Sony slashes UK PSPgo price

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 25 October, 2010

Now £159.99.

Sony will cut the price of the PSPgo by £65 on 1st November.

It has an RRP of £225; it will retail for £159.99.

The download-only handheld has also seen a price cut in Japan (now ¥16,800) and in the US (now $199).

The PSPgo, launched in the west last October, has been a commercial flop for Sony, although some rumours suggest it was an experiment ahead of the much-rumoured PSP2.

In May Sony CFO Bill Glaser called PSP sales "a little bit of a disappointment".

In June Sony launched a new initiative: buy a PSPgo and get 10 free games worth £225.

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  • midnight_walker #1 2 years ago

    Still don't want one.

  • Stomp224 #2 2 years ago

    Only £40? Surely if they want to sell any of that backlog they should have cut it by £140?




    At least.

  • riceNpea #3 2 years ago

    makes no difference. it's well down the list of things i want to buy. sub £100 and i'll think about it.

  • lcmnick #4 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 12:48:44 14-04-2012

  • layleeloo #5 2 years ago

    Sub £100? Haha. I have no desire for one but come on guys, it's slightly better quality and power than a DS you can't expect it to retail for the same

  • zedzee #6 2 years ago

    It will never catch on.

  • beastmaster #7 2 years ago

    When it comes down to £60, I'll probably take the plunge. I already own an original and a slim.

  • Shane86 #8 2 years ago

    Trying to get rid of them before the PSP2, should have been this price at launch

  • MaFlippinHeadHurts #9 2 years ago

    I remember being very impressed and happy with my original PSP when I first picked it up. However Sony really went off the rails with the PSPGo. Don’t get me wrong it’s an attractive piece of kit, however when you take into account the whole not supporting consumers that had already purchased a vast library of UMD’s and then the hefty price tag of downloading the games again to play on the PSPgo, it was bound to fail……..what an almighty botch!
    Edited by MaFlippinHeadHurts at 25/10/10 @ 17:54

  • joe90 #10 2 years ago

    Still £100 too much.

  • Gl3n #11 2 years ago

    For a minute there i assumed 159.99 was the original price.

    Isn't the PSP around 5 years old?

  • toy_brain #12 2 years ago

    That's actually not too bad a price.
    If you figure a PSP 3000 costs about £130 on its own (I got mine for £100 a year or so back - not sure why I cant find the same deal these days), and a 16gb memory stick costs £40-ish if you shop around, then the asking price doesnt seem too stupid.
    Still the lack of UMD support to piss on all your dreams of playing Kingdom Hearts, but there you go.

    Honestly, this is the priice it should have been from the start.

  • mooseti #13 2 years ago

    FF7 on the train may be too tempting to dismiss now...

  • Ignatius_Cheese #14 2 years ago

    Good to see Sony still don't want to sell any.

    Just. Don't. Get. It.

  • DonnieDarko333 #15 2 years ago

    £99.99 would have been a more appropriate price! I sold my PSP about 2 weeks ago..as for me, it's come to the end of it's life. It's been a great console..never really been completely won over by it though..hoping the PSP2 wows me more.

  • nickthegun #16 2 years ago

    Heh, I forgot it was that expensive.

  • Whizzo #17 2 years ago

    Now that's a bargain!

    No, hold on, it's still too much and the game download prices are still far too expensive as well. Sony should just take the PSP Go behind the stables and shoot it.

  • callum9999 #18 2 years ago

    It's all well and good dreaming up imaginary low prices for it saying "Sony doesn't get it", but you aren't the one funding it's development and manufacturing costs. £160 for a PSP with 10 free games isn't a ridiculous price. I won't consider it because of the UMD issue, but that aside, it is at least vaguely reasonable.

    Think about it. The games are worth £50 being very pessimistic, the 16GB of memory is worth around £40, and you want to get that plus a console for £99? I don't think so...
    Edited by callum9999 at 25/10/10 @ 18:29

  • Toothball #19 2 years ago

    @MaFlippinHeadHurts

    The problem with the PSP Go now isn't that you'd have to pay again to download your UMDs, it's that you don't even have that option. Publishers are clearly reluctant to relaunch most UMDs digitally for whatever reason, leaving a large portion of the PSP catalogue unavailable. And then there are the issues with game availability across their regional store, but that's a whole other rant.

