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    Default do you see PSPs collecting dust on store shelves?

    Im just curious as to how many others on this esteemed board has noticed PSPs not selling so well in thier area?

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    do i see PSP's lying around collecting dust?. why yes I do, in my bloody store!!!.

    in all serious though I havent sold one for 3 weeks, yet I have shifted 11 DS's in that time, the Mario Kart bundle here in Aus is really good value!.

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    At my Gamestop, we haven't sold one Giga PSP yet, and we have a crapload of new sitting in back.

    What's crazy though, we literally have piles of used ones just building up in the back, and a relatively small pile of used DS's.

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    We don't see many traded in. When they are traded in they sit for along time. People ask about them but I think the price is too high on these right now.

    For $250 You can have

    1. a new psp
    or
    2. A new gamecube AND (new xbox or new PS2)

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    At the Best Buy I work at, I tend to sell at least one PSP system a day, but at the same time, I'll also push out about 5 DS systems. I did manage to sell one of those new giga pack PSP's though.

    The thing is, people come in all the time, alot of the time being young teenage girls thinking, they're getting this wonderful unit that they're only using it for is music, videos and a little gaming. In the end, I talk them into buying a DS (better game library) and one of those new video IPODS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buyatari
    We don't see many traded in. When they are traded in they sit for along time. People ask about them but I think the price is too high on these right now.

    For $250 You can have

    1. a new psp
    or
    2. A new gamecube AND (new xbox or new PS2)
    Agreed I think this is the main reason why the PSP isnt selling.

    I personally would rather have a Gamecube/Xbox and new backup PS2 than ONE PSP anyday.

    Also Its great to get some real responses thankx

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    I just bought my first PSP (used) last weekend, so there's one less of those on an EB shelf. And I gotta say, that's an absolutely beautiful piece of hardware. 'Course, I get home to eventually discover at least 7 always lit pixels. I don't care what the manual sez, for $200 clams that's a malfunction in my book so back is goes this weekend.

    If it's not selling well I would guess it's 'cuz of the combination of being too expensive, flakey hardware, and lack of a killer ap.

    Generally, I see 2 or 3 PSPs sitting on any given store's shelf. Of course, I also see 2 or 3 of every other console sitting right next to it. The only console that I see sold uut of with any consistency is the X-Box, and I don't even see that very often.

    All the Gamestops in my area have PILES of used DSs. It's ridiculous. Since nobody keeps the PSPs where you can see 'em, I have no idea how many of thsoe are sitting on the shelf.

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    I DO see a PSP collecting dust. It is MINE, and its sitting on the coffee table, waiting for a game I care about.

    Which I haven't been able to find yet.

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    two words : xmas = sales

    dont matter people will be scrampling for them then
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    The DS price points are killing the PSP IMO. While the PSP is priced over $100 more than the DS the games are around $15-20 more as well. I think that all adds up to the PSP sitting on shelves this season. The new DS bundels probably aren't making it any easier for the PSP. When games come with the system it makes parents very happy.

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    At both my local gamecrazy and ebgames, you can tell they aren't moving at all. Yet it seems like they are still recieving some new shippments of them and they have no place to put the units.
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    In my local towns, there are signs everywhere trying to shift the PSPs before christmas, and the DSs are sold out, pretty funky.

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    Who has time to glance at PSPs?
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    I was wandering around the city centre in Manchester the other day, looking for something to buy. In Game there seemed to be no end of PSPs (there was even a sign saying that they had them in stock). Surprisingly (to me, anyway) they were totally sold out of DSs, I found out when the woman next to me tried to buy one.

    In HMV is was the same, I saw a guy try to buy a DS only to be told that they were sold out, and an abundance of PSPs lurking about. On the PSP shelves there was a greater variety and number of films than actual games.

    However, I do think that Xmas + GTA should equal "sales" for the PSP.

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    Is there any good games out for the PSP? And I'm talking good "only on PSP" games, not games that are ports from PS2 that are sometimes given different names.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whiskers the Wonder Cat
    Is there any good games out for the PSP? And I'm talking good "only on PSP" games, not games that are ports from PS2 that are sometimes given different names.
    Ridge Racer, Grip Shift, I heard Mercury is neat... Though none of those is really a killer app, unless you're a Ridge Racer fanatic. Heh.

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    I notice UMD's not selling well due to their extortionate prices. Besides, most people already own the Dvd's, and these UMD's aren't anything special... They are just as scabby as vanilla Dvd's, and they do nothing to make people actually want to buy them, especially at that sort of price. Now if there were some nice limited edition sets or something...

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    We sell pretty much 50/50 PSPs and DSs niether is flying off the shelf but we have a lot more used DSs than PSPs.

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    Funny thing is almost everyone I know is a gamer, either classic or current, and only one of them owns a PSP and none own a DS. I own neither. Nothing really on the PSP that I want to play other than Medieval and Castlevania on the DS. I'm not going to shell out all that green just for two games when I can spend that money are more important games/systems.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daltone
    I was wandering around the city centre in Manchester the other day, looking for something to buy. In Game there seemed to be no end of PSPs (there was even a sign saying that they had them in stock). Surprisingly (to me, anyway) they were totally sold out of DSs, I found out when the woman next to me tried to buy one.
    Start stuffing them on eBay mate, there's no PSP to be found anywhere in the south of England...

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