Pachter regrets calling PSPgo a "rip-off" Comments by Robert Purchese
"A poor choice of words," says analyst.
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Looks nice & all but stuck with OFW no mem stick duo pro support??? no umd so they have one by the balls to get max sale price in return for no physical item thus no resale value and you prob wont even be allowed to play it on a psp other than the one it was dl to smaller screen all this for 250 euro come on ppl lets get it together......
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@GreyBeard
Well I'll be... You're quite right (about the article stating the £250 rumour). Looks like EG need to check more than their spelling in this article. Because honestly, doesn't it strike you odd that on this single piece of hardware Sony would have a 1:1 price match between territories, when none of their other stuff does? Odd? No. Not odd as such, I think the term is "batshit crazy". :) I doubt it's anything like £250 but if I were getting one you can be damn sure I'd be importing it from the US regardless of whether I lived in the eurozone or the UK. Ah, of course, only digital downloads now. Is it region free like the PS3? Also a UMD disc can contain up to 1.8GB so that 16GB storage doesn't seem that much.
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electrolite
14/06/09 @ 10:42
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If the price is anywhere near £250 the original analysis is correct. If it's £200 it's merely suicide from Sony, and undeserved treatment of what has the potential to be a fabulous system (and is, with CFW). Pitching it £30 above an Ipod Touch is not going to be an attractive price point (and yeah, I know the £169 Touch only has 8GB but with the size of PSP games that 16GB ain't going to go so far), especially with concerns over how much support it'll get from retailers.
It confuses me, because when they were blowing everyone away with the PS1 they seemed to be the sensible head in the industry making clever decisions compared with Sega's Saturn hari-kari and Nintendo's cartridge obstinancy re. the N64. How things have changed |
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@Sneetch
Batshit Crazy? Yep, can't argue with you there! Only thing I heard/read elsewhere that supports *any* reason for the silly price-point is that Sony are trying to cozy up to retailers who they might be alienating with their direct download approach by giving them a unusually generous margin on the hardware. Which as a punter might not be bad news as if it gets sold as a loss-leader, i.e. at, or at least close to, wholesale cost. |
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Well on the BBC they say its £214 more probably £214.99....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/80... However given the tech and doing a side by side with the DSi at £130, I'd guess they are making a good profit at 200 and the extra £15 to offset the PS3 loss (besides the digital downloads). But thats a whole lot better than £250. Anyway I'm sticking with my DSlite for the time being. |
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Quetzaquotl
15/06/09 @ 08:09
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freedom of speech!
why can't he say his opinion? why don't we have the right to be informed? |
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