When Sony announced you’d get a free download code for Gran Turismo PSP when you purchased the PSPgo, they forgot one tiny detail: the price of the handheld itself. Seems my speculation earlier today was bang on the money.
Sony has confirmed the PSPgo will launch in Australia on October 1 and retail for $449.95. That’s in line with the European price points, but considerably more expensive than the US.
It’s also—remarkably—just $50 shy of the price of the new PS3 Slim. Quite how the vastly different technology in the two boxes adds up to such similar figures is surely baffling to all those outside the Sony bean counters.
Who’s getting a PSPgo?
MiK3
August 20, 2009 at 7:24 PM
give me a PSP-3000 anyday :)
Report PermalinkShaun Camilleri
August 20, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Dont know if its been said…. but I think many of us want to tell Sony where to ‘go’
Report PermalinkTimothy Bulaon
August 20, 2009 at 9:01 PM
I don’t see this going down to well. When someone is in the market for a new handheld, where are they going to go?
A $450 PSPgo or a $300 DSi that does the exactly the same thing but with more functionality?
I could buy 2 Xbox 360 arcade packs for that price. Or 1 Xbox 360 and a pre-owned DSlite both with games. Or a PS3 Slim.
Report PermalinkHMm
August 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM
This is Bullshit. Fuck you Sony
Report PermalinkPaul P
August 20, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I know exactly what Sony is up to. They’ll make a few thousand of these ‘PSP-Go’ thingies, put them in stores in all PAL territories for ridiculous prices, and hope that everyone buys the cheaper and now very attractive 3000s.
It’s just a massive decoy. Surely.
Report PermalinkBrian Uden
August 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM
I think Sony positioned the price of the PSPgo in a way where they don’t need to drop the price of the 3000 when the PSPgo is launched.
There’ll be enough fanboys out there who will actually pay $450 at launch, then Sony will drop the price of the PSPgo, or both, for xmas to suck parents into thinking they are getting a bargain.
Report PermalinkDunnowhathuh
August 20, 2009 at 11:52 PM
What a joke. Would seriously rather toss in an extra 50 and get a PS3 slim for kicks. Or even better, finish off my console collection and get a 360.
Report PermalinkAliasalpha
August 21, 2009 at 12:30 AM
So since it’s region free, if I were to import one from america, it would be the same as buying one locally apart from having enough money to actually buy a game or 3? Would the same apply for a PS3?
If so I might get both, better to pay au$660 (plus whatever postage is) than au950
Report Permalinktruncheon
August 21, 2009 at 2:47 AM
are europeans getting upset over this? why are we aligning ourselves with america again, we’re fatter than them on average but are we more tightass and… stupid, want to know why microsoft dont make a hand held gaming system – its an expensive – i see people every day happily pay way too much for the latest mobile phone or ipod i never see people get angry about prices of tech like i do on gaming websites
Report PermalinkCheezel
August 21, 2009 at 9:20 PM
It’s kinda sad, all through the PS and PS2 saga I was all “yay for sony” etc etc… come ps3 it was more a case of rooting for the underdog, forcing good competition out of the clearly superior consoles (at the time).
But then I remembered – it’s Sony. Look at their TVs, laptops, Hi-Fi equipment, etc… Take a regular product of equal quality, slap a Sony sticker on it, and increase the price by ~33% – you have yourself sony’s marketing strategy.
The thing is, for all the bitching and whinging and ‘realizing’ that we consumers do – Sony is still in business, and that will never change nor will their license to print money.
Report Permalinkbleach1st
August 22, 2009 at 3:37 PM
the only thing I can think of atm;
Report Permalinkwowowowowowowowowowwowowowowowowowow…. wwwooooooowwww so expensive :|
Kevin
August 22, 2009 at 8:26 PM
$449 AUD, bargain…. :)….NO F***KEN THANKS SONY…
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