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Official PSP Go Release Info, Photos, Video & Confirmed Specs
05/30/2009 Written by Dan Massi
The PSP Go news doesn’t stop! Compliments of the leaked June Qore episode comes the release window, photos, video and confirmed specifications for the latest hardware revision for the PlayStation Portable.
In the June episode of Qore John Koller and Veronica Belmont confirm some of the specifications for PSP Go. This will not Replace the PSP-3000 for players that perfer a tangible product (UMD games and movies). UMDs will not disappear with the release of PSP Go, Sony will still support UMD.
Specifications:
- Offical Name – PSP Go
- 3.8″ LCD Screen
- 43% Lighter then PSP-3000
- 16GB Flash Memory
- Memory Stick Micro Support
- BlueTooth Support – HeadSet and Cellphone Support
- All Digital Content (No UMD)
- Slide Out Controls
- Remote Play Support (just like PSP-3000)
Digital Content:
- Games
- Video
- Movies
- TV Shows
Coming Fall 2009!
Images Courtesy: eurogamer.net
So what is your opinion on the new PSP Go?
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whoa! thanks for the info! im definitely getting myself one. but i dont want to wait until fall! wtf!
that was a given. to completely drop the PSP UMD would have killed there old market.
“With the formal announcement” that hasn’t been made XD
If there’s no Video Out port.. it’s a no go for me though… T_T
I guess price and homebrew are important to me. It would be nice to have homebrew without hacking, but we know that will never happen.
I like it, but those two factors affect me since I already own a PSP.
I wonder if the PSP Go will come packed with a few new games on the Flash memory. That would be awesome and may make it worth the upgrade.
i have to say very disappointed about it only having one stick!!!!!!!!! i see no reason to buy this. to me controls are important. i am a console gamer mainly but, like to play hand held too. i have had a 3 psp’s (the kids play them mostly) and the single stick is the main reason i don’t spend lots of time on them. the “look” controls on most games SUCK!
”# Remote Play Support (just like PSP-3000)”
wait dont all the PSPs have the Remote play feature?
Anyways the only thing that im disappointed in is that it has no 2nd analogue stick.Other than that its great
When did the June issue of qore come out?
this looks GREAT! but i am def. thinking the price may be a bit too much.
Hmm… Personally I am one who still like the “Tangible Products” I know that at one point there will be no stopping things from going all digital but I will hold on to my CD’s,DVD’s,UMD’s & Blu-ray’s until that time comes.
I also am not that excited about it’s form factor, one person had mentioned how it looked like something fisher price would make and at first I didn’t see it but as I stared at it more it did seem like the same form factor or something fisher price would make without the flashy colors. I know it is also in the form factor of the Sony Mylo perhaps that is one of the reasons it didn’t sell so well?
In the End I am glad they are still supporting UMD’s for the time being and wish there was a alternative upgrade program for those who have PSP 1000′s & 2000′s so we could send our PSP’s to Sony and have they just upgrade the insides of our PSP’s to the latest model for a small fee instead of having to buy a whole new PSP. Too bad that day will never come, so I will just stick with my original PSP 1001 model.
3.8″ ..? the current one is just ove 4″ i was definitely going to get this.. but i’ll check it out in person now before i get it.. i hope it’s not too small..
Other than that concern, i love it! it looks so really cool, and umd-less, so long as there is the opportunity to get my games put across, is going to be awesome
Ohh and one more thing I would like to add…
As much as I like the PSP I think that Remote Play sucks at least the via the internet feature. I mean it works, but only for those who have the right brand of Router/Gateway that won’t cause the PS3 to Remote Start automatically. It seemes to me that they have just ecnored all those with that problem and just used a stop gap method by disabing the feature if it happens and put up a little disclamer so they wouldn’t have to do anything to improve the feature or fix the problem. There should be a list of compatible Routers/Gateways on Sony’s site so people know which are compatible and which are not.
I of course am one of those affected and would love to use Remote Play but can’t and I can’t even change Routers or Gateways because I have AT&T U-verse service and they provide the Gateway that works with their TV service. I have contacted Sony,AT&T & 2wire about the problem but none of them can help with the problem.
Sony – Sony says that it is the Gateway
2wire (Router Manufature) – 2wire says that they can’t do anything with their gateway because they have a contractual agreement with AT&T not to mess with it so it won’t affect the TV service provided by AT&T
AT&T – Says they don’t mess with the Gateway’s firmware
So now I am stuck until one of them decides to take responsibility and try and fix it. Sorry about the rant but I know that sometimes someone from Sony reades these articles on your site and maybe that person can talk to the right people and get this problem finally taken care of. I just want this feature to work and not be left out of something that could be so cool if it worked properly.
and what do you mean no video out.. that looks like an hdmi port beside the headphones! it’s not the card reader, as that is visible from the back shot, where it currently resides in 2000 series.. bluetooth support will mean (as said in the article) that it will support the ps3 controller
And in response to Wolf26pack, remote play is a feature which has disappointed me.. I first used it to play crash bandicoot through our wlan, not over the net.. it went alright, but i found the best use for this is to listen to music and watch movies streamed, however the response is too slow to play games that support it (even through our home network, not using the internet at all) Pixeljunk eden just flops.. which is a shame.. hopefully this device supports N wireless networks, which will mean better pickup, hopefully making the great feature fully usable
) -set audio output to ps3, and pump through stereophobia, lets me run the show from anywhere on the property 
At the moment the best use I’ve found for remote play is to change the track playing in the game room (massive sound system
DAMN! She has a nice Rack!
