Sony Announces PSP Launch Date

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Sony Announces PSP Launch Date

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 3, 2005 @05:00AM from the brace-for-impact dept.

Today we have word that Sony has announced a U.S. launch date and price for their upcoming PSP handheld. The date? March 24th, and the unit will retail for $249.99 when it hits the street. From the article: "the PSP Value Pack contains ... [a] 32 MB Memory Stick, headphones with remote control, battery pack, AC adaptor, soft case and cleaning cloth, movie/music/game video sampler UMD disc including multiple non-interactive game demos, and for the first one million PSP Value Packs shipped, a special UMD video release of the feature film Spider-Man(TM) 2 from Sony Pictures Entertainment."

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Buzzwords by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-03 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

including multiple non-interactive game demos

Wow... I never thought a marketing drone would be able to come up with such a convoluted way of saying 'commercials'.
1. Re:Buzzwords by dr_dank · 2005-02-03 05:16 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I never thought a marketing drone would be able to come up with such a convoluted way of saying 'commercials'.
  
  I'm sure the same drone will see to it that the "fickle spinning disc of death" from the Japanese models will be renamed "unannounced projectile gaming episodes".
  
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The 2nd Million by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-03 05:06 · Score: 2, Funny

The second million people receive a small note with a B&W picture of spider-man reading "You didn't buy fast enough. FOOL!."
Re:$250 for a handheld? by MyDixieWrecked · 2005-02-03 05:18 · Score: 1, Funny

that's making what I paid for mine seem more and more worth it.

Originally, all the websites/ebay/chinatown had them selling for 4-800$ each, and I found a website where I got it for 315$ including shipping AND a game (Minna No Golf). Since the games were selling for 70-90$, it seems I got a really good deal on it, even imported from japan and almost 4 months earlier than the rest of the US.

Only downside is that I didn't get the value-pack, so I only got the PSP and the charger in the box.

I also dropped 80$ on a 512MB MemoryStick, but now I have mobile pr0n. Hooray for bangbus on the train! =)

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Re:As a best buy Employee... by e2ka · 2005-02-03 05:29 · Score: 5, Funny

None of the Best Buy employees I have ever seen have had any product knowledge anyways.
Re:$249? Ouch! by KDR_11k · 2005-02-03 05:35 · Score: 3, Funny

Hammer. Available at every decent tool shop.

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$65 for Headphones and a Memery Stick??? by CSchiewek · 2005-02-03 06:15 · Score: 2, Funny

The PSP sold in Japan for ~$185 USD right?

So Sony is charging $65 for a pair of headphones I don't want or need, and a memory stick that's too small to be useful?

I'm not at all impressed.
"Already got one?!" by Jackie_Chan_Fan · 2005-02-03 06:49 · Score: 2, Funny

ARTHUR:

It is King Arthur, and this is my my Knights of the Round Table. Whose castle is this?

FRENCH GUARD:

This is the castle of my master, Guy de Loimbard.

ARTHUR:

Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Sony PSP.

FRENCH GUARD:

Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. Uh, he's already got one, you see.

ARTHUR:

What?

GALAHAD:

He says they've already got one!

ARTHUR:

Are you sure he's got one?

FRENCH GUARD:

Oh, yes. It's a Japanese... (I told him we already got one.)

FRENCH GUARDS:

[chuckling]
Re:$249? Ouch! by millennial · 2005-02-03 07:38 · Score: 2, Funny

I read that as:
Hammer. Available at every decent tool shop. only in Kenya.
Which makes it even funnier. Want to play PS1/PS2 games on your PSP? Go to Africa and buy a hammer...

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