While not as practical as a fresh round of bathroom safety products, Sony has set the videogame world a’buzzing with the announcement of its newest iteration of the PlayStation Portable, the PSP Go!
Here’s the upside: The PSP Go will be 43 percent lighter than the first PSP and will abandon the failed UMD experiment, going instead for 16 GB of internal flash memory as well as supporting the Memory Stick Micro format for additional storage. There will be Bluetooth support as well, and the screen will shrink from 4.3-inches to 3.8 inches, though it’ll still be a nice screen.
Here’s the downside: a hefty $249 price tag, which is just above the comparable 16GB Apple iPhone/iPod Touch; no touch-screen; still only one analog stick; no revved-up processor or additional RAM.
So while the PSP Go definitely makes the PSP sexy again, and perhaps having a chance to be more competitive with Apple’s iPhone/iPod Touch initiative, it’s still hardly a reinvention that could be dubbed properly a PSP 2. While that makes backward compatibility a non-issue, it also means the PSP Go isn’t quite the “PSP reinvented” solution many were hoping for.
Tags: bathroom safety products, PSP Go, Sony