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Sony Sticking by PSP. New marketing push coming.

Didn't they have a similar push last year or two with Motorstorm Arctic Edge, Resistance Retribution, and Little Big Planet?

Of course, LBP came out a little bit late, which didn't help at all.
 
TheFLYINGManga_Ka said:
Didn't they have a similar push last year or two with Motorstorm Arctic Edge, Resistance Retribution, and Little Big Planet?

Of course, LBP came out a little bit late, which didn't help at all.
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Out of those three, it's the one that sold the most, lol.
 
I also think this is good news, the PSP is still an impressive piece of kit and wows me even today, would be nice of it could be revitalised in the west.
 
Personally, while I think PSP needs a pricedrop, I don't understand why it should be $100, when a less powerful (and much less features) DS Lite retails for $130 currently.

I'm glad they continuing to stick with PSP.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka said:
Didn't they have a similar push last year or two with Motorstorm Arctic Edge, Resistance Retribution, and Little Big Planet?

Of course, LBP came out a little bit late, which didn't help at all.
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Well, they increased game quality, but didn't really market any game outside of GT. MotorStorm: AE was just badly released, because it came out just before GT, and SCEA put a bigger push on GT.
 
i dont get the price drop thing. psp costs the same as dsi already. why the hell would they sell it for $99??? you cant even get a ds lite for that unless its used. you cats are delusional.

this is great news, a new campaign is exactly what they need. marketing works. mcdonalds has been selling feces on a bun for damned near 60 years because of marketing...
 
BoilersFan23 said:
Personally, while I think PSP needs a pricedrop, I don't understand why it should be $100, when a less powerful (and much less features) DS Lite retails for $130 currently.
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Price is generally determined by demand. The less powerful (and much less features) DS outsold the PSP by seven times last month. It's kind of like when the less powerful PS2 was selling for a higher price than the Gamecube.
 
Segata Sanshiro said:
Price is generally determined by demand. The less powerful (and much less features) DS outsold the PSP by seven times last month. It's kind of like when the less powerful PS2 was selling for a higher price than the Gamecube.
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PS2 was always more than GC. GC also lacked DVD features which PS2 had. I don't see that as a good comparison (GC was intended for just games, PS2 had a little more in features).

PSP definitely has more features than a DS Lite. Plus, I honestly think Sony doesn't want to sell PSP at a loss. One reason they are still supporting PSP is because its profitable on hardware.
 
I think the thing with the price drop is Japan. Since the PSP pretty much duels with the DS for top of the charts there, they don't want to drop the price, and have a backlash.

Then again, Sony didn't seem to mind launching the PSP at $199 in Japan, and $250 in the West (as that was the only SKU available, anyway, while Japan could just buy it without the $50 crap pack)
 
BoilersFan23 said:
PS2 was always more than GC. GC also lacked DVD features which PS2 had. I don't see that as a good comparison (GC was intended for just games, PS2 had a little more in features).

PSP definitely has more features than a DS Lite. Plus, I honestly think Sony doesn't want to sell PSP at a loss. One reason they are still supporting PSP is because its profitable on hardware.
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Okay, fine. Then take the main point rather than the comparison. One of these systems sold 440k last month in NA. The other sold 65k. Your price should be determined by the demand from the market, and right now the PSP's demand is low and falling.
 
I can picture an ad campaign where a group of 9yo kids are playing DS and Marcus Rivers struts by with a PSP shouting "Come on, play like a big boy!"

I'm tipping 6 million PSPs sold in the month this ad runs.
 
The Take Out Bandit said:
Look into Lucky Tousen Xross Impact.

It's a really gorgeous game IMO and the engine and mechanics are substantially improved over the original.

I'd say it's a top tier B-List game. Definitely worth a look for fans of beat'em ups and / or anime boobies. :P
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I love beat 'em ups (and boobies), and the videos look like fun. Is this on the US store? For how much?
 
fallen_elite said:
They already do. It's called Monster Hunter.
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:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol x 500 million.

No. Monster Hunter is a terrible game and only Japan loves it. Try again.
 
DMeisterJ said:
PRICE CUT.

$99 for PSP, 129 for PSPgo

Watch your sales skyrocket.
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People keep on saying this like it's a simple and obvious choice for Sony. For me there are a number of issues with this:

1 - How much does it cost to manufacture a PSP? Do we have any idea? If not for all you know this could make Sony lose money which would just be stupid.

2 - Would this result in any extra software sales? Piracy is rampant on the PSP and software sales in general are abysmal. If this price cut didn't spur on a lot of sales for Sony than it could result in a lot of lost profits.

3 - Would a price cut spur on sales much outside of Japan? I think that even if they did drop the price the PSP would struggle to sell in the west.

I think dropping the price would be pretty risky. I think Sony would be throwing away the guaranteed profit they are making on PSP HW and would see little return in other areas. With the gaming division doing as poorly as it is i would be surprised to see them drop prices that much.
 
