17 Aug, 2011
Anyone here remember the device that was called PSP Go. Yes, you remember, the Sony portable device that shunned a UMD drive, instead looking to use the PSN as the sole place to buy your games. It was a colossal failure at retail, never finding a niche with anyone. And yet with that huge failure, it seems to me that Sony has found a way to beat that failure, and actually make it look like a brilliant decision all at the same time.
Yes, as you have probably heard by now, there is a new PSP model coming to PAL territories sometime before the Holiday season (which means any week now). On the surface it seems smart enough, keeping the UMD drive, using some Slim Fast to make the case thinner and more compact, and a priced to move at €99. So why is this such a blunder? Did I mention that Sony completely forgot to include WiFi in this new PSP model. That’s right friends, if you want to download anything from the marketplace, you better reinstall Media Go on your computer, because that is the only way it is going to happen.
Sure, WiFi is not a huge deal to some, but it is such an insignificant cost in any mobile device. The tranceivers for WiFi cannot run all that much with the advances in technology. Stranger is why Sony is pushing me to go back to the PC as my sole way to download content, after working so hard to get the PSN marketplace on the PSP.
So while someone will buy you new PSP, as a morbid curiosity, I am ready to send you to that special video game hell where the Virtual Boy, GameBoy Micro and Coleco ADAM are sitting in, wondering who was dumb enough to create these travesties against mankind. Thanks, Sony, but I have a feeling that people are ready to actively seek out a PSP Go over buying this less than spectacular device.
If you want to read more on the new PSP model that is coming to PAL countries, head over to the PlayStation EU Blog – http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/08/16/new-psp-announced-at-gamescom-2011/
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