Indie retailers in UK reluctant to stock Sony's new handheld.
Independent retailers have sharply criticised the proposed price point for Sony’s PSPgo and indicated it could result in them not stocking the new handheld.
Speaking to Edge, Chips’ joint managing director Don McCabe said: “The price is too expensive. You need to see some sort of revenue streams coming off the back of these machines, otherwise from a retail point of view it’s just not worth it.
“Sony will need to come up with some sort of mechanism so that if we’re going to sell the machine it’s beneficial to ourselves and to our customers.”
While the device has yet to receive an official RRP in the UK, Sony has declared it will cost $249 in the US and €249 in Europe.
ME sister site MCV has previously reported that UK retailers such as GAME, GameStation and Gameplay are already promoting PSPgo for £230.
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“We can’t see where that price justification comes in when effectively it’s a lighter, slimmer PSP,” said McCabe. 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 that price come from?”
