EA prioriza DS a PSP

August 11 2006: 2:07 PM EDT

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- While the price of the PlayStation 3 may prove to be too high for some this holiday season, it's looking more and more likely that Sony will try to tempt consumers with a less expensive handheld gaming system.

As it prepares to launch its next generation machine, Sony is apparently stockpiling finished gaming hardware, which analysts believe to be the PSP (PlayStation Portable). That, they believe, is a signal that the company plans to reduce the price of the PSP as the holidays get closer.
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Sony is expected to cut the price of its PSP handheld gaming system this holiday season.
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"There is a price cut coming in the second half of the year," said P.J.McNealy of American Technology Research. "[The PSP] has lost momentum. Nintendo has had a great run since it launched the DS Lite and Sony needs to regain some ground."

McNealy said he expects Sony (Charts) to drop the PSP's price by $50 to $149. It's possible the company will also bundle the cheaper system with a game or two as well, though not certain.

The timing's about right for a PSP price cut. (You could argue that Sony has yet to lower PSP prices, although it'd be a pretty weak argument.) When the system first went on sale in early 2005, it was only available via a $250 bundle, which included headphones, a carrying case and other accessories. This March, the company dissolved the bundle, selling just the system for $199.

PSP sales have been solid so far, with 20 million units shipped worldwide (with over 8 million of those to the U.S.). That's essentially a tie with the Nintendo DS, which has sold over 21 million units - but the numbers don't tell the whole story.

While the DS has been on the upswing, thanks to commercially and critically successful games such as "Brain Age" (which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide), "Nintendogs" and "New Super Mario Brothers," the PSP has not had a game truly capture the gaming world's attention since the release of "Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories" (published by Take Two Interactive (Charts)) last October.

This holiday, in addition to the expected price cuts, the PSP will see the release of "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories," which should help boost sales. And waiting in the wings is an online Sony store that will allow PSP owners to buy, download and play classic games from the original PlayStation system.

A $149 price point would put the PSP in the same range as the DS, which currently sells for $129. Nintendo is less likely to reduce its price as it continues to have problems meeting demand for the machine worldwide.

That could give Sony an advantage - as the PSP can also double as a portable video player. While many studios and retailers have abandoned the system's UMD discs for movies, Sony has struck deals allowing people to transfer content from their Tivos and Web videos.

As for Sony's other big system - the PlayStation 2 - things are likely to remain unchanged for now. While a price cut to $99 is certainly coming eventually, it likely won't happen until next year, say analysts. The installed base of video game machine owners is considerably larger than it was five years ago, making it less critical to get systems in people's hands.

"PS2 sales are still pretty solid, so why would Sony bother cutting their prices if the flow through retail is still pretty good?," asked Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets. "Also, Sony still talks about a 10-year life cycle for the PS2. They've typically been doling out these price cuts every couple of years [and they lowered prices earlier this spring]."

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Chukill escribió:Pues menudas mediocridades saca EA para DS sacara mas titulos pero si son tan malos como los actuales que mas da...

GDR escribió:¿Pero que le ha hecho nintendo a EA para merecer esto?
(Ahora ando con el need for speed de nds, y speed voy a necesitar para olvidar el trauma).

ElChabaldelPc escribió:porq te crees q se llama asi?

Seria interesante ver la lucha DS-PSP con la PSP a 150 dolarucos.

web escribió:hombre...no se si para entrar en una lista de ventas, pero el sonic rush creo q se vendio bastante bien,no? al menos lo suficiente para que no sea un fracaso como bodrios tipo king kong ds XD

llorllo escribió:Lo digo en serio . Yo, por lo menos, no recuerdo ninguno. Tal vez el Tamagotchi de Bandai llegó a aparecer en alguna lista...

Bueno, tambien hay que tener en cuenta que en aquellos momentos ante el límitado catalogo de PSP era más fácil vender bodrio-juegos. smile_[chulito]

llorllo escribió:hay que tener en cuenta que en aquellos momentos ante el límitado catalogo de PSP era más fácil vender bodrio-juegos.

Bidule escribió:Y si se siguen vendiendo esos bodrio-juegos antes que los de PSP.. ¿como llamarías entonces los juegos de PSP llorllo? bodrios hay y seguirán saliendo, como en todos los catálogos, mas cuando hablamos de los primeros juegos que venden mas por lanzamiento que por buenos.

