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Posted By Robert G. about 1 year ago
Its time to say goodbye…
We knew this day was coming.
Gamestop announced today that the company will begin to pull Playstation Portable products from their store shelves. 25% of their stores will phase out their PSP sections to “maximize merchandising space”. Some stores will still carry PSP titles, systems and peripherals for now, but this is pretty much the final nail in the coffin for the PSP, despite some games still slated for release in Japan. As for whats coming out in the U.S market, the only game I know of is Grungnir, which will hit store shelves in most Gamestop stores on June 12th.
The PSP is likely going to be phased out in less than a year for most retailers, which is surprisingly a low shelf-life for the system; Gamestop just recently stopped taking in trades for Nintendo Gamecube games, and is still selling Playstation 2 titles rather consistently at the moment, and both of those systems are over twelve years old. I guess the demand for PSP titles is not high enough to warrant enough shelf space right now, which is a shame, it was a decent system with some really good games on it.
Well, we did our special 25-in-25 for the PSP, so be sure to check out those titles at the very least if you can before they are gone forever.
Source: Game Revolution
Kinda sucks to see the PSP get put away. It was a good system, like a PS2 in your pocket. It has a ton of great games for it too.
you know my local Walmart still stocks ps2 and ps2 games they also said they have no plans to stop stocking psp games anytime soon
Stores sell PSP games?
Just about any game store I’ve been too has had an extremely limited supply of PSP game and most of them were terrible games. I figured most PSP sales moved online (Amazon or EBay) pretty early on ’cause that’s where I’ve gotten most of mine from.
Kind of annoying, but not a bad choice in marketing since with the PSP gone its Vita or not at all.
Not a fan of downloading the games when physical copies are an option, even if it might be the better option. GameStop must be really confident in the Vita, but I’m not. I’ll just use Amazon and see if there are any GameStops nearby that still carry PSP games.
Whatever happened to the PSP Remaster Series? That actually sounded pretty awesome.
Other than the rare time you find a rare game I don’t have any problem with this. Seeing six or seven different Gamestops over the last 2-3 years and anytime I come back in they always have the same PSP games, it’s like no one is buying them, and no one should be because they are usually half the price online.
The saddest part about this, you know that “merchandizing space” they mention? That term refers to space where they just plaster up advertisements.
It is sickening how much store space is used for a poster for Call of Battlefield: Madden & Lynch 3 advertisements.
Just MOd your PSP’s already and run homebrew etc on them.
UMD’s are a monumental drain on the battery,just stick em on Duo stick and bob’s your uncle.
Amen, and if the company refuses to release the game outside of japan, you can always buy it then put the damn translated Iso in your memory stick, if the company wont release the translation of the game for money the fans will for free
Actually, my local Gamestops have all stopped carrying PS2 games already. I think it depends on the district, because ours is the same district that decided about a year ago to throw out all the PS2 cases and manuals and just sell the discs in yellow sleeves. Pissed a lot of people off.
Oh well, one less reason for me to step into a Gamestop, once they get rid of PSP games as well.
Same here. All the gamestops around my area have sent all their PS2 games to one gamestop and that one is slowly getting rid of their supply.
I guess New York is a more impactful market for the PS2 titles. I still go to my gamestop and buy a ton of PS2 games cheap. I am the only one doing that though, and they were planning to send them out to a different store but they were told to change course.
So I guess it’s only a matter of time for PS2 to be gone completely. It seems like it was phased out long ago but its still lingering around New York.
Looks like I’ll be relying on Amazon from here on. This also doesn’t bode well for Trails in the Sky SC having a physical release.
Also, another upcoming PSP game that I personally am highly anticipating is Growlanser 4: Wayfarer of Time.
Shut up shut up shut up shut up!
It WILL have a physical release. >.< Please?
But yeah, most of the gamestops around my area have all sent their games to one gamestop and it has all of them. They got some new games but mostly crappily' used ones.
I would get P2 for less than 20 bucks if I already didn't own it.
As far as I know Gamestop is still selling Growlanser 4, and Gugnir for the PSP, well once they release of course.
with everything going digital I think it’s only a matter of time before owning a hard copy of a game is history. Most PSP games can be downloaded directly to your VITA. Even Nintendo has an online store and soon I will be able to get digital copies of 3DS games. The days of going to a game store are numbered.
To eBay!
Or Amazon.
Whichever has the best value. BTW, I’ve always wanted to say that you have an AWESOME icon.
It is quite the loss. On occasion, you could find some real PSP gems at Gamestop for far less than most online markets because of Gamestop’s pricing policies. I managed to find two games that would have run me $50+ at Amazon/eBay for $20 at the nearby Gamestops.