PSP Go: Sony “PSP2″ Scraps UMD, Gains 16GB
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 31, 2009 17:13 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Internet, PSP, Sony, Technology
Details of Sony’s latest handheld have emerged, and the device seems to incorporate some interesting innovations.
The most notable internal change is that the UMD (Sony’s proprietary CD/DVD drive solution for the PSP) is to be scrapped, which will doubtless please many.
Another major change is clearly directly linked to this: the PSP Go gains a very reasonable 16GB of solid state memory, along with a slot allowing use of another memory device. Bluetooth support is also added.
The balance of probability suggests Sony intends online distribution of content to the device via its own PlayStation Network, which is exactly what Nintendo is trying with its latest DS iteration.
The most immediately noticeable change is of the course the redesigned slimline form of the case, using a slide-out form factor familiar from mobile phones, and by the looks of it allowed by the removal of the relatively bulky optical drive. The design is being compared to a previous Sony product, the “mylo”, and indeed it is the spitting image of that device.
The PSP Go is set for release in the Autumn of 2009.
New Gran Turismo and Metal Gear titles are set to be amongst the flagship games for the console.
Curiously, the PSP Go will apparently not directly replace the PSP 3000, instead being sold alongside it. Just how this will work out is an interesting question…
Via Itai News.
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Call me old fashioned but I like holding that UMD in my hands. At least the tangible UMD has no possibility of "accidentally being deleted". Unless you throw it away or something haha.
well I don't care what people say, I'm getting one still and I wouldn't be surprised if everyone here got one as well
they still haven't put in another analog stick in.
I don't know, I just want them to add in basic features I'd expect any media device to have i.e. renaming files, making folders etc...
It's crap I have to plug the damn thing into my comp to do this. And why is there still no second analog nub? Damn.
Kutaragi, come back NOW.
And they STILL forget the extra FUCKING JOYSTICK!
Well, actually if I can legally download the games again from SONY's PSN which I already own on UMD discs , then it should not be a big problem that the PSP Go does not have an UMD drive. I am thinking of VALVE's STEAM-like system, where you can register your purchased PC DVD-rom games so you can pre-load the games from VALVE's STEAM server instead of using the DVD discs (although only applicable for games from VALVE and a small selection of other games from other developers e.g. EPIC's Unreal Tournament 3). I think cutting of the UMD drive from the PSP, will surely lower the costs of the PSP portable device and is meant to fight off against piracy (no disc, no rip!), DRM will be certainly used for protecting the games. Remember, securom is developed by SONY.
I don't care if it's for battery's sake. If this new PSP don't have UMD, It's crap!
What the hell I'm suposed to do with my games? I have 15 games and a fucking movie!
And I know there's a lot of people who have a lot more games and movies.
WHOA! Calm down a minute.... I am sure that Sony will put out a way that you can copy your UMD's somehow to these new drives (maybe using your OLD PSP to transfer them to the NEW one through the USB jack!).
They would NOT be willing to piss off their customers by having their old games go the vaporware route.
This UMD was too wasty on the energy consumption.
It sucked.
seems Sony is Leaning with old Nintendo.
Wah! SO many comments already. It has 16gb built-in but also has an memory slot for expandability! I just hope it's not memory stick. ;-) Dimensions are smaller than the mylo as well.
No sir, I don't like it.
EPIC FAIL -
Release UMD titles online? Hahahhaa.. what a joke.
Never going to get a PSP GO.
Only reason UMD is good is that you can import Japanese games and Korean games and still play it on your PSP. With Sony's "online releases", we'll NEVER see great titles like DJ MAX online for download.
Just take a look at the difference between the Online Store for US and for Japan! Japan version has so many good PS-One titles already on the store, but US only has an hand-full of crappy titles that I wouldn't even want to touch... Yuck...
Hence why PSP GO would be fail for import gamers like myself.
No, you will see them online for download... you will just have to learn a little bit of Japanese and use the Japanese language site to download.
I wonder what they are going to do about all the old UMD things however..... since this doesn't have the drive on it, are they going to allow people to download the thing online again if they can PROVE that they owned the thing in the first place on a UMD?
Lol , You can purchase any content from JP store
if you have JP PSN card same thing apply to any
store :)
do want!!!!!
lmfao still only 1 joystick. Thats like a triple fail. 1 for thinking its was a good idea, 2 for actually going through with it on the first psp and then for doing it again.
I've never been a PSP fan, but I want this
wooooow
"New Gran Turismo and Metal Gear titles are set to be amongst the flagship games for the console."
