You'll see future handheld console get rid of material games more and more over the years. You can deny it all you want but the PSPGo is a step forward to bringing true portability to handheld gaming. That's all it was meant to do. The only things that people bitched about for the first six months was the price and UMD transfer. It's a great portable console otherwise. I own one I should know.MisterShine said:
I hope those wont be the only games. I would imagine there would be some sort of selection to make. If not, this wont float all that well.canadamus_prime said:
I never likes UMDs. They're clunky to carry around. They drain the battery faster, games load faster, they're cheaper by around $5 on the network, and PSP games don't take up that much space. I have 14 full PSP games on my PSPGo. 4 of them are full length RPGs. I also have Dissidia. I still have 8 Gbs left to use and I haven't even gotten a Memory Stick yet. That's around 28-30 games the PSPGo allows you to have in your pocket instead of one at a time without a UMD carrying case. Potentially I could carry around 90 games at a time if I bought a 32 GB Memory Stick Micro2. And yeah I realize that you can download games to the older PSPs but the older PSPs don't have an internal hard drive, and memory sticks ain't cheap. It costs near $40 for a 4GB card.s69-5 said:
Well...okay, whatever, I would debate more (as I just love to argue/debate) but it'll go nowhere. Bibbity-bobbity-boo, it was fun debating with you. How I came up with that rhyme I have no idea.canadamus_prime said:
Eh, I wasn't really trying to be cynical, at least not consciously. People tend to take me way too seriously when I debate/argue with them. But I did feel that his original post was pretty out of line and I didn't want this to just devolve back into another "bash Sony/PSP" thread, which, when he was going off about how the PSPGo is a "horrible idea" and whatnot, this would easily come to.goldenheart323 said:
So you're telling us that the PSPGo was not a colossal sales failure and that it's digital-distribution-only model was not a major turn-off to people? Good luck with that. The sales figures alone [http://blog.ziggytek.com/2009/12/21/psp-go-sales-atrocious/] make it extremely obvious the PSPGo is incapable of taking any step forward, unless that step is off a cliff. If Digital Distribution really was the future, it would be handily be beating the DS which relies on "archaic" physical media. Furthermore, if digital distribution really was the future of any system, you wouldn't see people still clamoring to have a copy of their games in-hand, even with the success of platforms like Steam. This free game offer, while appealing to some, is just another nail in the coffin of the mistake that is the PSPGo.AzrealMaximillion said:
Sad thing is you keep calling the PSPGo a failure when it's a concurrent to the PSP 3000, not a successor. All it is really is a "premium" PSP 3000. That and people hated the dreamcast when it came out. As innovative as you keep calling it, it failed. Yet right after we saw consoles with similar online capabilities.So we'll see more games that don't require cartridges. Once Appple products are capable if handling games that aren't just remakes of PC classics or PSP Minis, they'll have full games available in the App store. And Nintendo will follow suit. It's not that the PSPGo is taking a step forward. It IS that first step. As was the Dreamcast for consoles with online multiplayer and DLC. As were the Power Glove and Eye Toy for motion control. And as was Ralph Baer's "Magnavox Odyssey" home console for gaming consoles in general. Notice the the of all "firsts"? They all sucked and they all were improved to sell millions more of them. Most people just don't like change or anything different. We like that status quo, which is why anything new gets shat on. Why do you think Apple is so successful? They can market the iPad as something new when it's just a big iPhone and people love it.AceDiamond said:
