Play-mag: "Sony will soon stop selling PSP development kits. This doesn’t mean the death of PSP, as they’re being replaced, but it got me thinking: maybe is should mean the death of the handheld."
Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation in the Netherlands has filed a class action against Sony for inflating PlayStation Store prices.
My personal opinion:
Manufacturers and publishers have indeed inflated the industry.
From $700 million development costs for games like Call of Duty, to digital (store) prices for games and DLCs, online multiplayer fees on consoles (why can you play Helldivers 2 online for free on PC but not consoles?) or still preventing sell/lend digitally purchased games.
Sometime in the future, this bubble will collapse.
They should know better, but they just can't help themselves and suck even the last penny out of our wallets.
They should be suing the individual publishers increasing the prices to $80 instead of suing the store. There are plenty of publishers still selling game for like $50 with much success (like E33). But this proves that the publishers are the ones setting the prices.... so again nothing changes because they aren't even going after the main offender. How is suing Sony going to make Microsoft not charge $80 for the next COD? Sony being the number one store in the market doesn't mean that publisher have to charge us an arm and a leg. Again the industry is laughing at us because consumers never get real representation. Just these fake platitudes that are meaningless.
About time. There is zero fair reason why digitally distributed products that you cannot recoup any value when you want to dispose of them, should be priced higher than that of physical copies that entail all of the costs and the benefits of owning.
Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki and CFO Lin Tao talked about the state of the PlayStation business and the strategy and targets going forward, including how they're responding to the tariffs.
Sony announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2024, and things are certainly looking up, despite a decline in PS5 sales.
If their profits fall next quarter, we'll probably see more price hikes. I can't imagine having to pay £20 a month for PlayStation Plus.
Decline in hardware sales.
Behind on lifetime sales and decline in first party sales.
Third party content and PSN came through to save the day.
Things will improve starting with the next Ghost game.
Hopefully a steady flow of first party content by end of '25
These types of articles are annoying.
the person who wrote the artical is a moron and has no clue at all.
the truth is the PSP has had the best 2 years of its live with software releases starting last year with Gran Turismo and since then we have had a load of AAA titles like Motorstorm AE, LBP, Assins Creed, MGS Peace walker, GOW Ghost of Sparta, patapon 3, Modnation Racers, ace combat, the list goes on and on.
the PSP still has lots of life in it and there is quite a few great games to come, sure a PSP 2 will be announced but only when Sony feel its needed and for the near future the PSP is capable enough of heading off the gimmick that it the 3DS especially to serious gamers anyway.
... Leave my PSP alone!! >:l
I still get alot of fun out of it despite it's age.. Plus it has custom firmware on it & I can watch movies & browse the internet.. It's a great little device. :)
My PSP died 3 years ago
Cmon guys, its 2010. There are prepaid cell phones that have more features and better graphics than the psp. I understand that you guys got the psp from your mommy on christmas, but its time for you guys to grow up, stop being in denial, and realize the psp is an outdated turd that needs flushed down the toilet. They are marketing it to little kids now man. Cmon people!