News PlayStation Go dated, priced

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  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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  2. Jamie

    Jamie ex-Bit-Tech code junkie

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    UMD is dead!
     
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  3. mjm25

    mjm25 What's a Dremel?

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    I still think that Sonys target market for this is all wrong... they want older buyers... people who are unlikely to whip out a psp on the tube, they are more likely to be using an iphone or something similar. the blog about sony losing the plot a bit was spot on :(
     
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  4. wyx087

    wyx087 Multimodder

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    is the screen touch screen?
     
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  5. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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    No.
     
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  6. Jonalethdm

    Jonalethdm What's a Dremel?

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    The Europe price point was announced as part of the conference yesterday,

    Eur249 (atm ~£215)
     
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  7. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    Playstation GO: The worlds most ugly piece of ****.
     
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  8. interzen

    interzen Real men use chainsaws.

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    Actually, the conversion is very easy - you take the dollar amount and change the dollar sign to either a pound or euro sign, whichever will lead to the biggest screwing for the customer.

    The good: UMD is now deader than Jacqui Smith's political career.
    The bad: Price, the fact that Sony appear to have totally lost the plot.

    Still considering an iPod Touch for on-the-move gaming/tunes and there's nothing about the PSP Go that makes me want to change my mind.
     
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  9. Blademrk

    Blademrk Why so serious?

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    I've started calling it the PSP "Cartman" Edition (thanks Baz) I just can't take it's looks seriously anymore.
     
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  10. themax

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    It's over priced. Sony had a chance to cap their showing of the PSP support with the debut of the redesign and similar pricing point (like Nintendo with the DSi) to make the transition easier. $250 is hard to choke down when the current PSP still for $170, not to mention they going pure digital distribution from now which strains current PSP owners who didn't buy 8GB or 16GB memory cards.
     
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  11. OleJ

    OleJ Me!

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    Hear hear!
     
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  12. notatoad

    notatoad pretty fing wonderful

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    thanks giz
     
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  13. cebla

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    Why do they always stick the analog stick off to the side? Seriously why....
     
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  14. ashchap

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    I'm looking forward to the electronics industry getting over this whole glossy black phase - Bring Back Matt!
     
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  15. Elton

    Elton Officially a Whisky Nerd

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    They're still delusional, seriously, if you're going do a redux of an old product, at least make it:

    1. Smaller
    2. Take out a useless feature.(in their case they did)
    3. Keep a consistent price.

    They've taken out one useless thing, and added a few more.
     
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  16. gavomatic57

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    I like UMD - it allows me to go into a Game store and buy nearly new games for a Tenner, rather than £20-£30 on the PSN store - and when I'm bored of them I can sell them on again. Looks like those days are over!
     
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