Go to have same battery life as standard PSP

WOW, I was a pretty decent supporter of this thing and the supposedly improved battery life was on of like the top 3 reasons I had to support it. With that gone, the system has lost A LOT of this worth.

SONY, how the hell can you manage to take away the UMD drive and give it a smaller screen, and yet give it the same battery life AND make it $80 more expensive than the psp-3000? Seriously. I know it's smaller but try to make some NON-superficial changes to justify the price, will you?

Fail system is fail.

I was keen on it too - guess I'll buy a 2000 instead.

So basically there really isn't much reason to get a PspGo over a PSP 3000. The PSP 3000 can do everything the GO can, except for bluetooth support. The GO's design has a love it or hate it kind of feel, while PSP 3000 is just full of sexy. Although some may see the removal of the UMD drive as a plus, it doesn't really add much of a benefit, battery life is still the same. Digital game releases on PSN will be supported across all psp models, not only on the GO, so if you don't wanna use UMDs, just download your games. There's also Sony stupid decision to make the Psp Go incompatible with current PSP accessories, adding to the already overpriced handheld. So the only real benefit of the Go is bluetooth, and if we really wanna get technical, maybe longevity of the system, since UMD drives might break over time.

I understand Sony is trying to regain some of their losses, but that price isn't worth it for what the PSP GO provides.

Let's not forget that you can not easily change out the battery in the PSP Go. In other words, it's locked in like the Dual Shock, or the iPhone. This is one of my pet peas for portable devices. The battery life for me is fine, but not being able to change out the battery, not a good thing.

that's pathetic. no increase in battery life and they still expect consumers to pay an $80 premium? for what? a smaller screen?

im not even sure the "go" would be worth it even after a price drop.

With the way things are going, it seems that all we need now is the announcement that the PSP go comes with a rootkit and will infect anything that is connected to it via USB. =P

Joystiq is still infested with fanboys I see. Including the staff. Grow up please.

@Joseph

"the PSP will last for prolly a good solid week in sleep mode ACTUAL SLEEP MODE"

Yeah that's what I look for in portable gaming. I'll drop $200-250 so I can keep the little bastard in sleep mode for weeks at a time.

How the fuck has "Console Wars" an own Wikipedia entry that is probably longer than one for something of actual importance?

Is the PSPgo a suicide attempt from Sony? It was bad enough that it can't do as much as a PSP 2000/3000 and is more expensive. But now it can't do as much, is more expensive AND the battery life isn't longer??? Who will pay that much more for a product that not only doesn't give you more features and longer battery life but also limits you to downloads only, taking away the right to choose between physical and digital distribution?

Ok Orex we got your point..you want to let us know you are a Sony fan, good for you if you want to be wasting your money like that

Not sure why ppl are fussing about the GO. It's not for users who already own a PSP. It's for news users who're considering a new portable device. Side to side with the iPod Touch, the PSP could make a good competitor. The price is in the same range of that of the iPod Touch. Although for users with an older PSP model the GO seems like a rip-off being a 5-year-old technology minus the UMD drive, new users will not notice this, because the GO will look like a totally new product to them. A smaller, sleeker, all-digital product will appeal to newcomers, and I foresee considerable success for the GO although I don't personally like it.

When I first heard about the PSP Go, I was thinking I would buy one.
Every detail I've heard about it since then just makes it seem useless.

To me, a portable device is worthless unless it is in my pocket all the time. I'm always going to have a cell phone on me at this point, so there's no way I'm carrying a phone AND a game machine.

If the PSP is ever turned into a great phone and internet device, I'm buying.
They can keep the existing PSP without a phone, just like there is an iphone and ipod touch.

I think the reason why it's expensive is because of the onboard memory. I currently have a 16gb on my 2000 and I could add another microSDCH on top of that to make it 32gb. So yeah, I don't think I'll ever buy a Go with that price. Also, it doesn't really matter to me that it's lighter. I can handle the slim just fine.

The cons definitely outweigh the pros.

They could at least, at least double the RAM memory on this device, or have a faster CPU...

I still have the oringal psp from when it first came out. i have a nice stack of games for it and a 4 gig mem card. im perfectly content with the device. i mostly play the psp for the ports because im not always home and dont have acess to a ps2. (darkstalkers, accent core etc) i dont like the pps go for the simple reason, there's nothing wrong with my old one.

it is smaller yes. but it's also got it's screen on the outside unlike the ds. so you can scratch it. which means you'd get either some kinda film (which i dont bother with) or a case which would increase it's size making it not as compact.

if say my psp breaks i might consider it. if it's aimed for an audio audience it's abit late with the zune, ipod and what not that lmost everyone has these days. and yes it's my own personal opinion on the subject im not flaming (gasp) nor promoting it.
it's a nice device and all but my old one works just fine.