PSPgo Meeting Sales Expectations In UK

by Mike Bendel on October 5, 2009 @ 10:20 am

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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe today revealed that the recent launch of PSPgo has been a success in European territories, boosting overall hardware sales of the brand by 120 percent over the previous week beside its UMD-touting cousin, the PSP-3000. No hard numbers, unfortunately, but this gives a vague indicator of retail performance. And, to Sony, expectations are being met:

PSPgo has performed in line with our expectations, driving 100 per cent incremental volume for the category and has benefited the broad PSP portfolio with PSP-3000 also enjoying a big lift.

Steady sales are always a good thing, but retail performance of the handheld has yet be gauged stateside and of course a launch in Japan is not scheduled until next month. With SCEA having released a Gran Turismo PSP-3000 bundle on the day of the go launch, we have a feeling that did not help numbers. If you’re a consumer, it’s clear which package offers more in the way of value proposition. Maybe too clear.

Sony: PSPgo sales “in line with expectations”
[GI.biz]

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Comments
XsavioR says:

This is surprising actually, Speaking to local Game store owners they're not even planning to carry it here.

x3sphere says:

I have reason to believe the sales are much lower in the US. There was more of an incentive to buy in Europe, what with the free Gran Turismo offer and all.

I'm going to say it's likely that we'll see a price cut down to $199 soon, probably by this holiday season.

KingPepper says:

There may of been a lot of sales of the PSP Go, but i bet when they see how boring GT PSP is, they will be trading it in for the PSP3000 model, you wait.

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