Sony's NeoGeo Pocket's (PSP2/Vita) business/non technical ramifications talk
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Yes, South Bay.
Yeah you're fighting rush hour traffic, dealing with parking in the City. I've driven up there early evenings during the week before but it would have to be a real big deal.
Actually would have made more sense to do this even at the Metreon, easier to reach from the Peninsula than going to other parts of the City. But the Playstation store is closed there.
Yeah you're fighting rush hour traffic, dealing with parking in the City. I've driven up there early evenings during the week before but it would have to be a real big deal.
Actually would have made more sense to do this even at the Metreon, easier to reach from the Peninsula than going to other parts of the City. But the Playstation store is closed there.
Wow.
Now this along with the price list for memory cards leads me to believe Sony might not have learned very much from their ps3 ordeal at all ...
They probably want to scoop up the Christmas shoppers at Union Street. But that's why I hate to be part of it.
The Metreon store was a flagship SonyStyle store ! There is no brick and mortar PS Store.
Perhaps they learnt a lot, and it was a lesson we'd have wished had worked otherwise. PSP made Sony money on proprietary formats. PS3 was open. Perhaps Sony noticed the lack of secondary revenues and have learnt proprietary gets them more money? Or perhaps they learnt from the hacks on PS3 that USB access is Bad News, and they want a proprietary format that only they can access through their own software, ensuring security of content on the card?
Gradthrawn
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I think they learned a different lesson, and not just from the PS3 but this entire generation (console and handheld). Lesson being that people don't pay attention to anything but the list price of the device. All the accessories its takes to actually play don't really count. That, and people don't mind paying top dollar for those accessories if you've got compelling content, or at least a compelling, attractive product with excellent marketing.
UPDATED: GameStop Reveals Vita Memory Card Pricing
http://psp.ign.com/articles/121/1213432p1.html
8Gb should be big enough to hold 2-3 big games, plus one more in the Game card slot.
http://psp.ign.com/articles/121/1213432p1.html
8Gb should be big enough to hold 2-3 big games, plus one more in the Game card slot.
Eh, why drive? Just take BART or Caltrain and then take the 45. There's a stop right there at Union & Gough.
As for the Metreon, probably a bad place for Sony to try and launch a new product, even if they could (it's completely closed down for remodeling into a Target, with the exception of the theatre).
$40 for 8gb is still CRAZY ridiculous.
@ others correcting my comments on price:
Indeed, Sony may have eyed with jealousy the profits made on accessories that xb360 & Wii made this gen ... and what ps2 used to rake in as well ...
It's about 4x SD card rpices, right? And those will drop. I'd like some interview to pressure Sony on these prices. It won't change anything, but at least they'd squirm a bit.
Just about, yeah.
As far as prices dropping, I think what Sony will end up doing is phasing out cheaper/smaller product while still keeping the pricepoints in tact.
2012:
$20 4gb
$40 8gb
2014:
$20 8gb
$40 16gb
2016:
$20 16gb
$40 32gb
They will want to remain reflective of price movements in the market, but will also want to keep the same or better cash-flow coming in off these peripherals while leaving plenty for retailers as well.
Prophecy2k
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Anyone know what the equivalent prices are in sterling?
I'm thinking i'll probably just buy an 8GB card and make do by saving most of my games on my PS3.
It's funny to hear everyone complaining about the memory card prices for Vita though. When i first got my PSP i paid an arm and a leg for my memory stick duo. So nothing much has changed really, it was obvious this was gonna be the case (shoddy as it is).
I'm thinking i'll probably just buy an 8GB card and make do by saving most of my games on my PS3.
It's funny to hear everyone complaining about the memory card prices for Vita though. When i first got my PSP i paid an arm and a leg for my memory stick duo. So nothing much has changed really, it was obvious this was gonna be the case (shoddy as it is).
Though memory stick prices were high, at least there was market pressure with memory stick being used in most other Sony products at the time which had to compete with other standards (SD, XD, CF, etc) thus keeping prices reasonable (not 4x the cost of other memory on the market)
Yeah? So where were you going to store your PSN games?
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