The 1/Only PSP Discussion Thread (No silly behavior allowed)
03-26-05, 08:25 AM
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No dead pixels on my unit. Don't let this issue keep you from getting one of these. If you find you have a couple of dead pixels, just take it back within the warrenty period and get another.
03-26-05, 08:28 AM
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For the very few of us that were Sony Clie owners it is pretty cool to see that the Movie Player, Photo Viewer and Music Player are pretty much taken from the Sony Clie Line. Even the memory stick file structure for the Movie Player is just like the Sony Clie. Good to see that technology got moved onto something else instead of completely abandoned. Hopefully Sony will add more PDA features to the PSP.
03-26-05, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by maingon
anyone know if you can take your itunes music and put them on the psp, or do you have to transfer them to mp3, and if you do will you get the cover art too?
I don't plan to use my PSP for music, I prefer my iPod, but I did the following using iPSP for the Mac just to try it out:
I created a 'PSP' list in iTunes (iPSP transfers playlists over, not individual songs). I added 2 songs, 1 an iTunes proteced .mp4 file along with a regular .mp3. I had previously added cover art to the .mp3 song by dragging the image from amazon.com over to iTunes.
The protected song didn't transfer at all (at least it didn't show up in the PSP music menu). The .mp3 was there along with the cover art image.
03-26-05, 10:06 AM
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These things do look cool, but I don't yet see that "killer app" that makes me have to have one.
Does anyone know anything about MAME being ported onto PSP? That would make me buy one.
Does anyone know anything about MAME being ported onto PSP? That would make me buy one.
03-26-05, 10:27 AM
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I don't know how you can say the PSP has a lack of exclusive games. The top games on the PSP (minus TH) are all PSP exclusives. Lumines, Ridge Racers (not the same as the DS version at all), WipeOut Pure, and Twisted Metal.
03-26-05, 11:53 AM
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Alrite, the launch is not a few days behind us. What do we have to look forward to this year?
4/01 F1 Grand Prix
4/04 Archer Maclean's Mercury
MLB
4/05 FIFA 2005
Smartbomb
4/06 Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
Twisted Metal: Head-On
4/12 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
4/19 ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails
4/25 MVP Baseball
NBA Street Showdown
5/03 Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory
5/15 Grand Theft Auto PSP (working title)
6/14 Hot Shots Golf (working title)
6/21 AC Formula Front
6/28 Coded Arms
7/26 Death, Jr.
8/12 Advent Shadow
10/12 Infected
Honestly, that's not really that great of a future lineup. All I see of intrest is Hot Shots, NBA Street, Death Jr., and maybe Infected. And as not to turn this into a DS thread at ALL, there are alot of titles coming out for that system.
4/01 F1 Grand Prix
4/04 Archer Maclean's Mercury
MLB
4/05 FIFA 2005
Smartbomb
4/06 Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
Twisted Metal: Head-On
4/12 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
4/19 ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails
4/25 MVP Baseball
NBA Street Showdown
5/03 Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory
5/15 Grand Theft Auto PSP (working title)
6/14 Hot Shots Golf (working title)
6/21 AC Formula Front
6/28 Coded Arms
7/26 Death, Jr.
8/12 Advent Shadow
10/12 Infected
Honestly, that's not really that great of a future lineup. All I see of intrest is Hot Shots, NBA Street, Death Jr., and maybe Infected. And as not to turn this into a DS thread at ALL, there are alot of titles coming out for that system.
03-26-05, 11:54 AM
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Well, looks like the PSP didn't have such a great launch as everyone might have thought.... I myself have seen ATLEAST 5 PSP at every non-video game store I went to (Targets, Walmarts, Best Buy, Toys R US)
March 25, 2005 - Reader responses to our PSP Launch: Retail Report from yesterday afternoon have been decidedly mixed -- many readers are reporting back to IGN that they just haven't seen the same level of business in their areas. Pre-order locations are obviously hotspots since buyers already have money down and have the date marked, but from there, it has been unpredictable as to how the PSP is selling on its first day out.
PSP advertisements started this week, including a TV spot featuring Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" and billboards. But the company has not put the kind of advertising dollars and mass-market push into the new handheld that console releases tend to see, and mass market newspaper and TV coverage has not matched the fury that previous hardware releases have garnered.
Official numbers will likely not be announced until after the weekend, but below are the various responses we've received back from readers (including a number of those in the retail market) about how active PSP sales were on Launch Day.
Late-night on Launch Day at the Metreon.
