Sony PSP Go – The Ultimate Review
July 30, 2009 by admin
Filed under Consoles and Video Gaming, Handhelds
A couple of things are obviously different. The Sony PSP Go is quite a bit smaller that the original PSP and the UMD drive has gone (phew!) and fortunately replaced by 16GB worth of inbuilt storage and a card slot. The Go has snazzy (yet smaller) 3.8 inch screen which slides up to reveal the D-pad, analogue stick and buttons.
Regular PSP users of the past will have cottoned on to the decision to go with storage rather than UMD but we are more interested in the improved online access to rival some of the other portable media devices out there. A wise decision by Sony me thinks!
There is no improvement in performance, no improvement in screen resolution or size, its actually half and inch smaller, and no improvement in the battery, but without the UMD there will hopefully be a great improvement in game loading times.
Just like other online consoles you can buy the games online with your playstation Network ID and they download straight to your hard drive and for existing PS3 owners there is the added functionality of being able to synch them together. 
There are some cool new features in the Sony PSP Go however. The built in Skype application turns the PSP Go in to a free phone any time you have a Wi-Fi connection, which is made easier by the ability to link a headset to it via Bluetooth. the storage capacity lets you download or upload movies to it just like a PMP but from several reports out there it seems to be a little unpredictable (hopefully sorted before general release). It can definitely be said that the PSP Go is intended to be a more serious multimedia device that the original version and the functionality has been improved to echo this.
It looks good, and the multimedia device functionality make the Sony PSP Go a fair contender against the iPod Touch but I have to wonder whether they are fighting an up-hill battle. It certainly has much more potential as a gaming device and hopefully the attempt to become and iPod Touch beater hasn’t compromised its functionality as a portable console….after all, thats what we fell in love with the PSP for!
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