Several retailers have dropped the price of the PSPgo to under £200 after just one weekend on sale. Amazon.co.uk, Play and GAME and HMV now ask £199.99 for the smaller and lighter handheld which previously commanded £224.99. Argos still asks for £219.99, however, and ShopTo charges full price, £224.99. Sony announced a PSP sales increase of 120 per cent following the launch of the PSPgo, although the new model only matched the existing PSP-3000 in terms of units shifted over the weekend.
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Sony director of hardware marketing John Koller mentioned shortly after the E3 "reveal" of the PSP Go that the company was considering a "good will program," which would allow UMD owners to trade in their physical games for digital versions. However, yesterday at the Tokyo Game Show, an SCEA spokesperson told Kotaku, "We were evaluating a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and technical reasons we will not be offering the program at this time."
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PSP Go Pricing and Release Dates Announced. PSP Go will be available in stores in na and europe for $249 and 249 Euro on Oct 1. For 26800 yen on Nov 1 in Japan.
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God of War: Chains of Olympus and Patapon are among the ten new PlayStation Portable titles joining Sony's Greatest Hits lineup next month. Ten new titles receive special packaging and a special $19.99 retail price come April 5th as part of Sony's 2009 PSP push.
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The PlayStation Portable has sold over 10 million units in Japan alone, reports Kotaku. Looking over the list of top-selling games, it's not hard to see what's been driving the charge. RPGs dominate the list at all five spots, and the Monster Hunter series occupies three of them. Altogether, the sales of Monster Hunter games reach nearly 5 million units, half the number of systems sold in the country. Sony of Japan needs to send Capcom a nice gift basket for giving them this many sales.
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Posters on the PSPChina BBS are claiming that Sony is planning on releasing a hardware update to the currently available PSP, model number 2000, one that includes a built-in microphone, updated buttons, a few cosmetic changes and possibly even cell phone support.
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Sony has said that it needs to revitalise the development community and educate studios that making PSP games is a profitable business. Speaking to consumer site Pocket Gamer, the company admitted it has "probably suffered" due to a high reliance on third-party content which is no longer appearing on the PSP as regularly as previous years.
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John Koller: "We've talked about the PSP being a 10 year product, but a 10 year product in the continued... how can I put this... in the continued lifecycle, so we obviously had the 1000, we have the 2000, so the PSP as it was first launched in March 2005 isn't going to the be the PSP that it ends up as in 10 years"
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Today at the 2008 CES, SCEA reps confirmed that GPS & Camera will be available on this continent by the end of the year. SCEA reps also revealed Sony is working on a first-party keyboard for the handheld gaming system for release in mid-2009.
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The launch of the PSP Slim and Lite has seen sales quadruple during the systems first week on sale in the UK, with over 17,000 units sold, according to British trade paper MCV. With hardware sales figures not available on a regular basis in the UK it is unknown how this compares to current sales of the Nintendo DS.
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