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PSP North American Launch Date
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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Sony's gonna have a hard time legally selling that in the US.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the icon on the main page for this news story is a GameBoy unit?
Anyone else notice ever since IBM sold off its hard drive business, the rate of drive capacity increases for 3.5" and 2.5" drives has gone to heck? We've barely moved from 320GB to 400GB in roughly that time frame. Its just as bad for laptop drives only going from 60/80GB to 100GB in quite some time.
The only place where there has been some rapid increase is in the iPod 1.8" and 1" size drives. Perhaps it's because there will be much greater volume at these sizes, but one wonders why the slow down. The more conspiracy minded would say that there is not as much incentive to keep the increases going forward at the same pace as IBM once did.
I for one really need more space on my laptop. (No, not for pr0n, but between my MP3s and email alone I'm out over 60GBs).
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?)
I hate You too.