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EU/UK Retailers Gear Up For PSP Launch
GamesIndustry.biz reports that console retailers are preparing for the midnight launch of the PSP in Europe. From the article: "Leading retail chain GAME plans to open 250 of its stores at midnight, with 1500 staff working overnight to meet demand for the new console, which is launching with around 30 software titles and 30 UMD movies. Many other retailers are also planning to open tonight, with several planning special launch party events - including Sony's official launch event, which will take place at the HMV store on Oxford Street."
1) There are winners and losers: the consumers. Apparently the grandparent thinks he lost when he purchased a PSP.
Just curious, but how has Nintendo's complete dominance in the handheld market hurt anyone?
Software is cheap and plentiful, small developers are allowed to participate with cheap dev kits, the hardware is cheap and featureful, and support is better than any other by supporting the entire library of all the handhelds before it (GBA takes GB and GBC while the DS takes GBA).
2) Not to say the DS is free of all dead pixel issues, but it is far less prevelant than on the PSP and Nintendo will replace the DS with any dead pixels.
3) What? So you want a PSP-sized DS with a giant screen cover and a giant touch screen for $130? Good luck with that one.
The bottom touch screen and top display screen works perfectly well, and is hardly pointless. Lets see you play Ouendan, Kirby:CC, Meteos, or Yoshi Touch and Go on the PSP. Like it or not, the touchscreen allows people to make games that can never work on the PSP or any other system without a touch interface. Learn to live with it.
4) I have a DS and a PSP, and I can honestly say that the DS is nowhere near a drought. The launch was dead, but it has been rolling for the past few months and shows little chance of slowing down with Castlevania, Mario Kart, and others coming in the next few months.
5) Blah Blah Blah PSP R0XX, DS SI TEH GIMECKY -you're right, it does sound like gamefaqs in here
It really is amazing how Nintendo fanboys will defend anything Nintendo does, as if it were as amazing as the dead rising.
Wonderful refutation. Let me guess, just as new to gaming as you are to slashdot, right?
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