Sure, there are a lot of people who use homebrew modifications to pirate games, but there are also a lot of people who use it for perfectly legal purposes. Often to allow devices to do things that the manufacturers refuse to allow you to do in case they interfere with the sale of their other products.

It should be illegal to block homebrewing. Blocking it essentially turns a purchased product into a rented one, and that’s not just on. I’m not going to pay hundreds of dollars for something only to be told how I can and cannot use it by some jumped up corporation looking to rip me off by selling me so-called official memory cards that cost twice as much as the generic ones, or telling me that the game that I can’t legally purchase a game from another country and play it on whatever console it is that I own (Globalization, anybody) because of some stupid region locking that is mostly an excuse to charge me $50 for something that I could buy from another country for $30, or because I want a Japanese game that has not been released over here and probably never will.

Wake up congress, protect the people’s right to own tech. If I wanted to lease I would do it, but once something’s in my hands it should be mine and mine alone, and there shouldn’t be anything on board to stop me using it as I please.

- Josh

I think their PSP Go commercial says it all. They show the lifestyle of people who use the PSP Go, and half of the people in those spots probably wouldn't recognize it if they saw it, or understanding what it was choose it. Sony doesn't know who they're making it for, or what to do with it now that it has been made. It's a pretty big oversight considering the amount of money they're wasting here.

My god children have been asking for DS/DSi's since the age of 5, other kid's their age want the Nintendo's, they're getting them, upgrading to new models and staying with the Nintendo brand post teens (looking at my niece and nephew and their friends). Amazingly enough they're still playing the gameboy games I gave them years ago (you should see what brain training and the like have done for the younger one's numeracy skills).

Five years ago I was seeing a lot of people play PSP on the morning commute and the long distance rail trips I take for business – almost all of those PSPers have disappeared having replaced the PSP with laptops, netbooks and iPod/iPhone. I hardly see them now. It strikes me that this replacement mirrors fairly well the availability of mobile broadband.

Overall – Sony isn't capturing young consumers and keeping them as they did with the PS. Additionally the handheld gaming console market is shrinking dramatically as smartphones become more capable, and mobile internet access becomes more readily available in a budget crunch you'll take a phone that does more than play games over the handheld every time.