UK retailers lament PSP Go pre-orders, demand PSN cards

It's almost as if Sony saw what Nintendo did with the DSi, turned around and did the COMPLETE OPPOSITE.

Can someone please pinch Sony and wake them up!?!?

FAIL indeed

You are right, this is absolutely fail FOR JOYSTIQ/EDGE.

Both these retailers are totally unheard of in the UK, (a bit of googling discovers one is a single store, the other has two stores).

I wonder how hard Edge had to look to find these two desperado stores?

Actually Chips have stores all over the country (it's no GAME but its not THAT small). Grainger Games apparently has about 21 stores (much smaller), as well as several Humvees for some reason. You earn a 1- sir

Yeah Im not sure who could get excited over this. At a LOWER price then PSP 3000 and it looks decent. But not like this, this is more like a slap in the face. I mean i was kinda pissed about the DSi being more then the DS lite, but there you got quite a few nice upgrades (2 cameras,bigger screens,4x ram, 2x cpu speed, sd slot, browser,internal memory, upgradable fimware, etc) but lost the GBA slot. This you get internal memory and lose the UMD drive...MUCH WORSE deal.

And a smaller screen. Plus the DSi losing the GBA slot isn't a big deal considering it was the medium from the previous generation. UMD is what the PSP itself uses, so all those games you have aren't going to work on it. The DSi doesn't kick you in the nut sack and stop you using the DS games you bought. And it's only £50 dearer for a lot of upgrades, and one loss. This is £130 dearer and you have basically no upgrades to it. PSP Go? More like PSP No. (I know I fail with that, but it's true IMO)

I do 90% of my gaming on handhelds and it doesn't interest me either =P

Bigger issue is that why would you pre-order a device three months in advance that doesn't have a set price point (in the UK £230 is still a place-holder) from a small retailer. Moreover, why would you pre-order anything that should be easily purchased without a pre-order.

Its amazing what counts for news at EDGE these days. You would think they would be able to get some numbers from GAME retail outlets.

I love all my Playstation including my PSP1000 but I agree on how this is a FAIL.

Game history is very vast my friend and I find it hard to believe that the PSPgo is really THE biggest rip-off.

Sony should pull a Microsoft and offer a pre-order discount.

I HIGHLY doubt they'll go the way of Sega, especially considering the fact that games aren't the only thing Sony does. I could see them trying to make cuts from the less profitable portions of their gaming business but I doubt they'd go much farther than that.

Cheezeman3000,

Less profitable portions? The entire Games Division of Sony isn't profitable. The only thing I believe they're profiting from is PSN sales and PS2 sales.

Sony's on it's last legs if you ask me, the writing is on the wall.

@tetheredwings

Maybe you meant SCE is on it's last legs.You know how big Sony pictures and Sony BMG are?The head of Sony could terminate production of all Playstation brands and it wouldn't really affect the company as a whole which kind of worries me.

Which is sad in itself. Q: What happens when hardcore gamers can't prop up Sony any more?

A: Nintendo.

ugh...the lion is back.

Yeah, 260 pounds? That's like 380 fucking dollars!
Serves the varmints right.

Actually Gordo, its worse than that - $430!

@Hexen

SCE of course, yes. I know Sony as an whole will not go under.

Sorry Sprinkles, but the death of Sony and PC gaming won't help your Xbox 360 one little cent, competition is a good thing, you'd think a person of your age, 24 years old would have figured that out by now.

@TheBaron, What makes you think we want the Sony fanboys? :P
I keed, I keed.

A more appropriate analogy would be the slightly mentally challenged kid who does miserably at a multiplication problem, is told what he did wrong, watches other kids do it correctly, and then makes the SAME EXACT MISTAKE that it did before. Read multiplication problem as pricing things too damn high.

The problem is mostly that everything else electronic is getting so cheap these days. PSP is trying to compete with the iPod touch. But you ask most people which they'd rather have and PSP just doesn't get the same recognition now it's been around for several years.

Given that you can grab a 60GB X360 for £160, a £230 smaller version (of something you can already get for £100) with less features is suicide. I'm not suprised there's no pre-orders.

I expect these things to be very cheap very soon, when retailers notice they're not selling.

Are you sure you're right about that PS3 price?

Wtf, it's being listed for the same price as a 360 elite? Wow...Sony really is retarded if they do that.

LOL at PS3 price that was a typo I meant to write £280.

holy shyt are u serious that it cost as much as an Elite.

I think being below nintendo and MS in the console war has driven SCE excutives INSANE omg.

Sony. PLEASE wake up =_=

The fact that the PSP-Go is even MORE expensive than the current PSP model for even less functionality improvements means unless they do a radical price-cut and make it less expensive than current models, it's pretty much guaranteed to die a painful death.

It really is too bad because if someone released a cell phone with the PSP GO! form factor I would be all over it. Give it the iPhone OS or Android with a higher res touchscreen and tegra processor with some AAA games to take advantage of it and you've got me sold. Oh yeah and a second analog nub.

Or even if they made a system where they had 2 versions like how the iphone and ipod touch are. Make the games compatible with both but let the people want a true all in one device get the cell phone version with monthly fees like all phones and another that just has wifi.

The iphone is ok but for some games (tower defense, strategy, RPG, puzzle, card/board games) but I want physical controls for most platformers, first person shooters, racing games and third person action games) Also They should have an iPhone premium games store so the AAA titles dont get lost in the mix with the homebrew style games.

Why one of the big 3 doesn't want to make a true handheld game system/cell phone I don't understand. Or even if they made a system where they had 2 versions like how the iphone and ipod touch are.

Ngage didn't count because the design was horrible, the d-pad sucked all those cellphone number keys sucked. It had all of one or two good games one was out on the playstation like a decade before (pandemoneum). Side-Talking FTL

@Nick
"Why one of the big 3 doesn't want to make a true handheld game system/cell phone I don't understand."

Well, just think about it. Aside from being a risky maneuver, which they wouldn't be willing to do it by merit alone, most of them won't do it for whatever reason. As of right now, Sony is in a very bad position, and does not have the means (and probably not the moxie either) to dare such an incredibly different move. As for Microsoft, they are finally succeeding with the 360, but they're still facing against tough competition, so they probably don't want to move away from a successful formula too, especially since it may risk losing position to Sony again.

The only company with the finances to do this is Nintendo and they have certainly shown the initiative in the past (the Wii was an incredibly risky experiment). Ironically, though, they're also the company least likely to do it. Aside from being a pure gaming company (meaning they know mostly about games and probably don't know anything about the cell phone business nor want to know), they're also notoriously conservative towards aspects of gaming (they won't implement anything until it is proven; online, for example). The fact that they were willing to make a console like the Wii is unreal.

No doubt, Nokia's experiment with the N-Gage would weigh heavily on companies' mind too. Gamers may think it's entirely different, but I'm pretty sure companies take it seriously into consideration as it's a very similar situation.

Yeah but I have a feeling sony has a hand in suggesting the "placeholder price" and is probably testing public reactions.

Sony Marketing: Hey lets set the suggested prelaunch price at X and see what happens

I do hope for their sake the price does come down before launch or their fail marketing is going to make their fail product fail ~.~

it is GAME's place holder price, they ain't exactly cheap when it comes to pricing. Gamestation sensebileties seem to be leaking through though.

Or a PSP-3000 since those are still in product and on shelves. If they have an interest in the PSP anyway

Actually, im just assuming that most people who would have bought a PSPGo would already own a normal PSP.

LIES .... there is no such thing as too much Disgaea