I know, I know, what the hell am I thinking right? The PSP Go was a flop - and that was in 2010! Well, I didn’t play the PSP Go in 2010 but I’ve played it in 2011 and you know what, I absolutely love it.
Believe me, I could have never imagined me saying this as recently as a month ago - I had no interest in the PSP Go whatsoever and was more than happy with my PSP Slim & Lite……or so I thought anyway.
TNS: Sony had great ideas back then for its PSPgo-- it that even had the same features as the Nintendo Switch. Too bad that wasn't enough.
I still have the Go with the dock and a paired sixaxis controller. I could have used a DS3 but since the PSP games have no rumble, why waste a rumble enabled controller on it.
I still have my psp, psp go and vita.
Home brewed to be retro gaming machines. I love them, my kid picked the go over a 3ds.
I never wanted to bother with psp go.. first it was too small for my hands and didn’t like the clicking d pad but mostly because it didn’t support my physical games. It was DOA and it just flopped so hard so fast
Replies(1)And long before that Sega came up with the Genesis Nomad and nobody cared.
You've also been able to connect a phone/tablet to TVs for years and nobody cares.
Not... quite the same. Sure you could plug it into a tv but you had to hold it while playing. The PSP 2000/3000 would be compared to the Nomad as they did the same thing. Plug into a tv but you had to hold it to play.
Not very convenient.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Nomad taking full fledged Genesis/ Mega Drive cartridges? It was basically handheld tv console.
Yep. The Switch wasn't a success because it can be a handheld or a home console. It was successful because it did that AND it was a well-supported device that was Nintendo's primary focus for a full generation.
Such a painful pill for sony to swallow. They really should have supported the vita and psvr2 much better. games like resident evil on psvr are too few and far between, the 1st party support has always been lacking.
Sometimes newer isn't better when it comes to hardware. Here are five subpar console redesigns that chopped a feature too many.
I would also add the Gameboy Micro. The Gameboy Advance SP was already a little bit too small, and the Micro which was made even smaller, was impossible to play for more than 5 minutes without destroying your hands.
I would definitely agree on that. The infrastructure is there for a digital-only device and physical media isn't as big a deal.
The very reasons it was rejected in 2009 are flipped on their head.
Alex S. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "I bought a 12-year-old, digital-only system. And I gotta say – I love it."
I got one at launch and still have it.
Great system and super portable.
Not so comfortable for big hands playing for long sessions though.
Have good memories of Peace Walker on the Go, pun intended.
I believe there is some prototype of a hand held console with dedicated GPU that can run modern AAA games too.
PSP has such great games, it's such a shame Vita didn't do as well, I still use mine I bought in 2014. I still would love an upgraded handheld if just for ports, though.
I've enjoyed my PSP a lot, too bad they're not making handhelds anymore.
That time when Skype was available on PSP was awesome.
I want one too. I've seen a lot of people picking them up recently with the deals going around and i'm tempted.
I picked one up for 100$ last thursday.
It's a pretty solid little machine.
=)
Picked one up for $99...at that price point it is a no brainer.
Actually at that price point its like the are giving them away like candy...
I love my PSP Go <3. but sony needs to start dropping prices of those digital games. I will never pay more than ~$20 on a portable game and if I am paying $20 it better be damn good! some of the games on the store need to be dropped to $10 or sony needs to have more sales. I've spent way more money on steam just because of impulse buys from really good sales. hell i was only mildly interested in metro 2033 when I bought it and I guarantee i would never have bought it if it wasn't on sale.
I bought one from my friend brand new for $110 cuz he was in need of money now time to fill it up with my games.