PSP Go price bounces back to $200 (or: Another reason to avoid the PSP Go)

I wondered why it was still $200 when I was at Best Buy yesterday.

Hmm.

Wow way to go sony, take a product that doesn't sell that well and lower the price to make people want to purchase it then raise it back up, if this was an error on sony's part in lowering the price on accident, you would think that if people were buying it at the lower price sony would keep it... but i guess not.

My friend has a PSP 3000, And its better than the go in every way...

Ive never seen the point in having a Go. I can go just as easily with a psp 3000.

I just bought a 16GB memory stick for my PSP lite. That's my Go.

you guys should stick to funny articles about gaming news and less on driving your personal opinions on us, just sayin'... I don't own a Go but i'm sure the few readers who do don't need to feel like they made a bad decision (aka sh!t) every time they read a PSP article on 'Stiq.

Well so much for thinking they had finally cut the price to what I thought it should have been at launch.

I don't hate the Go, sure I think its an abomination before god..... but that doesn't mean I "hate" it. Simply from a consumer standpoint, why would I pay more for less?

Better luck next time Sony.

Amazon has 16GB Memory Stick Duo's for $50.

Doth not compute.

I actually got a PSP Go from GameStop used for $99. That's a lot closer to what I think it's worth.

I don't usually use this meme but:

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When will Sony learn? Does Sony even want to learn?

To anyone interested in a PSP I cannot recommend the PSPgo at all. PSP3000 has all the same functionality, can play UMD, and is cheaper. Sony should just stop manufacturing PSPgo.

C'mon, Sony, $150 is what it should've launched at!

I honestly don't think they could have possibly f***ed up this product any worse than they have. I seriously think that the PSP-Go should be taught in business school as how *not* to announce/launch/price/support/advertise a product. Then again, with the way they're handling the Xperia Play and the NGP so far, I don't think they've learned anything from this fiasco.

Actually you don't, since they decided to go with a smaller form factor. They decided to throw the whole huge selling point of getting rid of the UMD drive "highly superior battery life" out the window by cutting the battery down to size as well. So one of the few places the Go could have really shined .... it doesn't.

Your pretty much stuck with comparable battery life.

That is one expensive hockey puck.

I got mine brand new for 125$ at Bestbuy just after christmas This year. I already had a PSP-2000, but I like it, I loaded it up with PSP minis and took it to the cottage, I play my PSP2k with the TV out at home and I play the PSP GO at the cottage. the only thing I dont like about it is that it runs off the micro memory stick instead of normal, so I have a really hard time transfering games to it.

PSP go is a good buy right now, even at $200 ($189 on Amazon, no sales tax in most states) due to its 16GB internal flash alone. A 16GB memory stick duo from newegg (cheaper than most retailers) will set you back $50-$60. AVOID THE CHEAPER LEXAR ONE LIKE THE PLAGUE, ESPECIALLY THE 32GB ONE! Lexar actually doesn't even make these any longer and had a lot of issues - they die very quickly for some reason (like within a day, go read reviews). So the PSP+16GB stick argument is pretty invalid IMHO, especially because the M2s that the Go uses are much cheaper and you can stick a 16GB stick in there for 32GB total for $20 more (again cause they're cheaper).

I said good buy right now because most Gos ship with 5.70 firmware. Update that to 6.35 OFW and you can run LCFW PRO B2 which can run pretty much all ISOs. I'm not advocating piracy, you can use a normal PSP as a UMD dumper and dump your physical games like I did. Games load almost instantly, anybody playing off UMDs is seriously wasting their time even if the load times don't bother you. They're instant, seriously. Even if you have no interest in the Go's form factor, etc. you should still invest in a memory stick, run CFW/LCFW and run UMDs off of the memory stick. Makes life much easier.

Ironically, the more sturdy looking PSP is very fragile compared to the more fragile-appearing Go which is more sturdy. I don't recommend dropping either, but the Go is more likely to survive. The form factor is very cool for those of us that like our portables more portable. And like I said, if you run LCFW you are not limited to PSN. It's a good buy right now, especially if you got it for $150.

It looks like Sony is just having fun at pissing people off.

They could phase out the go altogether if they would use their brain and let the xperia-play do PSN PSP games.

@kgoo867

Easy Target = Easy Bashing.

If the Go was priced competitively with the 3000 like 175 when the 3000 was 199 but 250 and now 200 for a smaller less feature having device no thanks I'll stick with my heavy psp1000 until the NGP

I really like my Go. There's a lot of reasons not to, but the things about it that are bad really don't bother me. Plus it's not exactly hard to hack a PSP nowadays.

I will give you a nice advice for free, save your money for the NGP if you start saving by now you should have the money when the system launches! ;)