Further cementing the PSPgo's status as a hideous and terrible mistake, the latest Japanese sales data has revealed that while the PSP-3000 and its cousins have topped the charts, the all-digital variant is slumming it at the bottom. Sony's latest, greatest handheld is outclassed and outsold by its own family.
The PSP shifted 71,000 units this week. An impressive number, made all the more grand when compared to the pitiful 2,000 units sold by the PSPgo. Here are the full numbers for you to gawp at:
- PSP – 71,186
- Wii – 57,349
- PS3 – 35,156
- DSi LL – 30,418
- DSi – 27,292
- DS Lite – 6,574
- Xbox 360 – 4,622
- PS2 – 2,580
- PSPgo – 2,027
Only Sony could be both a winner and a loser at the same time, so let us give the publisher a respectable golf clap. As for the PSPgo, I won't be satisfied until Sony admits the whole thing was a tremendous screw-up and promises that it won't happen again.
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12:20 PM on 01.22.2010
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Sorry, Sony, but that is pretty pathetic. If a several year old system outsells a several month old system, you have a problem. Especially if this is your way to 'revolutionize' the industry.
On that note, I hope it continues to fail so my games will continue to be disc/cart/UMD based, and I won't be forced to download them.
We are all CheapAssGamers and if we have the choice between a a $20 UMD or a $40 DD, we will wear our awesome hot pink Fanny-Packs from 1992 to carry around the UMD in order to save $20.
not just several years, 10 years...
I would consider a PSP Go if the damn thing didn't cost as much as a PS3.
Cuz when it drops to something more reasonable, i for one will be buying one.
Someone isn't a fan of Monster Hunter.
Really, the huge kick in the pants is the price point. $50 more you get a PS3 which can do everything the PSP can do, only better. (Excluding being extremely portable)
IT'S BELOW PS2!?!
IT'S BELOW PS2!?!
I don't think the DS would have been half what it is without the competition from the psp
Wow, that's a dumb comment.
Yeah, who the hell needs competition? Hell, lets only have one console too, theres no need for a PS3 or a 360 lets all just have a Wii.
They have to expect it to continue to produce poor numbers. But Rome wasn't built in a day and converting to a wholly(or mostly) digital market is not gonna be a quick transition. They have their Mark I model out ahead of the competition though and it has a lot of public awareness(even if mostly bad).
So, when the PSPGO-Faster(or whatever the heck they call future models) launches in a market more accepting of pure digital products they already have a foothold in the market, the infrastructure in place, and a brand they can direct the audience to. It's an expensive way to get things done, but if they really want to create an all digital market they had to start somewhere.
Do you really think that Sony are going to cease the development of the PlayStation 4 and throw away all that money just because they made one overpriced handheld?
REALLY?
2. They need to update this PSP store more than once a week. Huge library of games out there and a huge amount not on the PSP store.
3. They absolutely must offer UMD to PSN conversion. Accept people will get old games used to get a digital copy cheap. Make all new PSP games register to one PSN account. The original customer would a digi copy, and Sony would still be trying to kill the used game market.
4. UMD addon.
5. Kill it and push the 3000 more.
I think it's a fair statement that Lumines is one of the best titles to come out on the platform and it's nowhere to be found on the PSP go.
I know why it's not on there but that doesn't change the
fact that it should be there.
*cough*
All of the things that you know suck about it, do indeed suck, but it's got some good things going for it.
For me, I was either going to throw down $50-$100 on a new bigger mem stick for my psp-2000 (which also had a wonky d-pad I wasn't too fond of) so that I could download more digital content or I was going to trade in my 2000 and games and pay the difference (less than $100) to get a Go.
I went with the Go and am not really disappointed. They did a lot wrong with the system, but I am one of the rare people that most of the cons don't really affect me too much.
I wish it had a standard USB cable instead of the new proprietary one.
I wish I could download games on my PC using their mediago software without having to have my psp plugged in for the entire download... (This is a seriously retarded problem. When I am downloading large multi-gigabyte files I don't want to leave my PSP plugged in to the PC the whole time. I can download whatever I want on my PS3 and then plug my PSP in and copy it over so I don't understand why the PC is so stooopid...?)
I wish they stuck with the memory stick duo media so I could use my old mem sticks with it.
The volume/screen brightness buttons on the top are annoying.
Those are my biggest issues... on the flip side, I'm happy to go to digital media only, I like the pause/resume game feature, I like the size, I like the bluetooth features... I'm pretty sure there's some other stuff I like, but whatever.
Basically I just want to be an EARLY ADOPTER, y'all. But this is definitely not the device that is going to kill physical media. So you UMD lovers out there have no fear.
And talking about price drops, why isn't Sony going for that with the Go? Would they loose money either way?
PSP GTFO, more like. I'm not at all surprised except for it not even outselling the PS2.
My only problem is... There HAS to be PSP2 coming at some point soon. That and I just don't have enough 'portable' time. I can easily play my ps3 at home and don't spend much time on buses/trains etc.
Am i missing something? Can't the original psp models download everything a pspgo can download but with extra features(bigger screen, umd capability etc)??? (granted you need a mem stick but that's not hard or expensive compared to Go)
Even if it was the same price as the regular psp why would you get something that offers less? i'm really curious, i'm certain i've missed some crucial uber ability the Go has...?
That, and if you're planning to launch a new console that really isn't an upgrade over your old one. Don't try to screw your old customers over in the process.
I still have my UMD-capable PSP and it's just for playing Lion Wars SINCEYOUCANTFUCKINGDOWNLOADITYET or can you? I haven't checked recently.
/rage