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Retailers See No Reason to Stock up on the PSPgo

June 25, 2009 in News comments 6

Some suprising news coming from the UK. A lot of retailers from that area are worried about the PSPgo, some of them also see no reason to stock up on the product. There reasoning, they don't think it will sell enough for them to make a profit.

Uh oh. Sony may think it can charge whatever it wants for hardware and the people will come flocking, but the high price of the PSPgo, not to mention its digital-only game library, has irked a number of independant retailers in the UK, who now see no valid reason for them to bother stocking Sony's latest portable.

"From my point of view I've got to think, 'Do I want to stock this?' Right now I can't see any justification for stocking it," says Don McCabe, Joint MD of UK retailer Chips.
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  • 2
    Sakuraba Neku Jun 25, 09
    Well I'm sure everybody else agrees with those retailers.
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    HisServant77 Jun 25, 09
    While I would love to own a PSPGo, and can hardly wait to get one, there's no way I'm paying the price for it. If it were cheaper, then I'd jump at it. But . . . it's features and everything don't warrant it's price
    • 0
      McClubbin Jun 25, 09
      If this article is anything to believe, the current price point is to make the most out of the people who really want it. A price cut is definitely inevitable later on to reach the masses.
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        HisServant77 Jun 25, 09
        Well that's about right At least it's honest. I do believe that they'll drop the price, but doubt it'll be too soon after release (don't want another iphone fiasco where they had to refund the early adopters). I'd say about 6-8 months after release it'll have a price drop.
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    McClubbin Jun 26, 09
    Yeah, I doubt they'll drop it as quickly as Apple did with the first-gen iPhone. All that would do is make the early adopters feel like kicking themselves in the nuts. xD
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    dmf_dynasty Jun 26, 09
    Besides the high hardware prices, the fact that they won't be making any money off of software really doesn't give any reasons for the retailers to bother with it.

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