I don't know what they were thinking with regard to the PSP Go.
Having played both the phat and Slim PSP's, about the few niggles I had with using the device were that the analog 'nub' felt cheap, and that there was only one of them (instead of two to better suit the majority of games made for it).
It's like with the PSP go, it took that niggle, and made
everything else about using the PSP worse to make that look good by comparison. The buttons and d-pad on the Go feel like something that should be on a cheap chinese knock-off copy of the handheld, but instead are put on one that cost(ed) another $100 above what a base PSP would cost. With it being download-only, you were also at the mercy of Sony as to whether the games
YOU wanted to play were available, and because of the download model that Sony gloriously screwed up, there was no way to trade in games, or to take advantage of any deals. And with no way of transferring your own UMD games into digital versions for the PSP Go, you were basically being told to
"Go f*ck yourself!"
Finally, the fact that the PSP Go requires its own proprietary memory stick format compared to what was already being used with the regular PSP (for no apparent reason), just further cemented how stupid Sony's abortion of a handheld was.
QUOTE said:
PSP GO is now a collectors edition item. Pick them up before the price skyrockets.
That would imply that the PSP Go was actually something people would want, much less PSP gamers.
The quandary for me is that, even at the highest point where I did want a PSP of some model or another, none of the games I specifically wanted for it were available for the PSP Go. So I'd have been spending
MORE money to be able to play
LESS games, at
HIGHER prices.
