Sony impressively elusive over PSP pricing
Confusion abounds as SCE looks to make it up as it goes along.
Speaking to delegates in London yesterday, Chris Deering, Sony’s head of computer entertainment in Europe, made some of the most telling comments to date regarding the state of the PSP handheld gaming project.
Talking of the price-point of the UMD (dubbed Unbelievable Magic Disc by some industry watchers) games, Deering said that the firm is looking to aim between a price of £15 and £40. Well, who would have thought it? Deering stated that the price may be “…as high as 50 Euros or 60 Euros no doubt, but probably the mass of games given the time slots these will be played in will be in the £20 range, 20-30 Euros."
So the games for this system are going to be priced somewhere between the upper limit and lower limit of the normal pricing structure for videogames in Europe. Shambolic indeed.
If Sony is to convince the world that it actually has two consoles in development that are likely to see the light of day within any of our lifetimes and stand a chance in the market, it needs above all else to deliver more than vague, unrealistic technical promises and generic out-of-the-box filler information.
The PSP, at this stage, has some kind of PlayStation 2-based innards, with an undisclosed processor, screen, battery, interface, control tools, development kit, and uses some kind of disc that hasn’t been invented yet.
Sony, we need more meat on our bones than this.
Again, the PlayStation 3 is currently a reality only in the minds of Sony, with the CEL processor no nearer, and the whole concept sitting on the foundations of Kutaragi’s earlier claims that, rather than each machine having its own processor, they would all link to some kind of super computer central brain.
Give us a break.
Or two new consoles.
Talking of the price-point of the UMD (dubbed Unbelievable Magic Disc by some industry watchers) games, Deering said that the firm is looking to aim between a price of £15 and £40. Well, who would have thought it? Deering stated that the price may be “…as high as 50 Euros or 60 Euros no doubt, but probably the mass of games given the time slots these will be played in will be in the £20 range, 20-30 Euros."
So the games for this system are going to be priced somewhere between the upper limit and lower limit of the normal pricing structure for videogames in Europe. Shambolic indeed.
If Sony is to convince the world that it actually has two consoles in development that are likely to see the light of day within any of our lifetimes and stand a chance in the market, it needs above all else to deliver more than vague, unrealistic technical promises and generic out-of-the-box filler information.
The PSP, at this stage, has some kind of PlayStation 2-based innards, with an undisclosed processor, screen, battery, interface, control tools, development kit, and uses some kind of disc that hasn’t been invented yet.
Sony, we need more meat on our bones than this.
Again, the PlayStation 3 is currently a reality only in the minds of Sony, with the CEL processor no nearer, and the whole concept sitting on the foundations of Kutaragi’s earlier claims that, rather than each machine having its own processor, they would all link to some kind of super computer central brain.
Give us a break.
Or two new consoles.
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