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Puzzle bundle for PSP and PSPGo

The classic puzzlers Mercury and Mercury Meltdown are available on PSN for PSP and PSP Go in a special bundle price of $9.99 until December 5, according to a Sony press release, but that’s only mildly good news.

What would be better news is if Sony had a way to allow PSP Go owners to get games they already own on a standard PSP UMD for free. But since they don’t seem to care about stuff like that, well… let’s just say if Sony wises up and switches their mind on that issue, it would set off a lot of emergency alert systems.

Still excited about PSP Go!

Even though it’s not the total revolution hoped for, I’m excited about the PSP Go! The design is a big improvement and while the lack of a touch-screen is a disappointment, it should make the PSP platform far more competitive with Apple’s iPod Touch.

The PSP Go, of course, is like taking the original PSP and putting it on diet pills for about a month. It’s lighter and smaller than the original PSP design, and it finally sheds those awkward UMDs in favor of a bunch of flash memory.

Certainly sounds worthwhile, even as we hope for an even more revolutionized and competitive PSP2; though now, that’s not likely to appear until 2010 at the earliest.

PSP Go is announced

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.