PSP Go is Looking to be About a Lot More than Games
True, the new generation of PlayStation Portable (PSP) hardware, the PSP Go, scheduled for release in October '09 won't have telephony functionality, aside from Skype, which will ensure that its niche will almost certainly remain limited to gamers, but by all indications it is being positioned to be even more download friendly than was expected, which can't hurt in broadening its popularity.
The first indicator of this new and improved Web-enabled tenet is the long-known fact that Sony would dump their UMD media standard with this release. They've yet to say specifically how/if loyal PSP user will be able to access their game and movie library with the new hardware, but I can't imagine downloads are not part of the equation. More to the point though are a couple of bits of info that recently came to light. The first, is that Sony will be releasing a 32GB Duo stick in the near future. As someone who has been using a 4GB stick pretty comfortably for a while for downloading game demos, and storing music and movies converted to MPG-4 format for watching in the always cramped nooks and crannies of coach flights, 32GB sounds huge, especially when you consider that the PSP Go will come with 16GB of built in memory. The other bit of pertinent news is Sony's plan for what are being called "snackable" game and app downloads. That there will be small, inexpensive games designed to get people in the habit of downloading using the PSP is a given, but apparently 50+ studios are in the process of building out the Apps portion of the equation, with special attention paid to non-game content, which will be sold in a separate area of PlayStation store. If this sounds a lot like Apple's App store, that's because that's pretty much what it will eventually be. So, we'll we see the emergence of yet another "iPhone killer?" Of course not, since the PSP Go will have no telephone capabilities. Now if it did, that might have been another thing entirely. Sony, Sony, Sony. You are so good at dealing yourself out of the game, aren't you.
The PSP Go is set tentatively to launch October 1. If you are a gamer, definitely check it out if you haven't already. And if you are just curious, you might want to do the same as well. See you in coach.
--Tom Milnes
Den on July 17, 2009 at 03:04 AM
Great PSP!
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