Sony has quietly stalled the production of its recent generation PlayStation Portable go which means an unexpected demise of the handheld game console. According to Japanese news daily AV Watch, a Japan-based Sony shop employee learned from his sales manager that PSP Go was no longer being made. Sony neither confirmed nor denied this so called rumoured and stated that PSP Go will continue to be in demand.
Sony had launched the PSP Go formally in June 2009 for $250 and it was finally introduced in India about three months ago for Rs. 12,990. The handheld gaming console PSP go had 16GB Flash storage and dropped support for UMD discs. The company also collaborated with a number of game developers to roll out Digital game titles instead on UMD.
In January this year, Sony unveiled its NGP (Next Generation Portable) game console with a 5-inch OLED display, quad-core CPU coupled with quad-core GPU. It was quite surprising to hear that Sony will discontinue PSP Go as the company never did the same for previous generation of PSP game consoles.
Apparently, Sony is focused more on its strategy to concentrate more on the NGP pricing and pushing all sort of digital content - gaming, music and video to the portable game console. Alongside that, Sony Ericsson also announced first PlayStation certified smartphone - Xperia Play with PSP Go like slide out panel with game buttons and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Sony would be actively involved in helping game developers adhere and author to PlayStation certified platform.
You can still buy PSP Go from the market and enjoy playing games because Sony is said to have stopped the product but hasn't dropped support for the same. This means you can still buy it off the shelf and enjoy gaming on the go. But count on it on this basis - till the stocks last.
Sony had launched the PSP Go formally in June 2009 for $250 and it was finally introduced in India about three months ago for Rs. 12,990. The handheld gaming console PSP go had 16GB Flash storage and dropped support for UMD discs. The company also collaborated with a number of game developers to roll out Digital game titles instead on UMD.
In January this year, Sony unveiled its NGP (Next Generation Portable) game console with a 5-inch OLED display, quad-core CPU coupled with quad-core GPU. It was quite surprising to hear that Sony will discontinue PSP Go as the company never did the same for previous generation of PSP game consoles.
Apparently, Sony is focused more on its strategy to concentrate more on the NGP pricing and pushing all sort of digital content - gaming, music and video to the portable game console. Alongside that, Sony Ericsson also announced first PlayStation certified smartphone - Xperia Play with PSP Go like slide out panel with game buttons and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Sony would be actively involved in helping game developers adhere and author to PlayStation certified platform.
You can still buy PSP Go from the market and enjoy playing games because Sony is said to have stopped the product but hasn't dropped support for the same. This means you can still buy it off the shelf and enjoy gaming on the go. But count on it on this basis - till the stocks last.
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