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Sony Busts Out A Gang Of Digital PSP Games For PSPgo Launch

Some hot deals and lots of new games for you PSP-type people out there.

Worth owning, especially for five bucks. 
Worth owning, especially for five bucks. 
It wasn't until my PSP-2000 vanished off the face of the Earth that I suddenly started thinking about getting a PSPgo. I mean, the old PSP's screen is bigger. It's got a drive slot, and it can still do all those digital download things that the PSPgo can, provided you're willing to spring for a big enough Memory Stick.

Oh, it's also way cheaper than the $249.99 PSPgo. If you just want a regular, non-bundled PSP-3000, that thing's only $169.99. Of course, to fully match functionality, you'd need to go out and get a 16GB Memory Stick Duo to jam into that 3000. Those seem to be running somewhere in the $50-60 range, provided you don't pay retail prices at a chain store. At least that's what Amazon is charging at the moment. You could probably find them for less if you really started digging.

The weird thing about all this is that the PSP has been coming on sort of strong lately, and it's felt like it's coming out of nowhere. Stuff like Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble, Beaterator (quick look coming soon), Persona, the eventual localization and release of Persona 3 Portable, Gran Turismo, Half-Minute Hero, and the constant threat that the sealed copy of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on my desk has been making for the past few months has resulted in the best stretch for Sony's handheld since the Japanese launch, where we all got enamored with Ridge Racer and Darkstalkers, even though the load times and battery life were insane.

Anyway, the point is that I've got a tough decision to make. While the right move is to go with the more versatile 3000 (especially since I'm only going to be using it as a game machine, not some portable audio/video device), the PSPgo is tempting with its newness and its promise that, even if I wanted to, I'd never have to look at or carry a UMD ever again. It's like I'm voting for an all-digital future or something, even if this shelf full of PSP games I've got at home would become almost instantly useless in the process.

Well, Sony's certainly doing its part to turn up the heat on the PSP this week. The official blog has posted a list of this week's store updates, and it's huge. As you'd imagine, it's crazy thick with PSP releases. There are also some hot price cuts on some weird little PSP-only games, in case you're not the big-budget handheld game type.

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords PSP Temporary Price Drop (now $7.99)
Cube Temporary Sale (now $4.99)
Dead Head Fred Temporary Price Drop (now $7.99)
PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient Temporary Sale (now $4.99)
PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient 2 Temporary Price Drop (now $7.99)
WTF: Work Time Fun Temporary Sale (now $4.99)
Prinny: Can I Really be the Hero? Temporary Sale (now $9.99)
Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! Temporary Sale (now $9.99)
TV Show King Permanent Price Drop (now $7.99)

For $25 you could get Work Time Fun, Prinny, and Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman!. You can pretty much forget that other stuff (though Dead Head Fred is not entirely without merit, in case you're wondering). I already have two copies of Work Time Fun on UMD (in case one spontaneously bursts into flames), but those other two are on my short list.

Of course, there's also a huge flood of new and old PSP stuff up today, too. Check it out.

SCEA

Gran Turismo PSP ($39.99)
God of War Chains of Olympus ($15.99)
Secret Agent Clank ($31.99)
LocoRoco 2 ($15.99)
PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe ($19.99)
Daxter ($15.99)
Resistance Retribution ($31.99)
MLB 09 The Show ($31.99)
MotorStorm Arctic Edge ($39.99)

505 Games

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey ($29.99)

ACTIVISION

Cabela’s African Safari ($14.99)
Rapala Trophies ($14.99)
Gun Showdown ($14.99)
SWAT: Target Liberty ($19.99)
Crash Tag Team Racing ($14.99)
Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts: Ultimate Challenge ($14.99)
Crash: Mind Over Mutant ($29.99)
Crash of the Titans ($19.99)
Activision Hits Remixed ($14.99)

Aksys Games

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus ($24.99)

Atari

Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai ($14.99)
Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai Another Road ($14.99)

Atlus

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona ($39.99)

