It's GO Time

It’s GO Time: PSPgo Available October 1st - Source Playstation Blog

Playstation decided that the Sony PSP 1 wasn't good enough so they came out with the PSP 2 which I bought for myself in 2008. Then they came out with PSP 3 which the only differences was that it had a mic embedded so you don't have to buy a mic which I bought for 30 frickin dollars and they moved the speakers and made the screen less shiny and more visible while playing outside in the sun. Trust me if you have a video game system, even an old Game Boy, you can't see it when you are outside in the daylight so that was a welcome addition.

Now they have come out with the PSPGo which is smaller and the screen slides up and down to hide or show the game controllers. It makes it cool so you can use it as your Mp3 player and not be pushing buttons all the time because they are hidden.

One issue that people are going to have with this is that if they already have UMD's that they bought for their PSP 1, 2 or 3, they are screwed. UMD Conversion a no-go for PSP Go.

Another issue people are having is that they are charging $50 more for this and which if you pay $50 more you might as well buy a PS3.

It doesn't have a camera which is another issue. My issue is that it doesn't have a GPS either. They made the camera and GPS for Asia but they never sent it over to the U.S., not sure if Europe ever got it but we didn't. If I want the GPS I gotta buy it from the PSP Asia store and it's all in a different language and I'm sure all the maps are in Japanese too.

Another issue for me is the lack of a keyboard. It's next to impossible to use this to chat with people via the PSP Browser. You can use ebuddy for this thing but if you want to IM with people 1 sentence takes forever to type and by the time you have it all typed out the person you are talking to have already sent you 5 messages. It's not an ideal IMing device.

Well this is great for those people who don't have a PSP because they can just start their collection with the PSPGo. But for those of us who already own a PSP, too bad so sad.