Is is the high price tag of Sony's PlayStation Portable stifling sales?
June 17, 2007 (Press Release) --
Gaming site 1up is reporting that big-name retailers are asking Sony to cut prices--or else they'll stop carrying the device.
The PSP, which launched in 2005, has not been selling as well as Sony might have hoped; sales are off 72 percent from last year, according to 1up. And it's not cheap; $199.99 versus $129.99 for the Nintendo DS lite.
Will Sony cave? Bloggers and gamers can only hope.
Blog community response.
Source: http://www.msn.com
"With figures like that and a price that practically insists consumers buy a cheap little DS Lite, we can kind of understand why retailers are up in arms over the waste of precious shelf space the PSP has apparently become; something is in the works though, as supposedly at Sony's Destination PlayStation event, they talked up something or other that put retailers' minds at ease -- what that is or isn't, we don't know. So we can only sit back and hope that if Sony won't listen to its customers, perhaps it'll listen to its channel sales partners."
--Engadget
"At the Destination PlayStation event for retailers, Sony announced something else that got retailers excited: what it is is unclear at this point. The theories have ranged from new system colors, new bundles, to a new system redesign. Hopefully, we'll see more when the PSP's second anniversary comes up on March 24th."
--PSPfanboy
"Whether a redesign will calm the furious retailers is anyone's guess, but if Sony don't deliver that and/or a price cut, and this rumour is true, the PSP is expendable. Like, sleepin' wit da fishes expendable. Which, I don't know...is pretty expendable"
--Kotaku
The PSP, which launched in 2005, has not been selling as well as Sony might have hoped; sales are off 72 percent from last year, according to 1up. And it's not cheap; $199.99 versus $129.99 for the Nintendo DS lite.
Will Sony cave? Bloggers and gamers can only hope.
Blog community response.
Source: http://www.msn.com
"With figures like that and a price that practically insists consumers buy a cheap little DS Lite, we can kind of understand why retailers are up in arms over the waste of precious shelf space the PSP has apparently become; something is in the works though, as supposedly at Sony's Destination PlayStation event, they talked up something or other that put retailers' minds at ease -- what that is or isn't, we don't know. So we can only sit back and hope that if Sony won't listen to its customers, perhaps it'll listen to its channel sales partners."
--Engadget
"At the Destination PlayStation event for retailers, Sony announced something else that got retailers excited: what it is is unclear at this point. The theories have ranged from new system colors, new bundles, to a new system redesign. Hopefully, we'll see more when the PSP's second anniversary comes up on March 24th."
--PSPfanboy
"Whether a redesign will calm the furious retailers is anyone's guess, but if Sony don't deliver that and/or a price cut, and this rumour is true, the PSP is expendable. Like, sleepin' wit da fishes expendable. Which, I don't know...is pretty expendable"
--Kotaku
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