UK PSPgo price watch - Out just 3 days, prices slashed!

Like I said, we're talking about Sony, Apple and M$. These companies are here to stay. XBL and PSN are going to be around for a very, very long time to come.

And in 10 years we'll be another console generation or so down the line. You're really that bothered about playing the games you have now in 10 years? I'll be 40 in 2019, I don't want to even think that far ahead let alone worry about the games I'll be playing.

 

Well people still collect (and like to play) games from the 80's and the 90's. So i guess, yes, people will still like to play older games. Another prove of that is that you can buy PS1 games on the PS3, MegaDrive, SNES and PCEngine games on the Wii. If there was no market for that, why those companies would bother to make those old games avaiable?

 

I could not have said it better myself :clap:

 

In an interview a few years back, regarding the question of the perfect distribution, someone with a high position in the industry said that he was planning for a model where people don't buy the games, but rather rent them, and can only play them when connected to their server.

The game is at no point on the computer of the customer, he paid for something he technically does not possess. It is a completely different type of mentality behind all this, and if the games industry changes to this route, you pay only to play. But after the company is gone, so is your game. I won't accept that, it's like all games suddenly become WoW.

On the other hand, the Internet is nowhere near ready for a distribution like that.

 

Will the PSP go... to hell?

Ok, i'm out, that was an easy one.

Anyway, +1alphagamer, i feel the same.

 

If you're talking solely about being able to play digitally distributed games you once owned (or technically still own but can't play due to the servers being offline and the game not being available on other platforms), why not just grab that game from the inet and play?! Whether on the real hardware via hacks or an emulator, I couldn't see a moral dilemma with 'warez' in this case, especially since shutting down the servers would make all the games more or less abandonware anyway.

Of course it would be better to have some kind of multi-national institution dedicated to keeping (digitally distributed) games available forever (and to everyone who's strictly against warez), but I can't really see Nintendo, MS, Sony etc. cooperating on something like that, at least not yet. I guess the customers would have to fork out all the money for such a project, since it wouldn't/shouldn't make big profits. Or maybe google will do it like they do with books.

I would definitely<var></var> not like it if I had to keep a constant connection with some company to use their product, that simply can't go well. What about privacy, abuse, (involuntary) market research, ads, regional inability to go online, what have you.

As for the PSP Go, maybe it would've been better to keep the games on UMDs with the ability to be copied onto the flash, with some kind of revocation in place that would de-activate the cart/disc after downloading it to your PSP. Of course you'd also have to be able to re-activate the physical media in order to sell it.
That might have worked for more people, since the collectors would have something to collect, those who like the convenience of not carrying around extra media would be happy and those who plan on selling their games again too. They shouldn't have given up on that so soon.

 

Funny how no one has commented on the fact that digital distribution makes (in this case) Sony the price setter. So no competition pricewise(Sony has a monopoly), meaning higher prices for longer times. Definitely a turn off for me, lots of games I don't wanna pay full price for and either wait for discounts or look used.

 

Very good point. I have yet to purchase a full priced XBOX 360, PS3, or PSP game (I do have Wii and DS games I bought on the same day though).

Being short on funds means that I have to wait but will eventually own something of value for less. This is fair enough for us users but it's an "issue", an "untapped market" for publishers and content creators - they're on the opposite side!

The PSPgo is a sort of Trojan Horse for digital distribution. I don't think it's possible for the next PSP to be download-only - most people don't use the internet around the world, and those who do don't always feel like it to make online purchases.

The Go is a novelty, a device cut for the iPhone demographic - people who don't mind not having a physical medium. Hence, it is no surprise that the "minis" series was tacked on.

Nevertheless, it will never catch on the way 1$ iphone games do. I wanted to download Tetris from the store the other day and it wanted to charge me nearly 5 quid!!!

I say no thanks to that sort of shit.

Tetris is a great game and was it available for 1 pound I'd buy it in a heart-beat - anything over a pound though and it's pointless. I can play Tetris on everything and most of the times for free.

 

I wasn't a big fan of the original PSP, but it did showcase what could be done with the available technology back then. I think that Sony have gone a bit overboard with the forward-thinking approach this time.

