Rightho.
Today I went into GAME with the intent of buying a PSP. I had had one before but the lack of games for it drove me to trade it in for more games on a console I actually wanted to play, but now many more games that I actually wish to play have been released so I was going to re-buy one - with store credit garnered from trading back games on other systems that I no longer play, naturally.
The problem?
Well, I was convinced to buy a PSPgo, on the strength of its smaller, lighter design and ability to download the games rather than have a massive bookshelf full of CD jewel cases - as indeed I do - the benefits of which are obvious, mainly slicing the whole "watch your children grow up while your game loads" thing in half. I was told by the shop staff that the game files were actually much smaller than you'd think due to compression and the vast majority of the PSP's backlog was already available on the online store, with the PSOne classics constantly being updated.
So I buy one and take it home, charge it, link it to my laptop and begin my journey on the PSN store with the full intent of giving this thing rave reviews if it does what they SAID it does.
The bottom line? It doesn't.
Only a couple of the PSP games I was interested in getting is available on the store, and the closest thing to any of the others is a fucking demo for Final Fantasy: Dissidia. The PSOne classics, fine, I was expecting those to come with time and would wait, so far only Final Fantasy VII is available as a game I'd want in the UK,and the bastarding thing is 1.3gb, much closer to what I'd expected originally and rather far off GAME's manager's "a few meg" answer from when I asked him for a ballpark figure on download size. A whole buttload of games I'd want (including obscure titles I'd forgotten existed but had loved in my youth) are fully available for the bastarding Japanese, but not so for the Europeans - hell, most of them even the Americans are denied. How fucking difficult is this to support?
I know the PSPgo is a new system and they can be expected to not have full support for it immediately but when full support is promised immediately then surely we can hit back, well, immediately?
So my plan is to take it straight back to GAME tomorrow in its box and say "Screw this, give me an original PSP (much cheaper) and a few of the UMDs I'm after." The problem lies in the fact that on my receipt it tells me that I can take it back and get a full refund/exchange only if it's not been opened - but how the hell am I supposed to realise I want a full refund when I've not opened the bastard? When I consider that in fact the back catalogue is NOT available on PSN and the standard PSP will play the PSOne classics (ONLY available on PSN), surely buying a standard PSP is a no-fucking-brainer? I mean yes it's slightly bigger and heavier and the load times can be excruciating (though they are getting better all the time) but it's a damn sight better than a fucking unplayable console.
Do you guys have anything to add to this? Advice? Similar experiences even?
Today I went into GAME with the intent of buying a PSP. I had had one before but the lack of games for it drove me to trade it in for more games on a console I actually wanted to play, but now many more games that I actually wish to play have been released so I was going to re-buy one - with store credit garnered from trading back games on other systems that I no longer play, naturally.
The problem?
Well, I was convinced to buy a PSPgo, on the strength of its smaller, lighter design and ability to download the games rather than have a massive bookshelf full of CD jewel cases - as indeed I do - the benefits of which are obvious, mainly slicing the whole "watch your children grow up while your game loads" thing in half. I was told by the shop staff that the game files were actually much smaller than you'd think due to compression and the vast majority of the PSP's backlog was already available on the online store, with the PSOne classics constantly being updated.
So I buy one and take it home, charge it, link it to my laptop and begin my journey on the PSN store with the full intent of giving this thing rave reviews if it does what they SAID it does.
The bottom line? It doesn't.
Only a couple of the PSP games I was interested in getting is available on the store, and the closest thing to any of the others is a fucking demo for Final Fantasy: Dissidia. The PSOne classics, fine, I was expecting those to come with time and would wait, so far only Final Fantasy VII is available as a game I'd want in the UK,and the bastarding thing is 1.3gb, much closer to what I'd expected originally and rather far off GAME's manager's "a few meg" answer from when I asked him for a ballpark figure on download size. A whole buttload of games I'd want (including obscure titles I'd forgotten existed but had loved in my youth) are fully available for the bastarding Japanese, but not so for the Europeans - hell, most of them even the Americans are denied. How fucking difficult is this to support?
I know the PSPgo is a new system and they can be expected to not have full support for it immediately but when full support is promised immediately then surely we can hit back, well, immediately?
So my plan is to take it straight back to GAME tomorrow in its box and say "Screw this, give me an original PSP (much cheaper) and a few of the UMDs I'm after." The problem lies in the fact that on my receipt it tells me that I can take it back and get a full refund/exchange only if it's not been opened - but how the hell am I supposed to realise I want a full refund when I've not opened the bastard? When I consider that in fact the back catalogue is NOT available on PSN and the standard PSP will play the PSOne classics (ONLY available on PSN), surely buying a standard PSP is a no-fucking-brainer? I mean yes it's slightly bigger and heavier and the load times can be excruciating (though they are getting better all the time) but it's a damn sight better than a fucking unplayable console.
Do you guys have anything to add to this? Advice? Similar experiences even?
