Sony has been visited by Captain Obvious this morning, with Rob Dyer admitting that the price of the PSPgo may have been too high and it turned off consumers. In an odd turn of events, the platform holder has determined that maybe it was silly to charge more for a product that does less. Who could have imagined?
"We wanted to find a way to give the consumers what they want, so if they didn't want to go to a retailer they could stay at home and download [games and content]," says the publisher relations VP. "And we were hoping really to eliminate the piracy issue. Did the PSPgo confuse [consumers]? Yeah, I think the higher price point didn't help matters any either.
"So we're going back and re-communicating, and I'm sitting here looking at multiple decks on what we're going to do this year. You'll see a lot of things coming out from us to better educate and inform the consumer. All I can say is watch this space, because we'll have answers to those questions."
Somehow I don't think Sony will answer my question: What the f*ck is the point of the PSPgo?
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10:40 AM on 02.23.2010
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They weren't going for maximum sales at the early adopter price, i'm sure it where they'll be looking after a couple of price drops though.
I think the Go is cool as fuck and when it drops to a realistic price I'll upgrade my 1000 to a Go for sure.
I can do that with my PSP-1000. So what's that got to do with the Go?
"You'll see a lot of things coming out from us to better educate and inform the consumer. All I can say is watch this space, because we'll have answers to those questions."
It should read:
"You'll see us asking consumers a lot of questions in order to better educate and inform ourselves. All I can say is watch this space, because we'll have questions awaiting your answers."
I demand that you replace it with a more appropriate image.
Like this:
Hopefully, Sony retires this poor excuse for a product ASAP. In reality, they'll probably just launch another dumb ad-campaign.
#1 you cannot backup your games, granted you can re download them but it's kind of a pain in the ass
#2 you can't play umd games that you already own, so downloading them isn't much of a convenience, it is actually the opposite, and expensive
#3 the games cost the same to download as to buy UMD versions, so for consumers it is more worth the time to skip the go and just order the games from amazon or somesuch on any of the older models since you get the game for the same price and hard media to back it up
#4 no exclusivity to the pspgo, mainly because they repackaged the same specs for it- if they would have made improvements to the actual technology they could have done something on the go that wasn't available on other mobile gaming platforms hence you could actually make the argument that you should pay x amount of dollars for an exclusive
Personally, I'm going to stay as far away from the PSPGo as I can, and I'll encourage my family to do the same.
...It fits in my pocket at least.
Fix the above and drop that price to £/$100 and they will fly off shelves. You'd better hurry and do this too, before DS2 and Zune HD get a foothold.
Sony is predictable.
The only alternative would be some silly program where you have to exchange your physical disc for a download code, to take the disc out of the market.
I lol'd
Piracy IS a problem, and we should find the best way to encourage sales. Of course, the best way is to not mess up with the player.
Why the hell would anyone other than some religious Sony fanboy buy the Go? There are 8 million reasons why the PSP3k is a better choice.
1. No consumer product that requires the company educate the consumer succeeds.
2. No consumer likes to be told that they don't like a product because they are confused. It is an insult to the consumer's intelligence.
2. Most the consumers I see on the forums won't buy it because they are in fact very educated, and know all the limitations as opposed to a PSP 3000.
3. Pirates, the source of the piracy problem, are the most educated consumers concerning this sort of thing. If they don't buy PSPgo's, it's because the device doesn't do what they want, and no amount of education will make them change their mind.
I find it amazing how Sony won't drop it's Virtual Boy and admit that the product is unpopular because it's a bad product. If they continue to insist that the product's only problems are it's price point and uneducated (stupid) consumers, their PSPs will be irrelivent within a hardware iteration.
OR
If the baby just pooped out a PSPgo.. (Because it is in fact a steaming pile of shit.)
When it's $150 and has a SD Micro slot I'll buy one.
Also, people still use PSP's? I just re-discovered my old PSP-1000's in an old cabinet drawer and I thought about using it again, then I remembered 'lol psp' and the thought passed.
So how the hell did you reason that we'd want to pay 50 bucks above the cost of a Wii or X360 Arcade or 50 below a PS3 Slim for a handheld that does less than the previous model of the same handheld?, Sony's full of asshats i tell you.
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