According to an interview at Game Informer,  Sony CEO Shuhei Yoshida  stated that Sony “wanted” to add a second analog stick to the PSPgo. Why didn’t they add it? Sony had a “serious discussion” (on quote) to add the second stick, but the reason why they didn’t was games from the PSP 3000 series would have problems configuring the games to work with the second analog stick.

Here’s the actual statement:

“We also felt -- like many users -- that we wish we had a second analog on the PSP. But we are talking about the mid-life cycle of this platform, and the PSPgo is designed to be perfectly compatible with the PSP-3000 and all the games that released before that. So we had a very serious discussion about this particular subject, but we decided not to add a second analog, and some of the developers are doing quite a nice job translating the second analog functionality to different buttons. We didn’t want to divert their efforts either.”

So we have to wait for Sony to make another PSP (in 10 years actually) to get another analog stick? Come on Sony, we’re sure you could do it, and even if the new PSP had controller problems it would have the second analog that everyone wanted.

Let’s review it in October and see what happens…