Price cut for Sony PSP Go points to rocky start
7 Oct 2009
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The PSP Go has been on shelves less than a week but already Sony's newest assault on the portable market looks to be on shaky ground.
Amazon, Game, HMV and Play have all dropped the price of the device from £224.99 to £199.99. Games consoles tend to be fairly tightly priced, especially at launch, so a drop in price so quickly raises eyebrows.
The price on launch of the handheld multimedia machine was greeted with surprise by many gamers, so a future price cut was on the cards but it's happened quicker than we thought.
Retailers worrying about sales or merely looking to reel in punters in the run-up to Christmas? We shall see.
Comments
WOnt work with UMDs and you have to buy your games directly from Sony. This is another bust from Sony.
Everyone in the Sony Marketing department should get the sack.
IMO The PSP Go is overpriced still. No doubt it is a nice portable console but at nearly the price of a new PS3 Slim it doesn't say value to me.
Nintendo have this market well covered at under �150 plus not to mention that a lot of PSP owners are probably iPhone/Ipod Touch owners as well...
''Games consoles tend to be fairly tightly priced, especially at launch..''.
A question I have been meaning to ask is how come some 'tech' manufactuers seem to able to keep prices at the RRP for a long time after launch e.g Apple iPods, B&W, Monitor Audio speakers - is it purely down to product popularity overcoming retailer competetiveness (although often bundled 'freebies' are offered rather than lower prices) or is there some sort of legal price fixing mechanism.
Just curious, no particular gripe with anyone.