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Sony is going to sell every Vita game on the PSN so the thought occurs to me that they should make the prices of the games on the PSN exactly the same as Sony's price to distributors since the online game will not need to be packaged and shipped. Perhaps they tack on 5 cents to cover the bandwidth. Then the thought occurs to me that this may piss of retailers and they may begin refusing to sell PS Vita games. So my question is this: Would retailers be pissed about being put at a price disadvantage and refuse to sell Vita games? Any insiders care to comment?

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Sony is going to sell every Vita game on the PSN so the thought occurs to me that they should make the prices of the games on the PSN exactly the same as Sony's price to distributors since the online game will not need to be packaged and shipped. Perhaps they tack on 5 cents to cover the bandwidth. Then the thought occurs to me that this may piss of retailers and they may begin refusing to sell PS Vita games. So my question is this: Would retailers be pissed about being put at a price disadvantage and refuse to sell Vita games? Any insiders care to comment?

 

My thoughts are that they're not going to make the digital versions cheaper for exactly the reason you've described. Since at this point retail versions are far more profitable than their digital counterparts, it would be suicide for Sony to piss off retailers by making it cheaper and more convenient to buy online.

 

IIRC, there were a couple of retailers who refused to carry the PSP Go on launch because, to them, a PSP Go was practically a profitless transaction. They made more money on games, and since the PSP Go was digital only, there was absolutely no reason for retailers to sell them.

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You can buy it from normal retailers so you must be able to buy it on PAYG. No idea how much it will cost though but I'm betting it's too much to hope it would be liek the Kindle and have free data. Yes I know it would use more data than a Kindle but it could be free just for the game related stuff and PAYG for the non-core opertions stuff.

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You can buy it from normal retailers so you must be able to buy it on PAYG. No idea how much it will cost though but I'm betting it's too much to hope it would be liek the Kindle and have free data. Yes I know it would use more data than a Kindle but it could be free just for the game related stuff and PAYG for the non-core opertions stuff.

 

If they kindle-ise the game downloads, then the network cost could be built in to the software purchase. I suppose they could do a PS+ / Xbox LIVE style paid subscription if you want to do online gaming via 3G, but I'd imagine the connection speeds would be rank.

 

That just leaves voice, text and other data stuff. Text is cheap, so that could be kindle style (software purchases could fund it), voice and general web browsing, downloading and streaming stuff other than from PSN would be an issue.

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http://kotaku.com/5835996/theres-a-persona-4-for-playstation-vita-and-a-persona-fighting-game-too#

 

Uiezel guy acts like such an idiot sometimes. I used to think he was ok. Shinta too. Theyre far too Japocentric for their own good.

I can just imagine the veins popping out of his face as he types all of this.

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Meh. That's what happens when you let things get to you.

 

Trying to call out the "pro-hate Nintendo/3DS" hipocracy is kind of silly since any portable would be criticized if it was in its position. Example would be that if the Vita came out next year and the only "must have" title in consumer's eyes was Persona 4 at release or until the holidays.....yeah, that would be a problem.

 

He goes on to say that the 3DS has great games because he bought so many, but unfortunately, that's his opinion and not the general consensus.

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