its not a huge difference. The Elite had a bigger hard drive, input HDMI as standard, but what you said is pretty much spot on.

Im not sure why people were expecting anything other than an additional SKU introduction...which from that standpoint, the GO was an enormous success. If not moreso since it will ultimately lead to even higer profit margins as the games people will buy are direct downloads which surely have higher margins.