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PSP Delayed Into 2005?

Posted by Zonk on from the hype-counter-hype dept.

Thanks to the numerous readers who alerted us to the Gamespot article mentioning that the PSP may be delayed until next year. This analysis comes from games industry analysts and is the result of Sony's game title weakness and battery issues. David Jenkins at Gamasutra has additional analysis as well.

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  1. Hmm.... by Benw5483 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Could the real reason be that they don't want to directly compete with Nintendo's cheaply priced handheld or even that they don't want to draw sales away from their new PS2 model?

    Seems like Sony didn't think too far ahead when they planned on releasing this in Q4 2004.

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    1. Re:Hmm.... by Chris_Jefferson · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Or could this be exactly the same as the PS1 vs. saturn and PS2 vs. dreamcast, where people won't buy the currently out console because Sony swears that any days now they'll have "The greatest thing that ever happened in your life, ever" (anyone remember the 'emotion engine'?) coming out "any day now", which just continues slipping further and further back?

      I'm not a Sony hater, but I would have expected people to have spotted the pattern by now..

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  2. You can't win with the /. crowd sometimes by SansTinfoilHat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If they were to rush out a product simply to come to market at the same time as the DS, you all would accuse them of underhanded tactics to flood the market with an unfinished product.

    And if you RTFA you will see: "the securities firm expects the handheld 'to launch later than the current March 2005 expectation". It was already going to be a 2005 launch, now it will just be a Christmas season launch. I'd rather have a good system a year from now than a poorly designed system right now. Of course, Nintendo chose the other route with the GBA, releasing a barely playable system as soon as they could and then a vastly superior GBA SP a year(ish) later.

    Better product = We all win.

  3. Re:ladies and gentlemen.. by chrismcdirty · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Have you read the specs for the DS? It has wifi + chat built in to the system. And the way you're talking, the system for true geeks should be the Zodiac.

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