PSP Go Away

Sometimes, I think Sony thinks that they can succeed without customers because it seems clear that Sony doesn’t think about them much.

You see, they’ve announced that they won’t offer conversions for UMD conversions to those gamers who want to ‘upgrade’ from a PSP 1000/2000/3000 to the PSP Go. The PSP Go offers no significant upgrades from the 3000 other than the 16GB of internal memory. So, why would a current PSP owner buy the PSP Go? I’ve seen people who said that they might, that they like the small form and the enhanced storage.

The PSP Go, then, seems like something just for new PSP owners, at best. But at a higher price tag, the UMD PSPs seem like better deals, to which you can always add memory for storing downloaded games, if Sony stops UMD games altogether. The slimmer design is appealing, but when gamers moved from the DS Phat to the DS Lite, they didn’t have to give up their game library.

If the European response is any indication, consumers are saying PSP Go Away.