Last we heard, Sony dropped its slide-top, spindle-free, downloads-only PSP Go from $250 to $200. Still too expensive, for my money, but then . Final Fantasy Tactics, one of my favorites, isn't available as a downloadable game, and with the Go's tiny 3.8-inch screen, playing the sort of 4:3 format PSOne games I'm into on the device, e.g. Final Fantasy's VII, VIII, and IX, simply isn't happening.

The upside of buying a PSP-3000 now is that any games you purchase as downloads when it hits around the holidays. The same applies to the PSPgo, of course, but why pay $70 more for the PSP-3000's slightly smaller shadow?

In the meantime, I'm getting tired of calling the PSP2 an "NGP." I suppose it's slightly better than "Project Natal," but you know what else NGP stands for, right? Neo Geo Pocket? Negotiated Guilty Plea? Neighborhood Gossiping Problem?

I rest my case.

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