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After a disappointing anti-climax to reveal at E3, Sony PSPgo finally arrives in stores this week – or at least on the shelves of most retailers they are supporting the device, while a fringe of refuseniks continues to refuse to sell a console that'll never be able to sell games.
This fight with ugly a small group of retailers is far from being the biggest hole in the road rough PSPgo launch. The island, its functionality and its price point has been confusing, boring disappointing and a broad cross-section of consumers, market analysts and industry professionals since the first system took a bow in Los Angeles.
Criticism more obvious and repeated the platform is the simplest – that offers an upgrade path for PSP owners. If you bought a PSP before, and some UMDs for the machine itself, forget the PSPgo. In the absence of a UMD drive will not be able to play his records – and then suggesting a service that would swap UMD copies for digital downloads, Sony has announced it will do nothing of the sort. An offer of some free games from a limited list of former owners of PSP is a compensation very weak (and so far only available in Europe).
Of course, given the contents of a buyback is not a new format totally new experience for consumers – even though we had it easy in recent years, since we could be ripped CDs to create MP3s, and our DVDs play perfectly happy in our Blu-ray players. We might compare the movement of UMD for digital download as being similar to the passage of a tape for a Walkman CD Walkman – same content, slightly improved user experience, but you had to buy all their albums again.
This is not a defense that is likely to calm any angry consumers with Sony backs on the whole question UMD conversion, however. The case stings all the more because he carries a heavy burden of "I told you so "for many consumers and professionals. UMD was totally disregarded from the outset, marked as a format doomed from the first time he crawled, poorly designed and unloved, on the store shelves.
The reality has always been UMD that sucks the battery life, contributes to delays and massive load causes the console ridiculously noisy for a handheld. Sony claimed his corner for years, and so far the protests that continue to support the UMD-toting PSP owners with the PSP-3000 hardware. For now, it's fair – But obviously still PSPgo is an important step on the path of obsolescence of the format, and it does not change the fact that if you want the new Sony console is better you be prepared to pay for your games and movies again.
This is not necessarily an insurmountable problem for PSPgo. After all, if the hardware is quite attractive, consumers will ultimately suck their pride, open your wallets and buy into the new system. Good hardware features and attractive design can overcome almost any level of dislike of the consumer in the long term.
The question is whether the market PSPgo judges to be worthy of such foundations. The machine is certainly attractive enough, with ticking off the boxes marked Slim, lightweight and elegant. Personally, I am totally disappointed with the lack of foresight of Sony about the functions Additional information about the system – including things like a camera microphone or GPS module as part of the hardware would have seriously set this apart from its predecessor. How many other things with the device, this seems a missed opportunity.
Again, I can see the counter argument to this point – that the inclusion of such devices (tiny, low-cost hardware, as the iPod Nano of the same low price and diminutive Apple now boasts a camera) would have pushed the cost of the system. Maybe it's the case – that certainly brings us neatly to the question of cost, at least.
The PSPgo is very expensive. Very very expensive, so the system is – nothing more than an existing PSP in a legal case with the UMD drive removed and a bit of flash memory cheap hit instead. There is very little extra functionality, no new news feature for message on – no camera, no touchscreen, no GPS, no 3G connectivity. It's just one PSP with a memory card is great and a nice bit of industrial design. Itself, this is not a terrible thing – but what I just described should be positioned in the same price point than previous models PSP, which should receive, then a fall Price to open a new market segment. Instead PSPgo, being placed in a "premium" segment of the hand – a segment that, to be Frankly, I am not convinced of the existence, at least not in any great scale.
The irony is that the question marks and uncertainty around PSPgo contrast sharply with other more recent launch of Sony's hardware – the universally acclaimed PS3 Slim. This was exactly how hardware redesigns and relaunches should be treated. Announced only a few weeks before hitting retail, the PS3 Slim created enormous excitement in a short time. Recognizing that brought with it a smaller and benefits smaller rather than a revolutionary change, Sony is positioned next to a price drop for the console across the track – and reaped the reward in the form of broad, wide sales. Along with the fantastic software like Uncharted 2, which set the PS3 to a fantastic winter – probably his fourth healthiest on the market until now.
The launch of Sony PS3 Slim showed firing on all cylinders, understanding your market and their skills and create a product, business model and marketing unit that led the PlayStation – temporarily at least – back to top place in this business. The fire and intelligence that led to Sony through the ages PS1 and PS2 is still there – but PSPgo, seems totally absent.
Upstream consumers dislike it because it offers them no upgrade path. It is very overpriced for consumers downstream. He desperately wants to compete with the iPhone, but refuses to imitate the functionality of any enabling it to do so. It seems a concept solid that has been pulled in all directions by the competing needs and ideas within the Sony, and ended up despised and aimless. The market may well judge otherwise – Because of Sony, I hope not – but from where I stand, a release PSPgo seems extremely weak. This was an opportunity to reset the PSP and bring the fight to the entry of rival company's handheld game – but that opportunity, unfortunately, has sailed right past.
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