Excellent....
Wow, real innovation.
hey! it's Mylo's cousin
why the fuck don't they add another analog stick for better FPS >.>
i like the second last picture.
Good FPS finally coming to portable gaming???
of course it's bad
they are just thinking how to stop pirate
but not thinking how to treat buyers
how can buyers collect if it's virtual
bad design... can't play MH very well with that controller...
it looks fukin awful. i thought they'd add another analog! but no and they've made the screen smaller scrapped the umd and made the whole thing a stupid shape! whats the point! sony what the fuk r u thinking u are all completely useless and should die.
this almost pisses me off as much as endless eight
Damn the formation of the buttons look painful...My hands will need to re adjust if this system's going to work T_T
I take it that this will still be able to play the old PSP games, or am I mistaken?
Another thing is it's battery life and durability: sure, the first PSP can only support up to 8 GB memory stick, but I can play for much longer plus it's already survived five accidental crashes for three years now (no thanks to those whom I borrowed it to)
why is the analog stick near the directional i think that sucks
looks like another fake fan-made image. tons of interesting designs floating around the net but none of it actually confirmed by sony.
Blah. Sony has gone to shit since they moved their HQ to the US. The second to last image actually looks like a sony product I would spend money on.
Am I the only one who sees the actual PSP2 they're releasing and can only think it looks like some sort of cheap chinese rip-off?
Thanks for uh...nothing, Sony.
You know, this company moved in down the road from a place I use to work in San Diego. Just around the corner from Avenue of Science in Rancho Bernardo. Someone like, go egg these fuckers for ruining the Sony brand.
a slider model eh? yeah they can think up a better design but still not throw in another analog stick.
i'll be buying this after four years to see if this is boom or bust.
Hm...unless the games are going to be distributed on SD cards from now on, count me out. I like having my console games on removable hardware -- I recalled reading somewhere that the games for this baby can only be bought on PSN, which can't be good for such a relatively small hard drive.
AND SONY SHULD at least include a second analog button too
DAMMIT i want that soo much
with soo many talk about the psp go,happy and unhappy.
Let ask ,IF YOU ARE THE ONE MAKING THE NEW PSP HOW DO YOU WANT IT TO BE LIKE?
Sony is beginning to fail me.
Oh, sony, what have you done? who needs things like internal hard disk and smaller screen? Where are the second L and R buttons? and where oh where is the second joystick? You clearly live in your own perfect world if you think people will buy it. Nintendo will probably create a real DS2 by the time this "PSP GOAT" comes out.
The L/R buttons are on the back, similar to the Gameboy SP, and it uses internal Flash memory, not a hard disc. :) .
"The L/R buttons are on the back, similar to the Gameboy SP, and it uses internal Flash memory, not a hard disc. :)"
Did I say something about the location of the L/R buttons? no I didn't. I said we need the L2/R2 buttons. and about the hard disc, it's just a way of speech, of course it's flash memory. But if I want more memory for my PSP2000 I will buy it on my own. Sony just thinks they can sell it to people "as a pack with a new design". They are wrong.
This isn't a PSP2.
We must first of all note that size, accessibility, and portability come before quality and comfort when it comes to handheld systems. The PSP Go! as apparently 43 percent lighter than the PSP-300, and features a number of other little newly developed aspects to ease the consumer. Other features like UMD retirement and battery life expansion, some might call crucial and others stupid and needless, alongside the 3.8 inch screen. 16 GB of memory may not prove to be as exciting of an upgrade as many think, as various reviews, based on games' experience, show how even a 4GB memory slot is satisfactionary... Many. however are flaming with rage and anger to the cause of the PSP Go! being just a simple upgrade, like many classify the DSi, rather than a full-blown renewal, featuring everything suggested by devoted fans. One very prolonged and dreaded issue was the presence of only one analog controller, making it difficult to control camera angles and the lot, which saw no life in this renovation, sadly. A good lot of people are also complaining because of the small buttons and knobs, rendering large-handed consumers unable to do much. Even though it is said that third parties are slowly returning to the console, few can forget the last quoters filled with disappointment and rage over unsatisfying games.There are a lot of speculations surfacing, be them on the price tag (expected to be astronomical) or on its further updates, performances and exclusive library.
If they designed something to slide open to a second screen that would have amused me.
Lol the video reminds me of Xam'd. That series was too random. RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY
What was shown pretty much amounted to something displaying a clock though, I don't remember a game shown on what they were holding.
