PSP to Be an Experimental Thing
Ever since the 2.5/5 rating, Sony has been running its mouth in a smart manner. This time, they said that a lot has been learnt from the PSPgo project (the company’s powerhouse project that was overpriced and god knows what else was wrong with it).
What we failed to understand is that after all the ruckus; Sony said that they were never serious about letting PSPgo run in years to come. To the company, it was more of a side project/ experimental thingy! Really? What about all the money you guys invested in time and equipment and the product launch campaign for PSPgo?
CEO – Andrew House told media that Sony is aiming to launch something other than the original PSPgo, since the PSP thingy was more like a supporting element to our main project. House said that Sony just wanted to learn what consumers demanded from PSP and the company never believed in success that was calculated in terms of sales.
House chokingly said that Sony only wanted what’s best for the customers out there. Maybe we were getting the wrong kind of signals from our customers that they wanted PSPgo type of product, but we learnt that our assumptions were not correct – said House.
I call bull. The PSPgo wasn’t intended to fail, it was a forced trump card to see if people would be willing to give up benefits on the larger version system in order for a more secure system, which still only mostly benefits Sony. Not that the PSP should be as easily hackable as it has been, everybody and their mother knows it’s hurting sales more than they would like to admit, but a half-baked digital only design was not the answer. It didn’t address anything anybody wanted who can honestly call themselves a gamer. Smaller screen? Lack of a second analog? Turning our UMD collection into pigeons and coasters? No, that’s not what we wanted.
What we want is apparently more or less what’s currently curiculating around the internet as rumor of the PSP2, with telephony, 3G or 4G, a camera (or two), a second analog, touch compatibility (thus kicking the I-Phone ‘squaw in the nootz’) and hopefully a solution to increased performance and longer battery life. Now when Sony releases statements like this, I imagine there’s some truth to at least some of these rumors of the PSP2.
In short, it’s about time. Now they need to lower the price point of the go to match that of the PSP 3000, at the very least, or more so since it’s a much more limited version of the 3000, which already has proven to be very very hack resistant thanks to the mobo design. We need developers turning their attention back toward the little console, and to do that we need more people to support the current console versions, and their existing library.