The PSP's Birthday Party

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."

Comments

Durability Concerns

[Da Rabid Duckie]

I've held a PSP, and it's pretty solid for what it's worth, and the design is noteworthy. So of course, the one picture that stood out the most to me in that article was the picture of the PSP that had the broken screen from being dropped. I wonder what it took to do that kind of damage... maybe a stiletto heel from one of the cheap actresses there?

On another note, I have a new favorite quote: (from the article) "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." -- SCEA president Kaz Hirai

Re:So shoot me....

[unclethursday]

Joy. So if I want 40 GB of them, since these are after market SanDisk ones, not Sony branded ones, it's still $7,192. Those are $89.90 each from there, so I'm sure the Sony branded ones are around $100 or more.

I know you are just correcting my forgetting that normal Meory Stick Duos won't work, though. Gotta be the Pro versions.

I don't own anything that uses Sony Memory Sticks or any version of them... so AFAIAC, the PSP is just the way to try and get their Memory Sticks into people's homes, and in a way that will be potentially bigger than digital cameras and such that use them. After all, I can buy a Kodak, or Olympous, or whatever digital camera and never have to use Memory Sticks. If people want to do stuff with the PSP, though, it's Memory Sticks all the way.

Sheesh.

[2names]

I don't need an economics degree to be able to read a dictionary entry:

Main Entry: monopoly
Pronunciation: m&-'nä-p&-lE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -lies
1 : exclusive control of a particular market that is marked by the power to control prices and exclude competition and that esp. is developed willfully rather than as the result of superior products or skill --see also ANTITRUST Sherman Antitrust Act in the IMPORTANT LAWS section
2 : one that has a monopoly

Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

Taken from This previous post.

Nintendo has NEVER been the "sole" player in the handheld market.

You shouldn't be a jackass unless you're 100% sure you're right.

I am 100% certain that you are a moron.