psides: The PSP Go is 16% lighter and 35% smaller than the PSP-3000, shares every feature with the latter save its screechy UMD drive, puts the thumb-nub in a much smarter position relative to your grip, adds Bluetooth support (rumored to exist in older model PSPs, but disabled), and packs 16GB of internal flash memory out of the box.
Downsides: The PSP Go's 480x272 LCD is 3.8" (compared to the PSP-3000's 480x272 4.3" screen), which means a 12% reduction in the legibility of already smallish fonts (especially text in emulator-interpolated PS1 games). The screen-slide mechanism protects the wrong features (the d-pad, thumb-nub, and action buttons, as opposed to the screen itself, which remains fully exposed, iPhone-like). Mini-USB cables no longer work with the system (you're stuck with a proprietary one). The absent UMD drive, which was supposed to be a boon, may turn out to be a boondoggle, with Sony backing away from suggestions it might provide a mechanism for carrying players' existing UMD libraries over. And then there's the system's price tag: $250, when the regular PSP-3000 with a UMD drive costs just $170 (possibly dropping soon).
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/2...nsofsonyspspgo
Buy it:
-- Awesome sleek design
-- Plenty of internal storage
-- Slick online distribution system
Skip it:
-- Too expensive
-- No upgrade options for UMD games
-- Still lags behind other handhelds
http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/p...th-it-/1358841
