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.
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Firsposting Knave strikes again.
Well, I expected the go to flop, I mean it rendered all prior games useless...
This whole "firsposting knavishness" would go back to hell if only the comments would go in backwards order, with the newest on the top. >_>
No, then the firstposting knave would be the staple of all other posts, holding it above his own, thinking lowly of himself.
Do you want to make Knave into a respectable poster!?
PSP 3000 FTW!!! PSP GO to Hell!
Hahahaaah! This is great! I hope Sony goes broke soon. Releasing shit hardware and censored shit games finally backfires...
Whatever, he has been banned.
I didn't know first posting was looked down on so much. I'll cut it out then.
My friend didn't like it, he liked his Old PSP better the problem with PSP Go is it doesn't have does not feature a UMD drive, you have to download games and movies from the PlayStation Store,the PSP Go features built-in wi-fi, but no longer uses a standard USB A-to-Mini-B cable.
Schrobby, I hope you go broke soon. Oh nevermind, didn't know you already are. Dipshit.
cool looks like the next PSP will be more powerful than my ATI 5870x2 desktop PC!
I guess this will have to launch for like $899 if it's going to be as strong as desktops.
^ yeah seriously Anon, as powerful as a PC, what nonsense hah, maybe a 5 year old PC
@ Anon 02:37
Fuck yourself, Sony wanker.
The new PSP2 will have graphics more powerful than PC's using the Intel eXtreme Graphics (EG1, not the new EG2)
WHOOOO-HOOO!!!!! IT'S TOTALLY DICK SLAP_ABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't think that Digital Download only consoles will appear for quite some time. Not only do ISPs need to ramp up their services for larger countries such as US and Canada and Australia, but they need to deal with things like this - the game shops refusing to stock them because they wont make any game sales off them.
Plus, I like showing off a wall of game cases, not a hard drive.
Hear, hear.
I think a PSP2 is a good thing. I never had any hope for the PSP Go.
For the amount of time it's taking to make a PSP2, it better have an OLED Touchscreen, good battery life and more than 16 GB of storage. I hope that website is right about it being comparable to the GeForce 8600 in terms of graphics.
XBOX 2G0 anyone? PSP NO!!
i suppose it didnt come as a surprise wen i saw the psp being advertized alongside a tv promo...
http://channelnine.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=833222
go! tv.. so advertizing psp go makes perfect sense
Eh what's going on with psp? Psp2 in 2010? But psp go has just been released.
I doubt Digital Distribution only consoles will do very well, Sony is just thinking ahead. Really, DD needs ISP support, and the total shutdown of all video game stores.
Wont happen soon.
Psp go wont sell, so they are going to stop its production and make something that will make profit.
PSP Go away
Or call it PSP Stop.
.... on second thought, no.
Fits too well.
Cutting out regular retailers might seem like a good idea, but it doesn't give consumers the same feeling of satisfaction of having the physical copy of the game they bought in hand waiting to be opened and played for the first time. Plus, the Go doesn't have the limitless space available to store all the games one wants.
Besides, Pirates already cracked the PSP Go anyway, in record time iirc. Go Away indeed.
It's not even that really, though all of your points are valid. Mainly the lack of space for it, the first point while somewhat true is highly subjective.
My main huge gripe is the fact that if I have the physical copies it won't play them nor will they give me access to a digital version for my physical copy.
I fucking refuse to buy the same thing twice in a row when it's the exact same fucking format. It's not a remake or even really on a more convenient setting, as would a wii VC game or a PSX game on the ps3 so I don't have to run it on my ps2 or something.
No it's like... I have an old like second version of the sega master system I believe. Sony is doing something that would be like sega making me buy a different cart for the unchanged game because they made a design swap out. It's fucking moronic. Or maybe fucking greedy would be the better way to say it.
Well, that and they're making you pay the same price for the game as it is if you had gone to your local Game Stop and bought it off the shelf. Especially galling because they would've cut out the middleman in the form of the retailers, so why the extra cost? A fucking ripoff, I think.
That, and basically if anything happens to the fragile-looking handheld the game is lost possibly and you're once again fucked over.
It's PSP NO...
PSP GO is a no go!
Great way to follow the Windows production model.
Not surprising in the least. The PSP Go was destined to fail the moment they announced no way to transfer your UMD games to it. Also the outrageous price, considering it's a downgrade from the old model PSPs.
Honestly, I believe that they've done a good job by selling 1k units. That was way above my expectations. (Although I wonder if they count how many hundreds of people returned the damn thing for store credits....)
Isn't it kinda sad? Sony FINALLY gets its shit together and makes high sales with the PS3 Slim then they will lose money selling this poorly researched and marketed POS. Which ironically, is based on a hand held system that did sell well.
It's a real pity too, I kinda liked the Go's aesthetic design.
It does look stylish, but not enough for my money though. Maybe the psp2 will look exactly the same just with added umd support.
