Sony Denies Holiday PSP Price Drop 62
1up reports that Sony has no intention of dropping the PSP's price this holiday season. The idea of a price drop, put forth by CNN's Game Over column, has been flatly denied by the company. 1up writer Susan Arendt thinks they may be just a little bit false here: "I'm going to be the 'glass half-full' person and suggest that by saying the company 'currently' has no plans to cut the price 'at this time,' the Sony rep wasn't just being repetitive and redundant, but rather suffering from a Hamlet-esque condition of protesting too much, indicating that Sony does, in fact have a big fat price drop planned, especially considering their history of holiday price cuts."
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I was at Costco last night. They had Christmas wrapping paper, a lot more toys than usual, and an assortment of musical instruments and youngster-oriented art supplies that they typically put up only around the Christmas holiday season.
On the summer breeze I could have sworn I heard sleigh bells as I left the warehouse. I felt an instant rush of icy wind that vanished as quickly as it came. As I got into my 140 degree car, I felt the joy sta
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Christmas practically didn't exist for me in 2005 (deployment) and seems so far away while I'm in the middle of this windy, burning, filthy desert country. Fertile crescent my ass. [/resentment]
This is the time for corporations to start thinking about the holiday season. 90 days out is a good time to prepare for major events like that; considering price increases/de
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My Grand Theft Auto avatar only acted in the finest, most upstanding manner towards his fellow citizens. He spends his days walking to the nearby gym for excercise sessions and on to the Cluckin' Bell for a rewarding meal (salad, of course).
CJ is always willing to help old ladies cross the street by providing cover fire from the bushes using an AK-47. And if any fellow motorists find themselves in a minor fender bender, he's happy to drive their car to the repair shop f
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But for now I'll just resort to my iPod for sanity.
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They sold [scei.co.jp] about 800,000 units last month and about 5 million units in the last two months last year.
The Slashdot crowd likes to pretend the PSP is an abject failure, but I think I'd be pretty happy if my company was failing as bad as this.
TW
Oh yeah, save your breath about units shipped vs units sold. The "shipped" number is only inaccurate as far as units in customer hands is concerned. As far as historical data
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BINGO!
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And you can have more shipped units than actual physical units!
Let's say Sony makes 1 million PSPs and ships them out to retailers. Shipped = 1,000,000 units.
Let's say BIG_RETAILER sends back 100,000 PSPs because they were, well, gathering dust. Shipped = 1,000,000 units (Sony did ship 1,000,000 units, after all, just that BIG_RETAILER shipped Sony 100,000 PSPs)
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This is, of course, fascinating, but is there real evidence that Sony is actually doing this? I mean, real evide
DS Lite for homebrew is cheaper than stock PSP (Score:2)
Of course homebrew justifies the price of a Nintendo DS. Even a DS Lite that is fully tricked out for homebrew [pocketheaven.com] costs less than a PSP Value Pack.
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Now, according to the
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But Sony has a history of evilness so people are harsher on them.
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The only problem here is the idiot journalist who thinks they're going to get a straight answer about a price drop out of PR...
No shit, Sherlock. (Score:3, Insightful)
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Of course they will deny it (Score:5, Insightful)
Then again, this is Sony we're talking about, so sanity doesn't really play much of a factor in my argument.
Too much? (Score:4, Insightful)
Low Prices = High Sales (Score:1)
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Do you live in Fucked-Up Land where people exchange gifts on those holidays?
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Is this even news? (Score:2)
By the way, I have no intention of posting any non-insightful posts for the rest of 2006.
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What really sucks though, is when the stores play the reve
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From a customer loyalty standpoint, sure.
I've always told myself that if I ever get into business, I'll be damn poor if it means at least I'm honest. In my lifetime I've passed up more than my fair share of lucrative opportunities because I didn't want to sell my soul for a buck.
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Denial = Accurate (Score:2)
"We have no plans to merge with Panasonic at this time."
"The idea that there are plans to develop a new laptop line at this time is patently false."
"We firmly deny that we are planning to expand into the pharmaceutical business."
"We do not currently receive, and have never received, the majority of our new technology f
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Osborne effect (Score:2)
The real PSP price drop.. (Score:2)
Nah ... (Score:2)
I've heard five people claim they swapped out their "old" DS for a new "DS-Lite" recently
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No word on the batteries yet (Score:1)
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Lies,
Big Lies,
and Sony.
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I for one, do not, want a cheap-ass $150 PSP to compliment my $700 PS3.
I hope they raise the price just to show the world how much better the PSP is than the DS.
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As for the battery, the higher capacity one is out, and the standard capacity ones are cheap, and unlike the DS, you can just pop them in and out, so the potential battery life is longer than the DS.
Also "fun and games" is subjective. The PSP has a built in web browser, RSS support and wifi. It can view photos, video and read text files off the stick. You can download game demos to it using it's own web browser. It pla
Other holiday non-plans for Sony (Score:3, Funny)
A Sony spokesman today denied that Sony was doing anything that would encourage potential customers to purchase its PSP portable gaming system, currently languishing on store shelves everywhere. "Sony really likes what Nintendo has done with the DS. Apple's video iPod is pretty impressive too. We can't do anything to touch that and we think that even trying would just muddy the waters and possibly confuse customers into purchasing our system". To avoid millions of disappointed customers, Sony has developed a three point program:
1. Keep prices uncompetitively high.
2. Avoid revisions with features competitive to the DS.
3. Keep working hard to thwart hackers trying to run homebrew mods: as the only group interested in the PSP, Sony needs to remain vigilant in case this community comes up with the great games that they haven't.
Other related stories: UMD - Today's Betamax or Today's MiniDisc?
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Tell me which features the DS has that the PSP doesn't.
Can the DS download podcasts and vodcasts directly to itself without additional hardware?
View photos, watch video 9both on the stick and streamed via Location Free?
Download demos directly to itself?
De Ja Vu? (Score:1)