UK Indie Retailers Downbeat On PSP Go

Yeah, stores are really going to be pushing a device that has little markup and they can't sell games for :lol:

The best thing Sony could do is to sell cards in shops with a download code for a game. That way, shops can still sell the games and the customer would more than likely be able to buy the game for a cheaper price than it is on the PS store. They've already done it for a few games in the USA so I can't see the problem with doing it here too.

Way to nullify the entire point of the device there, skippy. Perhaps you should take this concept and apply it to other devices? Say, for example, a low-speed microwave oven.

TheTurnipKing wrote:Way to nullify the entire point of the device there, skippy. Perhaps you should take this concept and apply it to other devices? Say, for example, a low-speed microwave oven.

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MA144B/C?cid=OAS-EMEA-KWG-UK_iTunes-UK

There are reasons above and beyond the existence of those cards than just to subsidise the classic retail model, though

I'm sure I don't have to point out the inherent irony in the idea of getting off your ass and going into town to buy a slip of paper in an otherwise empty case in order to let you download a game on your portable console. It's like the worst possible part of every method of distribution. The waiting time of downloads and the physical requirement of movement, complete with the stock issues and the delivery times of said stock to shops.

TheTurnipKing wrote:There are reasons above and beyond the existence of those cards than just to subsidise the classic retail model, though

I'm sure I don't have to point out the inherent irony in the idea of getting off your ass and going into town to buy a slip of paper in an otherwise empty case in order to let you download a game on your portable console. It's like the worst possible part of every method of distribution. The waiting time of downloads and the physical requirement of movement, complete with the stock issues and the delivery times of said stock to shops.

They only use they would really have is for gifts. And maybe pack-in deals with the machine.

TheTurnipKing wrote:There are reasons above and beyond the existence of those cards than just to subsidise the classic retail model, though

I'm sure I don't have to point out the inherent irony in the idea of getting off your ass and going into town to buy a slip of paper in an otherwise empty case in order to let you download a game on your portable console. It's like the worst possible part of every method of distribution. The waiting time of downloads and the physical requirement of movement, complete with the stock issues and the delivery times of said stock to shops.

Sony still has to give retailers something to sell if they want the PSP to be successful though. Microsoft often put game branding on the ponts cards they sell at retail, theirs no reason can't do the same.

psp is cool

need to get one

anyone have one 8-)

MCN wrote:
TheTurnipKing wrote:There are reasons above and beyond the existence of those cards than just to subsidise the classic retail model, though

I'm sure I don't have to point out the inherent irony in the idea of getting off your ass and going into town to buy a slip of paper in an otherwise empty case in order to let you download a game on your portable console. It's like the worst possible part of every method of distribution. The waiting time of downloads and the physical requirement of movement, complete with the stock issues and the delivery times of said stock to shops.

They only use they would really have is for gifts. And maybe pack-in deals with the machine.

Well, they're also many people's first introduction to the very concept of legal downloadable "media", and of course, theyre useful if one doesn't have a debit or credit card to make purchases with online for whatever reason.

I want a PSP Go!

Just not at that price.

Sony: PSP Go price based on new hardware "premium"

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss Andrew House says PSP Go's $249/€249 price point is based on a "premium" associated with new hardware.

Speaking to MCV, House explained that PSP Go's price wasn't set in a bid to protect retailers' margins - which will be hit by the handheld's download-only software model - or to cover Sony's research and development costs.

"Those aren't the factors," he said. "When you introduce a new piece of hardware you have the opportunity to say there is a certain premium that is associated with it, and we took that into account.

"As with all hardware launches you look at the business model, the cost structure, and the necessarily level of profitability, and you use that to set the wholesale price. Much as we do with any other hardware."

PSP Go has yet to be officially priced for the UK market, but multiple indie retailers told us earlier this week that they were downbeat about the recently announced system's prospects.

Chips MD Don McCabe told us that he isn't currently planning on stocking PSP Go upon its October 1 release, while Grainger Games purchasing director Chris Harwood said that PSP "appears to have died as a format."

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... ?id=218511

So they're actually admitting that they are going to screw the technophile early-adopters?

Oh, Sony... :fp:

tomvek wrote:Sony: PSP Go price based on new hardware "premium"

PS3 Slim to be £400 then.

So we can expect to see the PS3 Slim to launch for a higher price than the current model then :lol:

strawberry floating Sony. Who's running the damn show over there?

They've had a specific userbase for all these years and after seeing the iphone userbase they think they can convert their target demographic into the iphone sycophants that Apple has.

Which retard at Sony thinks that the traditional demographic that the PS2 and PS1 userbase was made up of would go for premium products?

PostRe: UK Indie Retailers Downbeat On PSP Go by KK » Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:54 pm

$ilva $hadow wrote:Which retard at Sony thinks that the traditional demographic that the PS1 userbase was made up of would go for premium products?

The beer swilling, drug taking, club going, football loving, Oasis listening, 18 to 30 demographic?

UK Indie Retailers Downbeat On PSP Go

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