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Look at the price !
Source:Eurogamer
New comments made by recently promoted Sony Europe president Chris Deering regarding the PlayStation Portable have hinted at a price point in the £250 range, while Japanese retail sources quote figures in a similar range.
Deering stated that the system would diverge from Sony's traditional console business model by being sold at a price which would make a profit on hardware alone, and suggested a price "closer to £200 than £300."
This comment ties in with information from Japanese retail sources early last week, who told us that a price point around 50,000 Yen was being bandied about in Tokyo - in fact, the most exact figure we were given was 48,000 Yen, almost exactly £250.
Quoted in UK trade paper MCV, Deering said that "the feeling is that this product should generate profit on hardware alone. We want to make it affordable for publishers to produce a wide range of entertainment and so royalties will be lower down in the mix this time round."
A move to reduce royalties on the system would be a major boost to third party support for the PSP, especially since for many publishers, the last experience they had of handheld gaming was Nintendo's GBA - where high royalty and manufacturing costs mean that very few companies other than Nintendo itself make a profit from the system, despite the fact that Nintendo also makes a profit on hardware sales.
Early last week, Deering stated that the company was aiming for a global launch for PSP in November of this year, although that figure was quickly revised to mid-December by SCE vice president Masutsuka Saeki, who gave the new estimate in an interview with Famitsu.
Source:Eurogamer
New comments made by recently promoted Sony Europe president Chris Deering regarding the PlayStation Portable have hinted at a price point in the £250 range, while Japanese retail sources quote figures in a similar range.
Deering stated that the system would diverge from Sony's traditional console business model by being sold at a price which would make a profit on hardware alone, and suggested a price "closer to £200 than £300."
This comment ties in with information from Japanese retail sources early last week, who told us that a price point around 50,000 Yen was being bandied about in Tokyo - in fact, the most exact figure we were given was 48,000 Yen, almost exactly £250.
Quoted in UK trade paper MCV, Deering said that "the feeling is that this product should generate profit on hardware alone. We want to make it affordable for publishers to produce a wide range of entertainment and so royalties will be lower down in the mix this time round."
A move to reduce royalties on the system would be a major boost to third party support for the PSP, especially since for many publishers, the last experience they had of handheld gaming was Nintendo's GBA - where high royalty and manufacturing costs mean that very few companies other than Nintendo itself make a profit from the system, despite the fact that Nintendo also makes a profit on hardware sales.
Early last week, Deering stated that the company was aiming for a global launch for PSP in November of this year, although that figure was quickly revised to mid-December by SCE vice president Masutsuka Saeki, who gave the new estimate in an interview with Famitsu.
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Sony confirmed today that internal memory has gone up from 8mb to 32mb, so much for my theory of the specs possibly being downgraded !
Rosalind wrote:
> There is no way the software will cost less, it will probably cost the
> same but make more of a profit.
That's the pessimistic view. You're assuming that the music industry, film industry and software publishers are out to fleece the public of every penny they have. Which of course they aren't.
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> There is no way the software will cost less, it will probably cost the
> same but make more of a profit.
That's the pessimistic view. You're assuming that the music industry, film industry and software publishers are out to fleece the public of every penny they have. Which of course they aren't.
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I hope so, because that look horrid!
trick is to copy and paste first bit then copy an paste second bit then enter or just type it in anyway btw the pic is just a concept so i would expect it to look different from that i suppose
That almost looks like the PSP design that Chad Niga did a couple of Egads back. A bit differant though.
http://image.com.com/gamespot/
images/2003/news/11/04/pspnews_screen001.jpg
mend the gap obviously then copy and paste
images/2003/news/11/04/pspnews_screen001.jpg
mend the gap obviously then copy and paste
Have they released any images of the PSP?
Im curious what it will look like.
Im curious what it will look like.
If the Gametrac gets released i'll laugh it outclasses the psp in power/features and the price is going to be alot less than £200
There is no way the software will cost less, it will probably cost the same but make more of a profit.
In my opinion, which has been known to be very wrong.
In my opinion, which has been known to be very wrong.
Yes but if the royalties on the media were reduced then all the games/software/other bits for it provided by publishers should be cheaper; therefore you pay more for the hardware, less for the software, it should work out the same in the long run and be a major bonus for people who buy lots of media.
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