The PSPgo was a completely misguided project from Sony to revive their all-but-dead handheld. It failed to address key issues, like adding a second analog pad, and just didn’t have any compelling reason to exist. Seeing their handheld lose a ton of market share to Apple’s iPhone had to hurt and the PSPgo offered nothing in the way of competition. Hell, even the paltry amount of games available for the PSPgo suck.
While most of us have been very aware of Sony’s portable shortcoming, it appears their upper-management has finally removed their rose-colored glasses and are viewing reality for the first time:
“We wanted to find a way to give the consumers what they want, so if they didn’t want to go to a retailer they could stay at home and download [games and content]. And we were hoping really to eliminate the piracy issue. Did the PSPgo confuse [consumers]? Yeah, I think the higher price point didn’t help matters any either,” he admitted. “So we’re going back and re-communicating, and I’m sitting here looking at multiple decks on what we’re going to do this year. You’ll see a lot of things coming out from us to better educate and inform the consumer. All I can say is watch this space, because we’ll have answers to those questions.”
One thing hasn’t changed and that’s Sony’s ability to blame piracy as the cause of all of their problems instead of an inventory of compelling games on a well-designed portable, priced at a competitive level. Want my advice? Can the PSP altogether and create a device that blows the iPhone away…or will Sony sit around and let Microsoft do that instead?
