Oh this video is great! (Made by a DS fan ?) But it is funny, I won’t ruin it for you. But watch it till the end. I wonder if any new PSP Go owner actually did this? I know we felt like doing that at times with our UMD’s sitting here that we can’t use in our PSP Go.

Source: IGN

We got our PSP Go on the 2nd of October and straight away got onto the PSP Go rewards. Since I’m now in Europe this applies to us. (Sorry USA users don’t get the 3 free games). The first offer is if you get the PSP Go before the 10th (midnight) you get Grand Turismo free. So hurry there are only 5 days left for the GT offer. The second is if you upgrade from another UMD drive PSP you get 3 free games for a list of 18 to choose from. These are full games. Not demos.

Here’s the list of games to choice from:

Killzone Liberation

Medievil

Wipeout Pure

Buzz Brain Bender

Buzz Master Quiz

SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters

Everybody’s Golf

Resistance: Retribution

Syphon Filter Dark Mirror

Lemmings

LocoRoco

Patapon

Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow

Echochrome

Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice

Daxter

Were going to download, Resistance: Retribution,  Wipeout Pure and SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo. Ok so all you need to do is login first with your PSP Go to PSN download the special theme in PSP Go rewards. Make sure you register it.

Then disconnect your PSP Go. Boot up your PSP-1000, PSP-2000 or PSP-3000 and log-in PSN with the same account as used for the PSP Go. Then make sure you have a UMD game in the PSP UMD drive. Go to the PSP Go rewards in PSN and you should then see a prompt to sign up for the 3 free game offer. See the screen shoots below of this.

PSP GO rewards: Register your PSP with a UMD drive to get 3 free games.

Once you download the special PSP GT theme and activate it you will eventually get you code in your email inbox and you can download Grand Turismo for free. We got our code today, for GT and the 3 free games. So 4 games free with our PSP Go. Not bad right?

• It took 3 days for the redemption PSN PSP reward codes to arrive so you have to be patient its not instant!

The three major flaws of the PSP Go

So Sony’s new PSP Go is focused on portability and the PSP to have on the go since its smaller, right?. Plus its the forum factor, being that of a slider. Like a Nokia N95 for example. But there are 3 major flaws, no we aren’t talking about it not having a UMD drive. Were not going to bitch about that here like every other site does…. In our opinion these are the 3 major flaws the system has:

The non removable battery and battery life. Sony market it as a PSP: Go right, but after 3 hours more or less its the PSP Stop. And since it can’t have a spare battery as you can’t change the damn battery. So your PSP’ing on the Go is limited and therefore flawed. P.S Why is there no battery info in the PSP Go firmware ??? Hmmm Sony wants to hide the poor battery life?

No UMD to Digital Download option. Ok its fine that it doesn’t have a a UMD drive. We know this. But how about a method of loading a UMD serial number or something into PSN and then download that game to your internal flash memory?

Wireless speed. This is also a problem of all PSP systems. This PSP Go is all digital now and focused on the Playstation Network. Buy and download the games you want. Why for the love of god, Sony do we have only 802.11b wireless speeds? 11mps. At least opt for 802.11 b/g standard? 54mbs would be fine. Even better N draft speeds, if we were dreaming…. Downloading a 1GB game on 802.11 B is very slow. It will take around 3 and a half hours to download Gran Turismo via your PSP, its a 1010mb download. Better to connect up and use Media go to download at you computers 802.11g or n speeds. Much faster this way. But if only Sony added faster wifi to the PSP Go. This wouldn’t be an issue. Hell my mobile phone has Wireless G.

There you have it. The major flaws in our eyes. If you can get past this, then the Go is maybe the PSP for you. (That and if you have small child like hands – Kidding!)

Keep an eye out soon for our PSP Go review soon, this post we be part of it.

PSP Go has already been modded!

Whoa, didn’t take long before two modders Flasher and Roro3030 decided to do a bit of modding on there brand new PSP Go. The system was only out that same day and they have already opened up their PSP Go and attacked them in the goal of added a few fancy LED’s to give it a more customized look. Well done for being the first I guess. Were still waiting on our PSP Go and hopefully we have it in the next day or too.

Here’s the gallery:

Source: PSPGEN

This is a well done video from the iFixit team, teardown of a PSP Go. Might be useful for users looking to see exactly how to open up their PSP Go. It give a clear step by step look at how to open the PSP Go and strip it apart. Maybe this might become something of a must (Opening the unit) to fit a mod chip so we can play our old UMD games, Emulators, Homebrew games and Applications.

Check out the above video!

Source IFixIt