PSP no GO
October 5th 2009 04:16
Well, there's a new PSP, yay. Sony has been a company that has lost its way for a long long time. My disdain for them started with their use of rootkits on their music CD's to deter people from ripping the MP3's then subsequently years later turning around and realizing they missed a huge boat that Apple was sailing started selling their own crappy MP3 players. Other reasons to dislike Sony are as follows, perpetual lateness of SCEA titles such as Gran Turismo, too expensive PS3 at launch, destruction of HD-DVD a better format than Blu-Ray, and many others. I've heard they don't treat their recording artists very well either, but I don't have much to go on for that one.
The PSP was very impressive when it first came out. It had a beautiful screen and wireless, with a browser, ooh aah. Unfortunately at first there wasn't very many good games for me to keep mine around and in short the system was... broken. It was big and the UMD's sucked compared to Nintendo's little cartridges. It had decent performance but missed the boat on the keep-you-interested meter. Sony has updated a couple of times adding memory and taking away some heft. But all in all it has remained the same and just not that interesting.
The new PSP-Go is much smaller and has completely lost the UMD drive. That is definitely a start in the right direction. Unfortunately Sony has taken a couple steps back with its lackluster downloads, which is the only way to get games on the device without the UMD drive. Plus there is absolutely no incentive for someone with a pile of UMD games to get the Go because they are unusable as of now. The 16 Gig onboard hard drive for the Go is adequate when most UMD's are less than 1 Gig and top out at 1.8. So at the very least 12 games should fit on the hard drive plus whatever can be crammed on memory sticks. But you can't use your old memory sticks from the regular PSP, noooo. You have to use the micro ones, so once again Sony shuns its loyal fanboys, kind of like they did when they decided to rip the backwards compatibility from the PS3, big mistake. While the Go is definitely more pocket sized it loses 12% of its screen. It is a move from 4.3 to 3.8 inches which doesn't seem like much until you say 12%, yikes. Ok so the PSP-Go isn't all bad but Sony really needs to throw a bone to loyal past customers and figure how to get those UMD's on there, then they need to lower the outrageous price tag of $250 to $150 then it would be a decent deal, not a must have even at that price, but seriously look at what you get for $130 from Nintendo, it's pretty good. Sony is doomed.
The PSP was very impressive when it first came out. It had a beautiful screen and wireless, with a browser, ooh aah. Unfortunately at first there wasn't very many good games for me to keep mine around and in short the system was... broken. It was big and the UMD's sucked compared to Nintendo's little cartridges. It had decent performance but missed the boat on the keep-you-interested meter. Sony has updated a couple of times adding memory and taking away some heft. But all in all it has remained the same and just not that interesting.
The new PSP-Go is much smaller and has completely lost the UMD drive. That is definitely a start in the right direction. Unfortunately Sony has taken a couple steps back with its lackluster downloads, which is the only way to get games on the device without the UMD drive. Plus there is absolutely no incentive for someone with a pile of UMD games to get the Go because they are unusable as of now. The 16 Gig onboard hard drive for the Go is adequate when most UMD's are less than 1 Gig and top out at 1.8. So at the very least 12 games should fit on the hard drive plus whatever can be crammed on memory sticks. But you can't use your old memory sticks from the regular PSP, noooo. You have to use the micro ones, so once again Sony shuns its loyal fanboys, kind of like they did when they decided to rip the backwards compatibility from the PS3, big mistake. While the Go is definitely more pocket sized it loses 12% of its screen. It is a move from 4.3 to 3.8 inches which doesn't seem like much until you say 12%, yikes. Ok so the PSP-Go isn't all bad but Sony really needs to throw a bone to loyal past customers and figure how to get those UMD's on there, then they need to lower the outrageous price tag of $250 to $150 then it would be a decent deal, not a must have even at that price, but seriously look at what you get for $130 from Nintendo, it's pretty good. Sony is doomed.
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