My personal dilemma with the NGP is whether or not I should pick up a PSP 3000 with an awesome library at dirt cheap (used) prices, or wait for the new system and experience most of the PSP back catalog digitally (though paying full price for those games) as well as whatever new hotness they got cooking up.
I really want to be excited for this system, but there is just nothing software wise that I have to look forward to, or even to speculate looking forward to. I'm more tempted at picking up even a GO (which has been getting the fire sale treatment lately selling for under $100) and just experience all the great games I missed out on the PSP than even care about what games the NGP will offer.
Am I alone in this? Maybe it's the proximity of the 3DS launch with software that I actually care about, or maybe it's the fact that besides the great titles that have been named by Nintendo and 3rd parties to be coming out later for 3DS, I can imagine so many games that I would want to see on the system.
For the NGP, all I can think that I want is......PSP and PSN titles on my system. That's kinda sad considering I can already have the former for around $100 and I already have the latter on my PS3 sans portability. Outside the occasional exclusive, I rarely play a lot of disc based games on my PS3, there's just not a lot that interests me there. Hell, I play and own more PSN titles than actual disc based games for the system! So when the prospect of getting a PS3 made portable appears, I just can't drum up any excitement for it despite absolutely digging the tech. I really want Sony to convince me why I shouldn't miss out on this thing because that price is gonna be a whopping doozy.
And speaking of price, to MaryJane's question on subsidizing the NGP's price with 3G contracts, I think it's a terrible idea that's only gonna make an already expensive piece of tech cost more money. Sure I'll save, what? $50-$100 off the unit? But then (speculating of course but this is how it is for the majority of 3G enabled devices that are expected to transfer large amounts of data at once) I'm locked into a contract paying anywhere from $10-$25 a month for X years. Why? An always connected portable system is great for the gaming community, but outside of notifications and maybe chat, you are not gonna be able to game across the internet on 3G like you can over WiFi with the type of games that are popular with online multiplayer today (FPS's, Racers, Fighting games, etc.) So if you can't play nearly lag free gaming on the go over 3G, what's the point?
The NGP is not a phone and I'm positive anybody who will purchase one will also already own a smartphone and be paying for a data plan. I just don't see the reasoning to even release a 3G enabled one at all if only to make the WiFi only version to appear cheaper than it really is?