Sony director of hardware marketing John Koller mentioned shortly after the E3 "reveal" of the PSP Go that the company was considering a "good will program," which would allow UMD owners to trade in their physical games for digital versions. However, yesterday at the Tokyo Game Show, an SCEA spokesperson told Kotaku, "We were evaluating a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and technical reasons we will not be offering the program at this time."

That's quite a blow to the base of American PSP owners with large libraries of UMD titles looking to upgrade to a PSP Go -- a blow significantly worsened by the European "PSP Go Rewards" initiative, which grants three free games to PSP Go purchasers who register for the promotion using an older PSP model. This same promotion will not be coming to the US. "SCEA region will not offer a UMD rewards program at this time," due to the fact that the company has a "dual-platform strategy," an SCEA spokesperson has explained to IndustryGamers.

Ironically enough, we have a "we'd rather not purchase our PSP games again to play them on a new version of your handheld" strategy going for us. It's working out pretty well so far.

Ladies and Gentlemen, what we got ourselves here is an Asspull (and a big one)

(Source: Joystiq)

PSP Go is doomed, plain and simple

i got dissidia and Crisis Core on UMD.
so no Go for me (its as simple as that )

+1

Way to ruin my dreams of getting PSP Go SCEA. Sony has really been pissing me off lately

Looks like i'm sticking to the old psp console then, unless downloads are considerably cheaper.

U can download to your regular PSP. Don't waste your money on this abomination.

Advance apologies for using harsh words in my very first post here but one must be INSANE to buy a PSPGo. It's RETARDED to believe that the PSPGo, lacking the UMD drive is someone a plus or an improvement.

Let me explain:

1. You can easily add 16 GB or maybe 64 GB to your existing PSP-3000, just buy a card. My kids' have 8GB at this time but they can be easily upgraded.
2. If you download your games you will NEVER be able to sell them as 'used' or at all.
3. If you download your games you will NEVER be able to lend them to a friend.
4. You won't be able to borrow games from a friend.
5. You won't be able to play any of the games you already have on UMDs.

Sony should NOT be encouraged to eliminate the ability of purchasing games on physical media. Buy 3000's and let Sony know why.

The PSPGo deserves to go away.

this puzzles me

PSP Go! is a no go.