PSP Go? 249.99!!!!

Magnus said:
How? :( There doesn't appear to be an option anywhere at all.
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Go to the Tools menu and run the Setup Assistant. Hit Next twice and you'll be at a screen asking you which devices you'll use with Media Go. Make sure to select the PSP.

ShinoguTakeruKoeru said:
S'no problem if they pack in a USB cable specially made for the PSP go, right?

They are putting one in, right?
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The US site says there is a USB cable included.

http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP/Systems/pspgo.html
 
Last thing that I am wondering about is if there will be any region jackassery.
I like the fact that I can currently download a ps1 game from the japanese psn store and play it on my US psp.
 
OokieSpookie said:
Last thing that I am wondering about is if there will be any region jackassery.
I like the fact that I can currently download a ps1 game from the japanese psn store and play it on my US psp.
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Created a Japanese account?
 
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spwolf said:
ehm, they didnt switch to Apple pricing, they went cheaper. :lol

Old Sony would do OLED touchscreen, 32 GB for $400.
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Actually, it's $50 more expensive than a 16 gig ipod nano.

But I believe the point was more that the were going for Apple-style prestige pricing, not that they were trying to match some dollar amount.



The fact that they are removing something significant from the device (disc drive), and then turning around and raising the price by $80 is definitely along the lines of a prestige pricing attempt.
 
Just saying you UK guys are paying for how weak the pound got in the last months.

You are lucky that older products (like the Wii etc) didn't get a price adjustment. But you'll see it as products get replaced.

In the mainland, the PSP will cost exactly as much as the Wii.

For me it's a shame though, hadn't been this price adjustment in the UK and I'd probably import it from there due to the weak pound. Just like I did with my iPod, saving 100 euros, lol.

Get with the times, guys.

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Evander said:
Actually, it's $50 more expensive than a 16 gig ipod nano.

But I believe the point was more that the were going for Apple-style prestige pricing, not that they were trying to match some dollar amount.



The fact that they are removing something significant from the device (disc drive), and then turning around and raising the price by $80 is definitely along the lines of a prestige pricing attempt.
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people where complaining about UMD, now they want it to stay?
 
spwolf said:
ehm, they didnt switch to Apple pricing, they went cheaper. :lol

Old Sony would do OLED touchscreen, 32 GB for $400.
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Erm... an iPod Touch is cheaper than the PSP Go. And by the time Go launches, a Touch with the same capacity of memory will be $50 less than the Go. Hardly cheaper.
 
Acid08 said:
How is it too much? It was the same price as the PSP was at launch but now it has 16GB's of built in memory.
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Didn't the PSP launch at $200 for the core unit in Japan the day it was released? I played with this at E3 and stupidly, the demo units they had there were locked open and it was impossible to close them. Not only that they were attached with this super heavy metal plate making the unit about 5X heavier then it was supposed to be.

I was day one until I played it but now, I'll just keep my 2000. It's not enough of a jump to make me jump. LBP was super awesome though but that will play on my existing unit.
 
g35twinturbo said:
what are you talking about?

ipod touch 16gb is $299

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_touch?mco=MTE4MTQ
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Apple usually updates the iPod touch in the fall so nerbo is saying that Apple is likely to double the capacity so that the entry level touch will have 16GB.

However, it won't be $50 less than a Go like nerbo suggests. Remember, the Touch costs $230, more than the iPhone w/ contract ($200). So it will only be $20 cheaper.
 
OldJadedGamer said:
Didn't the PSP launch at $200 for the core unit in Japan the day it was released? I played with this at E3 and stupidly, the demo units they had there were locked open and it was impossible to close them. Not only that they were attached with this super heavy metal plate making the unit about 5X heavier then it was supposed to be.

I was day one until I played it but now, I'll just keep my 2000. It's not enough of a jump to make me jump. LBP was super awesome though but that will play on my existing unit.
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so what changed you from day 1 to who knows? just the features or what? I'm sure you know of the features prehand playing it, right?

Captain Nemo said:
Apple usually updates the iPod touch in the fall and so nerbo is saying that Apple is likely to double the capacity so that the entry level $230 (not $50 less like nerbo suggests, just $30. remember the touch is more than the iPhone) touch will have 16GB.
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ahhh okay.
 
Captain Nemo said:
Apple usually updates the iPod touch in the fall so nerbo is saying that Apple is likely to double the capacity so that the entry level touch will have 16GB.

