Depends on your definition of cheap. Certainly Settlers and Power Grid are pretty cheap (£20-£30, respectively). Much, much cheaper than a new video game, and a lot of board games are cheaper (Carcassonne can be picked up new for £15).

I may be in the minority here, but one of the reasons I play board games is specifically because they *aren't* electronic. For once everyone has to use their brains - there's no computer to tell them the rules or make sure they play correctly.

I started a board game society at my university at the beginning of this academic year and we had some not-inconsiderable interest in D so I - having never played it myself - was obliged to support someone to DM a few games and see how it went. A few months later and our party has grown to 11 people, plus DM, who meet up once a week (as well as again the next evening for board games) to play an ongoing 3.5 campaign with inventive scenarios and some really, really great roleplaying - the kind of D&D sessions which I imagine we'll still be talking about years later. We've also got several other people interested in joining in for the next story arc, a couple of people wanting to DM their own D&D games, and we're in the process of starting a new GURPS campaign to run alongside. Certainly D&D probably isn't as popular as it used to be, but I really have to take issue with the idea that 'few people born after 1990' would be interested - if anything it's one of our biggest membership pulls. There are so many people out there who, like me, have never tried it but - despite any bad press they've heard (mostly to do with uber-geeks; you know the kind) - really would like to try. They just need a gentle nudge in the direction of a group who's willing to have them.

Although Sony have said that the PSP Go is intended to co-exist alongside the other, older PSP with UMD support. They're targeted at different markets.

Sure, the market Sony have targeted with the PSP Go is practically non-existent and I can't deny that it's a wholly stupid manoeuvre, but it certainly isn't a case of 'killing' the PSP. It's just the the PSP Go was stillborn.

What they could do is some kind of app for the UMD-kitted PSP that allows you to pop a game in and link it to your PSN account, ready for download to your shiny new PSP Go. The only problem is I'm not sure how they'd stop people from just borrowing/renting games and adding them to their account.