How active will PSP sales be this first weekend?
Just thought i would shoot you guys some feedback on the PSP sales in my area. I'm a retail manager at a Target in the Denver Metro Area. We do the 3rd most business in the state of Colorado for target stores. We received 40 PSP's for the launch and we only sold 10 at yesterday. During Christmas we had people lining up everyday, to see if we got any DS, PS2 or Xbox in. We had only a handful of people really ask about the PSP, it seems to me that most non-hardcore gamers really didn't know the system was coming out. A few parents i talked with didn't even know what it was and was amazed when i showed them it. Just thought i would shoot you guys a heads-up on sales on the PSP in my store.
--Jimmy
I work retail, and our store received 60 PSP's and sold 10 the entire day. Outside of hardcore gaming stores, I was curious to find out if that was just an anomaly, or the standard. I actually had many people come up and talk to me about it, but balked at the price of $249.99.
--Jeff L.
Just to let people know, there are still plenty left in San Antonio, Tx. Out of our initial shipment (Target), we got rid of about 20 out of 80. Kind of funny, considering school's out because of good Friday. If there's any left on Sunday, I might pick one up for myself. Checking by the Gamestop in the same shopping center, they had a few left as well.
--G
Just read your article on the PSP Sales, and I must say that here in Indianapolis IN, they are sold out jus about everywhere. A certain store that I won't name ... took TOO MANY preorders even and were out of PSP's for my all my friends preorders! So they all went to the out of the wall location where I got mine (Gamestop) who had plenty, and we all bought them out at once
I had to call around for about half an hour to find PSPs available. Also games selling out here rapidly are Ridge Racer and Dark Stalkers.
--Casey H.
hmm.. the PSP launch at my Wal-Mart went like this. We opened at 7am. 10am we sold one. 11:30. we sold another. 5:00pm. Almost sold one, another customer said "metal gear is a card game" lost the sale. we have 58 units left. great day.
--tom
I think you need to contact stores not on the coastlines to gauge how the PSP is becoming one of the worst launches in history. I'm in St. Louis and this thing is easier to find than a Gamecube right now.
Go ahead, call some Best Buys in the area. Some Toys R US, or Circuit City stores. And then rewrite you're glowing praise to reflect what's really happening.
--wmatistic
Thought you might be interested in how the sales were going with the PSP in mid-Oregon. In Eugene, the game shops in the large malls seemed to be completely out, while the Best Buy had plenty, they almost seemed desperate to sell some (at about 4pm). In Albany (about 40 miles north of Eugene), I decided to buy my own system at the Target I worked in at about 8pm, and I was only the 4th person to buy one the entire day. Of course the first one I bought happened to have a dead pixel, so that was quickly replaced.
--DN
I work at a Wal-Mart(sigh) in West Texas and we had plenty of PSP's left today. I personally only sold one, and I think we sold 4 or 5 altogether today. We had MANY calls though to see if we had any in stock. I called all the other stores in my district and they all had plenty. So I think the big retails might be the way to go if the specialty shops start selling out.
--Jeff A.
just for those who are foolish enough to try to sell the PSPs on Ebay for "massive" profit... I looked up PSP and found the first three that sold...
269.99 255.00 237.50
The bottom line is that one sold for $237+$16 shipping=$253 and the others sold for a MAX of about $35 over $250 (with shipping included in that price). In other words, once you take out taxes that the original buyer paid, the cut that Ebay takes out, and shipping costs, the Ebay sellers are coming out with about a MAX of $10, and in some cases a significant loss. You know the seller that sold one for $253 (with the cost of shipping included in that price) is kicking himself. Bottom line, it looks like Sony made just enough so Ebay scammers aren't going to make hundreds of dollars off of their product. You may want to return those extra PSPs you have laying around.
-- Harry
I read the mailbag that Jason replied to, and read where the guy wrote (or typed) about no one buying the PSP...I believe it has sold well so far, but honestly...ok, here's the story. I was going into WalMart to get my job in electronics back (I was a seasonal worker during the holidays, 2004) and I was talking to one of my ex-electronics co workers. She said "Are you here to buy the PSP?" Honestly...I forgot it came out today. I was like "ITS OUT??? OH YEAH!!" And went ahead to look at it. I saw a stock full of PSP's sitting in the glass cases-going nowhere. A sign read "Limit one PSP per household due to shortages" I thought to myself "well that shouldn't be a problem" as I saw NO ONE looking at it and simply passing it buy...seriously, about 10 were gone from the shelves, and this was at about 2:30 pm in the afternoon. The store opens at about 6 in the morning...Sony can't be keeping it on THAT low of a profile where no one's buying it in a local Wal Mart that every one went crazy about the day after thanksgiving for the blitz sale where game boys were only 30 bucks...in other words a lot of people shop there, and a lot of them are gamers. What happened?
