Retailer: PSP Go will “fail miserably”, Apple’s success on digital distribution is Apple’s alone
Set sail for fail. That’s what the independent games chain Chips’ managing director believes where the PSP Go is headed to. Don McCabe is of the (rather) strong opinion that the PSP Go will “fail miserably.”
Set sail for fail. That’s what the independent games chain Chips’ managing director believes where the PSP Go is headed to. Don McCabe is of the (rather) strong opinion that the PSP Go will “fail miserably.”
“I’m 99.9 per cent sure it’s going to fail miserably, in which case it’s going to put back other potential people coming into that digital space.” However, there is a good thing that can come out of this failure, and it’s the retailers who will benefit the most from it. As you will know, it is allegedly the game retailers who are the most in trouble with the arrival of the digital handheld.
Definitely a rocky start
“I heard from someone at Sony saying ‘this steps our authority on the digital space and signals our intent,’ and actually what I think is that they’ll scare the crap out of anyone else who tries to follow,” he goes on.
McCabe is but another one of those retailers who are looking at the PSP Go as the fluke success that Sony is hyping up. ShopTo CEO Igor Cipolleta has also confirmed to GamesIndustry that the launch of the PSP Go was actually off to a “slow start”, considering how the consumers are turned off by the high prices of the bundles, even though there lacks the presence of physical software.
McCabe also looks at Apple and sees that while the digital downloads are definitely booming in that area, truth of the matter is that developers are having quite a hard time profiting from it.
Apple’s a tremendous success story for Apple, it’s not a tremendous success story for anybody else. It’s going to come, no matter what, but a very small amount of people are actually going to go on to make any money out of it. One or two will make serious money and they’ll be help as ‘you too can do this.’ Whenever you see anyone producing fantastic figures, just ask them how much they actually made from it.
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Via Games Industry
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