However, it won't be $50 less than a Go like nerbo suggests. Remember, the Touch costs $230, more than the iPhone w/ contract ($200). So it will only be $20 cheaper.
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Rumors are also circulating about the iphone getting an onboard 3-d graphics chip in July. Also the phone is being touted as having the ability of to sync blue tooth peripherals... including controllers. Doubt a new iteration of the ipod touch will be far behind

... my man.
 
Byakuya769 said:
Rumors are also circulating about the iphone getting an onboard 3-d graphics chip in July. Also the phone is being touted as having the ability of to sync blue tooth peripherals... including controllers. Doubt a new iteration of the ipod touch will be far behind

... my man.
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iPhone has always had a GPU.
 
~Devil Trigger~ said:
people where complaining about UMD, now they want it to stay?
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People were complaining about UMD hoping that Sony will switch to a better format, not a total removal.
 
g35twinturbo said:
so what changed you from day 1 to who knows? just the features or what? I'm sure you know of the features prehand playing it, right?
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I know the features and I sat there during the entire LBP demo from start to end (about 15 minutes) and used the GO. I just didn't give me any different feeling then playing my 2000. I just felt like I was playing my PSP. It's hard to describe but I was expecting the jump from DS phat to DS lite and it wasn't like that. I totally forgot I was playing it after like a minute. I did like the D-pad a lot more then my 2000 though.

It didn't help that I had some dude to the right of me grilling the demo guy about every feature that was cut and the price of the memory cards, the guy was being a huge prick and the poor demo guy didn't have any answers for the guy. I just wanted to tell him to shut up and play the unit and make his own decision rather then grilling the Sony dude. That poor guy wasn't told anything that guy didn't already know. This shit comes from Japan and these guys are left in the dark.
 
Sigh,

Still no white up for preorder at Amazon. Has anybody been able to find a listing there? I've got a black one down, but I want a white.
 
jts said:
Just saying you UK guys are paying for how weak the pound got in the last months.

You are lucky that older products (like the Wii etc) didn't get a price adjustment. But you'll see it as products get replaced.

In the mainland, the PSP will cost exactly as much as the Wii.

For me it's a shame though, hadn't been this price adjustment in the UK and I'd probably import it from there due to the weak pound. Just like I did with my iPod, saving 100 euros, lol.

Get with the times, guys.

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Um... i hate to break this to you... but the pound is getting stronger, getting a lot stronger than it was and is well on its way to $2 again. So essentially there's zero reason for such a ludicrous price in the UK.
 
Captain Nemo said:
Apple usually updates the iPod touch in the fall so nerbo is saying that Apple is likely to double the capacity so that the entry level touch will have 16GB.

However, it won't be $50 less than a Go like nerbo suggests. Remember, the Touch costs $230, more than the iPhone w/ contract ($200). So it will only be $20 cheaper.
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Yes, but it does feature a touch screen that the PSP Go does not. My point is, when you look at actual component costs, PSP Go is quite a ripoff at $249 given how much margin Apple makes at $229 on considerably more expensive (and newer) parts.

There's really no reason that a PSP Go should cost much more(if at all) than a regular PSP. The removal of the UMD drive does not negate the cost of the added memory storage, but it certainly helps. As for Sony needing to make up R&D costs on PSP Go (as some have stated) - That's simply bogus. The underpinnings are nearly piece for piece transfered and condensed from the existing PSP, while the actual design of the product is taken almost entirely directly from the existing Sony Mylo device. It's not any sort of radical re-design, it's a refresh - The price does not reflect that.

Sony could (and should) solve this whole over-pricing dilemma by packing something good with the PSP Go (like Gran Turismo).
 
Xavien said:
Um... i hate to break this to you... but the pound is getting stronger, getting a lot stronger than it was and is well on its way to $2 again. So essentially there's zero reason for such a ludicrous price in the UK.
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Maybe it is getting, but it's still not quite. These companies tend to price its products uniformly across europe and having the reference price in euros (which unfortunately usually translates from the american USD price in a 1:1 ratio). For PSP go this means 250€ (same price as the Wii) which at the current rate it's still 218gbp according to google. When the Wii was launched by the end of 2006, the exchange rate meant that 250€ would translate to around 180gbp, which is why that's still the MRP on the UK.

It's still a bit of a rip-off I'll agree since 230£ is 12£ more than 250€ at the current rate.

