I just posted this elsewhere, and thought I’d share it in the wake of Sony’s release of the PSPgo, the PSP without half the stuff that makes the PSP good and with an overpriced version of the AppStore to replace it, at a 50% higher price than the fully featured PSP and games matching sony’s MSRP for UMD based games. Claimed to be the future of gaming, of course. It’s Sony we’re talking about after all:

While a good idea in theory, the execution of the PSPGo is currently a disaster.

You pay a premium price for a console that has only two features the cheaper one doesn’t have, one that is good but not vital (Bluetooth) and one that should be able to implement on older PSPs with a software update (“quicksave” function for all games). But besides that you pay for a drive-less console to which games will cost more than the old one (few larger stores sell games at MSRP and almost no stores goes over it), and that’s not even talking about borrowing/buying used games.

The new form factor is amazing, but it forces you to go entirely wireless… over a 802.11b network card… and it won’t work with any current PSP peripherals besides 3.5mm headphones… which almost amazes me considering some of Sony’s other decisions regarding the console.

I really want to love the Go, and I really wanted one from it was first announced… but then they announced the price and my original reaction was “they must be kidding” followed by a long time thinking “it will be worth it anyways”. But when it finally arrived… it made wanna get a PSP 3000 more than ever before. I can get two PSP 3000s for the price of a PSP go here (albeit, going to a cheaper store for the 3000 and a store at MSRP for the go), and a trade-in option at Game would allow me to trade in a DS Lite with three games to let me by a PSP Go for the price of a PSP 3000. I didn’t take it

I though Sony messed up the PS3 at launch, but I guess that was just warming up for this.

Coming up next year will be the PS3 Go, which will have users pay $1000 to be allowed to watch video streams of chinese gold farmers play FFXIV on a console with no storage media, ports (besides video out) or controller. It will be the “next step in gaming” for sure.

Wait a second, you mean other mobile gaming platforms exist? PSP?! What is this PSP thing of which you speak? Curious, I do faintly recall little children I see parents bring to league bowling on Thursday nights carry this odd contraption called a “D.S.” Although I don’t know what a “D.S.” is exactly.

Anyways, go-go-gadget iPhone!

/plays awesome _INSERT NAME HERE_ iPhone game

Jim - 05 October 2009 07:03 PM

Wait a second, you mean other mobile gaming platforms exist? PSP?! What is this PSP thing of which you speak? Curious, I do faintly recall little children I see parents bring to league bowling on Thursday nights carry this odd contraption called a “D.S.” Although I don’t know what a “D.S.” is exactly.

Anyways, go-go-gadget iPhone!

/plays awesome _INSERT NAME HERE_ iPhone game

True fact: I will hose Jim down with a cool steam of love.

They should’ve just stuck a camera in it and called it a day.

Now that more games have entered the Playstation Store, it actually appears that digital purchases is a win situation for scandinavian customers. Sony is responsible for the store and has prices matched somewhat to the rest of Europe, while Nordisk Film is responsible for distribution of physical copies and add their own tax in the belief that nobody notices a 20-60% price increase compared to the rest of Europe.

That being said, it’s still cheaper to get a PSP3000 and buy digital copies to that and have the options of physical copies in the bargain bin as well… in fact… I just got my PSP3000 from the UK the other week, and with 4 games, a 16GB memory card and a charger cable, I’m still below the cost of a PSPgo. And it’s not crap games either, they’re all among the highest ranked PSP titles… at 2 for €20 at Play.com

And ordering the PSP itself from the UK didn’t save me that much money, it just got me the vibrant blue unit that’s not available in Sweden.

Isn’t it about time the Europe became a country so you could avoid that and make geography lessons a lot easier for the rest of the world?

So where’s the thread mocking the new XL DSi?

CCP - 03 November 2009 12:20 AM

So where’s the thread mocking the new XL DSi?

Heh, I’ll show you some “XL”………………………………………………………………………

CCP - 03 November 2009 12:20 AM

So where’s the thread mocking the new XL DSi?

What? Do you think there’s something worth to be made fun of with the XL? I see nothing wrong with it…. ah look at this…. PIXELS!!!!!