It's clear from speaking with staff (and from the absence of any mention of the PSPgo on EB's website) that Australia's largest specialist games retailer won't be stocking the handheld, despite a release date of next week, the console appears in EB's system only as "discontinued", and is not listed as an upcoming release.
Leading Dutch retailer Nedgame has announced that it won’t be selling PSPgo when the new handheld launches on October 1.
While the company will continue to support existing PSP models, it says that the drawbacks of the UMD-free PSPgo include its €249 price point, as well as its inability to support physical media and hence game trade-ins and second hand sales.
PSP DL only bite sized games, 100MB size limit. 15 games at PSPgo launch and 50 by year end. (Tetris and Fieldrunners, Alien Havoc, Puzzle Scrape, Hero of Sparta shown as examples.
Sony Gamescon announced EU/US Digital Reader service including hundreds of the biggest names in comics, graphic novels (incl Marvel)...Launch in November. (Couldn't have timed it with Go?)
Spider Man, X-Men, Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Thor all at launch.
SPECIAL REPORT: New content pipeline and cheaper, smaller download games on the way..
Platform-holder Sony is aggressively courting developers around the world to work on digitally distributed games for PSP in a bid to grow the software offer on its handheld.
@PhilHarrision, I think they need some profits badly. I expect them to lower the price by a small amount in 2010, possibly as early as Spring. To say $229. Maybe it will be a bundle at launch and then a Core will be released in mid 2010 at a lower price alongside a new bundle at the $250 price.
Is there ANY chance that SONY is using the 249 price point to avoid hurting existing system sales until Oct 1.
Then Oct 1 wee finally get the PS3 price drop, the go at $199 and the original at $139 (to match DS/DSi prices)?
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When thinking 50$ for 8GB vs 16GB I was using a Creative Zen as a comparison. Best Buy has the 8GB for 80 and the 16GB for 180. Some of that will be the lesser desirability of the smaller memory but it is still a 100 dollar difference.
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Australians can still get it from EB's biggest - GAME and JB Hi-Fi.
I wonder whether Gamestop or any other big US game retailer are also going to do this.