Comment Re:The small format hurts because you can't hold i (Score 1) 258
Also, developers have disliked the PSP for quite a while because retail stores don't carry a large enough selection of games. In fact it is the retailers themselves who refuse to carry a decent UMD selection that are now turning around and telling Sony they won't carry the Go because they can't sell the games for it. They said they hate UMD, and they got what they wanted. Too bad. The existence of the Go does two things for the PSP platform: it forces the big developers to put their titles up on the Store instead of just on UMD. A win for anyone who prefers to download their games. But now smaller developers can compete on a fairly level playing field, knowing that at least when it comes to PSP Go owners they aren't competing for a tiny amount of shelf space with the likes of EA and Activision.
Finally, if you can't tell that this is very much an effort to get devs on board for a future PSP 2 that is digital-download only, you're pretty stupid.