Believes Sony may have a 'fundamental concept problem'.
Sony's PSPgo hasn't been greeted with the warmest of welcomes, and now Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has jumped on the new handheld's back.
Fills told The Washington Post he believes the device may have a "fundamental concept problem in terms of 'Who's it for?' and 'What's the benefit?'"
He added: "I have the utmost respect for all our competitors, but it's interesting to try and answer the consumer question of 'What's in it for me?' in that product."
Do you agree with Reggie? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
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At the same time, people are still picking up a PSP3000 because it's still easy to get cheap second hand UMD discs.
The main problems with the PSPGO! are not the actual machine but the price point and the inability for Sony to appease retailers. What they needed to do was sell them for £199 and to show high street stores that they could sell PSN cards, plus to create game boxes with codes in them for downloading games, allowing stores to stock a physical box for a downloadable game.
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I think you'll find pb that UMD was a developed for the PSP. And was a complete disaster!
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Nintendo own the handheld market I know. But I think its about time someone did give Nintendo a run for their money in the handheld market. Sony are the company to do so but now there is Apple with the I-phone.
Digital distribution will benefit the PSP than keeping to UMD's. What is also good is that Sony are still backing the UMD's, so the possibility of being cheaper? The previous customers who have brought the old PSP will still be supported regardless of the new PSP.Last edited on Mon 12 October 2009 by Wido
I think you'll find pb that UMD was a developed for the PSP. And was a complete disaster!
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The choice was: carry a bunch of small discs around or a load of films on one or two small memory sticks.
And then they released full games on the store not that long afterwards, which meant PSP owners had the same choice with games.
From this you can see why, if UMD had any chance to start with, it failed miserably.
However, while UMD as a format failed, the PSP luckily hasn't and has been selling fairly well (if a fair bit less than the DS) recently seeing a resurgence in the older models when the GO! came out.
What Reggie is saying was that the Go! was marketed wrongly, which, as I explained, it was.Last edited on Mon 12 October 2009 by pblive
Nintendo own the handheld market I know. But I think its about time someone did give Nintendo a run for their money in the handheld market. Sony are the company to do so but now there is Apple with the I-phone.
Digital distribution will benefit the PSP than keeping to UMD's. What is also good is that Sony are still backing the UMD's, so the possibility of being cheaper? The previous customers who have brought the old PSP will still be supported regardless of the new PSP.
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With more people finding out that the original PSPs (1000-3000) can also save everything to Memory Sticks and run it like a PSP GO! then they will go for the cheaper option. The only thing swaying the move to a GO! is the styling and the 16GB built in.
I'm hoping that the 16GB Pro Duos come down a lot so my PSP3000 can have just one card in!
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The freeware PSP Video 9 is great for encoding anything (including DVDs straight from source) and even Sony's free Media Go! works, albeit slower.
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yeh pointless questions are pointless
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With more people finding out that the original PSPs (1000-3000) can also save everything to Memory Sticks and run it like a PSP GO! then they will go for the cheaper option. The only thing swaying the move to a GO! is the styling and the 16GB built in.
I'm hoping that the 16GB Pro Duos come down a lot so my PSP3000 can have just one card in!
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If that happens people would end up buying a cheaper model of the PSP so the PSPGo would drop in price surely because of sales?
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Because I have always felt this was a pointless and expensive move by Sony.
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