Is Sony's PSPgo just what you needed, or an overpriced rehash?

[wraggster]

Apparently word is slowly trickling through Sony that its brand new handheld is actually called PSPgo (at least according to the second of two pieces of PR we've seen on the thing). We're guessing a similar word of mouth pace will operate in the inverse to communicate to top Sony brass that most folks think $250 for years-old gaming handheld hardware is a little steep these days. Of course, sequestered in our Engadget HQ and flush with cash from a hefty hit and run settlement a couple years back, we're more curious as to what you think about the price and feature set here. Don't be shy, just let it all out.
Is Sony's PSPgo just what you needed, or an overpriced rehash?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/i...priced-rehash/

[apex05]

I reckon that's gonna translate to a £200 UK price, but i been keeping a close eye on the Pound-Dollar exchange rate and it's gone up 0.1 cents every day this week, and people are predicting it could get up to 1.8 by the end of the year so at $250 i'll just ship one over.

[osgeld]

My psp phat is still the only one i have

i can cram 16 gigs of memory on it, and it already works with the software that i already shelled out hard earned money for

waaaaaaay to go betamax, sony

I do not seem them in the game biz for too much longer, this generation sony IS the HD SEGA

Too much crap hardware on the market, no real software to go nuts over, and the final price tag for hardware never ends

Plus it is confusing to joe public, can you imagine some out of touch mom going to the store on xmas loading up on psp games just to find out they are utterly useless cause johnny has a go! Like it or not that is a major percentage of game buyers, loose their trust and its over, look at 16 bit SEGA

Sony really should have stopped at the psp 2k, and focused on a PSP2, with features that people wanted. Now they are just further segmenting their own market, causing confusion, and hurting themselves all over post-it-note updates to EXPENSIVE to develop hardware

[pkmaximum]

honestly I think it's a waste of time to what they're doing.

[stanfy86]

no dual analog = fail

[MicroNut]

this generation sony IS the HD SEGA

Sony is the new Sega.
Its strange how "HD Sega" seems to sum it up even better.

I do like my PS3.

The 360 is winning because its easier to develop for and the consumer price is right.
I just have no desire to be a 360 consumer.
I know that there are many that prefer the games the 360 has over the PS3.

As for the PSP-Go ... 32x Add-on?
I just don't know enough about it yet to have an opinion.

PSP Go Official Specs
http://playstationlifestyle.net/2009...fficial-specs/

[Iceman^2]

This will probably stop all the piracy and homebrew on the PSP because nobody will want to buy this overpriced POS. I buy 99% of my games used, so the whole downloadble thing is bad for me. This is just Sony's way of trying to make more money. I'm happy with my current PSP and I think this is a bad route for Sony to take.

[kz_se7en]

no dual analog, fail
what about the ram, screen resolution, come on sony, give us more detail.

[kyyubidx]

For those who claim SOny will be be the next SEGA, think again. SEGA died because they were plain stupid and they deserved to...

on that read E3 Sony analysis here: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/new...hp?story=23897

On the PSP Go! subject:

Stop crying and moaning for dual analogs and touchscreens, you'll never get it. Touchscreens are nothing but eye-candy and dual analogs are unessesary on a casual gaming console... so yeah...
it is over-priced though... but we'll see if Sony does something about the games we already own

[MicroNut]

no dual analog, fail
what about the ram, screen resolution, come on sony, give us more detail.

Well ok here they are on the front page.


Official Spec Sheet

$249 price point?

PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) go (PSP-N1000)

Product Name PSP(R) (PlayStation(R)Portable) go

External Approx. 128 x 16.5 x 69 mm (width x height x depth) dimensions (excludes largest projection)

Weight Approx. 158g / 5.6 oz (including internal battery)

CPU PSP(R) CPU (System clock frequency 1-333MHz, Main memory 64MB)

Display 3.8 inches (16:9) full-transparent type, TFT drive, 480 x 272 pixel, Approx. 16,770,000 colors displayed

Sound Built-in stereo speakers
Built-in microphone

Main Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11b) (Wi-Fi)

input/ Bluetooth(R)2.0 (EDR)
output High Speed USB (USB2.0)
Memory Stick Micro(TM)(M2(TM))
Analog Video Out
Microphone
Main
connectors Multi use connector
(DC IN / OUT, USB, Video Output / Input, Sound Input / Output)
Headset / Microphone connector
Memory Stick Micro(TM)(M2(TM)) slot Key / Switches Directional buttons (up/down/right/left), analog stick, Action buttons (triangle, circle, cross, square), L/R buttons

START button, SELECT button, PS button
POWER/HOLD switch, WLAN switch display button, sound button, volume (+ / -) buttons

Power sources:
Lithium-Ion rechargeable internal battery pack
AC adaptor
USB power supply

Internal memory 16GB (Flash Memory)

Supported PSP(R) Game Profile
Access Control Region code, parental control

Wireless Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11b) (Wi-Fi)
communications
(Infrastructure mode / Ad hoc mode (connect up to 16 consoles))
Bluetooth(R)2.0 (EDR)
Supplied AC adaptor
accessories USB cable
CD-ROM (Media Go)

*Design and specifications are subject to change without notice.

Supported coded (in Memory Stick Micro (M2™) / Internal memory)

Video * Memory Stick Video Format

MPEG-4 Simple Profile (AAC)
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile (AAC)

* MPEG-4
MPEG-4 Simple Profile (AAC)
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile (CABAC) (AAC)
Baseline Profile (AAC)

* AVI
Motion JPEG (Linear PCM)
Motion JPEG (u-Law)

Music
* Memory Stick Audio Format
ATRAC3(TM)*8
ATRAC3plus(TM)*8

o MP3
* MP3 (MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer3)
* MP4 (MPEG-4 AAC)
* WAVE (Linear PCM)
* WMA (Windows Media(R) Audio 9 Standard only)*9
Photo * JPEG (DCF2.0/Exif2.21 compliant)
* TIFF
* BMP
* GIF
* PNG