The PSP Go was always going to be a hard sell, but Sony did make it significantly harder for themselves by pricing the thing at $450. Last week they attempted to fix that issue by dropping the price of the handheld to $250.
From today, the PSPGo will sell for the cheaper $250 RRP, and will have the added benefit of including 10 free games, some of which are actually kind of awesome:
· Assassins Creed: Bloodlines™ (Ubisoft)
· Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar Games)
· Gran Turismo™ (Polyphony Digital, Inc. SCE)
· James Cameron’s AVATAR™: The Game (Ubisoft)
· LittleBigPlanet™ (Media Molecule, SCE)
· MotorStorm® Arctic Edge (Evolution Studios, SCE)
· NEED FOR SPEED SHIFT (EA)
· Pursuit Force™: Extreme Justice (BigBig, SCE)
· 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ (EA Sports)
· WipEout® Pure (SCE Worldwide Studios )
The free games are by redemption, obviously, and you’ll need to download them, so you can say goodbye to your download quota for a month. But that said, this is still a pretty good deal, despite the fact handheld consoles are struggling. Does it entice you to add a UMD-free PSP to your hardware collection?
brad
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 10:06 AMfor $250 it is very tempting. ive got a 1000 sitting here that never gets touched so i wonder if the go would end up the same? probably.
Dave Rogers
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 11:00 AMI would find myself too limited by the lack of UMD support. Too many classic games out there on UMD only.
Simon Reidy
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 11:06 AMWith the PSP phone on the horizon it sucks even more than it did at launch. Unless you really want to get into some Sony back catalogue titles, why bother?
Cameron
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 11:47 AMI reckon I would have bitten at this if it had UMD. I don’t want to be limited to download only games, and I don’t want to have to download my 10 free games either. I’d also be concerned on where I’d store 10 games, would they all fit on the internal memory?
johnny
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 1:51 PMdont see you complaining for iphone games
Bjorn
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 2:17 PMWhy do people want physical copies i.e UMDs. seriously I would much rather have all my games stored on a memory stick, at least then it should cut down on the noise and I wouldnt lose my games anywhere.
Daniel Weaver-Koenigs
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 5:38 PMIf it was this price or even $300 at release I would of bought one, instead of almost being the price of a bloody Playstation 3.
I now have an iPhone, and will be upgrading to a Windows Phone 7 capable of Xbox Live games.
Sony have screwed up their mobile gaming, Nintendo is the only console maker doing it right with a stand alone device.
Stefan
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 6:41 PMthey should have had an externam UMD reader which you can plug into the mini usb port on the back :P
Mark
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 8:01 PMThe GO is awful to hold if you have anything larger than child’s hands. I imagine the PS phone will be a similar size. Plus, DL games from the PS store is slow and unreliable.
Twin1
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 9:02 PMMeh. Guess it wasnt selling too well and news finally got back to Sony?
Always good to see Sony get squeezed by market pressure.
Still not interested tho’.
Steve
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 10:36 PMStill not sold. Why? Because PSN’s ridiculous, higher-than-actual-retail prices. Even if the device is a bargain at $200 with a bunch of free games, I’m still going to be screwed with any future purchases.
Mitsu
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 11:16 PMUMDs (from memory) have a capacity of about 1.4gb, and it comes with 16gb internal memory, so you should at least be able to get the 10 freebies on there. IMHO much nicer to have all 10 with you when you want to play them than have to carry around the UMDs.
Hom Infor
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 9:41 AMI still can buy the PSP Go! from Sony for $250. The Sony Shop not the Sony Website are honouring this price??
Scam?? or Incompetence