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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. Riiggghhhttt. Because times were so damn awful for gaming when Nintendo ruled the roost. The NES/SNES/Genesis generation isn't considered the golden age of gaming or anything. I mean, the primary purpose of a PSP ISN'T playing decade old Nintendo games from this period.
Nintendo got the nigh-monopoly they have on handhelds by making systems and games perfectly catered to the market. Every other system that came in did the same thing Sony is doing, and like Sony, it failed. The one system that ever made any headway was the Wonderswan, and that was just in Japan, because it also got it right.
Seriously, Sony made the inferior(as judged by the market) product. Supporting that simply because the "virtual monopoly" made a better product is idiocy. We don't use Linux out of sheer spite towards Microsoft.
2. And Nintendo will instantly replace your unit if you have a single dead pixel(you call, give a CC for security and they ship you out a new one and EVEN pay for return postage). Their customer service and build quality is unrivaled in the gaming industry(Gameboys, Gamecubes and DSes can take ONE hell of a fischer-price style beating). It really is. Sony would only replace PSPs with 10+ dead pixels, or you had to take it up with the retailers. Who may or may not have allowed an exchange. It was/is a night and day difference.
3. The two screens allow the clamshell design, which serves as a built in screen protector. It also lets you cut down on vertical/horizontal height by adding a bit of width to it. Merging those into a single screen would've increased the bulk of the already bulky unit(compared to the GBA SP anyway) and given the same kind of screen scratching problems you see in the original GBA and PSP.
4. Nintendogs, Meteos, Kirby: Canvas Curse, and Advance Wars: DS basically JUST hit. There's a lot more wierd stuff coming down the pipe as well(surgery games, lawyer games, adventure games, some PC Sim games). The PSP has Lumines and console-style games(worked great for the Nomad!). It's big title in the pipe is GTA.
5. And yet you express extreme ignorance. Go fig.
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*sigh* I think the dollar defends anything Nintendo does, not the fanboys. People are spending their dollars on Gameboys and Nintendo DSs, not PSPs. I spent my dollars on two DSs. I think I'm getting a lot of bang for my buck when I can buy a single copy of a game and play it on two DSs. You just can't do that on a PSP. Well, you can't play much of anything on a PSP except overpriced movies, which is another reason I bought 2 DSs instead of 1 PSP. I'm trying to picture me buying me the cool system and then inviting all my pals to watch Spiderman 2 on my PSP. We can sit it on top of my HDTV and hear it in glorius PSP sound. Perhaps some binoculars & hearing aids will help hype up the party. I guess it all comes down to, do you want to be cool and spend a lot of hard earned money? Or do you want to play some interesting new type a games with your friends & have fun.