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PSP $169 price drop. Idea: keep waiting photo

A variety of sources with more child labor than us are reporting that the PSP will drop to $169 tomorrow, making it still $50 more expensive than the world's most succesful video game console ever. Talk about a tough act to follow! 

While this may be enough to entice late adopters to pick up a PSP, I leave you with this frugal thought: wait even longer to buy one.  Why? Yes, further punishing Sony for that AllIwantforxmasisapsp is a good one. But seriously, take a look at what is happening on Ebay for the PSP aftermarket. It's a joke. At the time of this article the highest bid I found was $70.  So heed my frugal prophecy: I'm sure that once this news breaks into the mainstream you'll probably be able to pick one up for about $100 easy. You've waited this long, why not wait another month? After all, you can't use it as a new Final Fantasy paperweight yet.

This incredibly unpopular idea has been brought to you by NieroIsAbrokeAssThisMonth.edu.  So what do you think -- PSP 2 redesign coming out in a year or is this mobile living?

 


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elbartoqwertyuiop's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 19:50
elbartoqwertyuiop
I don't want it, the motherboard are probably the kind that won't accept homebrew.

Plus, I've already got a PSP.
Agent Nixon's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 19:56
Agent Nixon
ta-082 boards can accepts homebrew. have you been living under a rock all these years?
gleam's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 19:58
gleam
Mmm... you didn't search completed items.

Plenty selling for not terrible prices.

More importantly, you should search completed auctions for "liberty city stories unpatched". That's the real story of the PSP :)
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 20:04
tazarthayoot
It's ludicrous that Sony has waited this long to drop the price, and even then, it's only 30 bucks? The system should be 129.99, value pack, if they want to continue pushing them. They can't cost much more than that to produce them.
icarus's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 20:07
icarus
Could it be? I think I feel it... the urge to get a PSP. It's in the pit of my stomach... wait, wait... *burp*. Nope, sorry just a burp. Oh well.
JihadJoe's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 20:12
JihadJoe
I bought one recently on ebay for 45 bucks and it works perfectly fine. Unfortunately I still don't really use it.
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 20:27
Niero
That's exactly my point. The guy that will care about a $30 price drop might care that PSPs that sell for $120 might drop under $100 if you know where to look in a month
Civnerd's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 20:29
Civnerd
I'll be a PSP boy once the second revision comes out.... not. until. then.
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 20:49
BluDesign
I sold my PSP back in January for $170 including a stack of nigh unplayable import games. Which means, I essentially sold the PSP for $120 and some games.

Consider me OVER the PSP. I have lumines on my 360. Sorry sony, you had your chance and you blew it.
DoctorEuphony's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 21:10
DoctorEuphony
somewhere in the US is a chunky lil 10 year old ADD case with a pushover for a soccer mom who will spend her stipend from dad's mid management job to buy their corpulent lil terror a PSP b/c his likewise casual and uninformed peers have all had one since it was released.
Colette Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 21:36
Colette Bennett
I'll buy it if I can have the gold one in the picture for $169.
CacheMonet's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 21:40
CacheMonet
I don't see why anyone would pass up the PSP for that price. Despire what you may hear from Nintendo Fanboys the PSP has a pretty solid library of games. And many of the older classics like WipEout Pure and Daxter can be picked up on the cheap.
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 21:46
tazarthayoot
170 dollars for a system that you can't even save your game files on is ridiculous.

I've only seen 512k cards for the PSP anymore, so thats about 30-50 bucks depending on where you look.

So we're looking at about 200-230 dollars for a system, before you even get a game. Whereas my DS I can get for 130, and get at least 4 games for and still be under that price.

I'll stick with my DS thanks.
TheBrain's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 22:47
TheBrain
I'm waiting for 99 or 129 with a memory stick
parrothead's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 23:27
parrothead
Now you can use your PSP's Wi-Fi free at any T-Mobile HotSpot. So that is good I guess.
DinnertimeNinja's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 23:48
DinnertimeNinja
Yeah, that eBay link is for newly listed items, and that's why the prices are so low.

Used PSPs seem to be going for about $130 after shipping and roughly $150 for a new one. Seems like about what they should be selling for.