    That said, I've had a Go from launch and am still happy to own one in spite of Sony's best efforts. If I wasn't already, this price drop probably would have done it for me.
    Edited by Toothball at 25/10/10 @ 18:30

  • Ignatius_Cheese #20 2 years ago

    @callum999 - Thing is the PSP is all but dead as a platform. To attempt to sell any more now is ambitious to say the least.

    I don't doubt that Sony have plenty of PSPGo's sitting in warehouses across the world. To make something back, they really should drop the price, sell the stock and move on to their next handheld with heads held relatively high.

    Other than in Japan, developers and publishers alike have been giving up on PSP. Good on Sony for not throwing in the towel like Nintendo with the Gamecube but it really is attempting to flog a dead horse at this stage of its life cycle.

  • lockload #21 2 years ago

    £120 with £200 of free games and i may be interested

  • hy4000uk #22 2 years ago

    PSP Go's are cheaper to produce than regular PSP's and they cant play half of the PSP's library

    so why are they more expensive?

  • randompanda #23 2 years ago

    It's been selling for this price on some sites for quite some time now - with 10 free games for download. I think the latest one to be doing it was the Argos eBay outlet.

    Still not quite the right price.

  • Sparc #24 2 years ago

    They simply wouldn't listen to the customer base telling them it was far too expensive when they announced the price prior to launch. Instead the spun the same crap they did when they announced the PS3 price at launch about how the consumer would see the value blah blah blah.

    They're clueless about pricing

  • Ignatius_Cheese #25 2 years ago

    And, as Toothball said, they split the user base as not all publisher/developers put their games up on the PSN store for download.

    If this is the future of digital downloads where prices stay inflated over time instead of varying with demand/offers then count me out for now.

  • siro #26 2 years ago

    I honestly didn't know the go was still for sale.

  • carrotcake #27 2 years ago

    £60 and it's a deal. Only redeeming quality is FF 7-8-9 PSone Classics.

  • witchdrash #28 2 years ago

    If this was £99.99 I think it would hit the right point, what with the whole can't resell your games, but at £150 the normal PSP is still the only choice.

  • Merefield #29 2 years ago

    Give me an apple supported 20 quid D-pad clip-on for my iphone and i'm done! Get with the new normal, Sony/Nintendo!

  • bit-crusheRRRR #30 2 years ago

    If it wasnt for the 3ds coming next year and that about 50% or more of the psps games arent on psn, Id probably get one.

  • witchdrash #31 2 years ago

    @Ignatius_Cheese Come on G, to say it's dead isn't entirely true, to be fair it has been crushed by the DS, but the PSP is still a decent platform, the Go.. Well despite the hype you instilled in me after seeing one, which was killed by the actual pricing, has been DOA, but to extend that to whole platform is excessive.

  • drumbaby #32 2 years ago

    PSP 3000 is the mutt's, has a big colourful screen, and it plays discs. Why oh why would I want to spend more money on one of these?

  • FuzzyDuck #33 2 years ago

    So is digital distribution still the future or can we finally agree that it's really a crock of s***e?

  • steveb07 #34 2 years ago

    Do you still get the 10 free games as well?

  • Toothball #35 2 years ago

    @FuzzyDuck

    I wouldn't write off digital distribution just yet. It works well with Steam, and there's plenty of good stuff on Live. Sony can definitely produce a platform for it, but the support from there has been more than lacking.

  • GamesConnoisseur #36 2 years ago

    The real news seem to be that Sony wasn't really serious? They had it at £225 or thereabout for goddamn too long! Far more expensive than DSiLX, Wii and even X360!!

    Only thing more expensive were the iPhone and that gives you loads more functionalities and selling like proverbial hot cakes!

    Now are you getting serious or just as a tactic to reduce embarrassing large stocks in warehouses before PSP2 comes round in a seemly short time?!

    Love my PSP but shows that Sony doesn't always have all the cards!

  • JetSetWilly #37 2 years ago

    Still at least £59 too expensive. But at least it's heading in the right direction.

