It should be noted that, "It comes in black and white versions, and is pre-loaded with Sony Japan Studio's Patapon 2" might be a bit misleading. It comes pre-loaded with a Patapon 2 demo, not the full game.

I actually want to buy this, but $250? .... are they serious? I can't see that lasting too long.

I can buy an Xbox 360 for that much... or an iPod Touch (which has more features)... or 2 Nintendo DS devices...

Looks like they're making the same mistake they made with the PS3 back at launch... the price is just too high.

In the UK this is selling for something like 229 pounds, which is something silly like the equivalent of 340 dollars. At this stage I'm going with the belief that Sony are simply insane and on some path of self destruction in order to get themselves sold to a larger company like Samsung.

What's the saying "When you've exhausted all other possibilities. Whatever remains, however improbable, must be true!"

Well i managed to get my go for less than $218 and loved the connection with my ps3 pad over bluetooth
however if you do this the ps3 pad looses sync with the ps3 and when you re sync it it looses sync with go.

Hopefully sony updates the firmware to fix this-also i tried syncing go with my bluetooth netbook for transfer of data with media go and found out that it's currently designed for : ps3 pads,headsets and cell phones.

I linked my pda jack with it but for whatever reason connect,disconnect are greyed out with only delete
as an option though when i went into the jack the psp was registered as an input device.

I thought my go would be like an external speakerphone using the mic as a speaker and the audio would come out the psp speakers. Also firmware will be seperate for 3000 and go but i did port digital
games between both psp's using my laptop and media go.

The bluetooth and better deal were why i bought my go now they simply need to drop the price and
it would also be nice if games older than 2 years were $9.99 or less save better games like gow wich can demand better pricing and if we already own the game we should get a discount and only pay a transfer fee.

Firmware 6.10 needs to be installed as soon as your unit's fully charged-strange it doesn't come preloaded. They did preload esrb ratings info -1st on any game system to my knowledge.

New firmware can't come fast enough with better bluetooth support and perhaps allowing a ps3 pad
dual installs on a go and a ps3.

I agree that the starting price is a bit high, but at the same time the original PSP debuted at around the same price. As with many new console and handheld systems. And the Nintendo handhelds have never been a good comparison in my opinion. They are very child based and the PSP has a lot more functional ability and reaches a much more mature audience of gamers.