PSPgo now available for under 200 quid
Various retailers cut the price.
Several retailers have dropped the price of the PSPgo to under £200 after just one weekend on sale.
Amazon.co.uk, Play and GAME and HMV now ask £199.99 for the smaller and lighter handheld which previously commanded £224.99.
Argos still asks for £219.99, however, and ShopTo charges full price, £224.99.
Sony announced a PSP sales increase of 120 per cent following the launch of the PSPgo, although the new model only matched the existing PSP-3000 in terms of units shifted over the weekend.
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They can still do that later. Starting out like this means they can make some tidy profit on the hardware and software.
Just been playing with one, very nice little machine regardless of its price. And honestly people should really stop bringing up the issue of the screen-size, in your hands you won't notice a difference in size but the quality of the display is very apparent.
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Do i F***!
Being an early adopter can be expensive.
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Regardless it's still too much and moaning about Sony setting the prices on games is entirely valid.
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I know they say it could be up to 30 days bt I got mine 4 days after I registered.
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I know! It's hysterical really isn't it? I wonder if it's just games machines that get them so upset? I can just imagine them on other forums:
"Ha! So the new russell hobbs toaster has improved sales by 200% has it? well 200% of nothing is nothing!!! FUCK YOU RUSSELL HOBBS! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Thanks for that, made me spill my tea in laughter!
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@makeamazing: Seriously, nobody hates Sony. They only hate what dumb decisions that they keep making. Not just with the PSP, but with the PS3 as well. If you can't handle the truth, why bother ranting about it?
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It was already hacked 2 days after launch.... I've not researched it much (I'll wait for a much cheaper machine first!) and this won't lead to proper CF (apparently you cannot write to Flash0 on the PSPgo so not sure if they ever can TBH) but it might give emulator/custom PS1 eboot/custom ISO users some hope for a workaround in the future should they consider a go.
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And ROFL at TopKatt : )
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Thanks for that, so funny and so true. Here, have a +1 from me.
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Now what were seeing is desperation and more visible failure. The device should have had dual analogues and possibly a touchscreen (otherwise the slide design is retarded) but the truth is Sony couldn't afford it.
All I can hope is that Sony have a great Christmas with the ps3 and then they can scrap the pspgotohell and give us a psp with two fucking nubs and shove the slidey crap unless they're doing touch.
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There's something to be said about a tangible product that you can touch'n'feel - I don't know but call me old fashioned, while I appreciate for mini-apps that have limited capabilities and are not designed for a games console, such as those for the iPhone, it's perfectly fine for them to exist as download-only, I don't see how that can stretch to full-price games.
Again, Minis are fine. Good idea, Sony, and about bloody time, too! But for full blown price games? I don't think so. They should've focussed on refining the UMD format by increasing its price and making the caddy stronger, so they don't break so easily and reduced the cost of the Dev Kits so that no profit was made on them. That would've been much better and more acceptable all round than shoving the PSPgo down people's throats! And I guarantee you that's EXACTLY what Sony will do.
Nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Bugger all...!
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How many full price games can one buy, download and play RIGHT NOW?
How many Minis are available RIGHT NOW for buying and downloading?
Why instantly alienate your new handheld from the existing repertoire by not releasing a utility to convert from UMD to software?
It's interesting that the PS3 went DOWN in price, after the revamp, yet the PSP has gone UP in price after it's own revamp!
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* Requires broadband (at your own expense)
* Not compatible with any previous PSP UMD titles
Nope...I'll stick to my 1001 and 1005 models for now. I love Sony but sometimes they do some really stupid shit. SonyGo Away.
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Sound like a good idea ?
Exactly.
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I would buy vastly less games if I had to download them. If several companies where allowed to compete online for my money there might be some flex in pricing.
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PSPgo doesn't succeed and everyone benefits
Mad I know but stay with me:
Whats the point of buying a PSPgo when you can get the older one with UMD drive and STILL have access to the online store? (just to check, the older ones have store access yeah?)
So the odd person buys the new one but mainly older ones sell as old PSPs get price cut and 2nd hand market does well.
End result (providing people still want a PSP at all!):
More people own the UMD PSP.
therefore:
2nd hand games market does well so retailers don't lose out as much.
