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European PSP Release Date Announced
Tom writes "Sony has announced the official release date and price for the Sony PSP in Europe. The console will be released on September 1st 2005 and will retail for £179 (249). No launch titles have been revealed at this time, but the big games from the US launch are expected along with some more European developed titles."
;) we get them from Japan . .
Plus im not to botherd as i would rather lose the ability(untill the hacks show up) than be ripped off
Plus if i got a US one i could easily get the UMD movies imported aswell , it really is not much a problem and if everyone did that it would send a nice message to sony about screwing over the EU customers
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
...when you can rip your own DVDs, get a 512MB Memory Stick, then put the movie (or TV shows...) you want to watch onto it.
I know that's my plan; my import is here 4 months earlier, and ends up costing less than the local price!
led me to believe it was coming out *just* after the DS. They couldn't have been doing that on purpose could they? To try and screw over the DS launch?
/sarcasm
I mean, it's so nice of you to finally grace us, unworthy Europeans, with your magnificent PSP only nine months after it's launch in Japan.
I feel your pain. I bought a DS in the U.S. over christmas while visiting family (I live in France), but lets be realistic. For the European market, they have to localize the software and packaging into at least French, German, Spanish, Italian, and British (voice actors). It's easier, both resource-wise, and financially speaking, to release to the biggest single-language markets first, and then to hit Europe.
I know it really sucks (especially when my DS was stolen, I couldn't get it replaced), but it's not an attempt to slight Europe in anyway, it's just the reality of business in an international market.
Err, hate to reply to myself, but I mean to clarify: the price tag they quote is AUD$430. This seems incredibly high compared with the price one could get by importing (slightly over AUD$300). Hence I foresee slow uptake on release date.
Bloody hell none bar the most sony addicted fanboy would buy one, its far too high for the general non-nerd population too high for most nerds even. Never mind what other bells and whistles it does i could get 2 of the current generation of consoles for that price alone.