@ Serendipiddy
See the thing with the slow Wireless is due to the fact that the PSP is Wireless B while the PS3 is Wireless G so the PSP’s Transmitting and Receiving are terribly slow. I don’t know why they didn’t both make them Wireless G. I think that if they were both Wireless G, playing Music & Games would be a whole lot of a smoother process. Hopefully both the PS4 & PSP 2 have Wireless N support & don’t have the same Remote Play problems that the PS3 & PSP currently have.
I just wish I knew who was supposed to take responsibilty for the problem. I mean 2wire is just supposed to provide hardware that can connect to the internet & AT&T is supposed to provide the Internet service. So if we go with that logic it really seems like it is Sony’s responsibility since it is there systems and there feature that isn’t working with certain Routers/Gateways. The sad thing is I just don’t ever see Sony fixing it since they have let it go this long without anymore mention about it other than the disclaimer I spoke of before.
Too bad to a Great Feature that is useless to a lot of Sony’s customers.
I wish everyone could have kept this under wraps until E3…
hmmm, well, I guess it’s a good excuse to replace my PSP-1000. Wait… What about all my UMDs? Any way I can transfer it to the flash memory?
I am sure this device will sell. Some will upgrade, (If you can consider this device an upgrade.) some will be new customers. IMO my first thought was if SONY incorporated a slide out feature…Why not include a full keyboard. They could have used the same tech as the touchsensitive textpad for some of the controls or have dual functions for certain keys.
2010 SONY ANNOUNCES THE PSP DREAM:
Touchscreen. Full slide out keyboard. Camera. DUAL ANALOG STICKS! 4G wireless connectivity. SONY is a Japanese company after all.
Would like to note (now that I watch Qore again) that it now only supports the Micro memory stick. So everyone needs to run out and buy a new stick as well? No thanks Sony.
@ Brent
yer.. despite being pleased to have it confirmed, it would have been much better to wait for E3.. I hope sony diliberately leaked this to stir up some chatter, for their sake..
@Wolf26Pack
I don’t think anyone needs to be blamed. I’m sure they wouldn’t release a half assed feature. It would have worked in their experiments, and most likely is designed to use a wired connection from the ps3.
Hopefully this has N or G Wireless to allow for Ps3 -> (wired) -> Router -> (wireless G/N) -> Psp remote play. Perhaps this could just be ahead of its time.
Although, through my own testing it worked near perfect if I was in the same room as the Ps3 and situated close by it. But I refuse to do this, as it makes the whole psp thing redundent -> I may as well just play the games on the ps3.. But hey, I’m sure the sony design team are aware of this and are doing all they can to improve this with each hardware iteration.
The video says confirmed a new METAL GEAR SOLID !!!!! — Hope its action packed like Resistance Retribution.
Not to mention GranTourismo … what damn!!! nice.
@serendipiddy
I have looked & tried it with the PS3 connected by ethernet and wireless but it didn’t work either way. The way I see it Sony is just satisfied with what they have accomplished and put so much on their plate at the time that this fell by the wayside and they still haven’t gone back to fix it, and all they have done in the mean time is put up that disclaimer that says it may not work with all Routers/Gateways. I know they know of the issue because as soon as Remote Play was released it was having the problem and within a week a new firmware was released that disabled the feature if your PS3 was automatically turned on.
I can however get Remote Play to work if I choose the Private Network option like I assume you are. Now if you choose the Private Network Option it directly connects to the PS3 without the use of a Router/Gateway & that is why you have to be within so many feet of your PS3 or else it won’t work. The problem I have has to do with the Connect via Internet option which cause the problem to occur. All I really want is for someone to take responsibilty for it and fix this issue.
As for the PSP having 802.11b in the PSP and the 802.11g in the PS3, I just think it was a bad design choice and when they created the PSP they weren’t really thinking of the PSP/PS3 connectivity so they put the cheapest one they could think of in the PSP. It was only an mistake but I just think the PSP would be that much better with the same spec as the PS3 at least when it comes to the wireless signal they choose. Hopefully like I said the PS4 & PSP2 both have wireless N so they are that much more compatible.
Thanks for the info! now i’ll go buy iphone! I don’t understand why SONY hates us so much? why did they put this ugly start/select buttons instead of 2nd analog stick?! I was gonna buy psp-go no matter how much it coast … but now my dreams are ruined… thank u very much SONY
just need a price now
@SolidCake_: My guess is a value pack or a bundle for $250.
This really looks like it was meant to compete with the iPod touch rather than be the next PSP. I’m hoping against all hope that they say this thing is going to be $99 and then do a big reveal on the PSP2. Using the PSP Go as a distraction from the real meat of the announcement, as it were.
Somehow I doubt it, though…
PSP has one analog nub. Always has had one analog nub. Stop telling sony to put out a psp with two analog nubs and start telling game devs to make games that dont need two nubs to play right.
Resistance retribution, Socom FTB, Ratchet and clank, MGS portable ops are great examples of shooting games that play perfect without two analog nubs.
The day they put out a psp with two analogs is the day you start complaining about the lack of 4 shoulder buttons and how cramped the handheld feels.
Cool with this leak looks like PSP should have a great E3.
I liked the top secret box … it was pretty much a steel box with a piece of paper on it xD
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actually it does have video out it has a mini HDMI port. next to the headphone jack
Its actually quite nice…. Does not look like some fisher price toy for sh*t when you look at the real thing. Pictures do look like a cheap little toy.
The only thing holding me back right now is not knowing the price, i wont pay more than $299 for it though…
And this UMD to digital transition leads me to believe this is a little test by sony on how the public responds to it. PS4 is looking pretty digital to me.
good god that’s alot of comments!
Yeah, DGR8M… I think one of my comments got deleted, though
@Wolf26pack
I have uverse and that router. You need to put your ps3 in dmz mode. You can also call it open mode. Then remote play should work over the internet.
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