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SCEE Details PSPgo UMD Rewards Scheme
European consumers upgrading from existing PSP models to PSPgo will be able to download three “free” titles under the terms of a new SCEE promotion.
The PSPgo features 16GB of built-in storage space but doesn’t sport a UMD drive, meaning owners of existing models that support disc-based titles won’t be able to play their old games on the new handheld. Running from October 1 to March 31, 2010, the promotion has been designed “to help existing PSP owners with UMDs to start their digital games collection for PSPgo”, Sony said.
Users will be able to choose from a range of 17 titles including Killzone: Liberation, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3, WipEout Pure, Everybody’s Golf, Echochrome, LocoRoco, Patapon and Buzz!: Brain Bender or Master Quiz.
The promotion - which is open to owners of a PSP-1000, 2000 or 3000 and at least one UMD – might not quite be the UMD-to-digital upgrade scheme some users were hoping for. In June SCEA's director of hardware marketing, John Koller, said that Sony was planning a "good will" scheme to replace UMD games for those who buy the PSPgo. A popular choice would no doubt have been some sort of trade-in programme that allowed PSPgo buyers to download digital versions of UMD games bought previously.
Due to the need to activate both an existing PSP and a PSPgo simultaneously in order to redeem titles under the terms of the upcoming promotion, users will also be unable to trade in their existing models when upgrading.
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I like the way its called a 'Reward' scheme, like being able to use something you own is a reward
So let me get this right because that article left me confused, they're going to give you three free games if you have a PSP and a UMD, BUT it has to be unregistered still so you can register it along with you PSPgo then receive the 'deal'. That just sounds totally retarded Sony. It's sad because the PSPgo is sexy and for someone like me who doesn't have a handheld game device and a PS3, the PSPgo looks kinda attractive, but then commonsense slaps me in the face.
An unpopular system that cuts the retailer out of the more profitable software sales and makes people buy their games again?
Shit, they'll should be lucky if this lasts a year.
It does seem like everyday there is another reason to not buy a PSPGO
I just can't get over the price. £230!? It's crazy. For that price it would have to do something special besides playing download only games to make me want to but it. The PSP has never really taken off, they are flogging a dead horse. This should have been PSP2, with touch screen, improved connectivity with PS3, a screen that doesn't ghost all the time and they should have made it a phone. You can quote me on this, this will be Sony's biggest cock up yet. I certainly won't be buying one. Too expensive and pointless.
starting to feel like a bit of a flop...
Thats dropped it down from the four it was going to be a week or two ago then.
Not being able to trade your old PSP in towards the new, vastly overpriced model though is going to be a bit off putting for some surely?