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letsdance on 07 October 2009
Damnyouall said:
This has little to do with a spec list. PSP Go features exclusive digital distribution (which is optional for previous PSPs). By buying a PSP Go, you relinquish choice. The choice where to buy a game, and at what price. You will never be able to buy a 2-year old game at Best Buy for 5 bucks. Every time you purchase a game, you lose 100% of your investment, because you can't resell it. So you give total control to Sony and do away with competition, which in turn leads to higher prices.
On the other hand, if the example PSP Go sets catches on and other companies follow suit, then this will kill jobs. For digital distribution, we don't need people to write manuals and design boxes, to work in factories to produce games. We don't need truck drivers to bring them to the stores. We don't need people to sell them in stores. All of those people previously involved in manufacturing, distributing and selling games will no longer be needed.

So by saying "yes" to PSP Go, you say "yes" to killing jobs (in your own country too), and "yes" to less value for money and "yes" to higher prices.


You are trying way to hard.



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V-r0cK on 07 October 2009
Damnyouall said:
This has little to do with a spec list. PSP Go features exclusive digital distribution (which is optional for previous PSPs). By buying a PSP Go, you relinquish choice. The choice where to buy a game, and at what price. You will never be able to buy a 2-year old game at Best Buy for 5 bucks. Every time you purchase a game, you lose 100% of your investment, because you can't resell it. So you give total control to Sony and do away with competition, which in turn leads to higher prices.
On the other hand, if the example PSP Go sets catches on and other companies follow suit, then this will kill jobs. For digital distribution, we don't need people to write manuals and design boxes, to work in factories to produce games. We don't need truck drivers to bring them to the stores. We don't need people to sell them in stores. All of those people previously involved in manufacturing, distributing and selling games will no longer be needed.

So by saying "yes" to PSP Go, you say "yes" to killing jobs (in your own country too), and "yes" to less value for money and "yes" to higher prices.

so the PSP-Go is a good thing? XD



880user088 on 07 October 2009

it just needs updates....



Icyedge on 07 October 2009
Damnyouall said:
This has little to do with a spec list. PSP Go features exclusive digital distribution (which is optional for previous PSPs). By buying a PSP Go, you relinquish choice. The choice where to buy a game, and at what price. You will never be able to buy a 2-year old game at Best Buy for 5 bucks. Every time you purchase a game, you lose 100% of your investment, because you can't resell it. So you give total control to Sony and do away with competition, which in turn leads to higher prices.
On the other hand, if the example PSP Go sets catches on and other companies follow suit, then this will kill jobs. For digital distribution, we don't need people to write manuals and design boxes, to work in factories to produce games. We don't need truck drivers to bring them to the stores. We don't need people to sell them in stores. All of those people previously involved in manufacturing, distributing and selling games will no longer be needed.

So by saying "yes" to PSP Go, you say "yes" to killing jobs (in your own country too), and "yes" to less value for money and "yes" to higher prices.

LOL, go look at the price of games on PSN and then in store. Only new games are selling for 30-40, all the other one normally sell between 10-20. And if you kill all those jobs like you said, you also kill a part of the cost meaning they can sell it lower through the internet. DD makes sense in every way but collecting stuff or reselling it, even for the environment, which is pretty good.



Damnyouall on 07 October 2009
Icyedge said:

you also kill a part of the cost meaning they can sell it lower through the internet.

See, that's the point. They won't. After the choice and competition is gone, they won't have to.



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almcchesney on 07 October 2009

lol op ur an idiot there are more features on the go than the psp3000
also with the dl only i bought monster hunter freedom unite and put it on both my psp go and my psp2000 to play with my gf definitly better saved me 40$
minis are sold for as little as 6$ and full games as little as 10$
i love the design of the psp it fits my hands perfectly
idk if you know this but most people cant even get 54mbps to their house from the isp and if 802.11b (11mbps) is such a big deal dl on ur ps3 or pc were you can pause downloads and store them instead of redling them
it comes with the damn cable to plug it into the computer or ps3

yea i cant use some of my old games but o well, and i dont know if you have checked prices but a 16gb pro duo costs 150$, and m2's are way cheaper



aygie on 07 October 2009
goddog said:
aygie said:
Wow, why doesn't everyone go and actually see one, have a go on it and make up their own damn minds rather than basing opinions on other peoples reviews and what's written on a spec list.

I've gone from a PSP-2000 to a GO and couldn't be happier.

what did you do with all your old umd psp games? trade them to EB or were you just downloading hacked games?  trade them in, i doubt game stop gives anything for them anymore. 

I sold my 2000 + 6 games + 1 Movie for £120, so the GO ended up costing me £80 + i got 4 free games from Sony. 



Damnyouall on 07 October 2009

You can purchase games online with a PSP 1000, 2000, 3000. Purchasing games online is not an exclusive feature of PSP Go. PSP Go's exclusive "features" are the lack choice, and all the other nice things listed in the first post.

By the way, I have 32GB of flash ram in my PSP 2000: A photofast adapter and two 16GB micro sdhcs. And they were way cheaper than Sony's proprietary memory sticks, too. Why? Because choice is good.



"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360

"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed

"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick

"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance

Ryusuken on 07 October 2009

In my opinion the PSPgo is just a test to Sony. People spend the last few years complaining about the UMDs, the batery discharge time and so on. Why not see how a download only, simpler games, same multipurpose funcionalities will sell? How about testing how the reatailers will take the possibility of thios kind of aproach, selling only digital vouchers of the games instead of hard copies? (This one got quite a response...the retailers HATE it!) So, for what I think it is, Sony was quite successful with the PSPgo, a device to test the waters of the possibility of an all about Digital download machine.

PS- since Sony does keep the PSP-3000 on the table (wich is selling quite a lot, since the price cut - at least in Japan) it seens its a win win situation for Sony regarding it (they've got the test they wanted, and some sales too).



TrevDaRev on 07 October 2009

There's actually no winning with some people, Sony come along a neat little handheld with "All Digital Content" and it gets un-fairly bashed by people whether you like it or not this is most likely how we'll get all our games in the future. Sony didn't dis-continue the PSP-3000 so stop the fucking complaining you have a choice PSP GO OR PSP-3000.