Sony: Fairly ideal systems showing current hardware.
Nintendo: Good controls for the portable, overreaching with the console. Weak hardware.
Microsoft: Faulty hardware. I don't expect them to move away from the shadows anytime soon.
Lack of games on all consoles. DS has a decent library, PSP has a bit too many ports. PC seems to be on the rise.
Gonna stop now. I'm already trapped in babble.
friggin ugly...psp looks wayyyyy better
This is a Handheld system meant to play games not a cell phone..it's too smal to hold in your hands and I agree..the button are at some pretty weird places...
release some of the good games on PSP would definitely help.
...oh you sony
i bet the price is awsm rofl
Looks like Keima's PFP from the manga "The World God Only Knows"
:)
Looks like a promising device, the only issue is the name..
The design bugs me but the new features are great
This links has the same video without the sound issues as in the article:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCdN0Vh2duk
Fixed, thanks..
If someone figures out how to put custom firmware on it so I can play emulators and if I can still put my PS1 eboots and PSP ISOs on it I might consider buying one
It might end up with the CFW. After all it has a new motherboard :D
argh! I hope they work out someway of playing the old PSP games... The only reason i was even considering buying one was for DJ Max and Crisis Core :x
But that MGS game sounds interesting...
I think S*ny will do one of two things about that:
1. Say (effectively) to its customers, "There is no media upgrade path. You will have to buy your games all over again for the Go model. Ha-ha, we screwed you again!"
or
2. Release some sort of overpriced external UMD reader which plugs into the Go via USB port, and say (effectively) to its customers, "Ha-ha, we screwed you again!"
If they don't release a dumper hand in hand with the Go, then I'm not touching it.
I don't care if it has 16GB or has a slideout form factor. You don't alienate an entire backlog of games within the same generation of platform. No one has ever done that, and for a very good reason.
Sony's 10 year life cycle will screw them over eventually. Microsoft and Nintendo are in a hurry to sell portables. By releasing theirs last, Microsoft will be able to add features that people want in their PSP Go. Sony should build quality high tech devices and release them LAST with better features than the others. But even if they do that, 10 year plans are like a golden ticket for the competition.
thats an ugli handheld..
blackberry wants thier design back
Looks quite uncomfortable to handle... good idea, bad packaging.
now if only there was a third tier sliding panal for the keyboard lol
It would've been nice to see another analogue joystick, but guess that's not gonna happen either -.-
Yeah, why the hell can't they just put one instead of the start/select buttons and move those opposite of the home button??? -_-
and touch screen and the abililty to use it as a cell phone, i'd buy one for $500!!
.
oh oh dont forget camera, music player, energy shield, and light sabre!!
theres a built in 9mm barrel though...good for self defense
I think it's better if Sony (and game developers) release more good titles for the PSP than improving the hardware. This article just wanna make me sell my psp-2000 and buy a DSi.
How the fudge are we supposed to play Monster Hunter with the d-pad and analog stick almost horizontal to each other...?!?!?!
Lol just what I was thinking when I first saw the article... This is 100% Fail >.>...Monster hunter ftw - -
I bet there will be an add-on that adds a dpad to the left of the screen.
I say we start a sankaku Monster Hunter clan up, fuck PSP Go. I'm on Xlink Kai anytime someone wants to hunt, the good hunt.
With skill.
and a dislocated wrist, right?
A lock-on feature, finally?
have some extra hands grafted onto your arms
i wonder if this can run tekken 6?
And transform into biomechanical being? *Transformer sound*
lol. yeas, I save my money fot a psp2
Saving MONEY for it =]
lock on feature => fail
monster hunter is all about instinct!
must pur chase...at a later date when available...maybe a few years down the rhode.
Interesting re-design. I liek it.
Why couldn't PSP leave his sister Mylo alone?
Sony, proving that inbreeding really leads to retardation. Seriously, the d-pad looks retarded.
When the PSP Go powers on, don't expect it to play the all too familiar PS tune. Expect to hear:
DEE DEE DEE!
Btw, what kind of Fuckin' name is PSP Go? They must have pulled that out of an intern's ass.
It better be a hot female intern otherwise I don't want it.
Agreed
It's "go" from GO SUCK MY BALLS NINTENDO.
