Sony's miserable new PlayStation Portable, the PSPgo, has launched this past Sunday in Japan, a month after North America and Europe. The sales tally sees a launch that could be accurately described as ... alright.
According to reports, the PSPgo shifted 28,275 units on day one, which could be described as a moderately encouraging number. However, the numbers are far below launch day sales for the DSi, which stood at 170,000 and even the PSP-3000, which shifted over 140,000 units.
This could be down to the fact that the system launched on Sunday, instead of Saturday as is traditional in Japan. However, such a significant gap between PSPgo sales and PSP-3000 sales would seem to indicate that the PSPgo is just as welcome in Japan as it is in the rest of the world -- not very welcome at all.
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10:40 AM on 11.02.2009
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Digitizing handheld games, at least in the light that sony is putting it in, doesn't seem to be the direction we need to go in right now.
don't people understand that the 3000 does almost everything a go does and can still play UMD games?
yeah, u don't know why, but people will do stupid things for stupid prizes. sad thing is people called in to the radio station that was holing the event and voiced their concern. The DJ's response was "they signed waiver, so we're not responsible."
every ounce of my being wants to proudly purchse and flaunt one around.
unfortunately, it seems like that would be akin to ordering a cheeseburger and receiving a cracker with honey on it.
it's even trickier for me because i sold my psp a while back when there was a dry spell of quality games coming out...now there are dozens of new titles i'm interested in and i don't know if i should take a risk and try a pspgo or play it safe and get a plain old psp.
The PS3 is over 3 years old, while the GO is new. The DSI in Canada costs as much as a Wii in the US.
Japan LOVES Sony. If the PSP Go was going to be successful anywhere, it would've been Japan. I still don't understand what Sony was thinking...
Uhhh... You can't compare console prices in two different territories. If you're gonna talk about DSi prices in Canada, you have to talk about Wii prices in Canada too. And they aren't the same here in Canada...
I get what people are saying when they complain about a PS3 only being 50 bucks more.
Either way, whichever one you choose, PSPs are selling again and that's what Sony wants. I too will stick with my 1000, as it works just fine.
Japanese gamers will buy anything japanese, they are just wired that way. They are also, less likely to question all the things, that we smartly question about PSP Go, PSP and their prices and options..
Wow. So now the Japanese are mindless drones buying anything Japanese, eh?
No wonder the PSPgo flew off the shelves unlike everywhere else.
Stop the Sony anti-bias Jim, I mean it!