Deadpool: BT's Go!Messenger for Sony PSP

No more PSP-to-PSP voice and video calling with Go!Messenger, the product of a Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and BT Group joint venture. 

A year from its launch, too few people used Go!Messenger to justify operations. The service will end 31 March 2009.   

Skype is still available for the Sony PSP. Skype has scale advantages over Go!M: you are about 1000 times more likely to find someone you know within Skype's network. You have hundreds more devices to use, like mobile phones and PCs. You and everyone you know are that much more likely to have Skype dial tone.

Skype's scale advantage is so overwhelming that Skype wins even when BT offers video calling and video messaging and Skype doesn't. 

BT didn't rule out trying again. (Maybe with a flash solution based on BT's Ribbit platform?) Meanwhile, Sony is restructuring, bringing games, PCs, mobile electronics and software into one division.

tags: skype, sony, scee, bt, go!messenger, messenger, go, psp, playstation, portable, dialtone

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