It was meant to happen, someone, somewhere, somehow had to hate the PSP Go very, very much, and that someone has talked. Michael Pachter Wedbush Morgan analyst, hates the PSP Go. Well, not the machine itself, but rather it's high price tag. According to Joystiq:
On a recent episode of Bonus Round, Pachter matter of factly states, "$249 is too much. Period." He goes on to say that while the handheld is priced to compete with Apple's $229 8GB iPod Touch, it doesn't deliver the iTunes App Store or downloadable music from iTunes (as conveniently, at least, as the iPod Touch).
Furthermore, he posits the $250 price of the PSP Go is vastly overinflated considering its contents, claiming it costs Sony less to build and ship the PSP Go than the PSP-3000 model, "The $169 PSP-3000 is a profitable device -- the disc assembly, for a UMD, costs more than 16 gigs of flash does. So this new device doesn't cost them as much as the PSP-3000 and they jack the price up $80?" When Keighley presses Pachter as to whether Sony is "ripping off" the consumer or not, he answers, "They're rippin' off the consumer ... they're making a lot more money on the PSP Go than the PSP-3000."
Quite porwerful words there, Pachter. While it seems like the PSP Go will not get a lower price tag anytime soon, Sony might be trying to make it up for some PS3/UMD looses. Let us know your thoughts on your comments below!
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