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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. Modchips by Id+guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I sure hope that modchips will work in the PSP. In the PS and PS2 none of my modchip attempts worked. The results were bad! I've had four PS's explode! and three PS2s. And all because of those blasted modchips. (get it; "blasted"? HAHAHAH!) But I don't have too many woories. My japanesse associiates assure me that modchip will work. I just need the disks....(will 50mb business CD-Rs work?)

  2. Re:Brilliant by cybrthng · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hate You too.