Sony slashes PSPgo price in Japan and US
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[Update: MCV reports that the price cut is also coming to the UK. The PSPgo will have an RRP of £159.99 after the cut, down from £224.99. It's not clear when the change will take place.]
Sony has announced that, starting tomorrow, the company’s lacklustre experiment into digital-distributed gaming will see a sharp price cut.
The PSPgo was released in October 2009, and features no UMD drive. Gamers have to download games from the PlayStation Store, and keep their games on the device’s internal memory or a Memory Stick Duo.
The system didn’t go over so well at retail. Thanks to the device’s hefty price and the digital games often being more expensive than their UMD counterparts, PSPgo has had a hard life. Sony has often bundled handfuls of top games just to move systems.
The new price drops the system’s price tag from ¥26,800 to ¥16,800 in Japan, and from $249 to $199 in North America, making it the same price as the PSP-3000.
There's been no announcement from Sony yet as to whether Europe will get a similar price cut. Would you buy a PSPgo on the cheap, or are the PS Store’s hefty prices too off-putting?
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