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Hands-on With the PSP Go
ANkleStrong writes "Sony Corp unveiled on Tuesday a smaller, lighter PlayStation handheld game device called the PSP Go, in a race to catch rival Nintendo in an intensely competitive mobile games arena."
E3 attendees were able to take the new Sony handheld for a test drive, and more pictures and videos are now available. It's set to be released on October 1st, and will retail for $249. A new Resident Evil game is being designed specifically for the updated hardware, and Metal Gear Peace Walker is coming as well.
Once again Sony is probably overpricing the market. Sony would love to wipe the venerable DS off the face of the planet, but the DS is what, $130 or $180 for the DSi?
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Sony is asking for way more money than usual, same as usual. Nintendo will sell way more units, same as usual...
I carry my DS in the hip pocket of my cargo shorts - it gets banged up, sat on, smooshed against the hull of the bus. It's spanged off of desks and doors, barstools and bannisters. And while the case is scraped and scratched (and mildly pulverized in one corner thanks to a FLYING LEAP the thing took onto pavement), the screens are still in working order and the machine continues to give me games on the go without complaint.
You must have one of the original fat DS's, no way in hell a DS Lite would withstand that kind of punishment. My Lite's R button is non-functional and in several places around the hinges plastic has cracked or fallen off, and I carried that bastard around in a nice official Nintendo carrying case. This is from normal use. I'm hoping that the DSi will have better build quality.
You know, at these sizes, a smaller display, with retained pixel count, means *more* expensive, not less. Higher DPI, you know, trickier to manufacture.