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Sony giving 10 free games to PSPGo users

Sony has confirmed today that it will be offering ten free games to new PSPGo owners who register their systems online.

The games included in the deal are not some cheap ports either. Sony says the games included in the deal are: Gran Turismo, LittleBigPlanet, MotorStorm Arctic Edge, Wipeout Pure, Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice, FIFA 2010 World Cup, Need for Speed Shift, Gran Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, and Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines.



In the past, Sony has offered free games to early PSPGo adopters, and free games to users who upgraded from older PSP handhelds.

While Sony has yet to reveal hardware sales for the Go, the general consensus is that sales have been a complete flop, especially in the EU and UK.

When the system launched, Don McCabe, managing director of the UK game chain Chips said he expected the console to "fail miserably" in the market.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 27 May 2010 23:47

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• 13 comments

• hikaricor

  Sony + Free = ???

  28.5.2010 00:39 #1

• KillerBug

  For a second I was almost ready to go get one; then I remembered a few things:
  
  1.) The controls on the go suck.
  2.) To get what sony sells you with a system is easy; to keep the features, you have to sue them with multiple class action suits.
  3.) In spite of how it looks and the concessions to space, you still can't make phone calls or connect to 3G networks.
  4.) I only want one of the free games; and it is the only game on the platform that I want anyway; I could just buy a used PSP and buy the game, and spend a lot less in the process...assuming I was willing to pay that much for one game.
  
  If sony ever wants my business again, they will return OtherOS to the PS3. If they ever want to sell me a PSP, they will also have to make it a phone, and an android phone at that.

  28.5.2010 02:42 #2

• davidike

  seems these games are locked to us n we're not allowed by law to sell them on FREE is the only value these titles hold.
  

  "The public domain is a dicgrace to the forces of evil"
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

  28.5.2010 04:09 #3

• elbald90

  ill stick with my modded psp and have them for free anyway
  

  28.5.2010 04:38 #4

• xboxdvl2

  seems the sales are so bad they have to give them away cause no ones actually gonna pay money for them
  

  PS2 with 12 games.
  pc-windows 7,intel core quad Q8400,4 Gb ddr2,WD 500 GB hdd,ATI Radeon HD 4550 graphics,AOC 22inch LCD moniter.

  28.5.2010 06:18 #5

• pcrazy99

  I still haven't upgraded from my psp Phats. Like I've been saying all along. I won't upgrade until the handheld gets a second analog stick.
  

  28.5.2010 13:03 #6

• KillerBug

  Originally posted by pcrazy99: I still haven't upgraded from my psp Phats. Like I've been saying all along. I won't upgrade until the handheld gets a second analog stick. What about a phone and 3G internet (but still no sticks)...would that be good enough?

  28.5.2010 22:35 #7

• ZippyDSM

  If you want the go to work sale a 50$ device that will rip a game with a mandatory connection to PSN, check the games data for integrity, register it to the users account and put PSP DRM on it so the go can use it.
  
  
  If you d not do this you will never get the go off the ground.......
  

  Until lobbying is a hanging offense I choose anarchy!
  Ah modern gaming its like modern film only the watering down of fiction and characters is replaced with shallow and watered down mechanics, gimmicks and shiny-er "people".
  http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/

  29.5.2010 10:21 #8

• blueboy09

  Unless I get a game physically in my hand, this 10 free games is total BS. After all, you really don't own them in the first place, and they are likely infested with draconian DRM anyway. No thanks. Nothing to see here people, move along, move along!!
  

  Life is about walking on thin ice, if you make too much drama, youll crack under pressure. - BLUEBOY

  29.5.2010 18:26 #9

• TBandit

  Originally posted by hikaricor: Sony + Free = ??? lmao I thought about getting one due to this offer but I think I'll wait for the phone and stick

  30.5.2010 02:01 #10

• GH1987

  Originally posted by KillerBug: For a second I was almost ready to go get one; then I remembered a few things:
  
  1.) The controls on the go suck.
  2.) To get what sony sells you with a system is easy; to keep the features, you have to sue them with multiple class action suits.
  3.) In spite of how it looks and the concessions to space, you still can't make phone calls or connect to 3G networks.
  4.) I only want one of the free games; and it is the only game on the platform that I want anyway; I could just buy a used PSP and buy the game, and spend a lot less in the process...assuming I was willing to pay that much for one game.
  
  If sony ever wants my business again, they will return OtherOS to the PS3. If they ever want to sell me a PSP, they will also have to make it a phone, and an android phone at that. That what I hoped for when Sony announced go it should have capacitive touch screen and micro-sim slot but nooo they shrunk the screen took out and the UMD drive so you can't play the games you already bought whats wrong with you Sony?
  

  4.6.2010 20:38 #11

• nikitabrett

  It's not easy to play these games on PSP. Free games don't have any value at all.
  
  -Nikita
  Cooking Games

  17.5.2011 08:48 #12

• nikitabrett

  It's not easy to play these games on PSP. Free games don't have any value at all.
  
  -Nikita
  Cooking Games
  

  17.5.2011 08:49 #13