Sony bringing PSP Go! October 1 for $249 in North America

by Justin McElroy on Jun 2nd 2009 2:46PM

Can you even believe it? Yeah, so, not a big secret, but at least we know that Sony is really bringing out a much smaller version of their portable console with the PSP Go!

We heard from Sony at its E3 press conference that it won't "replace" the PSP-3000 or UMD, it's 50 percent smaller and 40 percent lighter than the original PSP. All future retail titles will have retail and PlayStation store release. Japan can look for it Nov. 1 for ¥26,800.

Tags: e3-2009, psp-go, sony

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I don't understand why everybody is complaining about the price point when there is a 16GB ipod touch in this world that cost 300 dollars... this thing is basically the samething minus the touch screen

Someone want to tell me why the hell this thing doesn't have a touch screen?

No touch screen = FTL

CaramelZappa and others that will be

250 for the system
30-40 for the new game
20 for the new case
20-30 for the excpansion memory card
tax

and i know i must be missing something else here that is a lot for a 3000+ psp system isn't it.

That price better be a typo.. The "2" button is awful close to the "1" button..

I'll wait till it's hacked. :D Be nice to have my backup PS1 games on and PSP games. UMD's suck to carry around. I have broken a few from just carrying in my pockets so this just seems more sensible.

almost forgot you can't resale your games as well

YES looks very sexy with it's stylish pop out game pad. i can't wait and as for the

price is concerned don't really bother me at all as long as i enjoy it who cares

about the price... i would love to be

able to play as ps3 games on it through remote play tho! also i have a 2g hack

touch and i loveeeeee it!

Still has one analog stick. Fail.

Well I WAS going to buy one, but that was when I was assuming it'd be close to the price of a current PSP. I'm not spending $250 on a handheld. Sony really hasn't learned their lesson about pricing.

There's NO way the pricing would be similar to PSP 3000, considering the 16GB of flash memory. That was an unrealistic expectation. I would love on board storage, one of the things I hate most about my PSP is swapping my 4GB memory cards.

you DO Realize that the PSP LAUNCHED at that price right??

You know how many it SOLD at that price??? a ASSLOAD!!!

Ah ha ha, ok. Because the PSP was such an amazing success right from the start, huh?

Ummm SALESwise it was....but like OTHER Sony platforms the REAL heavy hitters started coming in year 4-5....

No, actually. It did well until the DS came out and then it started to die off.

And will people please stop bitching about the fact that it only has one control stick and there's only one screen and there's no touch screen and all this crap? It's not a PSP2. They're not going to do anything to limit compatibility with other PSP models.

Adding features doesn't keep it from being backwards compatible. You can play any GBA game on the DS, even though the DS has a touch screen and 2 screens and stuff. They could easily add that stuff and still have it be compatible with older PSP titles. You can still control 1 stick games that use with 2 sticks (hint: don't use the second stick)

Psst. You can't design a game around a handheld with two sticks and have it work on a handheld with one stick.

ill pass

ok it's expensive,
i live in mexico if i buy the psp am i going to download game
or for know its going to be xclusive to us,
like my game account for xbox its in us, but i live in mx, and i can't download videos
or netflix because of the region i think

Ok stop the press 1 second. No UMD drive right? So if you have UMD games, you can't play them on that thing right?

how stupid is that? Any plans on being able to transfer/install UMD games to the PSP go without having to buy them off online?

thay said their going to rip them at stores, qore epi.

... Does this mean you could potentially buy a game, rip it to your Go, and turn around and sell it again?

The store probably would keep them, if the poster above is correct. Why would they let you sell them back, are you retarded? This is a business, not a charity.

I guess i'm the only one who is excited for this and is buying this day 1.
Did anyone else see fat princess running in that montage of videos?
I did.

I wanted to hear more about how people can bring their old UMD games onto the Go. I read somewhere that there might be transfer kiosks or something along those lines. They've gotta give an option to people who own 10 or 20 UMDs and want to move toward PSP Go.

if it had a second analog stick, I'd buy it on launch day- since it doesn't- PASS

The device is very nice, but I agree, it is very expensive. And it's a smaller screen. If it was like $200, I can live with that. Still, I really like that it's not replacing the current PSPs.

PSP-2000 it is.

Is the screen the same resolution as the PSP-3000, or is it less, like the 1000 and 2000? Has this been revealed yet?

I would love it if it was less expensive.
hmm, ill still buy it.... but i wont be happy

EastsideGauss says:

Deese muua fughkers 'ave lost dey GAT-dammed maihnd!

Sony just LOVES to price most people out of the market. Still not biting on a PS3 because they haven't even come close to a sweet price point, and now this? No wonder they posted a huge loss this year.

Sony is considered a premium brand since it is the largest established Japanese brands that produces many different products.

As good as Samsungs are, Sony T.V.'s are always more expensive because the perception that Korean is less quality (which isn't true) but at face value, it is to most unknowing consumers.

Wow. No Go! for me.

glad i heard about this, was about to go pick up an "old" PSP to play at work!! i'll wait till October now :)

Are you freakin kidding me? $249?? Good luck with that! I'll stick with my IPhone3G

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$ 250? Are you serious?
No thanks. With the smaller, possible worse design, plus that big price tag, I think I'll stay with my PSP-1000 model till it breaks. And when that happens, I'll just buy a 3000 model, way cheaper.

Add a touch screen and call is PSPTouch ;)

The question is: Will it play Riiiidge Racer?

no dice Sony. NO FUCKING DICE!

there aren't many guarantees in life but i can guarantee that i'll never be paying $250 for the PSP-go.

Is it just me or is the PSP Go's screen smaller than the PSP 3000?

Why did they give it such a fucking stupid name? That's why I don't want one. Everything else looks great (well not the price...) but I would not tell anyone I bought a fucking PSP Go!
They should Go! back to the drawing board on that.

yeah I don't know why they downsized the screen size.. I'll be stickin with my PSP-2000 lol i amexcited for resident evil, assassins creed 2, the new star wars battlefront, etc... finally the lineup we've been waiting for!! :-)

I agree. I think the digital verison of the g ames will be cheaper. For example, little big planet might cost 30 dollar digital while the retail version cost $40. You will save 10 dollars. In the long run, the psp go will save you a lot of money. Now, of course, we would have to wait and see if what I say is true.

With touch you may get everything that PSP has and more, but you also get Apple DRM, iTunes and the whole enchileda. There's a reason I haven't bought an iPod, and never will.

I don't have to have a media manager or even a sony PSN account to do anything with my PSP, put my own movies and music and all that on it. But with iPods you have to have iTunes-or-die.

I want the PSP Go. Its gonna be my next mp3 player!

Hmm.. thought it would be cheaper than the current PSP. I'll stick with my PSP-2000 then.

Nobody likes the price point

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Can't wait.

I don't think $250.00 is all that much for the amount of functionality included on the PSP platform.

I just hope the thing is solid (construction-wise) and that the battery life is sufficient.

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