![]() ![]() The flip side: The LCD’s pixels now occupy less physical space, since Sony shrank the diagonal span from 4.3 inches to 3.8 inches. It’s also 35 percent smaller than the PSP Slim, packing everything the older model had except the UMD drive into a third less space, and that’s including the 480-by-272-pixel widescreen LCD. Sony’s PSP Go is actually the platform’s fourth metamorphosis, lowering the handheld’s weight to 5.6 ounces–16 percent lighter than the PSP Slim and 43 percent lighter than the original PSP-1000. Nintendo has whittled down its DS twice since launch, so competitive turnabout is fair play. In exchange you get nips and tucks in the weight and size, a modestly retooled grip interface, Bluetooth support, and 16GB of internal flash memory. Sony has hiked the platform’s price tag from $170 to $250, five-sixths the cost of a new PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 Elite, a reprogrammable gaming robot, or dinner at Heston Blumenthal’s exalted restaurant, The Fat Duck. ![]() Lop the disc drive off Sony’s PlayStation Portable and add a Mylo-inspired slide-screen gamepad, and you get the PSP’s smaller, lighter, more dearly priced cousin–the trendier PSP Go. ![]()
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