The PSP Go is better for gaming. Its smaller, screen size is smaller but still perfect and 16 gig memory is going to be more than enough to store all your stuff.

For example i have never wanted a PSP until i saw the PSP Go. Now i can't wait til October 1st.

Will get when the price falls a bit (or a good bundle) and when they are offering a white one.

I bow to your wishes, as always sir. However, allow me to respond to your barbs.

A. To me, and most people, saying "twice the price" is a figure of speech. 70 percent increase in price is, arguably, close enough, and in my opinion, it certainly is. I wasn't attempting to spread false information, and I figured the real increase was more like 50 percent. My point was you are paying more for less, which you are.

B. I thought that my percieved bias was very consistant. People think I'm a Sony hater, and these comments go right along with that.

C. All my points are directly from industry analyists I've read. Most notably Pachter, who claimed the Go was a rip-off, to paraphrase.

D. I was recommending that people not buy this. It sends a bad message to Sony, imo. They can give us less for more.

E. The used market for PSP games will significantly reduce, and people who own a Go will have no access to the used or rental market for gaming.

The UMD drive, costs more for them to manufacture, than does the 16(?) gb of flash memory. I assume that the sliding hinge is more breakable than a non existant hinge(which was a point I think was misunderstood by some other posters). I also assume, perhaps ignorantly, than the PSP Go doesn't necessarily have significant increases for portable media over even the basic PSP given the correct attachments(surely the original PSP has some form of flash memory). The screen is also 12 percent smaller, which to me, would be unacceptable, even for an equal price, much less a 70 percent increase.

I get a little carried away, but my points for recommending that people not buy this device are valid. It is not only, "not better" for gaming, it is in fact unarguably worse as you have pointed out. The increased multimedia functionality, I suppose I'm unaware of, and would be very glad to hear what expanded functionality the machine brings to the table.

Here is a fact that I assume is true: This item costs Sony less to produce than the original PSP. The reason is because there can be no piracy, and because there is no UMD drive, and the smaller screen, no games can be traded between PSP owners or bought used or discounted, all of which are direct removals of features from the consumer except the piracy matter, which is a "good removal". However, instead of passing those savings on to the consumer, or even charging us less for those removed features, Sony has actually increased the price of the console nearly 70 percent. Should the increase in storage space be worth that 70 percent increase, on top of the loss of those relatively important features? If it is, then the Go if for you. If not, then you are certainly in the vast majority.

What I want to know is a reason. Why should people choose the Go over the orginial PSP? Portability and asthetics? It is a hefty price to pay, literally, for such arguable features, when you are also losing some pretty important ones. Specifically at a time when we are unsure of how we will be able to play our old games on this thing.

Sony told us that this item was for the early adopter market(paraphrasing). That sounds like they just gave this thing an exhorbtantly high price because they knew they could get those people to buy it early, because it was new, and a status symbol. To me, that was offensive, and reminded me of them saying we should get 2 jobs for a PS3. That is one reason I'm against this thing(smaller screen is inexcusable, imo, as well).

That said, I'll leave this argument to others. Didn't mean to flame, and don't want to start trouble here. I've said my opinion, and now I'll let others have theirs.

The PSP Go is portable and sexy, that's why it's expansive, like the Iphone is expansive too. I'm rich, I don't care that much about the price, it's ok.

Definitely buying one at launch.

Never knew so many people were to spend $250 on something just because It's new. Seriously. The PSP 2000 was just $110 at dell.com for several days, and the market for used games is a lot cheaper.

Not only because it's new, but also because it's SEXY and PORTABLE.

And yeah, they do, otherwise Apple would already be dead.

I know the guy with five posts is probably trying to get me banned, which would be a first for me on VGChartz, but..

You know there were a lot of people out there that wanted to buy the Virtua Boy when it came out to because it was new.

The difference with the IPhone 3GS is its more powerful and faster. Oh and we still don't have a clear idea of pricing for the download titles, but I can tell you versus the used market there will be no true discounts. But since your rich and willing to pay $40 for a downloadable title (which I'm assuming you are, because you said you would grab this for $250 and are rich and don't care) when the used copies are dirt cheap. Be my guest.

that deal didn't even last for 1 day.  it sould out in the middle of the day (i believe it was Thursday last week).

US consumers/eBay resellers are too smart to let this deal pass.

@monsta : yes, no problem if the downloadable versions have the same price. That's already what happens today on PSN store or most online stores by the way... The price is the same in downloads and disks. There are some crazy prices on downloads too by the way, I just bought Super Stardust for PS3 on PSN for 2$

You're talking about 3GS being faster, well the PSP Go has 16 Gb, not the PSP 3000, so it's the same in a way.

The reason why apple products sell though is not the features (which are a bit poor actually for the price), but the design and the portability. It's the cool product to have too... I think it will be the same with the PSP Go.

I don't see why you would get banned for this discussion, we're just debating.