The one thing I appreciated about the UMDs is that I could rip them to a hard drive, which is exactly what I did, because those UMDs are surprisingly fragile and the games load faster when read off the hard drive. Thanks to the dropping price of hard drives, I’ve backed them all up, so I actually find the new delivery system to be more or less moot.

Still, though, I’m tempted by the PSP Go (errr, “PSPgo”) for the most bass-ackward reason: all my UMDs broke. Seriously. Everything I bought at launch, busted. Lumines? Darkstalkers? Wipeout Pure? (Errr, “wipEout: Pure”?) All were smashed in a bag because I, like a fool, bought these seemingly rad cases that only protected the slice of exposed disc—but, mind you, which did not ensure against the clear plastic insert on the top of each UMD collapsing in on the entire enclosure—and this brutal misstep, of course, resulted in none of my UMDs’ inner minidiscs spinning. GAAAH.

Would I buy Lumines again? Sure! I have to, I guess! (Except that I own the same exact game for PS2 and 360 because I will instinctively buy any game I like over and over.) Would I buy it in digital download format, as opposed to purchasing yet another flimsy UMD? Hell yes; I’d prefer it! Because that shit breaks, man! There are only a couple ways you can break a digital download, and they won’t happen in my purse.

Frankly, its the only system I own that actually feels like its going to waste, due to a lack of a game library of all things.

>>> The ‘don’t, don’t, do its’ are awesome.

I mean, I’ll be honest, I could probably count the number of PSP-only games I know of that I’d want on one hand, but still, Go doesn’t sound like it’s worth the dough.