New UMD games market does well so retailers don't lose as much and Sony get there kickback.
Online market picks up slowly for Sony and money comes in.
UMD films do not sell either way. Please.
Risk of investment of a new device? maybe but its such an uninspiring thing I'm skeptical that they spent that much on it other than compacting existing tech and getting rid of the UMD.
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If the console was a lot cheaper I might consider getting one, then the odd game or two to play on it. I don't really understand where Sony was going with the PSPGo though. It'll not really compete with the iPod Touch, the games are too expensive and there is no incentive to buy a Go if you have a current model PSP 1000-3000.
It seems like a lot of money thrown away on development and production IMO, and although Sony are bound to say they are shifting the amount of units they expect, the very quick price drop by retailers goes to show it must not be selling all that well. And when you consider that the retailers don't really make that much of PSPGo to begn with, there must really be a lot of unsold stock to prompt them to eat a £25 price drop so soon.
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Mine would be going straight back to the retailer and reorder placed. £50 from RRP is a lotta money.
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Pay £200 and be locked into paying full RRP for games on PSN, or pay £150 and get your games off eBay for a fraction of that.
Hmm, tough choice indeed...
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They don't. Educate yourself :/
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That's fine but some of us don't want to carry a brick around with us together with a case full of UMD's ... been there done that and it just wasn't practical.
I personally would have stuck with my iPhone to satisfy my gaming on the move needs but unfortunatley gaming kills the battery rather quickly on the iPhone and I can't be without my phone... so PSPgo does the job quite nicely.
The biggest problem PSPgo has is the price but I bet that will drop to £160 by sping next year.
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It's a difficult one for Sony to price because they need to give retail a decent margin to play with because they are not selling the games. This leads to a situation where online retailers are happy to cut their margins for sales and we have quite a disparity in launch prices. I would guess the prices of Amazon, Game and HMV are more in reaction to Play.com's original price (which was £199 at least a week before launch).
Overall it is still too expensive though, and that coupled with the RRP prices on the store mean I'm not getting one anytime soon.
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Sony I gather are trying to give retail as much as they can so they can sell the machine, they may have to find another route once the price comes down. Maybe redeem code in a case so everybody is happy???
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Sell PSPgo games in standard cases, with manuals. The only difference would be that the UMD is replaced by a sealed PSN code. You get something physical to own and shops get something physical to sell.
Obviously this doesn't help the second hand market much, unless there was some sort of "proof of deletion" reader installed at checkouts.
PS When I said "make everybody happy" I was assuming a saner future where the PSPgo is sold for what it's actually worth, not for what a delusional mega-corp thinks it can get away with charging. That's about £129 by my reckoning.
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Products are priced at a level the market will stand. I don't think you'll find many cases where any product is sold for what it is actually worth. In a Marxist sense, that would be the cost of manufacture including labour costs, excluding profit. In a market sense, the value of any product is the value it reaches on an open marketplace. And possibly that is what is going on here. On a personal level, the perceived value a product has to any individual will obviously vary from person to person.
So. How do you decide how much a product is actually worth then?
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It's surprising that none of the big sites have done much with the Minis, but it's nice to see some new, independent sites fill the void.
And no, it's not my website, I don't know the guy who does own it and I haven't been given anything for recommending the site. It's just a good thing to pass on to any PSP enthusiasts.
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I suppose that was aimed at me? You should educate yourself on how to quote correctly.
Anyway, are you really suggesting that Sony does not control the prices on the PlayStation Store? That's a pretty bold statement.
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That's for Sony to decide, my estimate was an opinion based on what the product actually offers compared to it's stablemate.
Perhaps we'll see some sense creeping in over the next few months and the price will fall and sales will go up. Who knows? Right now, if you follow the comments, everyone buying a PSPgo at £225* is generally considered "special".
* edit - Or even £199
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Of course, Nintendo and Microsoft are also more than guilty of such classification strategies in their online stores, so consider this a 'general observation' of the What Is, and a 'slight wink' at the What Will Be
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You are aware that the PSP 3000, 2000 and 1000 can make use of memory sticks, right?
You are also aware that the PSN downloads also work on these consoles, right?
If not then do some research; if so then quit your whining.