PSP Go on sale at Fry's for $200

You got dead pixels?
Mines perfectly fine.
I'm considering returning it if Sony doesn't release all their games on time.

Yeah the game support has been pretty dreadful thus far as well especially with 3rd parties not being mandated to release their games on the PSN. I'm not sure why they wouldn't want to and why Sony wouldn't pressure them to do so because the platform depends on it.

But yeah I had dead freaking pixels. It was a small annoyance and one I certainly could have lived with but when I drop $250 bones on something and then that happens it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. After I realized that my Gran Turismo save (which had over 20 hours and damn near 65 cars) was locked (probably because of the import feature with GT5) I was done ... returned it that day and bought Demons Souls and the first seasons of Lie To me & Fringe on Blu-Ray.

I'm gonna keep mine, I never played my PSP enough and there's enough of a PS1 backlog on there for which I need to catch up on.

Yeah I'm sure it will get better as we move forward in terms of support. I had enough games to play for ages on the thing but the dead pixel left a bad taste. I don't dislike the platform or the idea behind it ... I'll just give it some time until they eventually release one with more HDD space.

I still believe that the model will change when digital distribution becomes standard. Right now its based off of buying things like they are a store, not buying things online.

I have hope and faith, I must Crusade to the gaming land!

I hear you man but the thing is they didn't replace physical with digital as there is still a physical solution. The GO is more about convienence and portability ... smaller, no games to lug around etc ... I don't think an all digital model will come into place for quite some time and maybe never.

You know you still had the games to play so you didn't lose anything there. If you like to sell and trade stuff then it's certainly not appealing.

Yes it is convienent for sure. But for some reason I have a hard time trusting companies to be fair with DRM, and not take advantage. If you download a game from Sony, can you download it to the same device again? These games should have a serial number within the code, so pirated, and legit copies can be traced. I'd be good with a retinal scanner or an anal probe as a means of ID. You know, built right into your controller or device.

Yes, I prefer physical media, as I collect that type of stuff, but DRM is a big issue for me.

"If I buy 10 full priced psp games digitally, what do I really have?"

You're talking about games, not some kind of investment that you plan on using after you retire. In the end, you should have $400 worth of fun. There's a lot of people out there spending $100 a month on a $200 iPhone. What do they really have in the end? A sub $200 iPhone. I spend $15 in Netflix every month, what do I really have? Nothing of monetary value.

If you buy a game for $40 just because you know that you can sell it back for $20 later, why not just wait until it's $20?

The way that the PSN works in general is that you can install software on up to 5 different machines. The PSP is a little different in that you only need to physically install the game from a PC or PS3 to acquire a liscense. There actually isn't any limit what-so-ever. Also, your purchase history is kept on the "cloud" not exclusively locally (but can be done on both) so you can re-download something an infinite amount of time so long as your purchased it on your account.

I've got the same problem. No Frys in Colorado and all the good prices on their site are for store pickup only.