First Hands On with the new PSP GO!

The original gameboy was a huge success, it even outsold the DS, of course PSP GO won't compare.

it's not a very big improvement for the price imo.

may that be because that was the very first portable console and virtually everyone had one? :P

Cube its definately not a waste of money. Ok think about it this way: As there is no UMD purchase you will pay less for your game and you wont have to wait around to get it, and the price goes down over time with occasionaly special deals. It has been announced for £249, €249 and £249 which as you all know are all very different costs so im hoping for the UK pricing to go down. Further its much more than just a slide screen, no UMD allows publishers to put more onto the PSP as the UMD is limited to around 1.8GB of memory or something when downloading u could have much higher if you want. Also not all games come out on UMD anyway anymore - eg ps1 classics etc. off PSN. The console is far more portable and looks a lot sleeker and a nicer design than its predecesors - so in summary great console but do u really want to spend cash on it on release, wait a while for price to go down or just wait for the PSP2? :P

We were all expecting the PS3 to go down in price.... it didnt... I don't see why someone would buy this over the normal PSP... Downloading games.... not everyone wants to download games because their connection is slow... My connection is barely faster than dial up.... So downloading games is a nono for me.

Ok first off the PS3 did come down in price quite drastically there have been what 4 different Ps3s or 5 i thin now.: 20gb, 40gb, 60, 80 and i think theres a 120GB model in US aswell. Right so i have a 60GB PS3 on release that was around £500, i got for £425 and then it dropped loads after i got cause they phased it out the 80GB model Ps3 you can get for £299 and that has a couple of games, dualshock controller etc. now thats quite a lot cheaper than the original so yeah it did go down. Everything goes down in price after time.
Next issue the new psp is far more portable, looks a lot sleeker, it has 16GB in built memory which you can further increase with a memory stick. The new PSP is basically making a bigger transiton towards more of a PS3 compatiable portable console, it now has PSN, and lots of other features the PS3 has. It has improved on lots of things and downloading games will probably be the future for PSP, like i said before you can have a lot more game data on a psp than u can fit into a UMD ike i previously explained. You may need a faster internet then and i believe sony are making kiosks in which you can download it onto them and will tell u info on PS3 and PSP and more.

If they were to add a second stick at this point of a PSPs life cycle it would make no sense, this will run all the old games making the second thumb pad useless, and if new games were to use the second thumb pad it would either alienate old PSP entirely (by not being compatible) or partially (for example aiming in a first person shooter it would be unfair if some people had one joystick where they would have to use a button to enable aim whilst others can seamlessly run and aim at the same time).

The PSP2 or w/e it's called should have them tho, would make things a LOT easier...

yea tho hate the d-pad hate the price, but on thumb pad yea it would be stupid for them to add it at this stage. hey I'm still happy with my PSP 1000 model =p