PSP Go With 16GB Memory and Bluetooth Leaked 190
Lyonhrt writes "Engadget and Gizmodo have spilled the beans on the news of the new UMD-less PSP Go that comes with 16GB of memory and a slide screen; also among the features will be built-in Bluetooth and an undisclosed memory slot. The console will be sold alongside the PSP-3000, but there are no details on price at this time. This is obviously Sony's answer to the lost battle with the PSP Homebrew and Hacking Communities, which have cost many thousands of lost sales with custom firmwares."
D.O.A (Score:2, Interesting)
This looks like it is Dead On Arrival.
For Sony's sake I would hope that it gets custom firmware very fast.
Without a UMD, how are you supposed to play the games you already purchased? Sony's retard-o-think(tm) and fuck-em-let-em-pay-twice mentality makes me think they are not going to provide a way to migrate your already purchased PSP games to it. You will be forced to rent forever what you had already spent money on to purchase before? Look at all the PS1 titles that you had to buy twice.
I would eat my shorts if Sony released their OWN version of UMD ripper to help facilitate the transfer of customer owned games from a PSP1000/2000/3000 to this new PSP Go.
Considering how unlikely that is, and that most people are not going to purchase a new PSP machine that forces them to re-buy all their games......
Sony is really betting on "Piracy" here. This unit would only seem to be of interest to those that already possess custom firmware and the ability to rip UMD's.
It is intensely strange. Sony is marketing to the people they have hated and battled with for so long.
In any case, if this does get some custom firmware on it I would be somewhat interested it. I would like to get my hands on it, since it seems to have questionable ergonomics. Very interesting device, just don't think it will sell well in the beginning.
Re:How does custom firmware "lose sales" (Score:5, Interesting)
true but one of the many things custom firmware can do is bypass regional lock outs and allows people to buy imported games.
Re:How does custom firmware "lose sales" (Score:3, Interesting)
If we had the same stupid restrictions on books as we do on movies and games, manga wouldn't have become popular and as a result anime wouldn't have either and there are both huge industries in the western world.
Re:How does custom firmware "lose sales" (Score:5, Interesting)
That's not entirely true. While I agree that it's kind of stupid, they do this so they can sell things at a higher price in more wealthy areas of the world. Nobody making $20/month or whatever in a poorer country is going to pay $20+ for a DVD (or Bluray) - this is intended to stop you from buying thing from countries where things are priced cheaper.
Re:How does custom firmware "lose sales" (Score:5, Interesting)
In most homebrew circles piracy is frowned heavily upon.
Honestly, in my experience with people IRL, every single one of them running custom firmware on their DS or PSP uses it to pirate games. Heck, I'd gotten to the point of where I was almost translating "homebrew" into pirated games.
While there might be a small number of people who actually do run custom firmware and don't pirate games, for the vast majority of the public custom firmware = free gamez. Same as modchips.
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Interesting)
The directional controls on mobile phones are crap compared to a Gameboy.
Yes but the AC has a point. Imagine an android phone with the directional controls done right. Or maybe an ipod touch/iphone if the holy saints from apple design were to allow such sins to happen. Sony seems to be in a tough spot here. The lack of a 2nd analog stick is making the rounds in the early comments over the blogs that leaked it. The memory chip might be a proprietary sony lock-in attempt, yet once again. You may need to rebuy your previously bought games to play here. And of course it must have all functionality of the previous PSPs, including SKYPE.
Memo to these failing phone hardware makers: go for android, include skype, perhaps settle on a "gaming standard" of buttons and controls, and let "hackers" (i.e., someone else to take the blame) provide "nintendo/ps1/ps2/psp/amiga etcetc emulators".
Of course, there may be probably some surprise in store, and I hope Sony has something interesting, even if I'm not planning to get it
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Interesting)
The only open phone (openmoko) has 2 buttons : power and aux. Not quite enough for a good game experience.
Who said games need to use a joystick and buttons? Three words: Kirby Canvas Curse.
Something that can run nes, snes, sega megadrive, and n64 would certainly cover all I want
But how would you get the publishers of games for "nes, snes, sega megadrive, and n64" to cooperate?
Not Homebrew games -- actual money (Score:2, Interesting)