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Companies like to brag about good sales figures. When a new system - or new iteration of an existing system - is released on the market, companies want consumers to know how successful it is. It isn’t a bad idea, really. If people see a system or a console is… Continue Reading »

Poor Sony. The original PSPs have been a favorite of pirates and hackers for a while. They’d create custom firmware and then go nuts with homebrew, emulation and piracy. Sony probably thought going download-only with the PSPgo would keep that from happening. Sorry to say, that isn’t the case. A… Continue Reading »

At the asking price of $249, the PSPgo is a Siren of game devices, offering a lot of sexy style without a lot of substance. There’s no UMD backwards compatibility at this time, leaving anyone with a large collection out in the cold or having to be re-charged admission. Opening… Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: PSPgo Handheld

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) used the 2009 Tokyo Game Show to make two big announcements concerning the PS3 and PSPgo. First, the SCEE announced a new version of the PS3 Slim that has a 250GB hard drive which everyone is excited about. The second announcement was the PSPgo Rewards… Continue Reading »

There’s a bit of bad news for PSP owners. Well, for PSP owners who are eager to ditch UMDs and only collect downloadable games. Remember the exciting news about Atlus releasing Shin Megami Tensei: Persona on the PlayStation Store and on UMD on September 22, 2009. The Atlus Faithful email… Continue Reading »

Atlus is going to debut the remastered Shin Megami Tensei: Persona PSP remake on September 22, 2009. There’s even more good news for PSP owners. Those who are big on digital downloads to avoid having to carry around UMDs will be able to purchase the game from the PlayStation Store.… Continue Reading »

Gadgetell‘s editor, Iyaz Akhtar, recently got a chance to hold Sony’s PSPgo handheld system at Digital Experience in New York City and is sharing his photos with us. From the photos you can see the system playing several videos (Family Guy, 24 and Paul Blart: Mall Cop). The system has… Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: PSPgo Hands On Photos

Dubbed the “worst kept secret” of E3 by Kaz Hirai himself, the PSPgo was given a release date of October 1, 2009, with a $249 price tag. This is the same price that accompanied the release of the PSP-1000 in 2005. A lot has changed since then in terms of… Continue Reading »

E3 2009 has come and gone in a fluster of press conferences, announcements and releases. Now’s a good time to sit back and regroup, taking time to process the new wealth of information we possess. The handheld consoles did particularly well this year. The DS had quite a few interesting… Continue Reading »

Playlogic Entertainment used E3 2009 to assure potential PSP go users that the company had Sony’s new system in mind while creating Obscure: The Aftermath. The game is the portable port of Obscure II/Obscure: The Aftermath, which originally appeared on the PC, PS2 and Wii, and the sequel to Obscure,… Continue Reading »