New PSP!

[Canadian144]

Have you guys seen the new PSP-Go?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/sony-psp-go-announced-bye-bye-umd/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/psp-go-first-hands-on/

I hope to get one... but I will keep my old PSP "phat" just so I can play all of my UMD's....

[JayOnThaBeat]

is the web browser still god-awful?

[Canadian144]

No clue, we'll have to wait until there is some more "hands-on time" with it. But probably, hahaha. It is REALLY bad, I think I tried the browser once when I got my PSP 3 years ago, and haven't used it since!

[JayOnThaBeat]

Back in February / March, my computer was in the shop and I was forced to do my surfing on my PSP-2000. It was maddening, which made me search the webs for an alternative. That is when I came across the N810, and decided to order it (when it was on seemingly-infinite backorder).

That was a rough couple of weeks.

[Canadian144]

Oh, I can imagine! It must have been awful!

Thank god for the N810!

It took me a while to find one as well... there are practically NO stores selling them new in Toronto.... and there were none on craigslist either! I finally found one for sale in this forum, it was used, but is still AMAZING!

[JayOnThaBeat]

Well, mine was $220 ($210 w/ coupon code) on buy.com.

backordered like crazy, waited almost a month.

now on BUY they are only $199. wtf. i want my $10!

[Canadian144]

Haha you should get that $10!

Mine was $300... had some minor scratches, but it also came with some extra stuff (ie 8GB microSD). I sold my Sony Ericsson K850 that day for $155, and I'm selling my ipod touch soon for $200, so I got my costs covered, and that's all that matters haha!

[JayOnThaBeat]

Haha you should get that $10!

Mine was $300... had some minor scratches, but it also came with some extra stuff (ie 8GB microSD). I sold my Sony Ericsson K850 that day for $155, and I'm selling my ipod touch soon for $200, so I got my costs covered, and that's all that matters haha!

nice.

ya i try to do that whenever possible, try to recoup the cost of new things.

makes the new thing seem like more of a good deal.

[Canadian144]

Yeah exactly!

Gotta love craigslist! haha.

[JayOnThaBeat]

hey, just noticed you can't "thanks" in off-topic. thats weird.

i was gonna thank u for your first post in this thread.. i did not know the new psp existed.

[Canadian144]

haha it's alright.

We'll just pretend I can get a thanks! YUS! I JUST GOTZ 1 MORE THANKZ! WOOT WOOT!

haha

[TrueJournals]

First of all, I love the hightlights of the PSP Go. Especially the last item in the picture -- "More features" INGENIOUS!

Anyway, this is seriously old technology. I'm bad at visualizing dimensions, so I'm going to leave that alone and just look at the tech specs:
CPU, 333 MHz -- Really? This is slower than the n800 (which runs at 400 Mhz), but faster than the 770 (252 MHz). It doesn't say that type of processor or anything, but with tablets moving towards OMAP3 and 600-800 MHz, this seems like REALLY old tech.
64 MB Memory -- On par with the 770. I'm guessing that you're only going to have one application open at a time, so I suppose that's OK...
3.8 inch display (480x272) -- About the same size screen as the tablets (a little smaller), with about half the resolution.
802.11b -- WHAT?!? They couldn't even stick G in this thing? With N starting to get bigger and bigger, you would think they would at LEAST want G...
With specs like that, I would imagine at $200 price tag, and they're going for $250, so it's not too unreasonable.

As for the web browser... I'm guessing it'll be just as bad as the first PSP, which was a cool novelty.. but just doesn't cut it with today's tech.

[Canadian144]

I think they should cut out the web browser personally.... or just have it as an optional download afterwards. I mean it's AWFUL.

I still really like it as a portable game system... I mean there have been no recent huge developments in the portable section.... the DS and PSP have remained relatively unchanged since like 2003 or 2004 or whenever they came out.