Blogs Should I get a PSP Go?

It has been on offer a few times for £150 at that price I'd say yes, if you need the portability that is, it is nice and small and you can carry a lot of games on its 16Gb flash without having to faff about with those slow bulky UMDs, the screen is good, it doesn't handly as bad as you'd think it might though a normal PSP is better IMO.

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 play streets of rage 2 and ff7 on my JP psp1000

I need nothing else.

 

no

 

I would ask , if anyone has suggested that you do not buy a pspgo, do you currently own one? It is really, really easy to form an opinion without having owned the device.

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.

 

Of course the standard PSP can play FFVII, and I am enjoying it at the moment. Get a second hand one of those and don't buy into sony's stupid new POS

 

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:



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.

 

Joe - the lengths you'll go to in order to blag a free drink. I'll be sure to check out FFEN even if it does look like it should run on a NES emulator.

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.......

 

wanting to try out ths FFEN, but there is something RTPe.exe missing. when i google it i only find fishy sites... what is it; in fact? any recommendations?

 

I've heard of that error before. Try re-downloading and installing.

 

got the same error and redownloading didn't seem to help

 

Help on that topic is here:
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.

 

thanks a lot joe, got it working now, just started playing fallout 2 as well, oh what to do ;__;

 

No.

@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.

 

No mate get your self a secondhand psp then wait for them to tweak it a little.

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.

 

get a PSP-1000 and throw some custom firmware on there.
Then you can run emulators, community games as well as PSP games.