Sony is paving the way for its download-only PSP Go, ushering in a new era of downloadable gaming by claiming that "just about" every UMD game for the PlayStation Portable will be available for download on the PSN by October 1.
The news comes from Sony social media manager and chocolate gorgon Jeff Rubenstein, who stated that: "It's my understanding that just about everything hitting after October 1 will be available for download." He did add, however, that the availability of third party games were would depend upon the publisher.
It's going to be really interesting to see what impact the PSP Go has, if any. Its lack of a UMD drive could screw it over, with consumers unwilling to part with their original PSPs and UMDs, but unable to justify owning two versions of one system. That's certainly the position I find myself in right now. I would very much like to pick up a PSP Go, but I don't want to just throw my UMDs away or own two PSPs.
Sony, why must you continue to confuse and test the patience your customers?
[Update: Jeff Rubenstein contacted me to quantify his statement and address any concerns that may be had with this story. Hit the jump for a further explanation of Rubenstein's original quote]
"Your quoting of me (and reference as a chocolate gorgon) are dead on, but I think the wording in the 1st paragraph is confusing some of your readers (who were immediately contacting me for clarification). We were talking about new releases post-release of PSPgo. For the back catalog, expect the majority of exisiting UMD titles to be available for download via PSN around the launch of PSPgo as well."
Ta da!
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10:20 AM on 06.10.2009
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But I really want one of those PSP GO!s. They are sexy.
I really will pick up a Go, my Fat PSP is on it's last hours =P.
Also 16 GB PSP Go = $249, 16 GB iPod touch = $299. And the PSP Go! can play REAL games. I think you can guess which one I'd get.
That would be awesome though, as some imports are pretty rare and expensive.
"It's my understanding that just about everything hitting after October 1 will be available for download."
The media is 1.2 gbs. Most of the games aren't but a few hundred megs.
One word: Piracy. They don't make money when you pirate. And the fact that
1.They don't make money when you sell used games
2.They don't make money when you borrow games
Yes they're doing it for money but I don't expect the whole world to suddenly become a charity. But the prices ARE inaccusable especially with the way they don't convert prices. If it sells for the expected £250
250.00 USD = 153.13 GBP (The pirce it should be. £155-160 at most)
250.00 GBP = 408.21 USD (The price it's expected to be)
96.87 GBP / 157.79 USD Difference. That's fucked up.
The very fact Sony haven't acknowledged the import games aspect says enough to me, that they won't allow us access to japanese DLC titles too.
Its a real shame, because rampant PSP piracy has now led to depriving us of import games. I say hang onto your PSP 1,2,3000's. I like owning import games too much.
Read the second half:
http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6211751/psp-trophies-axed-umd-goodwill-program-reportedly-planned
That name is more retarded then Wii. Why GO? why not Delux or something. GO sounds just... awkward.
They u-turned on us actually importing UMD games (wiki Lik Sang, if you must), and on the PS3 BC. I just can't trust them anymore, and I'm tired of getting burned by them.
Get yourselves a nice little 16 go memory stick and you can do everything the Psp Go can.
This will sell too.
Yeah, well this would be more like a GBA with no GBA port than a DS with no GBA port. People with DS games can still play their DS games on a DSi. People with PSP games cannot play their PSP games on a PSP Go.
They're adding every game to the library, making me able to get some of those old titles I missed out on, hopefully on the very cheap.
They will supposedly enable us to download Digital versions of our UMD's, but that's not really concrete.
16GB internal storage, with lots of room to grow. You can have probably anywhere up to 15 games on the system, depending on the size.
I'd really hate to shell out another $30-$40 bucks just for a game I already own on a physical level. If it's $5-10, I won't have that much of a fit over it.