Honestly? The PSP Go's not bad. It definitely defines the word portable. What's making it suck is the fact that you're stuck with a portable console that doesn't allow you to play currently owned games. That's what the gripes really all about. It's about unnecessary incurred expenses. Yeah, there may be some bugs with the initial models but they'll get better. My sister has both the Go and the the 3000 and I keep asking her what she's going to do with both? She just looks at me with this clueless look and I say, "yeah...I thought so".
There's no way to get your UMD's on the Go which forces consumers to buy the game...again. Here's a proposal that I wonder if Sony even thought of, "Trade-ins". EB Games/Gamestop and the likes already do trade ins. Why doesn't Sony ask resellers to do a special trade in where consumers can bring back their UMD's in place of "credits". "Sony is worried of piracy" is what some of you are thinking. Traded in UMD's pretty much puts a stamp of approval that it is a legitimate copy. There's only so much that can be done to "duplicate" or create a clone of a physical UMD. There are still markers that sales clerks are trained to identify on cartridges, etc. to determine if the chassis and internals are duped or not. Once traded, all they're doing is getting the UMD back to be sent back to Sony or be "field destroyed" and exchanging the physical object with Sony credits to be used for online purchases towards the same game.
I'm sure it can't be that difficult.
Wanna see a magic trick? Wait 3 - 5 months from now for Sony to announce something similar to what I said. Once that happens, all those who already bought a digital copy of what they already physically owned will go berserk for shelling out the $'s.
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Honestly? The PSP Go's not bad. It definitely defines the word portable. What's making it suck is the fact that you're stuck with a portable console that doesn't allow you to play currently owned games. That's what the gripes really all about. It's about unnecessary incurred expenses. Yeah, there may be some bugs with the initial models but they'll get better. My sister has both the Go and the the 3000 and I keep asking her what she's going to do with both? She just looks at me with this clueless look and I say, "yeah...I thought so".
There's no way to get your UMD's on the Go which forces consumers to buy the game...again. Here's a proposal that I wonder if Sony even thought of, "Trade-ins". EB Games/Gamestop and the likes already do trade ins. Why doesn't Sony ask resellers to do a special trade in where consumers can bring back their UMD's in place of "credits". "Sony is worried of piracy" is what some of you are thinking. Traded in UMD's pretty much puts a stamp of approval that it is a legitimate copy. There's only so much that can be done to "duplicate" or create a clone of a physical UMD. There are still markers that sales clerks are trained to identify on cartridges, etc. to determine if the chassis and internals are duped or not. Once traded, all they're doing is getting the UMD back to be sent back to Sony or be "field destroyed" and exchanging the physical object with Sony credits to be used for online purchases towards the same game.
I'm sure it can't be that difficult.
Wanna see a magic trick? Wait 3 - 5 months from now for Sony to announce something similar to what I said. Once that happens, all those who already bought a digital copy of what they already physically owned will go berserk for shelling out the $'s.