AdventureRacing said:
People keep on saying this like it's a simple and obvious choice for Sony. For me there are a number of issues with this:

1 - How much does it cost to manufacture a PSP? Do we have any idea? If not for all you know this could make Sony lose money which would just be stupid.

2 - Would this result in any extra software sales? Piracy is rampant on the PSP and software sales in general are abysmal. If this price cut didn't spur on a lot of sales for Sony than it could result in a lot of lost profits.

3 - Would a price cut spur on sales much outside of Japan? I think that even if they did drop the price the PSP would struggle to sell in the west.

I think dropping the price would be pretty risky. I think Sony would be throwing away the guaranteed profit they are making on PSP HW and would see little return in other areas. With the gaming division doing as poorly as it is i would be surprised to see them drop prices that much.
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I think the PSPGo is the biggest dumbfuck thing that just about anyone in the industry has ever done - but I'd buy one for $129. Basically, the thing is an overpriced piece of shit. $250 - are you fucking kidding me?

Anyway, it's been discussed ad nauseum, but the Go is vastly overpriced - I don't care what Sony pays to make them. If they were that expensive to manufacture, then that should have been a clue.
 
I scored a PSP-2000 from Dell for $129 almost a year ago now and it supports CFW, so I say the PSP should live on! Well, at least until the 3DS comes along and absolutely crushes it for all time. :lol
 
Until now, I've only been able to really enjoy Crisis Core and Monster Hunter on my PSP. With Freedom 3, Peace Walker and Birth by Sleep, that list will more than double this year, hopefully.

:P

Come on, Sony. Just put out that awesome PSP2 we know you've been cooking.
 
They should save it for the PSP2.

Until then, they should do some marketing to publishers to get them to put all their existing games on PSN for those of us that bought a Go, as I don't think many of us have a lot of goodwill for the PSP brand at the moment. I'm baffled as to why Dissidia's on PSN, but Crisis Core and Final Fantasy Tactics aren't, for example.
 
Ploid 3.0 said:
Haha dang, ok, iTouch it is. I just looked up psp stuff it seems I'd need to hack it to be able to play non umd, or psn videos on it. Not to savy enough for that and I wouldn't want to mess up the warranty. Touch + rubber shell and screen protector it is.
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If you want to transfer avi files to the PSP, all you need to do is transfer it using the Media go application. You'll notice that the transfer will take a while, but it's only because the program will automatically convert the file to something the PSP can play.
 
Father_Brain said:
I was under the impression that the CoD games for Wii had actually sold fairly well. Well below the HD versions, of course, but still enough to turn a decent profit.
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Enough to make profit for the game =/= helping the system sell.
Would anyone go buy a Wii or PSP so they could play Call of Duty on it?
 
For those of us who never got a PSP of any kind, I think the Go at $150 would be irresistible, especially if Sony announces any cool new features to be implemented at the firmware level. (Would Netflix Instant be possible?) But in order to really push the Go, they also need to commit to better support, faster releases, and lower prices on the PSN store.
 
Jonnyboy117 said:
For those of us who never got a PSP of any kind, I think the Go at $150 would be irresistible, especially if Sony announces any cool new features to be implemented at the firmware level. (Would Netflix Instant be possible?) But in order to really push the Go, they also need to commit to better support, faster releases, and lower prices on the PSN store.
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IMO, the PSPgo still wouldn't sell at $150. The Sony online store has such bad rep for PSP new release titles, people don't even want to go near the PSPgo.
 
Vigilant Walrus said:
For realz?

then, I eat my own words, and crawl back into my trailer.
Being a euro thrash and all!
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My bad, it was 63.2 million.

But yeah, the PSP isn't as much of a failure as everyone makes it out to be.
 
Sony now trying to go after the preteen market that they ridiculed Nintendo for in the past? Final nail in the coffin for the PSP so it seems...
 
AFreak said:
My bad, it was 63.2 million.

But yeah, the PSP isn't as much of a failure as everyone makes it out to be.
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Depends, how you define failure and how you define success. If nobody's buying games then, for a company almost wholly dependent on 3rd parties, that becomes a huge problem. Would it give SCE any kind of credibility when they approach 3rd parties if they decide to launch a new handheld system - especially in comparison to Nintendo.

Anyway, how about the following to reboot the entire PSP strategy? -

PSP GO mk2 sold for $130 initially (Go minus 16GB Flash but comes with, say, 2GB M2 stick so that those who want to upgrade can). This is a locked down system that is resistant to piracy. End all other iterations of the PSP hardware. 16GB flash costs quite a big chunk of wad, which is why I suggest removing it for continued profitability from the hardware itself.

Sell retail software on M2 sticks (1GB and under are dirt cheap) and include an adaptor with every game so that it will also work on PSP / 2 / 3000. Change the retail packaging to reflect the tiny product (like the small cases for the original Japanese Gameboy games). Really emphasise the fact that it's a portable device. Sell games for no more than $30.

