“PSPGO Will Fail” Says – McCabe
Posted on 07. Oct, 2009 by hiphopgamer in Real Talk with the HipHopGamer
The managing director of the UK’s largest independent games chain, Chips, has told GamesIndustry.biz he expects the PSPgo to “fail miserably”.
Revealing his views on the newly released digital handheld, Don McCabe said: “My own personal opinion is that it’s a no-go. I’ve been to a number of presentations to see if there’s anything there and I don’t feel it’ll go anywhere to be honest.
“I’m 99.9 per cent sure it’s going to fail miserably, in which case it’s going to put back other potential people coming into that digital space.”
This failure could be a positive for retailers of course, who stand to lose out on sales of software and trade-ins if digital sales completely take over from boxed ones. “From a retailers point of view the PSPgo is a good idea,” he said.
“I heard from someone at Sony saying ‘this steps our authority on the digital space and signals our intent,’ and actually what I think is that they’ll scare the crap out of anyone else who tries to follow.”
McCabe’s comments follow those of ShopTo CEO Igor Cipolletta, who confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that sales of the PSPgo for the e-tailer have got off to a slow start. Part of the problem, said Cipolletta, is that retailers are unable to discount the console’s relatively high price in the form of bundles, due to the absence of physical software.
But a secondary issue, said McCabe, is that while publishers see tremendous growth possibility in digital downloads, they are currently struggling to make profit from them.
“Everybody looks at Apple and says two billion downloads – well, yeah but out of two billion downloads I’d say maybe 70 per cent of those have been free. And of the ones that they’ve paid for they’ll have paid pennies for.
“Apple’s a tremendous success story for Apple, it’s not a tremendous success story for anybody else.”
As such, digital is a pipe dream at the moment, added McCabe, who compares its current state as “like the dotcom boom”.
“It’s going to come, no matter what, but a very small amount of people are actually going to go on to make any money out of it. One or two will make serious money and they’ll be held up as ‘you too can do this’. Whenever you see anyone producing fantastic figures, just ask them how much they actually made from it.”
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I guess its were your money stands to me there is no other device like the psp go, i have a iphone and the games utterly suck the controls suck the garphics are good for a phone but there not psp quality. Thus far where im at the psp was sold out, i had to wait a week to get one here in orlando , its prob the best road warrior handheld gameunit i have ever had. I am a current psp 2k owner and i could stand bringing the thing around , this unit not only appeals to a select audience but isnt a eye sore doesnt scream toy and has great tech pause feature a2dp. To me no other device can transfer DRM movies content from my ps3 to my gaming unit i rent a movie i put in on my psp and im gone. lol even the WARZONE from hiphop and torrent i DL the episode on the ps3 webbrowser to the HDD and transfer it to my GO and im out a2dp it through my car stereo and im good. GOtta love it ….249 for me is justisifed because im getting continuous value.
Wheres the value in ODST outdated visuals, no mathcmaking poor sound and no new weapons nor levels are worth 60$ that is rape for software psp is hardware there alot more jusitification there.And its unique , Hald ODST can be considered more a rip off then anything right now , at least theres a mutlitude of thigns on a psp that will give a user more value then 6hrs of a 2 year old game engine again with the exception of firefight being the only damn thing added which couldve been patched.
well first halo odst was overpriced but still sold well and now oh look the OVERPRICED PSPGO at $249 PS3 $299. how will it sell is the question. But maybe because there isnt huge hype behind the pspgo is why people arent so much complaining. eh o well
Amazon just fully supported the go with the psp store, the thing is selling phenomincal almost a 150% increase over previoous sales even older gen psps are selling. I myself have bought FF7 and GT5 from the psp store and transfered all my ps3 content. I think theres moer proof thats its actually being a sucess then anything numbers dont lie and every japan comic just pledged DIGI comic support for there entire library for the ps store…not just a few THEY ALL DID lol skype just pledged mroe support for the go and the mini store just opend the door for alot more apps etc. I dunno i think dude wishes it will fail rather then prove why it isnt despite his opinions lol.