 

Amazon gives PSP Go their own 'price cut'


Posted Oct 12, 2009 at 01:13AM by Mabie A. Listed in: PSP Tags: Sony, Amazon, UK Ó
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Like with what the UK stores did last week, Amazon slashed off US$ 5 to the PSP Go. Looks like although the launch of Sony's UMD-less handheld led the PSP sales to skyrocket the past couple of weeks, the retailer does not have enough confidence that it will be able to sustain it, hence their own price cut.

From US$ 250, Amazon's selling it for US$ 244.99. It's not like it's gonna do much difference, but what's relevant about this move is that it's not exactly common to have retailers (or anyone for that matter) slashing off prices of a unit within the same month of its debut.

Sony has not made any comment about this action taken by Amazon, nor has the retailer itself. Do you find the PSP Go more attractive now that it's five bucks less in Amazon?
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Not sure if it has been mentioned elsewhere but Game will give £20 of PSN credit to anybody who bought a Go from them at the initial price of £225. It's obviously not the full amount that it's been reduced by and it might take a bit of blagging but it it still better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
I got my credit today (UK) by calling their customer services.

 

And it continues:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/17/psp-go-is-200-at-frys-this-weekend-err-249-99-before-50/

 

I think the best thing to do if you own a PSP is just imagine it was released by a different company. Would you really be all cranky?

 

You can't separate the company from their practices.

 

somebody commented there with this.

""Not allowed to even give your games away when you sell your PSP Go, you are ordered by sony to format the hard drive or face criminal prosecution.""

is that true?,

you cant sell something that YOU payed for, if that is true, that's fucking bullshit, why would gamestop be selling this, there whole business is based on selling physical games, new & USED!

It seeems like its turning into a monopoly, there's almost no competition with download only games.

 

This is the kind of shit that makes digital distribution even worse. I'll say it again, i hope the PSPGo fails. I hope modders hack it to the point is possible of installing games into the internal memory, using the memory stick, and then to become a piracy heaven.

 

What do they have to prove/back this?

Truthfully speaking, games downloaded on PSP-Go are not tied to your PSP-Go, They are tied to your PSN account. To leave the stuff on there means you are giving the person who bought your Go access to your account.

You're never buy a game for the System, you're buying the rights for your account to use such software. With sony you're freely allowed to keep up to 5 PSP units tied to your account (every purchase even states this).

So as long as you're fine with letting someone have access to your account, you can leave the software on it.

 

This is the problem though. Now I'm playing Phantasy Star Online Ver.2 on Dreamcast again to complete all the missions on the highest level setting. We all know that the servers are down now and have been for some time. Yet I can still play this 9 year old game when I want, where I want. In another 10 years I'll still be able to and if my Dreamcast breaks by then I can always buy another. Who's to say that the PSPGo network will still be running even in 10 years let alone 20. Digital distribution is a load of shit when it comes to full priced games. Fuck, playing a ROM is basically all you're doing.

I pray to God that digital distribution fails big time for full priced game media. It IS NOT the way forward unless you’re a monopolizing bunch of twats who couldn't give a shit about anything apart from filling your own pockets. Now is a very dark time for real gaming. Is the future really as bleak as the PSPGo or will people give Sony the finger frightening others away from trying a similar idea? We can only hope.

Yakumo

 

i agree with the monopoly on price problem with digital distribution. in a few cases, they can be cheaper to buy online but these are few and far between. since the owners of the distribution system usually have final say in the price, theres rarely any variation, they rarely cme down in price and you will not be able to find it for a bargain price anywhere (something i gain a lot of pleasure from doing) because theres nowhere to shop around.

and like said before, with drm protected games, theres always a strong chance of losing them when you change accounts/consoles etc. or should you lose said account, the games go with it.

i dont know who would buy one of these pspgo monstrosities. i cant see any plus points to it at all.

heres hoping its cracked wide open very soon

 

Well who is to say that your disc for PSO will still be working in 10 years or that you will freely be able to find another dreamcast in working order in 10 years.

That's nothing more then a bunch of hyperbole bullshit. Providing my dc doesn't break yeah i'll still be able to play my games in 10 years, providing my go doesn't break, yeah i'll be able to play my games in 10 years (your free to backup your PSP games on your PC. They'll transfer back to the system and still play, that or actually transfer to any system that has your account active & valid on it.)

I'm all for valid arguments but seriously, stop with the random bullcrap arguments.

Also comparing DD to a bunch of roms is freaking lame. You're not running this stuff through an emulator. Game Media is game media. For fuck sakes.