Boycott for PSP is a Go
09/17/2009 Written by Dan Massi
Can you imagine a PSP Go boycott? Some retailers certainly can, as indicated in this baffling new report.
Eurogamer has reported that Holland retailer Nedgame, will not sell the new PSP Go when it releases October 1st. The price of the unit, plus the absence of no UMD drive, has been the reasons for the boycott of the handheld.
As well, Eurogamer has heard that Nedgame may not be the only retailer in Europe to go PSP Go-less. We’ll keep you updated as the situation develops. Until then, stay tuned on PlayStation LifeStyle for all your gaming updates.
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September 17th, 2009 at 5:36 AM
Just think about it, your a little boy, that has a old big black PSP with the UMD’s to go with it, you have more then 24 game’s you play, “That’s over £200″ but you like the PSP GO, So you go out and ask your dad to buy it,
for your birthday, you then get the PSP GO, take it back home with you and find you can not play all your UMD game’s you have for your old big black PSP,
Just think on that sony, do you not think you need to do some thing with that, my little boy in me is saying you need to make some scan code on UMD Disk thing, so then you know we have the game and we can download it (if we have GO)
I’m not going to buy PSP GO, intell this has be fixed,
I think more people are going to GO back to the shop,
Signed Adam, good on the shop’s that are not buying in to this GO,
September 17th, 2009 at 6:36 AM
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September 17th, 2009 at 7:21 AM
@ Sighned Adam:
Listen, I said at the OUTSET that the PSPs price was too high (hmm…$250 for PSP, $300 for PS3…duh!), and it is.
But your hypothetical situation is dumb. Little boys don’t care, and would NOT bother trying to upgrade it. BIG BOYS (like youself) are the only ones that think about upgrading something like this. Remember, the other PSP will still be for sale and relevent. The only thing your “little boy” needs is a 16GB memory card just in case devs stop putting games on UMDs…WHICH THEY MOST CERTAINLY WILL (remember…this whole PSP relaunch was to address dev’s piracy fears).
September 17th, 2009 at 7:27 AM
I don’t understand why the price is so high…they took out the feature of playing physically obtainable games and put a memory unit in…if anything it should be the same price at the most.
September 17th, 2009 at 7:56 AM
I would hope the Dad would be smart enough to see that there is no disk drive. It’s until man, not intel, the chip maker.
September 17th, 2009 at 8:19 AM
@signedadam,
Sony has come out and said there will be a way to get a downloaded version of your UMD games so that you don’t have to rebuy them.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Retailers can be dumbasses.
First off it’s not a retailer’s job to tell the customers what to buy and what not to buy.
Second off some of them are at fault with all the money lost due to used.
Now piracy isn’t so much an issue. The 3000 to my knowledge has not been hacked. I was able to bootleg Patapon 2 which was digital only. I know it was the U.S. Version because my U.S. save on the first one didn’t work with the european version.
This is a luxury item. If you think the price is too damn high, but a cheaper one and wait until it comes down in price. You know like what I’m doing with the DS?
This is targeting a very specific target. The price will come down if they realize it will come down. Retailers boycotting it is a freakin dumb ass move. Do they not know what the interwebz is? They want it they can find it somewhere else. Plus they’re just losing out.
They’re missing their last chance to profit on Go products other than the accessories, in order to make a stand because they want to see more UMD money and want a cut of the money that would otherwise go to the manufacturer and the developers.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:16 AM
@signedadam
So companies should not develop products because some consumers are too stupid to understand how it works. That makes a whole lot of sense.
It would be one thing if sony released it out of the blue and didnt tell anyone it had not UMD.
But everytime they have mentioned the psp go, they have said it has no UMD.
Your logic scares me.
September 17th, 2009 at 10:12 AM
@Makai
I agree the only reason retailers give a damn is because they won’t profit off of used UMD sales. And if this is any indication to the future, then OnLIVE won’t get any Video Game store support neither. I could care less about OnLIVE though. I know they will fail regardless. All I got to say is – The Second Video Game Crash is Immenent!!!!!!
September 17th, 2009 at 10:53 AM
digital distribution is the future, evolve or die. This what retailers get for ripping off their customers with trade ins and game prices. Amazon & PSN FTW
September 17th, 2009 at 10:55 AM
I would explain to the kid the PSPGo doesn’t have a UMD drive, but Sony is working on a solution so you can still play your old games on the new unit. Sometimes in life you need to be patient and good things may come your way.
*cue violin and birds chirping*
Oh, and also, mommy needs to turn a few more tricks so we can afford the damn thing.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:38 AM
@MakaiOokami
It can be “hacked” but not at a firmware level….it’s more at a memory level and it’s more for emulation since they can’t get retail games to run right. The PSP as an emulator machine is amazing so only being able to run homebrew and emulation makes it a light hack (that and it resets the hack if the PSP is ever fully shut down).
I don’t think it will ever be hacked at the hardware level though so game piracy of PSP titles is at 0% right now.
/on topic
If a retailer doesn’t want to sell the Go then they have the right not to. It’s their store, but you don’t have to shop there. I think the real issue here is retailer profit since there will be no game attachment to this product in store sales (retail makes more on games than on consoles)….and on that point I may just agree with them…even though I don’t want to….because if your trying to make money and now all your game sales are zero for a product you sell then I wouldn’t carry it either.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:45 AM
I want a PSP but not the PSP GO, this is too expensive in my opinion.
What can PSP GO do that 3000 cant?
September 17th, 2009 at 12:47 PM
@ Cameron Teague
no need to explain to him, hes just making “noise”. its hard to take someone that made 1 comment in the last months on the PSL serious. If he follows news, especially on an item hes interested in, the UMD-PSPGO subject is highly talked about.
September 17th, 2009 at 3:39 PM
I agree with most of what has been said. Price is too much, stores might not make profit from game sells, but regardless it is just new tech, and choices. Alot of people love the idea of not haveing the annoying UMDs. Digital Distribution is on the rise, but again, it’s just another choice. No need to complain.
P.S.
@SignedAdam
Why do you have a little kid in you? I don’t know if I would be letting people in on that one. JK, lol.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:34 PM
I believe I already covered this, but as far as I know Sony will be letting Go owners turn in their UMD based games for vouchers to download these games to their new PSP Go
September 17th, 2009 at 7:23 PM
The PSP Go looks really sweet and tempting. But I have to agree that it is quite overpriced. The production cost of the PSP Go is much lower than the current PSP. If Sony really want to push PSP G than the PSP 3000, Go’s price would be lower than the 3000’s. So, what’s the reall agenda sony?
September 18th, 2009 at 12:20 AM
I really don’t blame retailers why sell an item that basically will mean no future sales form them, all content for a PSPgo will have to be purchased “NEW” from sony direct, not their store. The whole idea of digital distribution of PSN products is SONY’s way to keep a tight reigns on all profits.
I’m not turning in my UMD’s for a ‘digital copy’s’ I’m happy with my big psp it serves it’s purpose and plays all the digital content I want’, An improvement on the big PSP would have been some internal memory as a onboard storage to compliment the pro duo, but that would have too convenient
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