PSP Pricing, Battery Life Announced

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 27, 2004 @12:47AM from the you-mean-it-has-batteries dept.

zmcnulty writes "The day has finally come: Over at TechJapan, we've got a translation of a Japanese BB Watch article stating that Sony has announced the Playstation Portable will cost 20,790 yen (about $195 USD) and is to be released on December 12th. Also, the battery life is quoted as being 4 to 6 hours. Not exactly what I'd call fantastic, but at this price, looks like Nintendo is in for some serious competition. Free your doubts about software too, as Sony has announced 21 titles will be released in December as well. Here's the official Japanese PDF press release regarding the PSP's release."

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Gamespot article with more info by mrluisp · 2004-10-27 01:01 · Score: 5, Informative

Including game titles to be released in December:
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Actually.. by Viewsonic · 2004-10-27 01:39 · Score: 5, Informative

All of Nintendos battery life times have been longer than advertised. Which is generally the opposite from everyone else.
Re:Battery Life by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-27 04:34 · Score: 5, Informative

Posting anonymously since my company is under NDA (though I'm not personally working with this device).

Sony's requirements allow spinning the disk only during level loading and not during gameplay. It seems reasonable that they will relax this if you can pull something incredible off, but expect most games to make minimal use of streaming.