Mobile Magazine » pspgo http://www.mobilemag.com The Original Mobile Magazine, covering news and reviews on mobile technology, including cell phones, PDAs MP3 players, digital cameras, wireless, notebooks, and mobile gaming. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:23:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Sony Considering New Colors for PSPgo? http://www.mobilemag.com/2009/11/12/sony-considering-new-colors-for-pspgo/ http://www.mobilemag.com/2009/11/12/sony-considering-new-colors-for-pspgo/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:28:31 +0000 Michael Kwan http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=67416 Sony Considering New Colors for PSPgo?
When I was over at the E3 Expo in June, I had the opportunity to go hands on with the new Sony PSPgo. They said that it would not completely replace the existing PSP, since it did not have a UMD drive and it catered to a slightly different market.

While the Sony PSPgo has only been out for a very short time, it seems that Sony is already itching to refresh the line with a splash of color. A UK market research company recently approached a number of individuals to see if they would be interested in a new color of PSPgo, asking which one they would most likely want to buy.

For the record, the PSPgo is currently available in only the monochromatic options of black or white, so it wouldn’t hurt to have a few more color options thrown into the mix. It is a little disconcerting, however, that Sony is seemingly looking for new ways to bump up sales already. Is the PSPgo really performing that badly?

Looking at the image embedded here, I think the camo green could be a good tie-in to some army-related title and the ocean blue could be pretty popular on its own. The lemon and turquoise hurt my eyes a little though.

Source: Kotaku

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I wouldn’t say that the Sony PSPgo completely came out of left field, but it still had a few surprises for us to consider when it was officially unveiled at E3 2009. As it turns out, Sony had been planning to release a PSP without a UMD drive for quite some time. The PSPgo is just the final fruition of that vision.

The biggest kicker is that Sony didn’t suddenly come up with plans to remove the UMD drive in the last six months or so. Instead, they are saying that they had major plans to make a PSP without the UMD drive right from the beginning of the system’s life.

Remember when the original Sony PSP first hit the market? It introduced the UMD drive, but I guess Sony saw that format as a temporary solution. So, they wanted to build “the right environment” for it first, whatever that means. Sony had been working on a PSP sans UMD for the last two years.

Now that digital delivery has become so incredibly popular, thanks largely to the iPhone and the App Store, it only makes sense that the PSP Go is able to grab new games without having to mess with physical media. Sony can cut costs, games can (hopefully) become cheaper, and everyone can win, right?

Source: 1Up

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