No one is pre-ordering the PSP go in the United kingdom. People in the U.K. are not too keen in going UMD-less, or maybe they just find the retail price of the go, which is £130 pricier than the old PSP, too prohibitive. Joystiq reports:
The sticker shock may be scaring off customers, as independent shops are telling Edge some frightening pre-order stories. “I don’t have a single pre-order for PSP Go at the moment,” Chips’ Don McCabe told the outlet. “We haven’t got any [PSP Go pre-orders] at all,” repeated Grainger Games’ Chris Harwood. While the head of SCEE believes consumers will pay an early adopter premium, McCabe believes otherwise. “We can’t see where that price justification comes in when effectively it’s a lighter, slimmer PSP. It’s got a bit more memory, but memory’s not that expensive. It can’t handle UMD so part of the mechanism disappears, so where does the price come from?”
Well, that is shocking if no one at all, and I mean nada, went out of his way to pre-order a PSP Go. Still, that may stillchange. Perhaps before the official release on October 1, someone’s favorite uncle may have his eyes set on one before Christmas and making sure he has his hands on one by pre-ordering
June 27th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
This article sucks and the type of memory used by the PSP Go IS expensive.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
[...] to skinflints everywhere originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:04:00 EST. Please PSP Go Suffers No Interest in U.K. Pre-Orders - pmptoday.com 06/27/2009 No one is pre-ordering the PSP go in the United kingdom. People in the [...]
June 29th, 2009 at 3:08 am
@RGF you’re right. Not about the article ’sucking’ but about the memory. The built in memory is much quicker than a memory stick - those people quoted should really know the difference between memory types considering they run video game shops.
July 11th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Jeez listen Sony uses cheap memory. its NOT a memory stick pro duo. The reason the price is so high is because it is a better deal. It is NOT possible to add ” Cheap memory” onto psp 1000, 2000, or 3000. Sony is being mean increasing the price because we CANT buy the “cheap memory”. Because the only other way is to get a 16gb pro duo card to get 16gb is to buy it for around $100. Thus the 100 dollar price increase. I, however, do not know where the other 50 dollars came from. Perhaps the sliding function, the smaller size, and other similar things?
October 17th, 2009 at 7:57 am
what a bunch of half witted in bred retards you all are buy it dont buy it who realy gives a shit.