Capcom

Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded ($19.99)
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite ($29.99)

Codemasters

Dirt 2 ($29.99)

Crave Entertainment

Pinball Hall of Fame ($9.99)
Puzzle Challenge: Crosswords and More! ($4.99)
Brunswick Pro Bowling ($9.99)

EA

The Sims 2 ($14.99)
The Sims 2 Castaway ($9.99)
The Sims 2 Pets ($9.99)
Need For Speed Underground Rivals ($14.99)
Need For Speed Most Wanted ($19.99)
Need for Speed SHIFT ($39.99)
Need For Speed ProStreet ($19.99)
Need for Speed Carbon ($19.99)
Medal of Honor Heroes ($19.99)
Fight Night Round 3 ($19.99)
G.I.JOE The Rise of Cobra ($39.99)
Madden NFL 10 ($39.99)
Scrabble ($19.99)
Medal of Honor Heroes 2 ($19.99)
Burnout Legends ($19.99)
Burnout Dominator ($14.99)
Lord of the Rings: Tactics ($9.99)
Def Jam Fight For New York: The Takeover ($9.99)
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 ($39.99)
NCAA Football 10 ($39.99)

KOEI

Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce ($29.99)
Warriors Orochi 2 ($29.99)

LucasArts

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings ($19.99)
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure ($19.99)
Thrillville: Off the Rails ($19.99)
Star Wars: Battlefront Renegade Squadron ($19.99)
Star Wars: Battlefront II ($19.99)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed ($19.99)

Midway

Mortal Kombat: Unchained ($19.99)
Hot Brain ($14.99)

Namco Bandai

SOULCALIBUR: Broken Destiny ($39.99)

NIS America

Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light ($4.99)
Mana Khemia: Student Alliance ($14.99)
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness ($14.99)
Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days ($29.99)
Prinny: Can I Really be the Hero? ($9.99)
Dragoneer’s Aria ($14.99)

Playlogic

Obscure: The Aftermath ($29.99)

Rockstar Games

Beaterator ($39.99)

SEGA

Alien Syndrome ($15.99)
Super Monkey Ball Adventure ($15.99)
Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars ($15.99)
Iron Man ($19.99)
Sonic Rivals ($15.99)
Sonic Rivals 2 ($29.99)
Full Auto 2: Battlelines ($15.99)
Sega Genesis Collection ($15.99)
Crush ($15.99)

SNK PLAYMORE

The King of Fighters Collection ($19.99)
Metal Slug Anthology ($19.99)
SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 ($19.99)
Samurai Showdown Anthology ($19.99)

SQUARE ENIX

THEXDER NEO ($9.99)

THQ

Avatar: The Last Airbender ($19.99)
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights ($19.99)
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger ($19.99)
MX vs ATV Untamed ($19.99)
WWE SmackDown vs RAW 2009 ($19.99)

Ubisoft

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ($29.99)
Tom Clancy’s EndWar ($29.99)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas ($19.99)
Prince of Persia Revelations ($9.99)
Prince of Persia Rival Swords ($14.99)

Warner Bros. Interactive

300: March To Glory ($14.99)
Justice League Heroes ($14.99)
Lego Batman The Video Game ($19.99)


PSP minis (also available from PS3 storefront)

Alien Havoc ($4.99)
Tetris ($9.99)
Hero of Sparta ($6.99)
Brainpipe ($4.99)
Fieldrunners ($6.99)
Sudoku ($4.99)
Funky Punch ($4.99)

So yeah, it's a pretty hefty list. Obviously, not all of them are winners, so do your research before you start going crazy. I'll probably grab Thexder Neo, since I vaguely remember enjoying the original Thexder at some point.

...of course, I still need to get a new-and-functioning PSP if I'm going to do that. Grrr. Maybe I'll just confiscate the office PSP-3000 and see how it goes.
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Perhaps it's time I dust of my PSP-1000.

