Its not difficult to understand. You are buying portability with the PSP-Go, and Sony believes (no doubt with extensive market studies) that the profit/sales sweet point is $249. If you currently have a PSP classic, I really don't think Sony is expecting you to go out and buy a PSP-Go. The PSP-Go is targetted at a slightly different consumer, mainly one who found the older PSP too cumbersome to carry around, or the load times far too slow, or battery life too short. It also further targets people who may want a PSP-Go as a media-player, and from PSP software sales, it seems not a few people buy a PSP for that purpose. In that event the hardware profit will be the only profit Sony will see from that sale, so its setting the price to ensure profitability comes right off the bat.
PSP-3000 is still on sale, so Sony isn't forcing you to sacrifice anything. Its just offering something else. I'll be getting a PSP-Go, and I never considered getting a PSP before because they were too bulky. So thats one sale right there that Sony never would have got, if PSP-Go wasn't developed.
As for releasing it in a recession, well no doubt design started before the recession hit, and a design earns them nothing by itself. Letting your product line stagnate is a sure way of going under in a recession, as the market gets more competitive, not less.
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