Sony: PSPgo's Failure Was a Success

[delet]

This sounds... weird and false.

I'd personally love to have a PSPgo though.

Meh, I still don't regret getting my PSPgo. It's conveniant and nice and just plain works for me. I couldn't have asked for more.

Hello again! I wanted to ask, how do the controls feel on the console in your opinion? Cause I kinda disliked the analogue stick on the PSP...

Eh, it works. For the games I play, I don't really need it that much so it doesn't bother me too much.

Meh, I still don't regret getting my PSPgo. It's conveniant and nice and just plain works for me. I couldn't have asked for more.

Holy crap! Somebody who actually bought the PSPGo! Quick, someone grab him with a net, spray him with those preservative chemicals, and put him in a museum!

It's even rarer that I don't regret my decission to get the Go either. 'Tis a pitty, really; it's quite nice.

I guess nice is subjective. I personally couldn't stand paying Sony's rates for games over a year old. They're at least twice the price Entertainmart would sell them for.

The difference between you and I is that as of yet, I've only got 2 games on my PSPgo: Disgaea Dark Hero Days, and Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero.

I've had these two games for well over half a year so far and I'm not yet finished with 'em. They're the only games I need and they've kept me preoccupied as I wish to be.

 

[halfeclipse]

For whatever reason, games bought online shamefully cost the same amount as their physical in-store counterparts.

The majority of the cost of a game comes from R&D. Mass production is a relative pittance.

What about the shop's profit and transport costs? Sony's basically looking to get a bigger slice of the profits through its system, rather than providing a fair service to its customers. Avoiding the store's overheads is THE KEY POINT of digital distribution :/

Relative was the operative term.

Mark up is about $5, don't have the exact figures on shipping, divided by the number of games shipped it probably wouldn't be much.

Not to mention they're not actually making a profit till they pay off that 40 million dollars it cost to make the game in the first place.

It's more then $5 mate. hit up some of the warehouses that sell stuff. I've picked up brand new games 10-15 bucks less then the retail price.

 

[superbatranger]

So, instead of using that money charitably by donating to people and organizations that need it, they wasted it on a marketing experiment? Way to go Sony, way to go.

 

[samsonguy920]

Leave it to Sony to tell you failure was their goal.

I knew Sony was a pretentious group that never shouldered any fault (ever since they blamed the poor sales figures of the PS3 on "society in general" (load of shit, the point is to CATER TO CONSUMERS not the other way around idiots)) but I never expected them to come right out and say "failure is success"

What a load of shit.

Well I will wait for them to say this again when they file for bankruptcy. If they continue this idiotic attitude.

God, you're an idiot, don't you see? Sony WANTS to file bankruptcy, it's all part of their "plan"

I thought that was obvious

PLAN:

1.) Fail with a Digital-Only portable gaming device
2.) File Bankruptcy
3.) ???
4.) Prostitution?
5.) ???
6.) PROFIT!

(BTW in case somebody really dense reports me, the "idiot" thing was a joke)

Well they can always hope for a bailout. It's not like Washington has declared an official stop to those. "We are Sony, and we are too big to fail! The world will go into anarchy without us! ANARCHY!" {In case you didn't catch it, that was a joke, too.)

 

[Nazrel]

For whatever reason, games bought online shamefully cost the same amount as their physical in-store counterparts.

The majority of the cost of a game comes from R&D. Mass production is a relative pittance.

What about the shop's profit and transport costs? Sony's basically looking to get a bigger slice of the profits through its system, rather than providing a fair service to its customers. Avoiding the store's overheads is THE KEY POINT of digital distribution :/

Relative was the operative term.

Mark up is about $5, don't have the exact figures on shipping, divided by the number of games shipped it probably wouldn't be much.

Not to mention they're not actually making a profit till they pay off that 40 million dollars it cost to make the game in the first place.

It's more then $5 mate. hit up some of the warehouses that sell stuff. I've picked up brand new games 10-15 bucks less then the retail price.

Define warehouse.

That's probability surplus, they're selling at below cost just to get rid of it.

Though I guess it really depends on the country, and the specific businesses involved.

 

[VanityGirl]

Sony just divided by zero...

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

The biggest irony is that he made the claim that the PSP Go was a "success" in order to save some face for Sony, and instead just made them look like the same pretentious company which they've been labeling themselves (be it on purpose or not) for the past few years.