UK Retailers: PSP Oh-No!

Alas, if you are aware of one of these stores please let us know via post-card or the comments section.

Anyway, said imaginary stores are not very impressed with the PSP Go.
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"From my point of view I've got to think, ‘Do I want to stock this?' Right now I can't see any justification for stocking it," says Don McCabe of Brit games retailer Chips, which operates 36 stores across the UK. "Certainly I'm not getting the response from consumers."

"It [the price] seems really high, especially the way PSP's going at the moment," said Chris Harwood, from Grainger Games. "The models they've got out now are struggling at basically £129, pretty much [the] cost price, which we're putting them out at, and they're not selling through at that. We're trying to do some bundles just to push them through and the PSP just seems to have died as a format really… Nothing sells at the minute on PSP."</blockquote>

To be honest, we understand the point that Chris Harwood is making. The price is high, something Sony have justified by claiming they can charge a premium for new hardware.

Alas, we presume the biggest concern for these smaller game stores is the fact that there'll be no return custom out of the PSP Go. Given Sony's commitment to digital downloads, once you sell a PSP Go you know that customer isn't ever coming back to your store for further PSP related purchases. That must keep retailers up all night.