PSP Go basically dead already in Australia
The PSP Go’s atrocious start is showing no signs of brightening up. In its first two weeks on sale, retailers in the UK and U.S. both dropped the price of Sony’s new handheld in a bid to actually sell some of the things.
Now, early sales figures have come in from Australia. Yeah, I know Australia is hardly the biggest market for games – they only got the Nintendo 64 last year or something – but said figures are truly grim. According to Aussie paper The Age, the Go sold under 1,000 units in its first full week on sale. I’ll repeat that, in case you misread: under 1,000. In a country of 20 million people. I mean, seriously.
But wait, did The Age get those figures wrong? Michael Ephraim, MD of Sony Australia and New Zealand, thinks the newspaper may be slightly out with its numbers. Sadly, even his figures suck. Says Ephraim:
“[The figure is] not under 1,000 but it’s slightly over 1,000”
Appalling. Of course, it doesn’t help when major stockists like EBGames refuse to carry the console (as has happened in Oz). While the PS3 continues to grow in popularity across the world, the PSP Go already seems dead in the water. Am I being premature?
