Slashdot Mirror
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."
Am I the only one that gained some grima mount of satisfaction from seeing the broken psp int he article?
It's the Square button, the one closest to the screen. Though I think almost everyone confuses those idiotic button names.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Why there's only one thing it could possibly mean: you are reserving a reservation.
That way, when you show up on launch day, the store employees can all laugh at you because all you got was a reservation and not a PSP.
The GBA SP is the real PSP competition.
No it's not. The PSP will die a quick death very soon. But not at the hands of the GBA SP or the DS. The reason the PS2 is so popular is because the PSX took advantage of a weak competitor (the N64) and built a HUGE library of games that could later be played on the PS2 as well.
But Nintendo uses disks now, and they're about the size of the PSP disks. They already have a Gamecube library that dwarfs the "OMG 20 LAUNCH TITLES" that the PSP has, and will continue to do so for some time. What if the "Revolution" is a portable? They keep mentioning it'll have wireless networking like the DS, which only really makes sense for a portable device. I would bet good money on it having at least a GCN backward compatibility mode if it's not just out-and-out a portable GCN. Sure, the Xbox and PS2 can compete with a GCN on all the technical specs, but the PSP can't.