-- Anthony L.
Just thought I'd let you guys know that I visited my local Best Buy in downtown Chicago and there were plenty of PSPs to go around. There was a stack of at least 50 PSPs in a display in the middle of the store and this was around 2:00 in the afternoon. After all of the talk of preordering I was surprised that Best Buy (in the busiest part of Lincoln Park) ending up having such a large quantity, especially because they advertised in Sunday's ad about opening early to sell PSPs today. Just thought you'd be interested.
--Matt
I work for a Best Buy in a major metropolitan area in the Midwest and so far sales haven't been very impressive at all. Our store was allocated 150 units and by the end of the night we still had about 100 units left. Our region, consisting of roughly 10 stores still had 1700 units left, that averages about 170 per store. There are 3 other larger stores in our district that were allocated about 300 units and each of them still had between 200 and 250 units remaining. This couldn't be because of people not knowing because 3/4 of our front page ad this week was on the PSP and launch info.
--Carverts
I'm a pretty geeky girl, but for some reason, I wasn't excited about the PSP...until four hours before the American launch. At that point, my friends told me that there was no way I was going to get a handheld for quite some time, what with all the pre-orders and massive lines forming in their cities. Just to make sure, I called the local game stores, and they didn't expect me to have a PSP in my hands anytime soon, either. I gave up, and decided to go to Wal-Mart, where...lo and behold, they were stocking the PSP at midnight. I waltzed in an hour before launch-time and stood in one of the most low-key lines (six people, and I live in a decent-sized college town) I've ever seen for any game or hardware release. A couple other guys walked in twenty minutes before midnight, and every one of us left with a shiny new PSP Value Pack. The sales clerk said that they had 80 of the units. And I learned something new. I think any of my fellow gamers who didn't manage to get a PSP yet should check out some secondary sources. Think beyond EB Games, Best Buy, and GameStop, and it might just pay off!
-- Michelle
March 25, 2005 - Reader responses to our PSP Launch: Retail Report from yesterday afternoon have been decidedly mixed -- many readers are reporting back to IGN that they just haven't seen the same level of business in their areas. Pre-order locations are obviously hotspots since buyers already have money down and have the date marked, but from there, it has been unpredictable as to how the PSP is selling on its first day out.
PSP advertisements started this week, including a TV spot featuring Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" and billboards. But the company has not put the kind of advertising dollars and mass-market push into the new handheld that console releases tend to see, and mass market newspaper and TV coverage has not matched the fury that previous hardware releases have garnered.
Official numbers will likely not be announced until after the weekend, but below are the various responses we've received back from readers (including a number of those in the retail market) about how active PSP sales were on Launch Day.
Late-night on Launch Day at the Metreon.
How active will PSP sales be this first weekend?
Just thought i would shoot you guys some feedback on the PSP sales in my area. I'm a retail manager at a Target in the Denver Metro Area. We do the 3rd most business in the state of Colorado for target stores. We received 40 PSP's for the launch and we only sold 10 at yesterday. During Christmas we had people lining up everyday, to see if we got any DS, PS2 or Xbox in. We had only a handful of people really ask about the PSP, it seems to me that most non-hardcore gamers really didn't know the system was coming out. A few parents i talked with didn't even know what it was and was amazed when i showed them it. Just thought i would shoot you guys a heads-up on sales on the PSP in my store.
--Jimmy
I work retail, and our store received 60 PSP's and sold 10 the entire day. Outside of hardcore gaming stores, I was curious to find out if that was just an anomaly, or the standard. I actually had many people come up and talk to me about it, but balked at the price of $249.99.
--Jeff L.
Just to let people know, there are still plenty left in San Antonio, Tx. Out of our initial shipment (Target), we got rid of about 20 out of 80. Kind of funny, considering school's out because of good Friday. If there's any left on Sunday, I might pick one up for myself. Checking by the Gamestop in the same shopping center, they had a few left as well.
