European Retailers Refuses to Stock PSP GO in their stores

[quietchat]

http://kotaku.com/5360562/dutch-retailer-refuses-to-sell-pspgo

A Dutch retail chain called NedGame (Largest in their nation), along with retailers in Spain and Holland are arguing against the price of the PSP GO, and therefore refusing to sell the handheld.


The PSP Go was announced officially at E3 with an asking price of $250 (Which I KNOW I've talked about before as being rediculous), and that cost is even more outside of the U.S.

Now, let's think. The PS3 Slim which was announced recently will retail for $300. You're asking us to justify paying nearly the same price of a console as you would for a handheld. Not worth it.

They try to justify that though by having DL games that will range from as cheap as $1 to as much as a normal PSP game. And this brings about complaint two from retailers. The PSP GO does not have the UMD drive. Alot of retail stores make HUGE profit off of re-selling used games, and if people have PSP GO consoles, then they can't make that profit.

What's your view though?

[Mugen]

I ain't getting the PSP GO, I have lots of UMDs.

[Zero Ichi]

another bullshit thing that sony will fix in six-ten months, man they need to get their shit together soon!

its cool that theyre trying something new with the non-profit of the games, but that would hurt someone like me as well who sells his games once hes beaten them! definitely just made and thrown out there for sale, not much thought behind it!

[suigintou]

The PSP Go is ugly enough that I wouldn't pay $100 for it, let alone $250.

[Bobadoe]

The PSP Go is ugly enough that I wouldn't pay $100 for it, let alone $250.

*salutes* I agree. If I am going to throw money away.......... lost my train of thought.

[Koopaking]

These newfangled downloadable games are going to eventually take over, I tell ya! Pretty soon, there will be no point in ever buying a game at the store and physically having it if you can just download it instantly at home.

I remember the days when you could tell how savvy a gamer was just by looking at his stack of games, but now you have to open up his hard drive and look at his gamer stats, profiles, and downloaded games! Pretty soon once Terabyte hard drives become available for $5 a piece there will be no point in having physical games at all if you just include it with the system! Games are losing their heart, I tell ya! I can't take a digital game out of the drive and blow on it or wipe it off to make it work! Remember when game systems just played games? I don't need any eclectic media devices with downloadable doodads, I just want to play some damn games I say!

Then they go and say they are raising the prices to make up for nonexistent games? Humbug! If all the games turn to digital downloads, what games will there be to sell at a game store? I say, good job European friends! You show those greedy gaming company mongrels that you won't stand for this! The rate that technology is increasing and getting cheaper, I was hoping to have a miniature supercomputer that cost a nickel by the year 2009! They want me to pay $250 for a machine that runs on 2005 technology! Nonsense! Liberate the games! Liberate!

[suigintou]

Um...digital is gaining on physical in all forms of commodities that apply, gaming only being one of them, and this is nothing new. At all.