Sony’s new PSP Go, an Internet based PSP designed to cut out traditional retailers, has experienced dire sales in several territories, selling only 1,000 units in its first week of sales in Australia, even whilst rumours of a PSP2 in 2010 are starting to circulate.
Of 50,000 units made available in France, retailers only managed to sell 8,000. However, this was successful compared to its Australian performance – the console sold only 1,000 units in the entire first week of its release, with major retailers refusing to even stock the hated product.
In other news, Sony’s next handheld release, a heavily upgraded PSP2 with graphics capabilities “on par with desktop PCs,” is supposedly due for release in 2010… The report is far from confirmed (and seems hard to believe coming so close on the heels of the PSP Go itself), but if true it would completely doom the PSP Go to novelty hardware status.
Via Hachimaki.
Well why not look at the overall sales of Play Station Series? Indeed the profited more than losing money in production of PSP Go! afterall they knew not many people would buy since game manifactors are not supportive of PSP Go O.O::
“On-par” with desktop PCs my ass. Same way the PS2 was supposed to have “pixar” graphics.
PSP fat and custom firmware FTW.
Agreed lol. Who cares if Dark_Alex is retired, we got Team Gen now, which is just as good.
if they sell it for $50USD imma get one. other than that, psp is almost dead. Dark_Alex is retired
I think the psp go was originally prototype for the psp2. But another bad business decision by Sony. Maybe they saw what the ipod touch was doing and thought “we should get some of that now!” so jumped the gun with the psp go.
Really, a second analogue nub where the psp go has start/select buttons. And it would drop UMD, of course.
I love my UMD games but it is sort of a flawed format for a portable system. They’re not that small when compared to a DS cart and spinning the drive eats up battery. Digital format makes sense to have lots of games on the go. Just ask anyone with a hacked psp 1000-3000.
Sony could have just waited to release as psp2 and made a clean break but they got greedy and impatient.