Not to go off-topic, but is anyone going to update the OP, or are we going to be stuck with Microsolf knob-slobbering and little else useful in the OP forever.
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That's Shiggy Miyamoto of Nintendo checking out the PSP Go
That's too cool
This doesn't surprise me, as he has never said anything bad about his competition and is usually seen checking out the other companies booths or products.
As for Miyamoto checking out the Go! I'm not surprised in the least. Any businessman worth his salt would examine his competitor's products very carefully.
Still, $250? It's going to be a catastrophic failure.
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I would have bought the new PSP if it was much cheaper. Once again, price is the only thing stopping me buying a Sony product. A product I really want. But not that badly.
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edited June 2009
Now that the Go is coming out, the price on the other PSP should drop some more and I'll be picking one up. I have been wanting their remake of Mega Man for so long now.
Now that the Go is coming out, the price on the other PSP should drop some more and I'll be picking one up. I have been wanting their remake of Mega Man for so long now.
Sadly, the price won't drop at all; the Go is already $80 more expensive than the 3000.
Now that the Go is coming out, the price on the other PSP should drop some more and I'll be picking one up. I have been wanting their remake of Mega Man for so long now.
Sadly, the price won't drop at all; the Go is already $80 more expensive than the 3000.
As for Miyamoto checking out the Go! I'm not surprised in the least. Any businessman worth his salt would examine his competitor's products very carefully.
Still, $250? It's going to be a catastrophic failure.
Even at $250 I'd be tempted to buy it for the simple fact that it's smaller and now maybe fits the "Portable" name nicely.
But fuck that because I can't play any of my PSP games on this PSP.
Now that the Go is coming out, the price on the other PSP should drop some more and I'll be picking one up. I have been wanting their remake of Mega Man for so long now.
Sadly, the price won't drop at all; the Go is already $80 more expensive than the 3000.
And has a smaller screen and no UMD drive.
I mean...how?
To me the biggest "Wha!?!" moment was when he admitted development costs were 80% cheaper now, just to whip out the 250 pricetag.
Now that the Go is coming out, the price on the other PSP should drop some more and I'll be picking one up. I have been wanting their remake of Mega Man for so long now.
Sadly, the price won't drop at all; the Go is already $80 more expensive than the 3000.
And has a smaller screen and no UMD drive.
I mean...how?
The slightly smaller screen and lack of UMD I'm fine with, actually; it's the prestige, trying-to-compete-with-iPhone pricing that's the real killer. Though if the MP3 playback is drastically improved from the original PSP and the current PSP library is made downloadable and priced reasonably, I might be tempted to sell off all the PSP stuff I have and pick one up. That's a massive conditional statement, though.
Now that the Go is coming out, the price on the other PSP should drop some more and I'll be picking one up. I have been wanting their remake of Mega Man for so long now.
Sadly, the price won't drop at all; the Go is already $80 more expensive than the 3000.
And has a smaller screen and no UMD drive.
I mean...how?
it's the prestige, trying-to-compete-with-iPhone pricing that's the real killer.
How is it supposed to compete with the iPhone price-wise when the iPhone is $199?
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Now that the Go is coming out, the price on the other PSP should drop some more and I'll be picking one up. I have been wanting their remake of Mega Man for so long now.
Sadly, the price won't drop at all; the Go is already $80 more expensive than the 3000.
And has a smaller screen and no UMD drive.
I mean...how?
it's the prestige, trying-to-compete-with-iPhone pricing that's the real killer.
How is it supposed to compete with the iPhone price-wise when the iPhone is $199?
The iPhone is $199 with a data-included service plan that's, what, $60 a month now? I guess the more appropriate comparison is the $229/$299 iPod Touch. I still think it's ludicrous but from a business standpoint I guess Sony reasons that a $250 PSP Go is comparable to a $299 16GB iPod Touch.
Either that or Sony's attempting the whole Game Boy Micro thing: a boutique handheld that's small, sleek and more expensive than the big-boy regular handheld. Though I guess Sony didn't skip to the end of the Behind the Music segment, where the Micro tanked at retail and was clearanced out a year or so after launch.
Now that the Go is coming out, the price on the other PSP should drop some more and I'll be picking one up. I have been wanting their remake of Mega Man for so long now.
Sadly, the price won't drop at all; the Go is already $80 more expensive than the 3000.
And has a smaller screen and no UMD drive.
I mean...how?
it's the prestige, trying-to-compete-with-iPhone pricing that's the real killer.
How is it supposed to compete with the iPhone price-wise when the iPhone is $199?
The iPhone is $199 with a data-included service plan that's, what, $60 a month now? I guess the more appropriate comparison is the $229/$299 iPod Touch. I still think it's ludicrous but from a business standpoint I guess Sony reasons that a $250 PSP Go is comparable to a $299 16GB iPod Touch.
