Sony says no to PSP price cut

Well it has been the talk of the town in the gaming industry as to what Sony will be doing to keep up with Nintendo this round. One of the big ideas was to drop the price of their gold plated (see: f'ing expensive) hand-held system.

This was brought up by industry analyst P.J. McNealy who said, "There is a price cut coming in the second half of the year".

But Sony of course rebukes this saying that they will not be dropping the price of the system.

And I mean, why not right? 5 people own it, that's a healthy player-base. How dare we, the consumer, ask for a more affordable system? Why wouldn't we want to pay more money for a hand-held with worse games?

Ok, so here's a cooky idea. Perhaps, just perhaps, if Sony tried to match the price point of their primary competitor (see: the dude beating their drunk ass behind the bar for their wallet) the Nintendo DS, more people would think of it as an alternative because let's face it, the system is sexy. I personally own one, mainly to show boat games I've worked on and to play Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth for the 2 hours the system manages before the battery gets sick and dies.

What is more likely to happen as far as price cuts go is the PS2 dropping in price this fall to (most likely) coincide with the release of the PS3. This seems much more viable as Sony did this to the PS1 when they released the PS2. Though I will find it funny when the PS2 with a dropped price greatly outsells the PS3 this Christmas... ooo, it's so going to happen.

\\drew