--G
Just read your article on the PSP Sales, and I must say that here in Indianapolis IN, they are sold out jus about everywhere. A certain store that I won't name ... took TOO MANY preorders even and were out of PSP's for my all my friends preorders! So they all went to the out of the wall location where I got mine (Gamestop) who had plenty, and we all bought them out at once
I had to call around for about half an hour to find PSPs available. Also games selling out here rapidly are Ridge Racer and Dark Stalkers.--Casey H.
hmm.. the PSP launch at my Wal-Mart went like this. We opened at 7am. 10am we sold one. 11:30. we sold another. 5:00pm. Almost sold one, another customer said "metal gear is a card game" lost the sale. we have 58 units left. great day.
--tom
I think you need to contact stores not on the coastlines to gauge how the PSP is becoming one of the worst launches in history. I'm in St. Louis and this thing is easier to find than a Gamecube right now.
Go ahead, call some Best Buys in the area. Some Toys R US, or Circuit City stores. And then rewrite you're glowing praise to reflect what's really happening.
--wmatistic
Thought you might be interested in how the sales were going with the PSP in mid-Oregon. In Eugene, the game shops in the large malls seemed to be completely out, while the Best Buy had plenty, they almost seemed desperate to sell some (at about 4pm). In Albany (about 40 miles north of Eugene), I decided to buy my own system at the Target I worked in at about 8pm, and I was only the 4th person to buy one the entire day. Of course the first one I bought happened to have a dead pixel, so that was quickly replaced.
--DN
I work at a Wal-Mart(sigh) in West Texas and we had plenty of PSP's left today. I personally only sold one, and I think we sold 4 or 5 altogether today. We had MANY calls though to see if we had any in stock. I called all the other stores in my district and they all had plenty. So I think the big retails might be the way to go if the specialty shops start selling out.
--Jeff A.
just for those who are foolish enough to try to sell the PSPs on Ebay for "massive" profit... I looked up PSP and found the first three that sold...
269.99 255.00 237.50
The bottom line is that one sold for $237+$16 shipping=$253 and the others sold for a MAX of about $35 over $250 (with shipping included in that price). In other words, once you take out taxes that the original buyer paid, the cut that Ebay takes out, and shipping costs, the Ebay sellers are coming out with about a MAX of $10, and in some cases a significant loss. You know the seller that sold one for $253 (with the cost of shipping included in that price) is kicking himself. Bottom line, it looks like Sony made just enough so Ebay scammers aren't going to make hundreds of dollars off of their product. You may want to return those extra PSPs you have laying around.
-- Harry
I read the mailbag that Jason replied to, and read where the guy wrote (or typed) about no one buying the PSP...I believe it has sold well so far, but honestly...ok, here's the story. I was going into WalMart to get my job in electronics back (I was a seasonal worker during the holidays, 2004) and I was talking to one of my ex-electronics co workers. She said "Are you here to buy the PSP?" Honestly...I forgot it came out today. I was like "ITS OUT??? OH YEAH!!" And went ahead to look at it. I saw a stock full of PSP's sitting in the glass cases-going nowhere. A sign read "Limit one PSP per household due to shortages" I thought to myself "well that shouldn't be a problem" as I saw NO ONE looking at it and simply passing it buy...seriously, about 10 were gone from the shelves, and this was at about 2:30 pm in the afternoon. The store opens at about 6 in the morning...Sony can't be keeping it on THAT low of a profile where no one's buying it in a local Wal Mart that every one went crazy about the day after thanksgiving for the blitz sale where game boys were only 30 bucks...in other words a lot of people shop there, and a lot of them are gamers. What happened?
-- Anthony L.
Just thought I'd let you guys know that I visited my local Best Buy in downtown Chicago and there were plenty of PSPs to go around. There was a stack of at least 50 PSPs in a display in the middle of the store and this was around 2:00 in the afternoon. After all of the talk of preordering I was surprised that Best Buy (in the busiest part of Lincoln Park) ending up having such a large quantity, especially because they advertised in Sunday's ad about opening early to sell PSPs today. Just thought you'd be interested.
--Matt
I work for a Best Buy in a major metropolitan area in the Midwest and so far sales haven't been very impressive at all. Our store was allocated 150 units and by the end of the night we still had about 100 units left. Our region, consisting of roughly 10 stores still had 1700 units left, that averages about 170 per store. There are 3 other larger stores in our district that were allocated about 300 units and each of them still had between 200 and 250 units remaining. This couldn't be because of people not knowing because 3/4 of our front page ad this week was on the PSP and launch info.