Either that or Sony's attempting the whole Game Boy Micro thing: a boutique handheld that's small, sleek and more expensive than the big-boy regular handheld. Though I guess Sony didn't skip to the end of the Behind the Music segment, where the Micro tanked at retail and was clearanced out a year or so after launch.
Hey, if this thing tanks and clearances out in a year, it'll be when I buy it
Not to go off-topic, but is anyone going to update the OP, or are we going to be stuck with Microsolf knob-slobbering and little else useful in the OP forever.
I'm pretty sure the OP would update it if someone wrote better synopses for the other conferences, as if I recall correctly the OP didn't get a chance to watch them.
PSPGo is far more impressive when you actually see it in on someone's hands. So tiny and light.
That's the confliction I have: The gamer in me thinks it's useless when I have a PSP-2000 that works fine and can actually play the UMDs I have. But the tech nerd lusting whore in me thinks it looks sexy as hell, and my iPod just crapped out on me last week so I'm in the market for another MP3 player.
Now that the Go is coming out, the price on the other PSP should drop some more and I'll be picking one up. I have been wanting their remake of Mega Man for so long now.
Sadly, the price won't drop at all; the Go is already $80 more expensive than the 3000.
And has a smaller screen and no UMD drive.
I mean...how?
it's the prestige, trying-to-compete-with-iPhone pricing that's the real killer.
How is it supposed to compete with the iPhone price-wise when the iPhone is $199?
The iPhone is $199 with a data-included service plan that's, what, $60 a month now? I guess the more appropriate comparison is the $229/$299 iPod Touch. I still think it's ludicrous but from a business standpoint I guess Sony reasons that a $250 PSP Go is comparable to a $299 16GB iPod Touch.
Either that or Sony's attempting the whole Game Boy Micro thing: a boutique handheld that's small, sleek and more expensive than the big-boy regular handheld. Though I guess Sony didn't skip to the end of the Behind the Music segment, where the Micro tanked at retail and was clearanced out a year or so after launch.
Either that or Sony's just being Sony.
Honestly, I do think the small size is a plus, but it's outweighed by the lack of a disk drive and the price. $250 lol is the new $600 lol.
If it transferred exactly, its actually an awesome price, actually less than a current PSP3000 or a DSI in the UK.
But of course, it wont.
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edited June 2009
The thing about the system tanking sales wise is that Nintendo has always cut their losses and dropped production that ends up just being a money hole (ala Virtual Boy and GB Micro), but Sony has yet to show they do that. If sales are horrible they try to fix it by doing whatever.
The thing about the system tanking sales wise is that Nintendo has always cut their losses and dropped production that ends up just being a money hole (ala Virtual Boy and GB Micro), but Sony has yet to show they do that. If sales are horrible they try to fix it by doing whatever.
Also called the PS3 method.
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So you consider the PS3 sucha failure that they should just drop the line entirely?
Thank god you don't get to make any kind of important decisions.
Now that the Go is coming out, the price on the other PSP should drop some more and I'll be picking one up. I have been wanting their remake of Mega Man for so long now.
Sadly, the price won't drop at all; the Go is already $80 more expensive than the 3000.
And has a smaller screen and no UMD drive.
I mean...how?
It's got 16 gigs of internal memory man! Do you have any idea how expensive that is?
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The thing about the system tanking sales wise is that Nintendo has always cut their losses and dropped production that ends up just being a money hole (ala Virtual Boy and GB Micro), but Sony has yet to show they do that. If sales are horrible they try to fix it by doing whatever.
Also called the PS3 method.
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So you consider the PS3 sucha failure that they should just drop the line entirely?
Thank god you don't get to make any kind of important decisions.
No, that's not what I was saying. Although looking at my post, it looks like it.
What I'm saying is that Sony tends to find ways to fix the situation such as new bundles, slight price drops, etc etc. I was just saying if the PSP Go did tank pretty badly, I don't see them just dropping it.
I guess more simply I don't see this being a GB Micro situation. And while not selling as well as the competition, no it isn't a failure.
Oh well, I'll just hush, my point is muddled appearantly and I can't speak english well today either.
The thing about the system tanking sales wise is that Nintendo has always cut their losses and dropped production that ends up just being a money hole (ala Virtual Boy and GB Micro), but Sony has yet to show they do that. If sales are horrible they try to fix it by doing whatever.
Also called the PS3 method.
...
So you consider the PS3 sucha failure that they should just drop the line entirely?
Thank god you don't get to make any kind of important decisions.
No, that's not what I was saying. Although looking at my post, it looks like it.
What I'm saying is that Sony tends to find ways to fix the situation such as new bundles, slight price drops, etc etc. I was just saying if the PSP Go did tank pretty badly, I don't see them just dropping it.
I guess more simply I don't see this being a GB Micro situation. And while not selling as well as the competition, no it isn't a failure.
