Lik-sang forced out of business by Sony

silverkitsune

http://www.lik-sang.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lik-Sang

Sad day for gamers everywhere.
I've only bought from them once for USB game controller adapter.

pensaver · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Sep 23, 2005 Posts: 50

I was really disappointed by this too. Lik-Sang was where I bought most of my DS import games and accessories along with anime and manga starter kits.

deadman123 · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject:

wow...that sux...i was just gonna get my friend to buy a couple of stuff there...but then again its kinda their fault for copying sony, right?

silverkitsune · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:45 pm Post subject:

jckool · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject:

Copying sony? I don't think they did that.. What they did do was sell modchips i believe.. not too sure though.. Pretty sure i read that somewhere. So if you think about it.. Sony doesnt like modchips, Lik-Sang sold them, the clash was going to happen sometime, and then the selling PSP thing to europeans happened.. It just so happened that sony won the clash.. and so lik-sang goes out of business. Sad day for gamers everywhere indeed =(
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subbergod · Naginata Ashigaru Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 553

Old news, but I agree.

jckool · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:09 am Post subject:

silverkitsune · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:09 am Post subject:

subbergod · Naginata Ashigaru Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 553

jckool · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject:

I was referring to this case.. I knew it was old.. but I didn't think it was THIS old... http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/fun.games/12/16/gamers.liksang/index.html

Also, they might be legal, but once you sell something like this, the companies take notice of you, and they'll probably keep a closer look at you than others, and I guess many of us saw it coming. Lik-Sang vs Sony? We all wanted Lik-Sang to win, but we all knew Sony was going to win in the end. The odds were jsut stacked against Lik-Sang.
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silvermirage · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Posts: 232

subbergod · Naginata Ashigaru Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 553

Interestingly enough, most of the high executives of Sony Europe bought their PSPs from Lik-Sang, over nine months before the Lawsuit.

The list of PSP related Sony Europe orders reads like the who's who of the videogames industry, and includes Ray Maguire (Managing Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Alan Duncan (UK Marketing Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Chris Sorrell (Creative Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Rob Parkin (Development Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited), just to name a few.

So much for them being worried about losing money.

And no, the PSPs are just barely cheaper in Japan. The people who would buy their PSPs from Lik-Sang were the hardcore fans who just couldn't wait for the release, not the common consumer. Now those fans are so pissed at Sony they aren't going to buy PSPs at all. When Lik-Sang sells a PSP they have to buy it from Sony, so it's not like they actually are losing money. And actually Lik-Sang had to sell the PSPs at the same price that they sell for in Europe anyway to maintain a profit margin, therefore Sony wasn't in danger of losing European sales due to lower online prices as was stated above.
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