Going, Going, (Soon to be) Gone Industries

     I am excited. The reason I am so excited like the Pointer Sisters is that the new PSP Go will be out in less than a month and I am definitely on board to get one as soon as it comes out.  The fact that I already have a PSP 2000/Slim is making me no never-mind; the PSP Go is looking like a winner due to all it’s new features and one major flaw.  Yes, I said MAJOR FLAW. Just one, but this one is a doozy. The PSP Go is not backwards compatible. It doesn’t even have a slot for cartridges or umds. The only way to play any games on the new system is that you must download them from the Playstation store. As an owner of about 15 PSP umds, I should be mad. Hell, I should be writing Sony Corp right now instead of this article. I’m not mad at all. I hear rumors that you can get your umds transformed into files that you can play on the new system, but that isn’t why I’m not upset. I’m more than sure Sony will reconsider and redesign the PSP Go into a cartridge or disk based system eventually. Or they’ll just lose money like crazy.

      Since the birth of the internet, more and more industries have been losing money in an alarming fashion. The first one that I remember or that comes to mind is the music industry. Remember, how people would flock to the nearest record store as soon as their favorite artist came out with a new album? Or remember how there would be at least 5-10 new albums out every Tuesday? Are you old enough to remember when albums started coming out in a cassette tape format? Or when the cassette tapes switched to CDs? What came after the CD is the mp3.