The PSP go might struggle to justify its pretty hefty price tag, especially to UK gamers but news of it being 40 percent faster than the original might help, slightly.

Among the features touted by Sony upon the PSP go’s E3 unveiling was that it was a much smaller more portable UMD-less version of previous PSP models with Bluetooth, 16GB of internal memory and a sliding screen.

One feature that wasn’t mentioned however is that the PSP go is 40 percent faster than the original.

PSP models 1000-3000 have a processor clocking in at in at 333MHz, but FCC documents have revealed that the PSP go can go up to 480MHz despite the official specs revealing the processor to be 333MHz.

It could be that a future update will increase the speed, like in the past although since it hasn’t been made official there’s obviously no word on whether developers will make use of this faster speed to introduce PSP go specific titles like Nintendo has with the DSi and games like WarioWare.

Whether increased speed will be enough to tempt UK gamers to part with £200-230 remains to be seen.

Retailers have already been put off it seems.

Via [Sony Insider, thanks Joystiq]

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