--Carverts
I'm a pretty geeky girl, but for some reason, I wasn't excited about the PSP...until four hours before the American launch. At that point, my friends told me that there was no way I was going to get a handheld for quite some time, what with all the pre-orders and massive lines forming in their cities. Just to make sure, I called the local game stores, and they didn't expect me to have a PSP in my hands anytime soon, either. I gave up, and decided to go to Wal-Mart, where...lo and behold, they were stocking the PSP at midnight. I waltzed in an hour before launch-time and stood in one of the most low-key lines (six people, and I live in a decent-sized college town) I've ever seen for any game or hardware release. A couple other guys walked in twenty minutes before midnight, and every one of us left with a shiny new PSP Value Pack. The sales clerk said that they had 80 of the units. And I learned something new. I think any of my fellow gamers who didn't manage to get a PSP yet should check out some secondary sources. Think beyond EB Games, Best Buy, and GameStop, and it might just pay off!
-- Michelle
03-26-05, 12:22 PM
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GizmoDVD - you forgot GT4. So you are talking about GT4, Grand Theft Auto, Coded Arms, and Infected all before the usual November game dump. Also don't forget that E3 will have tons of PSP announcments.
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I will just say ... my local grocery store here is stocking PSP's and games... all i got to say...
So if you need one, check out your local stop and shop here in Mass., maybe they are stocking them!
So if you need one, check out your local stop and shop here in Mass., maybe they are stocking them!
03-26-05, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by joshd2012
GizmoDVD - you forgot GT4. So you are talking about GT4, Grand Theft Auto, Coded Arms, and Infected all before the usual November game dump. Also don't forget that E3 will have tons of PSP announcments.
03-26-05, 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
Alrite, the launch is not a few days behind us. What do we have to look forward to this year?
4/01 F1 Grand Prix
4/04 Archer Maclean's Mercury
MLB
4/05 FIFA 2005
Smartbomb
4/06 Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
Twisted Metal: Head-On
4/12 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
4/19 ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails
4/25 MVP Baseball
NBA Street Showdown
5/03 Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory
5/15 Grand Theft Auto PSP (working title)
6/14 Hot Shots Golf (working title)
6/21 AC Formula Front
6/28 Coded Arms
7/26 Death, Jr.
8/12 Advent Shadow
10/12 Infected
Honestly, that's not really that great of a future lineup. All I see of intrest is Hot Shots, NBA Street, Death Jr., and maybe Infected. And as not to turn this into a DS thread at ALL, there are alot of titles coming out for that system.
4/01 F1 Grand Prix
4/04 Archer Maclean's Mercury
MLB
4/05 FIFA 2005
Smartbomb
4/06 Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
Twisted Metal: Head-On
4/12 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
4/19 ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails
4/25 MVP Baseball
NBA Street Showdown
5/03 Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory
5/15 Grand Theft Auto PSP (working title)
6/14 Hot Shots Golf (working title)
6/21 AC Formula Front
6/28 Coded Arms
7/26 Death, Jr.
8/12 Advent Shadow
10/12 Infected
Honestly, that's not really that great of a future lineup. All I see of intrest is Hot Shots, NBA Street, Death Jr., and maybe Infected. And as not to turn this into a DS thread at ALL, there are alot of titles coming out for that system.
I agree with previous comments of lack of titles that would make me buy this instantly. I have approval from my wife to buy one and definately want one, but no title except Lumines makes me want to do it yet (although about 4 titles interest me, but not enough to "sell" the system). I may still break down, but I hate to buy several games and end up being bored/disappointed with them after a short time. Part of the problem is some of best received titles are not genres I typically play very much.
If I can hold out for a couple weeks on not buying, I'll most likely wait until after E3 and see what the lineup for all three handhelds is and decide where to spend my money then. Or I should say, I'll spend on all three, but will decide which to spend on first.
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I've picked up Lumines, Ridge Racer, THUG and Twisted Metal. Being a lifelong Nintendo fan I would have to say the PSP is a damn sweet unit. I do have a dead pixel as well and my memory stick slot is very loose (the flap always opens during play and it gets annoying) but oh well. It is a sweet unit and the games are great, load times are a little long though. I now have the DS for quick pick up and play and the PSP for entertaining me over long stretches of boredom away from home. Good times.
03-26-05, 03:41 PM
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Bought Lumines today and it is an amazing game, I unlocked four of the skins before my wife took the PSP to play Lumines. I might get it back again by tomorrow. I'm probably going to pick up THUG at GameRush doing the $29.99 with two trade in deal. Other than that nothing interests me. Looking forward to GTA and GT4 though. Definitely a couple of major releases that will sell systems.
