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Rumor: PSP Go drops price to $200 this Friday in North America

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V_Ben

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http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/12/rumor-psp-go-drops-price-to-200-this-friday-in-north-america/

Due to our strict silk pants-only policy, the PSP Go (and, really, any other handheld) has been a hard sell -- sure, the $250 asking price isn't helping, but that may be changing in the near future. A dutiful tipster sent us the above image from his AAFES-based store of employment, indicating a $50 North American price drop to $200 for the digital-only handheld. Oddly, Sony has kept mum on the possibility, not even offering a "We don't comment on rumor and speculation" to our repeated attempts at contact.
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Took them a while, but maybe this will help them sell the units they have left. Who knows really.
 
C

Cosmonaut X

Member
V_Ben said:
Took them a while, but maybe this will help them sell the units they have left. Who knows really.
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Heh.

If it's anything like Japan, perhaps they're still trying to shift the first shipment...
 
M

Mooreberg

Member
Still amazing how little the overall cost of this thing has gone down in nearly six years. (not a good sort of amazing, to clarify)
 
K

Kadey

Mrs. Harvey
It could be $99 and it still wouldn't matter when the thing doesn't even have half the library of the previous models. Amount of and quality of software > pricing of hardware.
 
LQX

LQX

Member
If they really want to spur sales they should have dropped it to $149, that $200 price drop hardly seems like one.
 
M

Mooreberg

Member
dankir said:
Come on Sony... still 200 dollars really?

Everybody should be really scared at the PSP2 price then.
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If Nintendo launches a handheld here at $249 or higher than you can probably guess Sony's next device will have an awful price.
 
T

TheSeks

Blinded by the luminous glory that is David Bowie's physical manifestation.
Shig said:
Still $70 too expensive.
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You mean still $100 too expensive.

Damn thing doesn't even have games to where it being a virtual MP3 player is too expensive compared to an older iPod. :/
 
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loosus

Banned
Wow, for some reason, I was thinking they had stopped making these and went back to only the original PSPs. Shows how much I keep up. :lol
 
F

Forearm Star

Member
should of happened at last years E3.. Along with 3 games! (even then it would still be a dumb purchase)

I'm bitter, still haven't played BBS!
 
R

rollingstart

Banned
Price has never been the issue for me. Well, not hardware price, anyway. I want to play my UMD games on it because they're cheaper and not all available on PSN...and I already own a bunch of them, yeah.
 
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Jim Stark

Neo Member
Is there any site I can go to to check what new releases are coming to the PSN store in the US? I've been thinking about getting a Go but I want to make sure they are going to release more than 1 or 2 games a year for the online store. $200 for 16GB internal storage, 3 games and the system? Not a popular opinion but that seems okay to me. Most of the games I want to play are on the store already.
 
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V_Ben

Banned
Jim Stark said:
Is there any site I can go to to check what new releases are coming to the PSN store in the US? I've been thinking about getting a Go but I want to make sure they are going to release more than 1 or 2 games a year for the online store. $200 for 16GB internal storage, 3 games and the system? Not a popular opinion but that seems okay to me. Most of the games I want to play are on the store already.
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...

http://www.psnstores.com/ ;)

We consolidate all that info about PSN stuff for easy reading. So, feel free to give us a look :D
 
T

Takao

Banned
Brannon said:
It's okay Sony, you'll get handhelds right one day. Keep fucking that chicken.
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If every third party renegeotiated rights, and put their shit on PSN, the Go would be an amazing handheld. Nothing's wrong on the hardware side.
 
V

Vanillalite

Ask me about the GAF Notebook
ZealousD said:
So when's the regular PSP getting a price drop?
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This! Gosh damn. I'd easily buy a regular PSP if it wasn't still $170. Price drop that bitch to $99 and just make it barebones.
 
Giolon

Giolon

Member
It's been $199 at Fry's for at least the last two weeks. Still not cheap enough. Get it to $150 then I'll think about it (most of my PSP library is digital anyway).
 
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