I don't think it's terrible. Sure it has some kinks in it's idea. IN MY OPINION, UMD's sucked and can die a painful death in the bottom of an ocean.

If you go to Amazon you will see that the people who actually have a PSP go like it, i like mine a lot, and i think the loses are worth it because the 3000 was too big and the UMD noise and long load times ruined the experience for me

As long as physical and digital media is priced the same, digital downloads are going no where. And that goes for anything not just games.

...it would be a great success. As for DD, I now buy all my PSP games from PSN as I have 3 PSPs in my household. Buy once, use many and its all legal!

Also get much better load times which for me makes DD more worth while however, DD should be cheaper and available before physical media.

Also, if they introduce a trading scheme for DD content then you'd really be talking. Trade in the right to use a game for PSN credits!

Silly Sony could have watched the next 360 flop but had to prove a point to companies.

You may or may not agree with the digital distribution model that Sony is following, but it is the future. Existing PSPs are still being produced so you have the choice of systems.

I was initially bummed that Sony didn't provide a method of transferring UMD games to digitial versions, but after thinking about it, it isn't so bad. I would bet money the issue with UMD transfers was legal issues associated with developers and publishers, not Sony.

I am now supporting the digital model for the PSP. No hauling around UMDs to play games, better battery life for original PSP models, and better access to lesser known games. Not to mention movie rentals/purchases and MP3s. Look at PC games...they are getting harder and harder to find it stores. Steam is taking off, as is other digital download services. Both digital and physical PC games are priced the same and you don't see people shying away from Steam do you?

Why do you need a physical UMD game? So you can trade in a game and get a fraction of what the game is really worth? What else??

Sony needs to lower the price of the PSPgo and the regular model. The price point is the issue. But based on the hardware sales figures, the PSP is by no mean failing.

Greywulf...."Riiiight.... but anyone with a High School diploma can figure out that NOT requiring games to be put up on the storefront for the PSP Go is a really stupid idea. That's one of the main problems with the Go right now. I have a friend, wants Crisis Core, not available on the PSN Store - is about to sell his PSP Go."

Sony has no control on what does/doesn't go up on PSN (unless it is Sony published). The publisher is the one who controls what get put on PSN. This is the main reason Sony is still selling the regular PSP!

and I love it. I gave my old slim model to my son and it works for me. I will agree that the price is high but so is everything the when it first comes out.

you know how many times i have heard those very same words when sony have launched a new hardware ??? countless , too many to count them , CD ?? why do we need CD on consoles? DVD ??? , blu ray ??? too freaging hard to develop for , what was sony thinking??? they have lost it and you all know how everything has turned out , now they are the first video game console manufacturer to bring DD only console with only 6 weeks on the market with a clearly high price tag and people are doom the system already , i cant believe how short sighed , stupid or just plain haters some people are , they are not seeing the big picture here ( PSN being a very very key word here ) , psp have finally received the software support sony should have given the system in the first place , we are seeing all these psn features that simply werent there before ( movie service , ad hoc party ,comic reader , psn friend list and i keep hearing about LBP PSP DLC creator mode) man thats pretty big stuff if you ask me ( psp launch owner here )

I have the Go and love it. Still working on ff7.
Real sleek gadget.

It's important for me to be able to buy a physical copy, not pre-owned (as i found some unidentified matter in an instuction booklet once which put me off) but new games in the bargain section, promotions etc and yeah maybe very occasionaly a pre owned game , if it looks really clean.i like to see my collection on the shelf. i despise the download only idea, and am not keen on DLC unless it is done very well like with burnout paradise, but even then i will wait and get the whole package on blueray or game of the year edition etc. so i hope the whole digital distribution only idea fails for as long as possible. when the go was released i read about no umd and no usb and went out and brought a psp 3000 instead...nice bit of kit, and a cheap back catalouge of great games.

The reason the price is so high is because there is no room for the retailer to make any profit from them (e.g games). But to be honest they don't sell anyway. I agree that anything is digitally downloaded can be a retail killer. Its cutting the middle-man out.

God I'm beginning to think that the American journalists are full of faeces keep reporting on the damn war please. Convenient truths are no better lies.

Not sure how the PSP Go will set back digital distribution

Digital distribution is only in the favor of the big companies and NOT of us customers. So basically yeah, i hope it vanishes as soon as it has emerged. Kthxbye.