Second, Sony will phase out the PSP if the Go is successful because it will save on their costs. All they have said is that they will initially support both consoles at once. They are testing the waters to see if the new system will sell. If it does, no more PSP, no more UMD's, and get ready to buy all of your beloved old games in digital format, if Sony bothers to distribute the programs. For even more info on Sony's evil in this regard, consider how they stated they would allow us to gain programs for all of our PSP games free on the Go, then reneged on the offer at the last minute.

Third, if the Go works, other companies will have to compete in the same manner. In other words, all major systems will have to go digital in order to match Sony's savings. This means that every video game you actually physically own will rapidly become obsolete. This means that retailers that specialize in Video Games will either have to change product, or cease operation. More unemployed people. More weight on the World Economy. Admittedly, it's not like everyone and their mother works at a game store, but still. Ultimately, hard copies will become a ridiculously overpriced niche item, likely sold only at very expensive sites in bootleg format or in limited runs at conventions.

Finally, in terms of availability, good luck with the local censors. No imports not supported by the local hardware, and unless you read the language, no reliable imports, period.
This is bad. Just because it makes things easier to get a game does not mean it is a good thing.

The way I understand it, it'll be like the current PSN with PS3. You can buy games, dl them to your HD, delete them if you need space, and re-download them later on if you want. If you bought it on PSN it should still be on your account.

Granted you may have to take the time to dl it again, but that's not so bad, is it?

You are truly a fucking moron. Let us know when you return from 2006.

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PSP 3000 and PSP Go will be on the market at the same time, they will coexist. So....the same games that will run on the 3000 will run on the Go. If Go had a different control scheme, the games would have to be developed separately.
It would cost more....and since Go isn't actually the PSP 2 (a whole new platform - hardware is the same), there's no real need for that.

Hey, i was disappointed too when i first saw the pic, but then i thought about it, thought about why Sony didn't include the second nub.

My advice to you is....THINK

First of the PsP doesn't sell games, anyone that works in retail would know this and should not be bothered much about this. If anything it would make his or her job easier.

Second of, he or she is totally missing the point entirely. From the very beginning of this generation the issue between Sony and Microsoft has been disc based vs download based. Microsoft are saying that there is no need to have a HD disc format on their console cause they think downloads is the future. While Sony Decided to make a 50gb disc that would make downloads mute by todays technologies.

Forget wether or not we as gamers have sympathy for the vampire that is GameStop and similar companies. Wether this person actually works in retail (if he/she does then he/she should get fired)or wether this person is just trying to start a flame war I don't know. Either way this person clearly doesn't know what he/she is talking about.

Because it's not the PSP2, they can't. If they add the second thumbstick, no current game will support it, and any future games that support it will screw over 50 million current PSP owners who only have one thumbstick. So, if they add a second thumbstick, and a game decides to support it, only a few million people, instead of 50 million people, can play it.

Although, if they make a PSP2, and don't add another thumbstick, I will take this back and call them morons.

GS will only survive if it has some benefit over electronic distribution, like great service or super knowledgeable employees that can direct you to just the kind of game you are looking for based on your tastes and hahahahahaha yeah whatever. They simply don't care, and have had it way to easy for way too long.

And don't forget that 2nd hand games take a huge chunk out of developer profit, meaning lower quality games.

And don't forget that while in downtown USA there are lots of game retailers, Electronic distribution allows some hope of selling games in like 80% of the rest of the world where there is no such distribution. Like all of China, India, Russia, South America, etc... Where they (we) couldn't even buy a legal copy of the game if they wanted to. Zeebo is doing it, and with a 3G chip of all things.

Perhaps if GS was a little progressive minded they could become an "Electronic Download" store the way iTunes store did.

Oh, also this whole thing is overblown. Even if PSP Go has downloadable games it will not affect game stores. Because just like the PS3, the PSP has no games.

True AI is different. It is something that would reason the way we do. It would not follow any set programming, but rather create new set of program code when it's faced with an unknown choice. It will decide which behavior is aproparate (beneficial to the self) by examining the results of it's random behavior and then retain or discard the behavior. This is the equivalent of a child touching a heated oven and finding out this is a dangerous thing to do.

Now, considering the vastly superior computing power of silicon over carbon, such AI will make us meatbags outdated very quickly if it dvelops human level intelligence. A single $100-$200 CPU will likely have more computing power than the human brain in 20 years (assuming Moore's law holds for a while longer). And since AI will have full awareness of it's structure (humans understand silicon ICs -> AI with human level intelligence can understand it) it will be able to improve itself in much the same way as various super heroes from the Marvel universe.
Weather such machines develop enough compassion so they won't exterminate us is unclear, but unlikely.

Anyway, I'm drifting away too much.
The most basic idea behind (true) AI is this: make a self aware computer, that does not need to be programmed in order to accomplish it's task.
Such a creation will defiantly not be limited by the ability of it's creator.