Speaking at this week’s Develop Jury Service, Traveler’s Tales founder Jon Burton expressed his disdain towards the pricing model of digital offerings for the PSPgo, going as far to say that the platform will die unless radical changes are made.

“I own a PSPgo but don’t want to buy LittleBigPlanet, for instance, as I can get it 20 per cent cheaper on UMD from Amazon and could resell it once I’m finished with it,” lamented Burton. He added, “But if I download it, I get no discount, and no chance to resell – how annoying is that?”

One of the reasons digital download services like Steam are so popular is because you can often nab games at a sale price below their retail counterpart. On the PSP, UMD efforts are priced exactly the same as retail, and to top it off sales are a dime a dozen. It’s a troubling trend, one that Sony needs to rectify, otherwise store sales will remain stagnant. Just having weekly sales would go a long way towards generating interest.

PSPgo ‘will die without software price cuts’, says Burton [Develop]

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