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PSP North American Launch Date

Posted by Zonk on from the not-a-lot-of-detail,-there dept.

captain writes "According to PSP411, Sony C.E. President and CEO Ken Kutaragi announced today at CES 2005 that the PSP will have a North American launch in March, followed by Europe around the same time. In Japan, the near-PS2 quality portable gaming device sold only about 500k units on account of GPU shortages. While the price and exact date aren't entirely clear, the USD equivalent of the Japanese sale price is a little under $200USD. Some are speculating that the price could be even lower to contest Nintendo DS's long-held portable gaming throne even further." Some good writeups about the announcement at Gamespot and 1up.com.

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  1. Every time I see "PSP" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I think of Paint Shop Pro. We really need a standard set of acronyms.

    1. Re:Every time I see "PSP" by chipset · · Score: 3, Funny

      I got so sick and tired of acronyms while working in the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), I came up with my own. S.A.M.B.A. Society Against Making Bad Acronyms.

    2. Re:Every time I see "PSP" by gazoombo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Using the 26 letter English alphabet there can only be 17576 possible TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms). And nobody wants to settle for a five letter acronym. Three is the only way to be cool. So how about setting up a standards body to hand out these precious TLAs?

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    3. Re:Every time I see "PSP" by slapout · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can see it now:

      "I was using PSP to create some graphics from my new PSP game. Of course I'm using the PSP to develop it. I just hope the PSP don't think I'm violating the DCMA."

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  2. Re:yay by Eohl · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't worry. You'll only be able to play for about half of a class hour before the battery dies.

  3. Re:Brilliant by kahei · · Score: 2, Funny


    Of course! After all, an article about 'PSP' in the 'games' section of Slashdot is really very likely to be about a small Dutch political organization!

    It couldn't possibly be about a well-known and much-debated games platform called the PSP!

    Oh, wait, actually it could. After all, that would be the sensible, obvious and non-silly option.

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  4. Does this mean... by MadAnthony02 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this mean that if I buy a PSP at Best Buy, they will try to sell me a PSP for my PSP?

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