and what's sad is... that's not trolling.

The PSP-GO's main problem was that it got rid of the USD drive.

The PSP-GO should of just been a different looking PSP with a much bigger harddrive.

The lack of a USD drive just made it too inferior, because it just doesn't make sense for every PSP game to have to take up space on Sony servers.  Seems too costly... unless they're charging the developers, who would then want to opt out.

Not to mention retail pressure.....

You can still buy a PSP go. The problem is that they couldn't bolster the library up to provide a truly better experience to someone looking to UMD it up. Developers didn't have to get a digital version of their game to release and past titles are hard to work out to get on the store in a reasonable time. The Vita is the god send for the PS store guaranteeing every retail game will be available on the store first day and even a few newer PSP games have took the initiative and are digital now. Essentially there has never been a better time to get a PSP go because of the big push for PSP games to go digital so they are available for the Vita. So if you like the PSP go's design and only plan on buying PSP games it is a good choice, but if the original design is more to your liking and you want newer next gen games get the VIta. In all honesty the Vita makes a PSP go purchase harder to make. You can get a wifi Vita with a bundle or store deal for $50 more and you won't run out of best new games like the PSP will in the near future (not sure when but developers will start to switch over).

i got the best psp go version there is.  vita with a 32 Gb memory card.  love it.

more like opitions

psp go was a option to the psp, it was a psp just without the umd

psx was an option to the ps2 and an exclusive option at that

options are expendable, they are there if they are supported and dropped if they aren't, except for those who brought it

It was a silly idea, in my opinion. And like many silly ideas, it didn't sell and was dropped.

(Though, you can still buy them in the USA I think?)

you missed the point of the go completely

reminds me of that  retarded article by destructiod when they also criticized it for not having a umd drive...becasue that was the point you know, to NOT have a umd drive, not inferior just different kinda like a uh, oh I don't know, option, for those not looking to carry around umds

and that is trolling

Problem was you hate to repurchase the PSP games you already had and you couldn't have hard copies of games. A lot of gamers want a hard copy library to impress the ladies.

I didn't miss the point...

I got the point of it.

the problem was it was a HORRIBLE idea.

That's why the PSP go didn't sell.

It's main concept was flawed.

The differnece between the PSP Go and all the different DS redesigns, was that the DS didn't change functionality, just highlighted certain things over other things.

Which is what the PSP Go should have done.  Kept the UMD drive, but greatly expanded the memory.  Highlight downloadable games without taking anything away. 

The destructoid article was right... how could you argue otherwise when the Go so obviously failed?

Sony didn't know what they were doing with the PSP Go.

Had they kept the UMD drive, the PSP Go would still be selling today.

even the people that bought it dont care

Sony probably realized that people were using it as the ultimate psp model for pirating games.