PSP North American Launch Date

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 6, 2005 @06:02AM 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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Messed up link by Grant29 · 2005-01-06 06:04 · Score: 5, Informative

The original link was messed up. Here is the correct link: Link. I also got a mirror if needed.
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Re:Processor Shortages and Sony by TarrVetus · 2005-01-06 06:58 · Score: 5, Informative

Rumor has it that they have only one 90nm capable facility...

That explains why Sony is spending $1.6 billion on the next plant for the PS3 Cell processors. I guess all of those unit shortages are eating into their profits and reputation, so they need a bigger plant for the next generation of processors.