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Just picked mine up and was pleasantly surprised to see a voucher code for unplugged! So that makes the GO about $210, not great but a better value than what I thought I would be paying!
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I can't wait to see the beaterator QL, that "game" looks pretty interesting.

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Look at all these games! *checks psn store* ... and their not in european store fantastic!

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I'm quite tempted to get some of those downloadable games. Provided that I dont have to change my firmware. *Cough*
 
Also, you can still download all that stuff to a regular PSP Model. All the movies and games you'd ever want. Really, dont bother with a Go. Just dont. Ever.

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@Ooame said:
" Look at all these games! *checks psn store* ... and their not in european store fantastic! "
Aye. But I just saw Rockband Unplugged for 4 euros or so. I have it on UMD, but it might be worth checking out (if it isn't a typo) :P
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I'm looking at getting one, I just have a PSP-1000 so it's a notable upgrade (Yeah, I could get a PSP-3000, but it lacks in the shiny) 
 
I appreciate the form factor, the lack of needing to carry around UMDs or extra memory sticks (it's a portable system, I don't want to carry around an entire setup with me) and the newness.  But the price point just rubs me the wrong way.  I don't mind the obsoleting of most of my UMDs, there's only a couple of the old ones I still play.  I just wish the device were $199 instead of $250.  Getting it just below $200 would make a big deal to me. 
 
So yeah, in my opinion it is a great device.  Slightly wrong price point that is gonna have me hold off for a bit.  

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I seriously wish I had the money to get a PSP:Gp. Cause I'd get it, go home and DL like 10 of these games, on top of add all the games I already have on my current PSP-2000.

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@piderman:  But i need my persona fix!
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I like how theres a section for Square Enix, but only Thexder Neo there.


The King of Fighters Collection ($19.99)
Metal Slug Anthology ($19.99)
SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 ($19.99)
Samurai Showdown Anthology ($19.99)

SQUARE ENIX

THEXDER NEO ($9.99)

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So yeah, last night I bought some games totaling over $45, and I made sure I didn't double-dip into anything I didn't already own ('cept Tetris, you need Tetris on every machine you own). Sorry Uncharted 2, you'll have to wait till next year.

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 Cant wait to get home from work and start DL'ing games on my Go. still waiting for it to get delivered today at work lol.

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With this year's line up, I'm finally considering getting a PSP (so far I've been using my brother's). The weird thing is that, if I do indeed buy, I'll mostly definitely get a 3000. The Go offers no interest to me whatsoever.

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Semi Related Rant: 
 
Ok, so against my better nature I went and hocked in my PS-P3000 and a buch of games (including Batman which I finished earlier this week) for a shiny white psp go. 
 
I had no plans to do this, but was suddenly tipped over the edge by a news article on the new 'good will' programe Sony is offering, this is the one (available to EU users anyway) where if you can prove you own at least one UMD you can make yourself eligible for 3 free download titles from the PSN. That on top of the GT promotion did it for me. 
 
I got back home tonight and fired it up. The usual Sony MO applied here: 
 
step one - day one firmware updgrade (we've gone from v6.00 to v6.10 this week) 
Set up my PSN on the Go. 
Log in to PSN. 
Become slightly alarmed that there is ZERO mention of the free download offer. 
Download the free GT Theme (wondering if I've just completely read everying wrong for the last few weeks). 
Install Media Go, in case the download is activated via that. 
Instal day one update for the Media Go software (so that is will 'work with the psp go' - come on Sony) 
nothing there. 
check the internet - realise you get e-mailed a code once you down load the theme. 
check e-mail - nothing there. 
check sony small print - they will 'endeavour' to send you a download code within 30 days of the expiry of the pormotional offer
So my reward for being suckered in to being a day one adopter is the potential of a 40 day wait to be able to play GT Mobile
 
I think I speak for everyone in the UK who's busy putting two and two together this evening when I say; 
 
You fuckers Sony. You absolute Fuckers.  
 
Oh, and you can only take up the three downloads offer if you still own your disc based psp, so that you can boot up the store with a disc in the slot on the same PSN account, meaning Sony fully expected everyone to go out an buy a PSP Go, while still keeping their earlier disc based hardware.
 
