Logitech denies it's developing PSP Go UMD add-on [update]

Provided it's less than 100 bucks, I'd buy that.

I need to free up that Component input.

assuming I can repair the fan on my 80GB I will still have PS2 capability.....

Honestly the only PS2 games I still played regularly were God of War 1 & 2....and now I can play those on PS3 so I don't really have a need for that anymore....but I STILL want my PS fixed....lol

I'm with you on the GoW1&2 thing. The only title I have laying around for my PS2 that I have yet to get to is Shadow of the Colossus. If they do the same treatment for that as they did for GoW collection, my PS2 is done.

yea I still need to play that and Ico...I am just hoping they release them on PS3 as well

I just bought a PS2 off craigslist for $20. The sound was messed up but swapping av cables fixed that. I bought it with the intention of playing ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, but it looks like it will only be the latter. Apparently ICO is ridiculous to find for under $40. No thanks.

for people that bought a Go for its portability. but maybe they occasionally hook it up to their tv and play with a PS3 controller. this is nice, you can play UMD games at home and have the portability of the Go when you leave home

Honestly I don't see why they don't, I actually sent in a fairly detailed suggestion to sony along those lines that included some mechanisms that would allow quick transfer of ones save game state between the PSP and PS3.

Allowing you to play your PSP game on your PS3 at home and quickly moving it over to your PSP if you happened to need to go somewhere, in such a manner as it would be nearly as seamless as pressing the pause button.

Which would increase their market share for PSP games to include people with a PS3 and no PSP as well as to encourage hardware adoption of the PSP platform in the instance people didn't already posses one, Let alone to promote the hell out of the PSN with people who possessed both.

Met with the expected, "we will neither admit nor deny we are or are not working on exactly this feature, but if such a feature does exist or is ever introduced you will receive no credit for your input." Which I took to be the standard "why the hell didn't we think of that" and I didn't really care cause at this point Sony really needed a freebie anyhow.

haha what a reply from sony!

but I was just thinking that I want to play some games that are only going to be on PSP but I don't plan on ever buying a PSP because I just don't travel enough to justify it. so why not at least sell the software to me.

well thats paraphrased, actually dug around and found the email and the actual response was two paragraphs that felt rather cut and pasted, god only knows it could have been semi automated and round filed for all I know. But I couldn't figure out how it would be anything but a Win, Win, Win, situation for them.

I think part of the reason they haven't done this is that the PSP's tiny resolution would look absolutely awful on a huge 42" 1080p screen that a lot of PS3's are hooked up to. They could make an emulator that would upscale it to make it look better, but it wouldn't do anything to help the textures or the GUI. Still, it would be nice to implement and then developers could maybe include the higher res textures and gui in nwq PSP games so that they would look great on both the PSP and the PS3.

Yeah, because combining those 3 things won't amount to saying "Please copy PSP games more than you already are doing!"

If that device is coming out (Big if, that one, tacking stuff onto a PSP kinda undermines the "I have a PSP Go for my tiny pockets"-argument), i doubt it will allow copying of games, because if it did, Logitech can call the thing "Piracy-o-matic" and prepare for court...

If you buy a PSP Go, you're stuck with the PS store, enjoy!

Do you have a DVD burner ?
Odds are since you are using a computer the answer is yes

Can it illegality copy DVD(s)
Yup

Does that mean that you steal movies?
It doesn't, Unless you Do.

arguably there is nothing wrong with the technology nor would there in theory be anything wrong with the ability to transfer games I own and intend to continue to own over to my PSP 1k memory card with such a device.

Its nothing that can't be accomplished with current firmware mods so odds are if you were going to pirate a game, YOU ALREADY ARE and your doing it for Free... I doubt any self respecting thief would go out to buy something like that.

I'm not arguing that it cannot be done with modification of firmware and the like, what I'm arguing is that this peripheral does not exist, or if it does that Sony will not officially support such functionality.

thats exactly what sony wants people to do lol.

they will never stop producing a UMD version of the PSP.

So since you own both, can you login to your PSN account on your 2000 and download/play the games you bought for your GO?

Yeah, that's pretty easy. Anything I buy on PSN I can use on any activated system, but I believe it is limited to 5 total activated systems per account.

If you don't have an M2 memory stick with a memory stick duo adapter duo adapter (easy enough to find on ebay and they don't cost much), the game save will have to be copied/pasted on a computer or backed up and moved using Media Go. So its very doable, it just takes a couple steps to copy the save back and forth.

Err... one less instance on "duo adapter" will suffice.