The PSP Go was a MAJOR flop. We need to talk about it.

[Gnizmo]

Procrastinato said:

Oh sorry Gnizmo.  You were under the impression that the PSP Go was a "new machine"?  You, um, think shrinking and rearranging some chips is pretty rough R&D work, eh?

I guess you speak for yourself, as usual.

I am certain redoing the layout of the machine, the sliding screen, and implementing the built in storage, and redesigning the battery cost nothing at all. I mean how could it? Its just a number of changes that affect the heat the machine generates, plus a new potential area for the machine to break at. Nothing you would want to send through quality assurance at all.

I like how you skip over the advertising budget though. The notion that shrinking chips is free, or redesigning the internals is cheap (electrical engineers make serious money) is strange though.

Edit: Oh, and don't forget the added ram as well. This is another heat generating part in a new form factor that has to be accounted for with the new cooling system. Rearranging parts is not nearly as simple as you would lead people to believe. Shrinking a CPU takes a non-trivial amount of time which makes it a non-trivial cost. Completely changing the innards at the same time adds to that as well.