So I'm shafted there as well really.  
 
I honestly feel like I've been scammed out of my money.
 
And guess what, I was just digging out a phone number so I could ask some pointed questions when guess what I spotted in the T&Cs? 
 
13.    The Promoter reserves the right in its reasonable discretion to disqualify any person whose conduct is contrary to the spirit of these terms and conditions or the intention of the promotion.   
 
If that's not a blatant admission that they're fully aware of what a shoddy promotional offer this is then I don't know what it is. 
 
Um, those sentiments aside Jeff, you go for gold my good man. I'm sure it will be great once I get the problems above straightened out.
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Must buy Prinny.

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That list is huge compared to what they actually released on the Australian and UK PSN store is Miniscule. :(

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@Manachild said:
" That list is huge compared to what they actually released on the Australian and UK PSN store is Miniscule. :( "
I bought Prinny... Not that hot
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Wow!!  Sony's serious about this download "thing"!!!  I have a big UMD library so I won't be getting a GO but I may just have to fork out some cash for a 16GB memory stick.

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@Pictoben said:
"
Semi Related Rant: 
 
Ok, so against my better nature I went and hocked in my PS-P3000 and a buch of games (including Batman which I finished earlier this week) for a shiny white psp go. 
 
I had no plans to do this, but was suddenly tipped over the edge by a news article on the new 'good will' programe Sony is offering, this is the one (available to EU users anyway) where if you can prove you own at least one UMD you can make yourself eligible for 3 free download titles from the PSN. That on top of the GT promotion did it for me. 
 
I got back home tonight and fired it up. The usual Sony MO applied here: 
 
step one - day one firmware updgrade (we've gone from v6.00 to v6.10 this week) 
Set up my PSN on the Go. 
Log in to PSN. 
Become slightly alarmed that there is ZERO mention of the free download offer. 
Download the free GT Theme (wondering if I've just completely read everying wrong for the last few weeks). 
Install Media Go, in case the download is activated via that. 
Instal day one update for the Media Go software (so that is will 'work with the psp go' - come on Sony) 
nothing there. 
check the internet - realise you get e-mailed a code once you down load the theme. 
check e-mail - nothing there. 
check sony small print - they will 'endeavour' to send you a download code within 30 days of the expiry of the pormotional offer
So my reward for being suckered in to being a day one adopter is the potential of a 40 day wait to be able to play GT Mobile
 
I think I speak for everyone in the UK who's busy putting two and two together this evening when I say; 
 
You fuckers Sony. You absolute Fuckers.  
 
Oh, and you can only take up the three downloads offer if you still own your disc based psp, so that you can boot up the store with a disc in the slot on the same PSN account, meaning Sony fully expected everyone to go out an buy a PSP Go, while still keeping their earlier disc based hardware.
 
So I'm shafted there as well really.  
 
I honestly feel like I've been scammed out of my money.
 
And guess what, I was just digging out a phone number so I could ask some pointed questions when guess what I spotted in the T&Cs? 
 
13.    The Promoter reserves the right in its reasonable discretion to disqualify any person whose conduct is contrary to the spirit of these terms and conditions or the intention of the promotion.    If that's not a blatant admission that they're fully aware of what a shoddy promotional offer this is then I don't know what it is.  Um, those sentiments aside Jeff, you go for gold my good man. I'm sure it will be great once I get the problems above straightened out. "
I like how it's Sony's fault that you didn't actually read any of the promotional notes.  You HEARD so you went.
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Eh... a lot of that would look so much nicer if there was a second thumbnub. Would check out beaterator if it wasn't coming to iphone later. Would get GTA CW if it were out.

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That's a long list of games for download.

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Dammit, I was expect Capcom to release Darkstalkers...I think I'll hold off getting one until they do.

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 Do yourself a favor and get an older PSP that you can install custom firmware on. I've been carrying around my launch PSP for like 4 years now with literally thousands of games on it.

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