Sony Fail

I absolutely hate Sony in every way (except for their LED-TV's) so I am very happy to post this. The PSP GO was released recently and it sucks. I'll highlight some of my favorite quotes:

"The PSP Go is a terrible, terrible deal for everyone but Sony."

"There is still no background downloading, which means that once you begin to download a game, you can't do anything else until it is finished.... Even worse, if you lose your signal or get disconnected, your [download] progress is not saved."

"Sony may have promised everyone a program which would allow you to trade in your old UMDs [Games] for credit or download tokens or some such, but now that we're at launch, the company has admitted that their plan... never really existed. If you buy a PSP Go, your UMDs are worthless; there is nothing to be done with them."

"In the middle of a recession, Sony has released the most expensive portable system on the market, and as an added bonus the company seemed to go out of its way to give the finger to existing customers. You can't even trade in your older system for the newer one to help with the price, because then you can't play your games."

"The PSP Go now uses a proprietary plug, which means no more generic USB cables. Your old chargers won't work either."

"[After buying the system,] it took around three hours to get to playing an actual game."

"If Sony continues this trend, expect a $500 PS3 that doesn't play Blu-ray discs"

See the full review here: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2009/10/psp-go-review-sony-is-charging-you-much-more-for-much-less.ars/3

Oh Sony. You built up such a good reputation with the PSOne and the PS2. Now you seemed to have jumped off a plane with no parachute.

In other news....

I recieved my Zune HD 32GB in the mail Wednesday night and have been obsessed with browsing the Zune store and downloading all the music I want (For FREE!!) That's right! No more *ehem* "getting" music from the internet. See my full review of the Zune HD once the "new technology OMG cool!!" phase wears off.