The PSP Go must be a sad piece of hardware. In concept, it's revolutionary. It's the first dedicated, all-digital game platform (phones notwithstanding), with full support for the PlayStation Network, several PS3-connectivity features and all the power of the PSP itself.
Unfortunately in practice it's kind of miserable. It costs too much, is saddled with some of the original PSP's flaws (where's my second analog nub?), and digital PSP games aren't cheaper or come out any faster, and in some cases don't come out at all.
Which makes the Dreamy Theater expansion pack to the mega-popular singing virtual idol game Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA all the more of a painful blow, even indirectly. The pack essentially allows Vocaloid fans to play Project DIVA through the PS3 (using a DualShock 3), which in turn upscales and re-renders the graphics to display Miku in high-definition, high-polycount glory. Now you can see Miku prance and sing on the big screen and pretend that she didn't obtain her motion capture data from a 13-year-old.
Worse still, seeing these screenshots of Dreamy Theater just makes me all the more disappointed that there still isn't a full-scale Miku PS3 game. Come on, Crypton Future Media and Sega! DO IT. You'll make bucketloads selling costume and song DLC anyway! Oh, and bring it across the pond, too. Pretty please!
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8:00 PM on 04.24.2010 | 
But how long can people whine about no second analog nub? It's stupid. As long as it isn't a completely new system, there is no reason for a second nub. So please stop bitching about it. Jeez.
Slightly irrelevant post, but whatever.
THE MAIN problems with the go, was as this article stated, the price. At $150 or $175, we can start talking (considering a 16gb mem card for the psp1000 can run $50).
The 2nd problem with the psp go is Sony not pushing third parties hard enough to make sure the games are on PSN, and reasonable prices. Although i do not know who is ultimately to blame for that. Those are the only two problems.
Hardware is fantastic, Conceptually, digital distribution is the future, Steam has proven that. If Sony can tackle those two problems, we'd see Go sales look way more attractive than the older PSP models.
Jim Sterling, your exaggerated experience of not being able to download games to your test PSP GO because you couldn't figure out your WEP key, and other tech illiteracy problem is the fault of yourself, NOT Sony. The fact that the two problems i mentioned were not highlighted as the primary issues does a disservice to Destructoid's readers, who are given an unrealistic impression that the PSP is difficult to use or setup.
I would recommend the psp go to someone who does not have a umd library, because that is clearly who the go was intended for.
I have a PSP Go and I like it. It's fun reading comics on it's smaller screen. If you don't like it, then shut up and and stick with the older PSP models!
In other words, just because a couple people say all games are more expensive on PSN doesn't make it true. And at the end of the day, it's the developers that set the prices. Thus, if the high price offends you, DON'T BUY IT.
It's amazing how this system of economics is what has made the iPhone a very difficult to profit from platform by driving the prices so low and yet Sony is the devil because, SURPRISE, these companies actually want to make money. Those bastards and their bills to pay.
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I like these angry responses. You can really tell who got boned into buying a Psp Go. It isn't that the games aren't 4-5 bucks. The problem is they are usually more expensive than physical carts and the 100 dollar cheaper model of PSP can play both digital downloads and carts.... More for less anyone?
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