End PS2 production in the West and give incentives to developers / publishers to develop games for Go. Lead by example, and bring games such as Ico and Shadow of the colossus to PSP.
 
DiscoJer said:
I think the thing with the price drop is Japan. Since the PSP pretty much duels with the DS for top of the charts there, they don't want to drop the price, and have a backlash.

Then again, Sony didn't seem to mind launching the PSP at $199 in Japan, and $250 in the West (as that was the only SKU available, anyway, while Japan could just buy it without the $50 crap pack)
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People pay what they think a platform is worth. It's not like there isn't a disparity in console pricing already between territories.

Gamestop, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc. don't give a shit about what's happening in Japan. If you've got inventory you can't shift taking up valuable space, "B-b-but it's still selling in Japan!" isn't exactly going to appease you any if you aren't seeing any of that money.

The platform is getting dangerously close to the point where western retailers and publishers are going to drop it leaving Sony with nothing anyway. They need to do something dramatic and quickly.
 
TheSeks said:
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol x 500 million.

No. Monster Hunter is a terrible game and only Japan loves it. Try again.
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Yeah...lets compare the results this winter when MHP3 goes against Pokemon. Monster Hunter is only a terrible game to unskilled gamers.
 
neutralgamer02 said:
Yeah...lets compare the results this winter when MHP3 goes against Pokemon. Monster Hunter is only a terrible game to unskilled gamers.
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Um, you don't think MH3P is going to outsell Pokemon, do you? I mean, it sells well, but... Pokemon, dude.
 
Segata Sanshiro said:
Um, you don't think MH3P is going to outsell Pokemon, do you? I mean, it sells well, but... Pokemon, dude.
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I didn't say it would outsell it, but predictions of 4 million sold by March 2011 have been made for MHP3. If that turns out to be the case, then that is nothing to sneeze at. It will compete against pokemon, but I doubt it would outsell it since pokemon does upwards to 6 million. It will most likely outsell each versions separately though.

If you don't consider Monster Hunter Portable as the "pokemon" of the psp, then I don't know what to tell you. I want I was getting at in my previous post.
 
Phantasy Star Portable 2 is coming out, that's enough for me to keep my PSP charged.

I just hope it's released Day One on the PSN Store....otherwise I'll throw my Go through Sony Headquarters window.
 
neutralgamer02 said:
I didn't say it would outsell it, but predictions of 4 million sold by March 2011 have been made for MHP3. If that turns out to be the case, then that is nothing to sneeze at. It will compete against pokemon, but I doubt it would outsell it since pokemon does upwards to 6 million. It will most likely outsell each versions separately though.
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It's actually 3.6 million, and in the same forecast Capcom believes they can sell 2.2 million copies of Lost Planet 2 worldwide by March 2011, and 3 million copies of Dead Rising 2. I'm not saying anything in particular, I'm just saying... :)
 
neutralgamer02 said:
I didn't say it would outsell it, but predictions of 4 million sold by March 2011 have been made for MHP3. If that turns out to be the case, then that is nothing to sneeze at. It will compete against pokemon, but I doubt it would outsell it since pokemon does upwards to 6 million. It will most likely outsell each versions separately though.

If you don't consider Monster Hunter Portable as the "pokemon" of the psp, then I don't know what to tell you. I want I was getting at in my previous post.
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It's not the Pokemon of the PSP, though. I mean, it's the closest thing to it on the PSP, but ... repeating myself here, it's only successful in one country, it's not exclusive, and it doesn't have anywhere near the sales or cultural impact that Pokemon does. If you are looking for the saviour of the PSP in Japan, then congrats, MH2/2nd G was it, but if you're looking for a Pokemon-level Raise II that brings a virtually dead console back to life stronger than ever with support and software sales to match on a worldwide level, then sorry, Monster Hunter isn't the droid you're looking for.

And Pokemon Black/White is going to rip it to fucking pieces sales-wise. Only a complete fool would predict otherwise.
 
neutralgamer02 said:
Yeah...lets compare the results this winter when MHP3 goes against Pokemon. Monster Hunter is only a terrible game to unskilled gamers.
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This. Saying it's a terrible game is just admitting that you're awful at playing it.
 
Brazil said:
This. Saying it's a terrible game is just admitting that you're awful at playing it.
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It is entirely possible for people to consider games 'terrible' because they also find it too easy, you know.
 
Not great start for Sony. I mean come on! No Peace Walker bundle for europe >:(
What does GAF think will there be price cut for PSP soon ? I will buy one soon as Peace Walker arrives here but I will murder someone if there is going to be price cut right after I bought my PSP.
 
The PSP is fairly dead in the UK. The only games I've bought this year released here are fat princess and Half Minute Hero.

The rest I've had to import. That doesn't really bode well.
 
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