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The PSP's Birthday Party

Posted by Zonk on from the little-tiny-hats dept.

Joystiq and EnGadget were there for the PSP Launch party, and have plenty of photos to prove it. Looks like it was a great opportunity to enjoy another uncomfortable marketing event. Hats off to the folks who endured it to bring us back the photos. From the article: "The weather outside is awful, but that didn't stop us, a few hundred Sony fanboys, and lots of B-list celebs (who clearly needed to collect the appearance fee) from hitting Sony's official launch party for the PlayStation Portable this evening."

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  1. ::Caution:: by Brainboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope no one was hurt due to flying game discs.

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  2. fools by cgenman · · Score: 4, Funny

    If someone told you that the PSP is a portable gaming device, shoot these people. The PSP is not a portable gaming device, it is really a convergent portable entertainment device.

    Right, because the history of convergent entertainment devices is long and illustrious. They would be fools to not want some of this action.

    And going with a brand new disk standard that nobody has and nobody sells as a medium for selling movies? It's a brilliant maneuver from some of the industry's best minds.

    I should say that the Sony reps I've worked with about other things have been completely with it and didn't lose sight of reality. So what happened to this guy?

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    1. Re:fools by The-Bus · · Score: 3, Funny

      My only issue is that this fails to play any of the other open standards for multimedia, like Sony's MiniDisc, or Sony's Betamax, or Sony's SACD, or Sony's...

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  3. Wow... scary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The level of bitterness and resentment in some of the comments here (and also in the initial news post) is a bit scary. Anybody would think Sony had been killing babies for fun rather than releasing a serious competitor to Nintendo's long-running monopoly on the handheld market.

  4. Is Sony and RIAA going to get in a pissing battle? by Mr.Dippy · · Score: 3, Funny

    DJ Danger Mouse was Djing the event? Last I heard the RIAA was all hot and bothered by his Grey Album. Does this mean that Sony, who is a member of the RIAA, is now going to be on the RIAA's hit list? Obviously, Sony Game Division and Sony Music do not give a flying F about each other.

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  5. Where are all the hacks? by wildzeke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where are the PSP emulators? Where are the mod chips? Where are the programs that allow you to burn your own PSP media? This unit has been out for about 12 hours now! Lets get going here!