Thread: HMV slashes PSPgo price

large retailer HMV has slashed the price of the PSPgo by GBP 75 to GBP 149.99 in the UK, less than two months after its release to less-than-stellar critical reviews.

The handheld started with an MSRP of GBP 224.99 but after one week HMV had already slashed the price to GBP 200 due to lack of demand.

Early on, Australian retailer EB Games decided to not stock the console, a sentiment shared by a few other retailers.

Don McCabe, managing director of the UK game chain Chips had the harshest words for the PSPgo handheld, saying he expects the console to "fail miserably" in the market.

Its a shame sony is using the same tactic as the PS3, make the hardware cost way more than it should and then shovel it like like garbage for pigs to fight over.

Its not to hard to figure out what the market will clamor for, make the PSPgo run most media types, then allow retailers with digi distro services to sale PSP games(5$ a game plus 25% a sale the retailer can sale the game at any price they chose), then sell the PSP go for 100$ with a 2 year contract to PSN thats about 60$ a year$

It's natural to raise the cost as they are not charging for online play. Once they start charging for online pay then they'll reduce the price.

It doesn't affect me much , since PSPgo is not even available in my country.
I don't think they can charge for online play since its using wifi.