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Sony Announces PSP Launch Date
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."
re: your sig. If they outlaw circumcision how will guys like Michael get their chewing gum?
Trolling is a art,
It's still terrible, man. 5 minutes I think. I heard the screens can blow up and kill you, too. Dont buy it, dude, that's YOUR best bet. Whatever you do guy, dont buy it. LOL. Who cares if you dont buy it. DS still doooomed.
WTF?
It had plain-as-grits graphics
And who else had a 3D system out to compare to? I know you're not going to try and say the N64's were any better, never mind THAT system's horrid design and controller. Speaking of which...
controller that was half-baked at the time (the non-lettered approach to button-naming confused almost anyone who had played any previous console)
So you really couldn't figure out shapes, but had no problem remembering where A, B, X, Y (and sometimes Z) were? I didn't realize shape recognition was so hard for you - infants tend to pick it up pretty quickly. Someone should also tell the designers of international signs.
That combined with his ignorance of Madden and SSX as A+ launch titles for the PS2 erode his credibility with me.
All bow down to sports games, for they are more important than all else... I suppose if we grant you that, you'll grant that Final Fantasy VII essentially defined 3D gaming when it arrived? No? Didn't think you would; it was just a Playstation 1 title...
Sony won that generation of gaming with games, and with CD technology.
So let me get this straight... They had the best technology. They had good developer relations and great games. The used CD's that could store *far* more game data than anything else, allowing for FMV, CD-Audio, and much longer games (and the dreaded "Now loading" screen). First to use 3D graphics and first to really prove disc-based games and memory cards (which allows for a much better swapping and renting of games - don't lose your save file with the game). And all of this from a "new" entrant into the video game arena.
And you're trying to tell me that the Playstation was anything LESS than revolutionary?
I don't know what kind of crack I was on, but I suspect it was decaf.
Except the DS isn't a GameBoy. So how does your argument apply to it?