Anyone pick up a PSP Go yet?Follow

I've got a PSP from release day still, and it's on its last legs right now, thinking about trading it and my Wii in towards the PSP Go. But I'd like to go into a store first and try a hands on demo to see if the buttons are any less cramped feeling than the original. Anyone pick it up yet? I imagine that the software and hardware upgrades from the first gens will be dramatic.

In all reality, 250$ is a bit steep for me. I'll probably sit on my trade ins from now on till after the holidays, I'm sure the price will drop somewhere around the new year. I don't keep my games around for long, so I won't miss the physical disc games, but I will be saddened by the inability to trade games in, with the switch to downloadable content. I'll probably wind up having to invest in a giant memory card too, unless they do like Steam, and keep your purchased game licenses on their servers, so you can delete and re-download them whenever you want to free up space.

All in all, I'd like to get my hands on one right this minute, but the reality is I'm going to have to be patient.

All I know about the PSPGo is that its smaller than a PSP Slim, looks like a cheap plastic toy, no UMD drive, and doesn't look like Sony is releasing a method of transferring old UMD'd games over, unless they have a way of checking what games you already own. Would have been nice for a drive that reads USBs and just transfers them over. I'd just go to Gamestop and get a refurbished Phat or Slim.

Also doesn't look like it has a battery, which is probably to keep Pandora modding at bay.

Edited, Oct 3rd 2009 11:16am by lolgaxe

ehhh... i heard the pspgo has a smaller screen and even without the umd drive, load times and battery life did not improve at all.

From the reviews I've seen, the biggest complaint is the lack of a UMD drive. It's smaller, the controls slide down, and some buttons are in different places. It seems, to me at least, to be intended for watching video as much as for gaming.

While the theory is good, I don't think it'll fly as well as they'd like. They're trying to force a customer base that's had years to build up collections of game discs to switch to digital, without allowing a trade-in program of any sort. It's gonna turn a lot of folks off to not be able to play their old games on their new system. And the $250 price tag will turn off new customers, since they can get the basically-the-same PSP-3000 for $199, or a Wii, or pay another $50 and get a PS3 or X-box 360. Heck, Sony itself thinks Gos will help sell the older 3000 series.

If you're just wanting to replace an old, ailing PSP, I'd recommend just getting a refurbished PSP. It'll be a lot cheaper.

I have a original that is hacked to run custom firmware, and the white Star Wars one that has official firmware for UMD play.

You can indeed download games you have purchased already, but I keep them on my PS3 anyway so it's not a big deal there, just sync up again and you're good to go. Toying with buying Gran Turismo for it, but the reviews have been lukewarm.

I was thinking about it, and this is such a bad idea. I don't know about the rest of you, but when I buy games, its usually with the assurance that I'm probably going to sell them back to fund future purchases. Even if the games are cheaper, that money is essentially gone. Also, this is going to hurt game shop business. A large chunk of their profits comes from the buying and selling of used games. If this digital downloads becomes a trend, I can't see it being good for business overall.

With that, I kind of hope this whole business burns out quickly and fails.

Most used game stores i see around here suck *** and overcharge massively for there crap, like $5 or less cheaper for a used copy, and the sad thing is people will pay it cause there morons.

One store here wants something like $45 for a used copy of a game i can get new for $20 at almost every big store.

I actually say a used and new copy of a game at EBgames for the same price, multiple times too.

Edited, Oct 5th 2009 7:19pm by MasterOfWar

Edited, Oct 5th 2009 7:48pm by MasterOfWar

I'm on the fence with digital downloads. If they wind up being cheaper than physical games, I'm all for it. It also allows smaller companies to release their work, which is also a bonus, because some of the most amazing games come from the nobody publishers. The only downfall is yes, there is no secondary market. But like was said, the used game stores are douches. I don't know how often I've taken games in and had them read off their trade in prices to me before I finalize the trade. If they think I'm going to sell them a game for three bucks, that they're going to turn around and sell for 15$, they're kidding themselves.

The shift to digital download only will be rough at first, but I like the immediacy of it. Hell, I haven't been able to trade in a computer game for over ten years now, and I had boxes upon boxes of games that I couldn't sell, until I donated them to my friends multi family garage sale for his non-profit theater company.

as far as the secondary market goes, you can skip the middle man (game store) and sell the games on ebay or craigslist and make considerably more.

Does this mean that all new PSP games ill be DL only or are there going to be UMD options? Id imagine no more UMDs...

Edited, Oct 6th 2009 7:07am by KTurner

I hope your right. I dont really want to pay $85+ for a new memory card.

Good thing there not forcing anyone to do it, seems ot be something that no one remembers.

Sony expects the UMD games to have a production life of another 10 years or so, at least that's what they said in E3. Hell, they still make PS2 games and that's been out for what, 8? 10 years? As long as people keep buying them, they'll keep making em.



Especially when you factor in the cost of replacements when more than 50% the MS handhelds red ring and die.