  • zedzee #38 2 years ago

    @Toothball:

    This is EXACTLY what I was complaining about, when the PSPgo's spec finally emerged; the lack of a tool to convert one's UMD games into a digital format to work on the PSPgo was just the final straw and had the very effect that you mention to the catalogue. I own a PSPslim and love it but there's NO WAY that I would've upgraded to PSPgo and lost my whole UMD collection. And I imagine many other such owners felt the same way!

    Sony put themselves into a very awkward corner: Provide a conversion tool/UMD emulator (giving loyal fans what they asked for) or force owners down the path of digital downloads (greed).

    They chose greed and the rest is history.

  • zedzee #39 2 years ago

    I'm wondering if anyone at Sony actually sits down at any time and draws a product time-line and marks all the major corporate marketing decisions made on it - so they can see what a blunder their strategy has been and to NEVER repeat it again?

    They superbly blundered the PS3 launch for UK/Euroland and they completely sealed their incompetence with the PSPgo. Just think how much further ahead both products would've been, if decisions on production quantity, pricing, backwards compatibility and actually listening to their loyal fan base were taken differently.

    I think the only honourable and traditional thing to do for the Sony board is to ceremoniously fall on their own swords.

  • AmethystSword #40 2 years ago

    make it £10 then we can start to talk about me rebuying all my UMD titles...otherwise in the words of a not so holy man...f*** off.

    EDIT: and no i love my PSP just dont see the point in having to repurchase all my games....wanna waste your money eh whoever minused me? XD
    Edited by AmethystSword at 26/10/10 @ 00:04

  • santabakingapie #41 2 years ago

    "slashes"?!!! lol. still £90 too expensive.

  • hobojebus #42 2 years ago

    Wasnt interested to begin with this price cut hasnt changed that fact, and recent news indicates more PsP's are returned in the UK as faulty than 360's with the ring of death but really i wonder how many just have buyers remorse and claim its broken.



  • Caimbeul #43 2 years ago

    have seen it for 129.99 a few weeks ago anyway...

  • mingster #44 2 years ago

    £60 is about the most i'd pay for one. Considering you have to pay whatever SOny want to charge you for downloads and they will probably stop selling software for it soon.

  • EmiliasHorse #45 2 years ago

    Dear EG, is it possible to make the joining process stricter to prevent spammers, getting a bit silly now.

    I already run FFVII, VIII, IX & Monster Hunter Freedom Unite from memory stick on my Slim & Lite...super quiet PLUS I can play all my UMD collection. You are going to have to try harder to make me want it Sony.

  • t8yman #46 2 years ago

    I dont think the problem with the go is digital distro, its the "having to rebuy games" issue. Digital distro will be the norm in a few years time I honestly believe, and I personally dont have a problem with it if the price is reasonable, but to expect people to pay full pops for a game with no disc, case, manual, or lend/resale value is a bit rich.

    The go has always felt like a half arsed console IMHO, and any marketing or research people could build the ultimate handheld just by reading a few forums for an hour and drawing up the spec sheet. Its not just IP control that ruins consoles, its things like missing off analogue sticks etc that does that.

  • rivuzu #47 2 years ago

    I think most people might've misunderstood the point of the Go. Yes, it was an experiment, but it was never intended to be anything other than an alternative for those who didn't have a PSP previously and don't want to use physical media.

    I'm a PSPGo owner. I love it. I use the USA PSN store, get releases earlier and cheaper and on the same day often to the USA store. It's brilliant for movies and shows on the go, and the function for save states is an absolute life saver.

    It's no where near dead. It might not be as popular as the 1/2/3000, but thats because PSP have been around for quite a while and some people choose to rely on UMDs. For those of us who don't, we've got a shiny alternative. That's it.

  • davisorle #48 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 20:44:35 16-04-2012

  • irve77 #49 2 years ago

    if it still came with 10 "free" games then great deal

    If that's the standa alone price ... well FRO ! i'd buy a PSP 300o over a go any day of the week !

  • Redeye #50 2 years ago

    PSP - A nice piece of kit, knackered by a comparative lack of titles.
    PSPGo - A nice piece of kit, knackered by a fundamental lack of common sense.

  • TonyHarrison #51 2 years ago

    The price of the console is only 50% of the problem. Often the games on PSN are ~£5 more expensive than their boxed equivalent...

  • Ryze #52 2 years ago

    Too little too late.