GC 2007: Go!Explore demonstration, details

Posted Aug 24, 2007 at 5:12PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Accessories, News, Applications Tags: Europe, Leipzig, Leipzig Games Convention, London, psp accessories, SCEE

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SCEE new Go!Explore feature for the PlayStation Portable is a powerful and fully functional Satellite Navigation system. In a partnership with TeleAtlas and NavNGo, the PSP is transformed into a state of the art GPS utility for in-car use or simple pedestrian walks.

The device offers 3D mapping that pinpoints various places of interest ranging from gas stations to restaurants. It even lets you plan out a route for you in advance, letting you "fly" over the city. In the demonstration featured here in the Leipzig Games Convention, the Go!Explore function is used to navigate from London's Houses of Parliament to Trafalgar Square. Check it out, it's pretty cool.

Unfortunately, like the PS3's PlayTV and the PSP video download service, this service is also, at least for now, exclusive to Europe.

Thanks to daspixel for uploading the demonstration in YouTube.

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# 1st — Guest 2007-08-24 18:21

first btches!

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# BALLS — Guest 2007-08-24 18:23

sigh...

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# map this is better — Guest 2007-08-24 18:38

mapthis! is free and better cause it has endless possibilities

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# KBRD — Guest 2007-08-24 19:02

virtual keyboard input with graying-out letters looks veri nice to me!

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# old PSP???? — zakir8 2007-08-24 19:12

Is this going to work on the old PSP???? OR just the new PSP Slim???

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# . — Guest 2007-08-24 19:20

any PSP.

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# hmm.. — Guest 2007-08-24 19:54

neat, but i have no use for it

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# Incredible.. — Savaage 2007-08-24 22:03

but when will the USA get this :(

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# Good news — Guest 2007-08-24 23:45

It's great to finally see Europe getting something.I'll be certainly getting this and I already have the psp gps receiver.

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# Out of curiosity... — Guest 2007-08-25 00:41

What does Go!Explore do that you can't already do with the software that presumably came with the GPS receiver?

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# My po — Guest 2007-08-25 01:07

Thats the point the GPS Receiver doesn't come with any software, and if it did it would be like a normal Sat Nav where you need different software for different countries, in other words it would come with Asian Maps and not EU/US maps.

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# ... — Guest 2007-08-25 05:29

when does the actual receiver come out in EU?

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# .... — Guest 2007-08-25 05:59

Very Soon..

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# Nice, but USA will never get it — Guest 2007-08-25 06:08

Japanese and Euro only. I guess Sony feels USA is full of idiots who don't leave their house enough to find a portable TV or GPS useful... It's a shame. They will probably make it so it only works with the slim model too. Scr3w Sony.. I hate their

"Live in your world, PAY in ours"

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# eeexcellent — Guest 2007-08-25 06:10

eeexcellent *twidles fingers*

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# ehh — Guest 2007-08-25 07:10

first of all mapthis! owns any commercial navi stuff!!

second of all, for these companies central europe doesnt exist..

just the fkin rich west.. goddamthey..

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# a — Guest 2007-08-25 08:21

And how much is this going to be cost?!?!?

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# hmm.. — Guest 2007-08-26 19:23

this makes me wonder, does the sony gps unit have some type of internal memory? or do these maps come on a non-update able UMD disk? roads do get added/removed/changed (even though google maps doesnt seem to update their roads very often)

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