Should I get a PSP Go?
Posted on 6th Jan 2010 at 13:21 by Mark Mackay with 36 comments
I've owned many a portable gaming console over the years. In fact my first ever console was a Nintendo Gameboy. Now that I think that about it, I wonder if it's that strong feeling of nostalgia that imbues me with the unshakable desire to run out to the nearest Game store and buy whatever portable console is the flavour of the month. The problem is that they invariably sit in the corner of my room and tease me for being silly enough for spending a three-figure sum of money on something I'll never use.
The short answer then should be, of course - No!. No I shouldn't go out and buy a Sony PSP Go which I'll never use once the novelty value has worn off. I owned the original Sony PSP and a Nintendo DS Lite and ended up selling both of them because they never got used.
One thing that's got me seriously considering it though is that I can play my favourite game of all time, Final Fantasy VII, on the little machine. This is almost reason enough to take the plunge and it doesnt surprise me to learn that it's one of the top-selling titles for the PSP Go
However, I decided that the tech-savvy bit-tech community might be able to help out. I wondered if some of you might have some experience with them that could help me make the right choice. I thought it might also be interesting to see if anyone else suffered from this affliction of wanting to buy a portable console and then never using it?
The short answer then should be, of course - No!. No I shouldn't go out and buy a Sony PSP Go which I'll never use once the novelty value has worn off. I owned the original Sony PSP and a Nintendo DS Lite and ended up selling both of them because they never got used.
One thing that's got me seriously considering it though is that I can play my favourite game of all time, Final Fantasy VII, on the little machine. This is almost reason enough to take the plunge and it doesnt surprise me to learn that it's one of the top-selling titles for the PSP Go
However, I decided that the tech-savvy bit-tech community might be able to help out. I wondered if some of you might have some experience with them that could help me make the right choice. I thought it might also be interesting to see if anyone else suffered from this affliction of wanting to buy a portable console and then never using it?
36 Comments
Discuss in the forums ReplyYeah, I sold my GBA - I bought it full of ideas about wasted time on buses I could play it, and in fact used it about twice. Kept the PSP, though - it does more than play games. God the Go's ugly, though - what's wrong with a normal PSP?
I mean no.
Andy
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Anything's better than the psp go :P
Remember the golden rule about playing older games, they rarely live up to the memory of playing them the first time round!
how about iPhone 3GS: one device to replace them all. jailbreak it and put PSX on there for your favourite games.
It doesn't do a bad job of being a music player either, big downside is buying stuff off of PSN, it can be pricey, discounted PSN cards help as does the ability to game share but you'd need to own/know someone with another PSP to take advantage of that.
I recently started playing a lot of PSP because of the new releases and remote play PS3/TV but I can't lie had a PSP for a couple of years and it sat doing nothing next to my DS until the past few months.
Gaming on emulators on iPhone is not idel, you can't beat hard buttons for gaming.
I need nothing else.
I own one, and I own a psp-1000. Let me break it down for you:
(1) The PSP Go is a fantastic machine...never has in-depth gaming been so accessible and portable. It is as light or lighter than most cell phones and you lose nothing in terms of the gameplaying experience.
(2) The screen on the PSP go is very impressive.
(3) 16 gbs is a nice amount of space...most games are under 1gb.
(4) As the playstation store grows, the psp go will become a more diverse machine.
(5) Buying off the PSN does not allow you to purchase games for cheap. In fact, they are often overpriced.
(6) The games are really not different between the two psp systems.
Having said all of that...I look at it this way:
The PSP go is really a good gadget. You can do a lot with it....particularly if you have a ps3. It's form factor is sleek and it is the first handheld that really brings in-depth gaming into a shirt pocket.
However, you can save money by purchasing a psp3000, buying a 16gb memory stick duo pro, and still have the umd drive.
For most users, I would suggest doing the psp3000 route. However, if you have means...the pspgo is a better system.
function over form, which is why many of us prefer the original.
Obvious Sony astoturfing is obvious.
Lighter than a cell phone? The most indepth portable gaming experience possible? 16GB of space a good amount when you can by your own figures only fit a maximum of 16 games on a stick? And you have to buy the proprietary memory at extra expense from Sony for an inordinate cost? Counting on content which doesn't exist yet?
Puh-lease.
Mark; stick with what you've got. You've often spoken to me about how little you used your PSP before and you have an iPhone that can be jailbroken to run a PS emulator (which isn't ideal, but is free). Moreover, the killer app that you're looking for is one which is decades old and that you've played before - so why would you spend £200+ to play it again, when most of the really good PSP Store games already exist or have equivalents on platforms that you already own?
Instead, I propose that you satisfy your FF craving in a different way, save the money, and buy me a drink as way of a thank you. Instead of playing Final Fantasy 7, try the following fan-made game on PC for free. It is (and I speak as someone who invested dozens of hours into it) at least as good as any other FF game, with an equally epic plot, diverse characters and an almost identical control and combat system. I present, Final Fantasy: Endless Nova...
Screenshots:
http://www.velv.net/images/FFEN-002.bmp http://www.velv.net/images/FFEN-005.bmp http://www.velv.net/images/FFEN-011.bmp http://www.velv.net/images/FFEN-006.bmp
Trust me, it's an awesome game. Alternatively, play Chrono Trigger. A change is as good as a revisit and nobody ever learnt anything new from playing the same games over and over.*
*Unless they're playing Deus Ex, Monkey Island or Baldur's Gate II.
Reinstalling Deus Ex for nostalgia kicks is pretty tempting too tbh....
Thanks for the replies all, I think I'll be putting the PSP Go idea to the sideline.....for now.......
I've heard of that error before. Try re-downloading and installing.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4275
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=16287
Basically, that's a runtime file for the RPG Maker game engine that it runs on.
@Pjmuli, lol, the PSP-3000 does all of that, but is:
Cheaper, more comfortable, less fugly and most importantly has UMD reader (so you are not tied to stupidly overpriced download only, with no chance of getting second hand cheaply).
Put it this way.... Would you ever buy a 360 game from Games on Demand?
If you are sane the answer is no. So don't get the PSP Go either.
If you are mental and have more money that sense, then yes, get the Go.
I reckon that by the end of this year that the psp go and sony ericson will be making a phone out of it.
If it ay broke why fix it.
Then you can run emulators, community games as well as PSP games.