I could see them giving the things away free at some gaming convention, since they already know they've wasted their money.
I'm much more interested in US and Japan sales but really who's surprised? Anybody in their right mind was saying it was going to bust and surprise surprise. I'm somewhat glad as Sony went about this all the wrong ways. PSP2 Please.
>.> Show of hands....who saw it coming?
Do you even need to ask?
Well I can't say I saw it coming, 'cause I thought it would be less.
HOLY FUCK FRANCE AND AUSTRALIA AREN'T BUYING SHIT BY THE POUND WE'RE DOOMED!
Seriously, I always expect France and Australia to sell like shit, games are for kids in those territories, no one takes them seriously.
I never even had a thought about buying it and never will.. MAYBE.. just MAYBE the PSP2 will b better..
And MAYBE it'll have a second analog stick
The biggest problem I saw with this "new" system is that it didn't change the format of the whole goddamn thing!
They could've done a touch screen like the iphone and also.. wait for it...
Put in another Fucking STick! And did they? Of course not, with bullshit excuses like it would upset the balance of all the older games as the primary reason not to do it. FIUCK! Seeing how a good percentage of the old games will Never be ported over, that's all fucking weak sauce.
Get the FUCKING hint sony, you dropped the ball AGAIN! After the overpriced release of the PS3 you now have a game system that costs more than the PS2 and wii! Sales not up to expectations now? Fucking crackers...
They shouldn't have made this at all. Period.
Would've been great if they really were working on a PSP successor when rumors of this system surfaced.
But instead, we got a Sony Mylo 2 after all. It also still sucks.
This is pretty much expected. The PSP Go design itself doesn't seem very appealing. (Can it even survive the button mashings? Sliding equipments - well, at least for mobile phones - break easily... Having a sliding gaming console isn't a good idea.)
That said, They should have just skipped the PSP Go. If they released a PSP2 (when it's done) with better graphics and higher specs, nobody would complain. I seriously wonder why they even embarked on the PSP Go.
doesn't seem very appealing for those reason that you yourself don't know the answer?
Sony probably target PSP Go for people who would buy something like iPod Touch. They have similar price point and while iPod Touch is more of a music player first and Go is more of a gaming device, both devices function certainly overlaps. Sony just needs better strategy to sell Go because obviously game retailers doesn't like their profits eventually decreased because of this... probably they should leverage the multimedia capability of PSP Go and sell it in regular stores.
What people seems to forget is that Sony still sells PSP with UMD. Sony doesn't force you to buy PSP Go. They are basically targeting a different market with Go, and that market probably doesn't include you or any of the PSP Go hater.
And for your last comment... no, people will complain at anything! When they eventually release PSP2, people will complain that it's to pricey... or if Sony choose the UMD path then people will complain that Sony should ditch it because it made the console bulkier and download is really the way to go... if Sony choose the no UMD path then people will complain that they can't sell their old games, they miss the box, etc... then people will complain that it isn't powerful enough, the battery doesn't last long enough, etc.
In the end, it's about a different product for a different audience. I don't like when Sony remove the UMD and use a non removable battery for Go (and not to mention the price itself), but I kinda understand their decision. Whether they can turn their decision into profit is still debatable.
PSP is 4 years old and PSP Go costs more than its first release. Sony expects more sales?
“on par with desktop PCs”?
We are still talking about a handheld, right?
Something portable, right?
If they are really going to do this, we will have to recharge our batteries every 2 hours.
They will provide wireless electricity for you to charge your PSP2 wherever you go.
Dude my psp as it is only gets like 3 hours or so now try more like "Every 30 seconds." IF that.
But just think how awesome playing the games on the PSP2 will be! =D
Besides, battery is not an issue if they came up with a new type of battery to use.
You mean like some sort of fission reactor?
six AA batteries, like the sega nomad
PSP2 uses the PowerVR SGX543 graphics chip.
"An eight core SGX543MP8 at 200 MHz delivers 266 million polygons and eight billion pixels per second, while faster clocked version, for instance, at 400 MHz would deliver 532 million polygons and 16 billion pixels per second. 16 billion pixels per second equal GeForce GTX 260-216, for instance."
So, it's believable to have "desktop-like" performance.
Sure...
Is really bad that you can't upgrade your eyes to see the outstanding details on a 4,3" inch screen.
i wanna see this "desktop-like" performance before i believe it. 16gp/s fillrate is pretty useless if you don't have the shader performance to cover them all. and 400mhz? you need three times the number of parallel processing units to compare to a gtx260. unless the shaders run at a higher clock like in the geforce. assuming their design is more efficient than nvidia's and amd's, it's still gonna draw insane amounts of power.
no wonder they give only a triangle and pixel throughput rate and not bare numbercrunching figures. the fastest g200 gpus can handle over 1 tflops (theoretically). we'll see how much the pvr can do...
Excellent breakdown, bur remember, its not going to have PC resolutions. How much of that can you cut out if your only worried about rendering a 3 inch image?