What? $199 should have been the standard retail price when it first came out. Lack of UMD support... a smaller (and seemingly easily brake-able) screen, with shoddy uncomfortable controls just makes for disaster. This ought to be selling right now for $100. Especially with the limited library and things you can do with the PSP GO.
Sony drops PSP Go price to $199 ahead of holiday season
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$199 should've been the price when it was first released and now maybe give it a $169 price tag and lower the PSP-3000 the Go made no real change. Sure it help in areas such as piracy the device still has yet to fully utilize a stable CFW, as far as I'm concern the PSPGo is a total fail.
What I do believe is this was an experiment. One that fail horribly from my point of view, I wonder what Sony's is. Sales show no sign any profit.
What I do believe is this was an experiment. One that fail horribly from my point of view, I wonder what Sony's is. Sales show no sign any profit.
princeton
Posts: 1,674 +1
Not true. The iphone/itouch/ipad with the A4 processor is far more powerful than the PSP. Did you see Rage running @ 60fps with the graphical goodness. It blows any portable and even last gen consoles out of the water, Carmack even stated the A4 cpu isn't far off from todays consoles. Definitely far ahead of the psp.
EDIT:
"Carmack said in 2008 that the iPhone was "more powerful than a Nintendo DS and PSP combined," and now says he could use it to "kill anything done on the Xbox or PlayStation 2." That was for the iphone 3G. The 4 is more than twice as powerful.
Frankly I could care less, my next PSP will be this bad boy: http://gadgetynews.com/sony-psp-go-mobile-phone-on-its-way-snapdragon-powered-android-3-gamer/
RealXboxMaster
Posts: 139 +0
Waste of money ...period. You want a portable? Buy a PSP FAT or 2000 slim... rest is garbage
Regenweald
Posts: 143 +0
A learning experiment for sony, not something to part with my money for. I'll wait for the psp2
Timonius
Posts: 648 +58
Digital downloads is a great idea, and I believe it is the way of the future for 'media'. BUT there needs to be a DRASTIC improvement on wireless speeds AND security. Then you can really take off with these PSP Go and similar devices with an ever cheaper unit price. Bottom line the technology really has to catch up with the concept, it's not quite there yet.
Three and a half years ago, I purchased a DS Lite and have never regretted it. PSP Go feels very flimsy and cheap to me. The early version of the PSP and any DS with an R4 card are great for emulating old console games such as the SNES. However, the PSP Go cannot easily be modded to emulate anything (outside of its limited RAM).
The only reason I bought a DS Lite instead of an early version of the PSP is my preference for Nintendo games.
The only reason I bought a DS Lite instead of an early version of the PSP is my preference for Nintendo games.
Personally I would have bought a PSP long ago but it seems like every time I am ready to go and pick on up they announce that they will be making/releasing a brand new model which is very frustrating. They need to make a PSP that does what they want it to and be able to and also be able to expand on it in the future instead of making another model every so often.
My brother has one, I must admit it's really sexy and designed well but you simply cannot play any FPS with one joystick. That should of been included when it came out. 16GB built is nice. Needs more aftermarket support with a SD card slot and such, but yet again PSP Phone is down the road...
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therickster90
Lowered the price for the holidays? Or lowered the price to make room for the PSP phone? I don't know what Sony has been doing lately. But I don't want to carry another electronic around with me all the time, so a phone would be much much better.
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