Falkiño escribió:Es que hay gente que considera que Nintendogs, Brain Trainning, Wario Ware etc no son juegos; y por tanto son bodrio-juegos. Es una autoconsolación creo yo, para tratar de dar por "ganadora moral" a PSP (como hizo Kimi Raikkönnen el año pasado ).

Por "gente" aludo a las únicas que conozco que opinan eso, llorllo y tzare


Salu2

Kratulca escribió:Estos de EA son de la peor calaña, donde esta el negocio alli estan ellos sin ningun tipo de ética lo llevan demostrando algo mas de una decada!!.


Saludos

Bidule escribió:Y si se siguen vendiendo esos bodrio-juegos antes que los de PSP.. ¿como llamarías entonces los juegos de PSP llorllo? bodrios hay y seguirán saliendo, como en todos los catálogos, mas cuando hablamos de los primeros juegos que venden mas por lanzamiento que por buenos.

llorllo escribió:

Por 25 ptas, juegos thirds de NDS que hayais visto en un top10 de ventas

Seria interesante ver la lucha DS-PSP con la PSP a 150 dolarucos.

Turyx escribió:Añademe a esa lista xD


Excepto el Brain Training, que aunque no pagaria por él me parece bueno

llorllo escribió:
Creo que ni tú ni Falkiño me habeis entendido

Lo que quería decir es que determinadas thirds venden más juegos, aunque sean bodrios, en PSP que en NDS porque el catalogo de la portátil de Sony era por entonces (y aun lo es, pero menos) bastante limitado en cuanto a calidad.
Es algo parecido a las ventas de juegos en XTS. Sigue siendo un catalogo muy limitado en cuanto a cantidad, y juegos que son mediocres venden bastante porque no hay muchas más opciones mejores donde elegir.

P.D: Que yo tengo la NDS y no la PSP, leñe

maesebit escribió: Por 25ptas, juegos de 3rd parties que sean minimamente tragables...

Vete a GameRankings a ver que juegos de terceras compañias tienen una nota aceptable, y luego comprueba si han vendido o no.

O es que a lo mejor esperas que un churro de juego hecho en 3 meses con un puñado de Dolares que puntua de media un 4 venda 500.000 unidades.

NaNdO escribió:Castlevania habrá vendido lo que esperaban en europa al menos.
En españa lo puedes encontrar según establecimientos. No es un juego muy abundante lo que quiere decir que con la tirada que hicieron han vendido casi todo.

www.maxconsole.net escribió:Rumour: PSP Price Cut Looming For Holiday Season - $149?

Analysts are speculating that Sony could cut the price of the PSP to as low as $149.99 this holiday season, in doing so they will be offering a temptation for gamers to pick up at least Sony's handheld should they not be able to cough up the cash for the PS3 home console.

As it prepares to launch its next generation machine, Sony is apparently stockpiling finished gaming hardware, which analysts believe to be the PSP (PlayStation Portable). That, they believe, is a signal that the company plans to reduce the price of the PSP as the holidays get closer.

Sony is expected to cut the price of its PSP handheld gaming system this holiday season.

"There is a price cut coming in the second half of the year," said P.J.McNealy of American Technology Research. "[The PSP] has lost momentum. Nintendo has had a great run since it launched the DS Lite and Sony needs to regain some ground."

McNealy said he expects Sony (Charts) to drop the PSP's price by $50 to $149. It's possible the company will also bundle the cheaper system with a game or two as well, though not certain.

The timing's about right for a PSP price cut. (You could argue that Sony has yet to lower PSP prices, although it'd be a pretty weak argument.) When the system first went on sale in early 2005, it was only available via a $250 bundle, which included headphones, a Carrying Case and other accessories. This March, the company dissolved the bundle, selling just the system for $199.

corpa escribió:Resumiendo: las desarrolladoras tiran donde mas pasta pueden sacar

estampida45 escribió:y hay donde dice que deje de lado a psp? o que de prioridad mas a una que otra?

solo dice que a partir de ahora sacaran truñacos para las dos, en vez de para psp

y ah, si comparamos las ventas totales de una y de otra de usa , estan bbastante parejas

creo que era asi mas o menos

4,9 million

5,5 million

y la pspp saliendo varios meses mas tarde y costando casi 100 dolares mas, y en el terreno donde nintendo domina claramente, sacad conclusiones xd


saludos

no se vende PSP como consola, sino como reproductor multimedia sobre todo.

supreme escribió:

Ahí la has dado, eso define perfectamente lo que pasa con las consolas ahora, solo hace falta llegarte al centro comercial y ver que te venden la PSP con el medievil...