When the PSPgo finally managed to hit store shelves it was pretty much a flop. The concept was cool but the gaming community wasn’t ready to move to digital downloads only. At first, Sony seemed to ignore the fact that the PSPgo was pretty much a failure but now they’re coming clean on the subject saying the following:

“We wanted to find a way to give the consumers what they want, so if they didn’t want to go to a retailer they could stay at home and download. And we were hoping really to eliminate the piracy issue. Did the PSPgo confuse [consumers]? Yeah, I think the higher price point didn’t help matters any either.”

However, Sony isn’t done with the PSPgo, not by a long shot. They’re going to focus their efforts on informing consumers about the joys and advantages of having a PSPgo over the more conventional PSP 3000 or something similar.

Around the same time the PSPgo was announced, Sony unveiled PSP minis, bite sized low cost games similar to those founds on the iPhone’s App Store. As you can probably tell from its name, these games are only available for play on the PSP but if recent rumors are to be believed, that all may change in the near future.

According to Pocket Gamer, the PSP minis will be coming to the PS3 which means you will be able to play the portable games on the console at a higher resolution.

When exactly will this happen? Well, the same reports suggest sometime before Christmas which is currently only a few weeks away so Sony better get a move on if this rumor is true.

Despite being underclocked like it’s predecessors, the PSPgo will actually feature an upgraded processor capable of maxing out at 480 MHz.

Sony hasn’t said much about this upgraded processor but if the past is anything to go by, we’ll be seeing that full 480Mhz of processing goodness at some point in the future. If you recall, the original PSP had a 333MHz processor but was underclocked to 266MHz. A bit into it’s life span Sony decided to unlock the full 333MHz of power giving developers a bit of room to play around with.

So again, it’s a safe bet that Sony will unlock the full 480MHz of processing power at some point however when remains unknown.

Read (Engadget)