Collaboration with BT fails to “develop the base of users” Sony had hoped for
A lack of users for Sony’s Go!Messenger software on PSP has lead to the platform holder confirming that the service will be shut down at the end of next month.
Go!Messenger was an internet telephone, or VOIP, service run in collaboration with telecoms giant BT that allowed PSP owners with access to a wi-fi connection to make free video calls, as well as send messages and recordings to other users.
“Although Go!Messenger brought innovative communications features to the PSP community, the service has not developed the base of users that we were hoping for,” Edge quotes an SCEE spokesperson as confirming.
“We’d like to thank all fans of Go!Messenger and are sorry to have to make this announcement.”
Sony insists that it will soon announce new uses for those who bought a Go!Cam specifically for the BT service shortly.
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The only place you could realistically use Go!Messenger! is at home through your own Wifi network. Whats the point of that though. May aswell pick up a telephone or message via PC and webcam. Nice of Sony and BT to bring new services to the PSP, but blimey, could they not see this coming?
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Well hardly surprising as nobody knew about Go Messenger, let alone the camera adaptor for the PSP which when people saw me using it I had many ask what it was and where did I get it!
Well in the shops it’s surprisingly difficult to find and I experienced the majority of stores I went into to enquire were also unaware of its existence.
By the way the camera takes horrible pictures at 1.3 mega pixels and the device looks and feels like something that came out of a cornflake box.
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Probably paving way for PSN.
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