Sony PSP Go! Reportedly Scooped, But What's Missing?

29.04.2009

Uh-huh. You couldn't pay me a million bucks to manage that potential cluster.

What do you think of the name? Predictably trendy, but it could be worse. Just be thankful we're not hearing stuff like PSP Me! or PSP You! or PSP Verve! And it's not like the word's never been used before. There's the , a kind of universal power adapter. You've got the , a car safety seat. Of course there's the Yugo, less commonly known as the . And who could forget plain old , a classic Chinese strategy board game some 2,500 years old.

that the system might have a camera. Actually 1UP did, too. I'm not so sure though. Sony has to highlight a killer app for the camera. Skype? Maybe. But there's something to be said -- not that I'm personally an enthusiast -- for the add-on market. Sony wants you to keep paying them money, and for the moment, there's still tons to go around in the peripheral/expansion biz.

1UP's sources peg the PSP Go! for announcement at E3 in June, and an actual launch in Japan and the U.S. this fall, a month or two apart.

Time for a poll.