And different sizes of memory stick are EVERYWHERE for cheap. Over the holiday season I got a 2gb SanDisk Pro Duo for $30 from Best Buy. No rebates no hassles. 1gb sticks are currently $30 on the GameStop website, so that should tell you how cheaply you could get it elsewhere.

The price won't go down now for a LONG time. Sony's was already very reluctant to drop it this far.

So much PSP hate here, and after the last few months, I honestly can't understand it.


Oh, and I'm not understanding this new T-Mobile hotspot crap. Just go to ANY coffee shop or internet bar with Wi-Fi and you ALREADY get the intarwebs for free. Frankly, just about any apartment complex will do just as well since so many people don't password their wireless routers.
CaffeinePowered's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/02/2007 23:56
CaffeinePowered
When it hits about $130 I might pick one up to play Crisis Core, but not before then...Id be more likely to play it on a PC PSP emulator before Sony dropped the price to match the DS
mattmoto's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 00:05
mattmoto
No one buy DSLite, they are going for 30 BUCKS on EBay!! Don't believe me?! Check here
http://cgi.ebay.com/Nintendo-DS-Lite-Polar-White_W0QQitemZ290101062138QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

See, I can provide shoddy proof for some anti-brand claim too, can I be a Kotaku editor now?
mattmoto's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 00:09
mattmoto
Please ignore the giant hyperlink above:
This is far more convenient

Whats with websites and not having "edit" functions anymore :( Kotaku doesn't either...
mattmoto's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 00:25
mattmoto
Wow, I keep on failing. Two posts up, I meant "Destructoid", not Kotaku. Whenever I decide to check up on gaming, I make a Joystiq/Kotaku/Destructoid run, I often forget where I am :P

I need to get some sleep...
Lezbro's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 01:31
Lezbro
I still can't believe Sony screwed up the PSP.

I wanted one so bad when they were announced and now I quite literally don't even think I'd accept one for free. They just reek of unfunness. I actually want a Gameboy Micro more than a PSP. How sad is that?
djsyndrome's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 08:43
djsyndrome
"making it still $50 more expensive than the world's most succesful video game console ever. "

So the DS is now $119?
908peruvian's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 08:49
908peruvian
are there ANY good games for the PSP?

just wanted to know....
Rancor's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 09:57
Rancor
Well with the rondo remake, and portable ops and killzone on it there are alot of fun games on the psp. I got my enjoyement out of it especially loading up some movie or series to the memory stick and watching a few great shows between gaming. Hell the gta and the 1st burnout rocked on it too.
Rancor's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 09:59
Rancor
sony is poised on having the best handheld they just do too many stupid things with it. Imagine if it was an xbox handheld and you could download your live arcade games and track your acheivements. On the psp uk site they have like 4 times the number of demos which is a great way to move games imho. They just need to get their shit together.
ElfAngel7's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 13:04
ElfAngel7
too little, too late. Sony's fallen too far behind in this gen of portable systems. While the price drop is a good idea, it's not gonna help them gain more ground. I'll just lurk EBay until i find one for a decent price for Rondo and Crisis Core.
Iceciro's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 16:02
Iceciro
I'll just wait for the emulator to play Crisis Core.

The PSP is such a massive block of fail, even Final Fantasy 7 doesn't make me want one. That's as it GETS, Sony. You Phail.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 18:03
king3vbo
DS homebrew is much better :D

Though I do want one for Crisis Core
Agent Nixon's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/03/2007 18:24
Agent Nixon
i dont agree about how the psp is not worth it. I have one and i'm happy with it since i first discovered homebrew. Nowadays i use my psp for: tetris and final fantasy.
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/16/2007 11:53
A New Challenger
Gradius Galaxies, Mega Man: Powered Up, the upcoming Castlevania, and Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins are the games on my list. LocoRoco too, though I heard it pretty much plays all its cards in the first level.

One more solid price drop and I wouldn't mind having one.
GuitarFearow's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/08/2008 17:00
GuitarFearow
Hmmm...I need to get a new one, but I am able to wait. Let's see $119, Sony!
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