I was going to buy the 3000 version (since I only have 1000 version), but I think i'll wait a little more. >.<
I was going to buy the PSP Go until i saw the design, they tried and failed, because it looks gimmicky, and the previous comments voiced my first problem with the thing when i saw the vid the other day. Monster Hunter possibly the biggest franchise for the PSP as a whole, ESPECIALLY in the Japan will be utterly impossible to play on this piece of shit. I only bought a PSP soley for the Monster Hunter series. It doesn't matter to me how good the graphics or screen are without controls its useless. The same would account for if any company released the best console in the world, with unbetable graphics million times what the ps3 or 360 is capable of with a shit controller, i wouldn't buy it, because its all about the controls, nothing else at the end of the day matters.
Just a guess but, the fact that the have been namin the psp models as they come out as psp-1000, psp 2000 and so on, it could be that the Go could be the japanese 5. To make a point its a completely different model they decided to not to call it psp 5000 or something and instead named it go, which also holds the double meaning of portability.
Just a guess though and its still a pretty stupid name imo.
I heard they're going to add legacy downloads to the PSN for most UMD-based games as time continues. (biggest sellers will get there first)
They better make it free for those who already own the games...
I just lost my PSP-1000 when my car exploded. I wish this were coming out sooner. Now I have to decide between buying a 3000 or waiting 'til Fall.
Would it be too excessive to buy both?
LMFAO. i chuckled when i read that your car exploded with your psp-1000 in it. how that happen?
He is James Bond in disguise. His PSP was rigged with explosives as a ploy to assassinate him. They failed because Tzion was playing with his DS at the time of the explosion, though he did get caught in it. With the epic explosion in the background and all that stuff. Epic.
Damn it, Tzion, you just have to shatter our dreams, don't you =(.
Actually, we think the fuel line ruptured.
Tsk... These companies are getting more and more stupid... Its about the gaming not the design... >_<
Finally someone gets it. If they wanted to appeal to hardcore gamers, they would make it bigger, add a right analog stick, and add an Oled touchscreen like the zune HD's
They're trying to make it cuter to sell to teenage girls.
Real gamers would play an ugly, heavy, brick if it had excellent gaming capabilities!!!!!
amen!
Lol. The girls dont like bricks. What would they say if you pulled a brick psp out? They'd run to the guy who had the slim sexy one.
how the fuck do u even use the joystick. its so not feasible.
No Get!
I do like the fact that they opted to take out the UMD drive. People can already mod their PSPs to play game ISOs saved on the memory stick. Because of that, and the fact that the PSP can play MP4 videos, so drive became obsolete. Glad they also made a built in hard drive too! Guess they'll start selling their software through the Playstation network. With all the things they eliminated, it not only made the PSP lighter and more compact, it also helps to extend the battery life. Even with all the new design decisions though, it doesn't help that the control scheme is just atrocious! And the fact that they made the screen smaller really hurts. They should've just replaced (in the current PSP model) the old UMD drive with a hard drive, and add a camera.
just got to ask.. WHY THE FUCK WOULD A HAND HELD GAME SYSTEM NEED A CAMERA!?!?! its like phones i still have no clue why they need a camra.. hardly ANY one uses them... ugh game = plays games not takes photos, and yes i raged when i found the DSI had a camera...
No one uses the camera phone? Are you joking me? Maybe you don't go out to social gatherings very much, but camera phones are perfect for capturing those rare moments in life that you would'nt expect to happen, and decided not to carry an actual camera everywhere you go.
basilio is da Chikan Lord. WORSHIP HIM!
You need as many as you need. If they catch you taking pictures up the skirt of a schoolgirl, you don't want to give them such an easy job of finding your spoils.
Decoys, I tell you! Decoys!
Agreed. Seriously, how many portable cameras do you need on your person?
One on your mobile, one on your PSP, one on your mp3 player, one on your laptop, one on your watch, one on your specs, one on your wallet?
What are you gonna do with so many cameras? Take 360 degrees x 360 degrees 3D photos on the go?
I agree, but only for phones. Cameras are redundant for handheld consoles. You are likely to be carrying your phone camera with you anyway so what's the point?
Well, there was one guy who got caught using an external PSP camera accessory to take upskirt shots.,,, It was bulky and obvious.
The only reason I can think of to want a camera in your portable gaming unit is if it were to point at the USER, so you can do video Skype when you're in WiFi range.
Anyone going to a social event will likely carry a cellphone, and it's been a while since I've seen a cellphone without a built-in camera.
The reason for cellphone cameras is to encourage the impulse taking and sharing of pictures... transmitted over the phone service provider's network, and charged for at expensive rates (i.e., super-profit).