PSPgo Price Cut Under 10,000Yen. What was the Purpose of PSPgo?
| PSPgo Price Cut Under 10,000Yen. What was the Purpose of PSPgo? | |
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We've got submission. "PSPgo has a price cut. I only saw DS and normal PSP at train. Was PSPgo an experiment or other purpose?" (Submitted by: GOROGORO) |
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You can't see it at train because it sales too bad. |
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So what's the purpose of PSPgo? No merit at all. |
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They wanted to do something weren't they? |
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And what's that something... |
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Explore download sales. But... |
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But? |
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Normal PSP can do that so really no need to buy PSPgo. |
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Oh... |
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The only merit of PSPgo is a lighter weight. But the price is too high. |
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So there is a price cut. |
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Many new games don't support PSPgo download. And you can buy package version with a lower price at amazon.co.jp. If you sell the package game to 2nd hand shop, the cost to play game is much lower. So only digital tool mania would want a PSPgo. |
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Huh. |
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And download version can't win another selling method. |
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Another selling method? |
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Pre-order bonus. |
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Pre-order bonus!? |
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Download version can't sell with pre-order bonus such as CD or booklet. I doubt if they had tried so download pre-order bonus such as e-ticket for download content. |
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How is the actual situation? |
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If you guys know please tell me. |
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Can't you investigate by yourself... |
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We know the planning of PSPgo is bad. But what's the aim of the Sony? Download has no merit and no user would join. What are they thinking? |
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PSPgo was for oversea market. |
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Not for Japan? |
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In Japan, retailer can't return the stock so Sony can earn money even if retailer purchase too much games but can't sell to customer. To maintain such selling method, the download version can't set a price too know. |
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They care retailer and the profit from them huh. |
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How about overseas? |
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Retailer oversea are too strong. They can return remaining stock and that would be a burden to maker. Download selling can solve this problem. Oversea market don't have pre-order bonus or package discount. So people welcome download version with a lower price. |
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Why PSPgo can't succeed oversea then? |
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PSP itself failed oversea, how can PSPgo succeed? |
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Different regions have different problem, but the overall quality of Sony's service is not good enough. |
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What should they do in the future? |
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They just want to clear the remaining stock of the console. No future. |
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And if they still want to fight back? |
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They need to set a discount for donwload version. If package version is 5000Yen, donwload version should be 4500Yen, and PSPgo donwload version would better be 3750Yen. Such discount is calculate by deducting the margin of retailer so possible. Package cost equal to network charge so nothing change for maker. But they still be to care retailer so they can't do that. |
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Impossible to improve the situation immediately. |
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And provide old game for download at 500Yen. PSP can do that too. But retailer is a problem. Not yet the era for download huh. |
October 26, 2010 5:50 PM | PSP | PSP
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