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Portables (Games)

EU PSP Release Delayed Until Summer 23

Posted by Zonk from the keep-your-patience dept.
Gamespot has the news that the European launch of the PSP is to be delayed by several months in order for the company to build up enough units to meet demand. From the article: "Americans need not fret--Sony has promised one million PSPs for its launch in North America."
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EU PSP Release Delayed Until Summer More

EU PSP Release Delayed Until Summer

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  • Not only that... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by black mariah ( 654971 ) on Tuesday March 15, 2005 @02:27AM (#11941226)
    According to a friend of mine that works at Gamestop they're taking a large portion of the PSP's that were bound for Europe and bringing them here instead. Retailers were told by Sony to go ahead and up their preorder limits because of the Euro delay.

  • Real link (Score:5, Informative)

    by Loadmaster ( 720754 ) on Tuesday March 15, 2005 @02:37AM (#11941254)
    The link in the summary is wrong. Here's the real link.

    PSP Delayed [gamespot.com]

  • They're not that hard to get.... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by ReKleSS ( 749007 ) <reklessNO@SPAMfastmail.fm> on Tuesday March 15, 2005 @02:38AM (#11941255)
    If you don't mind lack of warranty, PSPs don't seem that hard to find. I'm in Singapore at the moment, I managed to pick one up for S$375 (US $230 or so), which wasn't too bad. The only issue is the games being in Japanese, but Ridge Racers isn't a problem (finished it in 5 days), Puyo Pop Fever is in English, and Lumines is mostly in English... If you can be bothered looking there aren't too many barriers to getting one.
    Also, regarding some of the hardware issues... My square button is fine, I can't make UMDs shoot out, and I got 5+ hours playing Ridge Racers at min brightness on headphones. Those were my 3 concerns, and none of them occur on my unit (or my brother's, for that matter).
    BTW, I'm Australian so if I didn't grab it here I would have to wait until july or august.
    -ReK
    • I'm also Australian and got my PSP in Hong Kong on a holiday, only a few weeks after it was released in Japan.

      To tell the truth, it was more of an impulse buy. I went to this huge computer place (I forget it's name, something like Golden City) - they had PSPs everywhere. I just couldn't resist as I knew that it would be months, maybe years before it reached Australia.

      As a general rule, we are behind the UK in launches like this, who are behind the US etc. We didn't get the Xbox until a good six months

      • Re:They're not that hard to get.... (Score:5, Informative)

        by GrosTuba ( 227941 ) on Tuesday March 15, 2005 @05:03AM (#11941702)
        I just hope that a mod-chip type device will be able to save the day bypassing region coding in both games and movies.

        Sony already stated that games will not [geek.com] be region-locked [gamespot.com] (last paragraph). They rarely are on handheld consoles anyway [slashdot.org].

        But I agree you still have a problem with movies...
        • From your first link:

          However, Sony has quashed such rumors, stating that region-coding is available for games, but up until now no Japanese game has used it and U.S. games probably won't use it either.

          Sony has gone out of their way to not quite promise that all games will be region free. The PSP certainly has the ability to region lock games, and a simple policy change by Sony could make it happen.

          But, no, now it isn't, but the fact that the hardware gives the option at all for games is worrysome for t
          • Given the fact that the only media that is readable by the PSP is the UMD and that there is no way Sony will not offer content protection/region locking for UMD movies, it is completely understandable that their hardware supports it, and I would have been greatly surprised if it hadn't.

            The important point here is that as stated in the last paragraph of my second link, they decided not to implement it for games :
            The Sony PSP does have a region-lock mechanism, but Sony has decided to disable the region lock
  • Last week I've seen PSP in huge electronics store (Media Markt) for 2000PLN (which makes it over $650)
    laying down next to Nintendo DS priced at 670PLN, which makes around $230.

    Funny, isn't it ? And all this definitely in EU.
    I wonder what makes such big difference between the two...

    • Probably the fact that the PSP has been imported from Japan, and the DS is out in Europe officially. Imported stuff can cost you a lot of money (they know a certain group of people will [ay stupid money to get a system first), although I think you can get PSPs cheaper if you shop around.
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  • They wonder why europen have so much piracy and they they always give us the goods last... Well, guess what?

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