Must fight urge to buy overpriced 1GB memory stick.
Must fight urge to buy overpriced 1GB memory stick.
03-26-05, 04:03 PM
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Bought Lumines today and it is an amazing game,
03-26-05, 04:15 PM
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Go to gamestop.com and download thier lumines VIDEO review. I was pretty unsure as to what I was supposed to do also, until i watched that review, then I totally understood. Good Luck!
Go to gamestop.com and download thier lumines VIDEO review. I was pretty unsure as to what I was supposed to do also, until i watched that review, then I totally understood. Good Luck!
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Originally Posted by joeblow69
Do you understand the puzzle portion of the game? They don't really explain it in the manual at all. I can't get past the first level. I don't understand what they want me to do. "Make a small cross" ??? can you get any more vague??
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I would like to add, I got a PSP and LOVE IT! It is just amazing.
I don't think the launch was lackluster, but SONY shipped 1 million units... thats 4 times what most systems launch at. Not to mention there was little to no advertising. Right now is just for the die-hards. Christmas will be the time when it gets huge.
You have to play one to trully understand.
I don't think the launch was lackluster, but SONY shipped 1 million units... thats 4 times what most systems launch at. Not to mention there was little to no advertising. Right now is just for the die-hards. Christmas will be the time when it gets huge.
You have to play one to trully understand.
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I got my PSP thursday Morn and I finding this thing is incredible. I have not been impressed with the present gen. of handhelds. The last handheld I owned was the Game gear. The PSP may not be perfect, but what is. The screen is clear and sharp. It truly is a multimedia device
I picked up 512meg Pro Duo for $65 today and having great time port over some of my old movies to MP4 format.
ThE PSP has a very bright future if Sony doesn't screw up.
I picked up 512meg Pro Duo for $65 today and having great time port over some of my old movies to MP4 format.
ThE PSP has a very bright future if Sony doesn't screw up.
03-26-05, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
Alrite, the launch is not a few days behind us. What do we have to look forward to this year?
4/01 F1 Grand Prix
4/04 Archer Maclean's Mercury
MLB
4/05 FIFA 2005
Smartbomb
4/06 Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
Twisted Metal: Head-On
4/12 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
4/19 ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails
4/25 MVP Baseball
NBA Street Showdown
5/03 Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory
5/15 Grand Theft Auto PSP (working title)
6/14 Hot Shots Golf (working title)
6/21 AC Formula Front
6/28 Coded Arms
7/26 Death, Jr.
8/12 Advent Shadow
10/12 Infected
Honestly, that's not really that great of a future lineup. All I see of intrest is Hot Shots, NBA Street, Death Jr., and maybe Infected. And as not to turn this into a DS thread at ALL, there are alot of titles coming out for that system.
4/01 F1 Grand Prix
4/04 Archer Maclean's Mercury
MLB
4/05 FIFA 2005
Smartbomb
4/06 Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
Twisted Metal: Head-On
4/12 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
4/19 ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails
4/25 MVP Baseball
NBA Street Showdown
5/03 Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory
5/15 Grand Theft Auto PSP (working title)
6/14 Hot Shots Golf (working title)
6/21 AC Formula Front
6/28 Coded Arms
7/26 Death, Jr.
8/12 Advent Shadow
10/12 Infected
Honestly, that's not really that great of a future lineup. All I see of intrest is Hot Shots, NBA Street, Death Jr., and maybe Infected. And as not to turn this into a DS thread at ALL, there are alot of titles coming out for that system.
Don't forget Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, and Mercury.
03-26-05, 07:29 PM
#798
DVD Talk Legend
The PSP does interest me, I've never owned a handheld before, but this looks pretty cool. Definitely have to wait on it though, probably would splurge on one around Nov/Dec. Prices on the unit itself aren't likely to drop this yr, but do you think the game pricing will follow the pattern of the consoles? (drop depending on sales, greatest hits collections, etc..)
Do you think the pixel issues will get better as Sony continues to crank these out? Just wondering...I've got about a half-dozen items further up the wishlist, so I plan on holding off anyways...
Do you think the pixel issues will get better as Sony continues to crank these out? Just wondering...I've got about a half-dozen items further up the wishlist, so I plan on holding off anyways...
03-26-05, 07:32 PM
#800
DVD Talk Legend
I went to Best Buy today and they still had some in stock. They did not have any 1gb memory sticks. Does anyone know what the duo vs duo pro difference ?