Oh well, I'll just hush, my point is muddled appearantly and I can't speak english well today either.
To be fair, given that the price of components has dropped a LOT slower than they anticipated and that Sony's STILL losing money on each PS3 sold, there's not a whole hell of a lot they can do short of either soldiering on with that albatross of a price or dropping the system entirely.
Then again they were silly for shoehorning in an expensive new format onto a mass-market game system before the market was ready for it (the format). I've long said the PS3 wouldn't have had all these problems and would be doing better than the 360 if it weren't for Blu-ray.
People can find a PSP Stay Put for about 150 Euros/Americans right now, so that extra hundo might be a real dealbreaker for many, lack of fiddly UMDs or not.
Also, I remain adamant on its ugliness compared to the original.
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Cut the buttons off, and then continue to slice off a little of the screen, and you have a PSP go
I think the scale on these is right, from Kotaku:
Someone needs to photoshop that stat. We can beat gaf at it's own game.
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Thats really tiny then, I mean it doesnt look comfortable to use at all.
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This doesn't surprise me, as he has never said anything bad about his competition and is usually seen checking out the other companies booths or products.
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As for Miyamoto checking out the Go! I'm not surprised in the least. Any businessman worth his salt would examine his competitor's products very carefully.
Still, $250? It's going to be a catastrophic failure.
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Sadly, the price won't drop at all; the Go is already $80 more expensive than the 3000.
And has a smaller screen and no UMD drive.
I mean...how?
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Even at $250 I'd be tempted to buy it for the simple fact that it's smaller and now maybe fits the "Portable" name nicely.
But fuck that because I can't play any of my PSP games on this PSP.
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To me the biggest "Wha!?!" moment was when he admitted development costs were 80% cheaper now, just to whip out the 250 pricetag.
I mean what are they thinking?
I guess we're paying for potential again huh? o_O
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The slightly smaller screen and lack of UMD I'm fine with, actually; it's the prestige, trying-to-compete-with-iPhone pricing that's the real killer. Though if the MP3 playback is drastically improved from the original PSP and the current PSP library is made downloadable and priced reasonably, I might be tempted to sell off all the PSP stuff I have and pick one up. That's a massive conditional statement, though.
How is it supposed to compete with the iPhone price-wise when the iPhone is $199?
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The iPhone is $199 with a data-included service plan that's, what, $60 a month now? I guess the more appropriate comparison is the $229/$299 iPod Touch. I still think it's ludicrous but from a business standpoint I guess Sony reasons that a $250 PSP Go is comparable to a $299 16GB iPod Touch.
Either that or Sony's attempting the whole Game Boy Micro thing: a boutique handheld that's small, sleek and more expensive than the big-boy regular handheld. Though I guess Sony didn't skip to the end of the Behind the Music segment, where the Micro tanked at retail and was clearanced out a year or so after launch.
I suck a the gimp but maybe I'll try to clean up the speech bubble.
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Hey, if this thing tanks and clearances out in a year, it'll be when I buy it
I'm pretty sure the OP would update it if someone wrote better synopses for the other conferences, as if I recall correctly the OP didn't get a chance to watch them.
That's the confliction I have: The gamer in me thinks it's useless when I have a PSP-2000 that works fine and can actually play the UMDs I have. But the tech nerd lusting whore in me thinks it looks sexy as hell, and my iPod just crapped out on me last week so I'm in the market for another MP3 player.
Either that or Sony's just being Sony.
Honestly, I do think the small size is a plus, but it's outweighed by the lack of a disk drive and the price. $250 lol is the new $600 lol.
But of course, it wont.
Also called the PS3 method.
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So you consider the PS3 sucha failure that they should just drop the line entirely?
Thank god you don't get to make any kind of important decisions.
It's got 16 gigs of internal memory man! Do you have any idea how expensive that is?
No, that's not what I was saying. Although looking at my post, it looks like it.
What I'm saying is that Sony tends to find ways to fix the situation such as new bundles, slight price drops, etc etc. I was just saying if the PSP Go did tank pretty badly, I don't see them just dropping it.
I guess more simply I don't see this being a GB Micro situation. And while not selling as well as the competition, no it isn't a failure.
Oh well, I'll just hush, my point is muddled appearantly and I can't speak english well today either.
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better?
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To be fair, given that the price of components has dropped a LOT slower than they anticipated and that Sony's STILL losing money on each PS3 sold, there's not a whole hell of a lot they can do short of either soldiering on with that albatross of a price or dropping the system entirely.
Then again they were silly for shoehorning in an expensive new format onto a mass-market game system before the market was ready for it (the format). I've long said the PS3 wouldn't have had all these problems and would be doing better than the 360 if it weren't for Blu-ray.
I had no idea that Sony had to pay you to take a ps3 home.
Also, I remain adamant on its ugliness compared to the original.