Join the euro bandwagon anyway though, and never worry again! The price of your products will always be the same as the american one except in a stronger currency! :P :(
 
nerbo said:
My point is, when you look at actual component costs
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PSP chipset completely outclasses iPhone in terms of horsepower, if Apple is paying a lot for those chips, they are getting ripped off in the first place (and ripping off consumers in result). Of course, that's not the only component cost, but it's one that is usually listed as a major one.

Then again NDSi is selling for 160$(or more?) and let's not even go counting component costs there...
 
Action Jackson said:
Who at Sony had the great idea to not make the new media manager software OSX compatible?
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Sony has always supported and adored Microsoft software. This is the reason I never got an Aibo since it only worked on PC.
 
Fafalada said:
PSP chipset completely outclasses iPhone in terms of horsepower, if Apple is paying a lot for those chips, they are getting ripped off in the first place (and ripping off consumers in result). Of course, that's not the only component cost, but it's one that is usually listed as a major one.

Then again NDSi is selling for 160$(or more?) and let's not even go counting component costs there...
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Apple is making extremely healthy margin on iPod Touch, which is the subject of comparison I am using, not the iPhone, which is cost subsidized via data subscriptions.

As for horsepower, that's purely relative to the purpose at hand for said devices. Clearly the iPod Touch is not even comparable to a PSP in poly-pushing power, but that's not what it's CPU is built for either. PSP's internals are pretty damn cheap these days, given how long the device has been out and how much margin Sony pulls in selling the core system. The point remains, PSP Go is overpriced for what it is. Your reply is doing nothing to argue otherwise.
 
It's to help compensate for the PS3 Slims price (Though I don't doubt that the Slim will have a lot of cost saving compared to the old model Playstation 3). That's my read, anyway.
 
zoukka said:
So this is a remodeling of the same old psp, yet it costs like a next-gen handheld device?

Nice going Sony.
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Damn, has anybody seen the build of this in the photos? They went back to their old Sony type of materials with metal like the old MD players and PSP 1000. Can't understand why everyone is up in arms over the price. This is clearly being positioned as the premium option. It will likely drop in price in 2010 when they begin to slowly ramp down the old model.

Us early adopters will gladly buy them so the folks who are more price-sensitive can get it later next year at the lower price.
 
Wait what, horsepower?! I thought horsepower wasn't important anymore in this day and age, it's all about new control! :lol
 
Yes Boss! said:
Damn, has anybody seen the build of this in the photos? They went back to their old Sony type of materials with metal like the old MD players and PSP 1000. Can't understand why everyone is up in arms over the price. This is clearly being positioned as the premium option. It will likely drop in price in 2010 when they begin to slowly ramp down the old model.

Us early adopters will gladly buy them so the folks who are more price-sensitive can get it later next year at the lower price.
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Because features are being stripped out as far as media play, and yet it's $80 MORE.

That's the biggest point of contention. The OG PSPs can do everything the go can... and more flexibly.
 
Outcast2004 said:
Because features are being stripped out as far as media play, and yet it's $80 MORE.
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What is being stripped? The UMD drive? This is being sold as a DD device only. It is not being sold as a legacy UMD player. Download only. In other words, all games that are on the PSN store right now and all games that will be added. If that doesn't work for you then you aren't part of the demographic.
 
Yes Boss! said:
No shit. I've got one. But all the internals are metal. I've also got a 2000 and they ridiculously dropped the overall build quality.
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Assuming for a moment that there was some sort of momentous drop off in build quality after the 1000 which has now been reestablished with the Go, the tech inside is still over five years old and just put into a smaller package.

If netbooks used the Go's pricing structure, then they would cost over $2000.

What troubles me is that the Go is something Sony needs in order to stop piracy, or at least curb the ridiculous rate at which PSPs are compromised. Based on that, you would expect them to be practically giving them away so that people replace their PSPs.
 
Yes Boss! said:
What is being stripped? The UMD drive? This is being sold as a DD device only. It is not being sold as a legacy UMD player. Download only. In other words, all games that are on the PSN store right now and all games that will be added. If that doesn't work for you then you aren't part of the demographic.
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The UMD drive, the smaller screen, $80 extra out of your wallet.

If being digital is that big of a deal, you can already do that!

Sony releasing this is pointless basically. If the OG PSP couldn't do digital distro, then I'd be fine with it.

BUT, to take something OUT and then try to justify a MASSIVE price jump is a little ridiculous.
Keep drinking the kool-aid kids.
 
~Devil Trigger~ said:
people where complaining about UMD, now they want it to stay?
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When people were complaining about UMDs, they were saying that they wanted somehting better, not nothing at all.
 
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