Koei plans major support for PSP + VERY INTERESTING speculation on it's price...

**Videodrone** · 19 Nov 2003, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by Frogacuda

IF this thing launches in the US at more than $250 it's DEAD.

Maybe it'd have a chance in japan, because they're traditionally far more willing to pay high prices for small things, but not Americans.

Breaking $200 would even put it in a difficult position...esspecially without a killer launch app (see: the level of a FFVII-2).
Asking people to spend over $200 is crazy without offering something you can't get elsewhere. Sony or not, an absolute killer lauch title or two is the only thing that will get this thing off the ground.
My guess on price, depending on production cost is $179.99 or $249.99. Depends how big a hit they can justify taking.

Originally Posted by Critical Overdrive

So the PSP will be between $92 - $555? I could have fucking told you that.

<inside joke>That still puts them one step ahead of Dennis.

</inside joke>

**NoFace** · 19 Nov 2003, 02:45 PM

I think if it's in the $200-$300 range and provides near PS2 quality graphics (which is what developers with PSP emulators are claiming), it has a chance. $200 for everything it's offering seems fair enough. Above $300 and you're going into the high-tech gadget market. That kind of price can't compete with a Gameboy (and that'd make me giggle like a Nintendo fanboy at heart).

No $50 games please, k Sony?

**Videodrone** · 19 Nov 2003, 02:54 PM

Game price should be relevant to input. I have no problem paying $50 for a game with the level of financial input (labor and technology) as say, Final Fantasy X. However, I do have a real hard time paying $30 for a SNES to GBA title that it took some guy a weekend in his basement to port.

**Yoshi** · 19 Nov 2003, 03:01 PM

I would pay $300 for the system if the games are $30. If the games are $50, I probably won't buy one, even if it is $100.

**Dyne** · 19 Nov 2003, 03:06 PM

oh it's more than $250 in the US it's DEAD......what a dumb statement. its made by SONY. it WILL succeed. its as simple as that. why dont most know that by now? it WILL be affordable, the support and marketing WILL be there. simple. they wouldnt make it if it wouldnt succeed.

**Matt** · 19 Nov 2003, 03:40 PM

Yoshi's got it. $50 for any game is too much when it has the fundamental flaw of being stuck on a 2" square screen.

**Rumpy** · 19 Nov 2003, 03:43 PM

It doesn't play DVD's, which was a big PS2 selling point at launch. I can see die hards going for it at $250 but not much else. There's so much to factor in that we don't know about yet, you can't predict anything.

**§eraphim** · 19 Nov 2003, 04:15 PM

The only reason GBAs sell on mass is because all the parents buy them for their kids, and all the kids want it for Yu-Gi-oh and Pokemon. Not saying the GBA is a bad console, hell, its my fav out the lot at the moment. However its so appealing to masses since its just so cheap and batter proof. I cant see a £200 rather delicate looking machine outdoing the GBA anytime soon, Sony or not.