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Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: fastson on August 25, 2004, 03:23:22 AM: Quote
From teamxbox forums ( :eek: )
PSM August talks PSP\'s Price

It\'s not official but basicly they say that Sony has told them the price would be $150, and say that this price will be official announced (therefore confirmed) by Sony at TGS in September.

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=287821

Hmm, take it with a grain of salt..

It would be sweet if true, I might just import one then! :D
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Ace on August 25, 2004, 05:09:28 AM: I\'m really looking forward to the PSP. I hope the price is reasonable.
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Heretic on August 25, 2004, 05:34:34 AM: Sounds too good to be true

They have to do something though to keep it from being another Wonderswan
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: QuDDus on August 25, 2004, 07:31:28 AM: 99.99 would be bitchin
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: te2k on August 25, 2004, 02:40:57 PM: 99.99 would be in a dream world
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Kimahri on August 25, 2004, 03:11:41 PM: Thats actually a really decent price
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Lord Nicon on August 25, 2004, 06:45:10 PM: 150 is a steal. Well for what it can do. The only things i have a slight problem with with it are the facts that the battery life is short and that the launch lineup isnt incredibly original.
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: kyodaibob on August 25, 2004, 06:57:21 PM: I doubt it\'ll be $150. Probably closer to $200. I plan on getting one, but not until there\'s more games I want. If it does everything Sony claims, $200 isn\'t that unreasonable... but I\'d prefer it to be cheaper.
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Lord Nicon on August 25, 2004, 07:01:50 PM: Quote
Originally posted by kyodaibob
I doubt it\'ll be $150. Probably closer to $200. I plan on getting one, but not until there\'s more games I want. If it does everything Sony claims, $200 isn\'t that unreasonable... but I\'d prefer it to be cheaper.

true but wouldnt we all.
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Unicron! on August 26, 2004, 01:38:28 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Lord Nicon
150 is a steal. Well for what it can do. The only things i have a slight problem with with it are the facts that the battery life is short and that the launch lineup isnt incredibly original.

I think I ve heard that the battery problem was fixed
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Lord Nicon on August 26, 2004, 03:09:23 AM: Fixed? What is this fixed you speak of? an hour more (audio? Gaming?)? Yippee skippy. I hope thats not just it. I dont remember the hours for whatever type of media but i remember them being pretty bad.
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Ace on August 26, 2004, 03:11:15 AM: When is this sucka coming out, 2005? Sooner? I hope sooner.
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Unicron! on August 26, 2004, 07:31:57 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Lord Nicon
Fixed? What is this fixed you speak of? an hour more (audio? Gaming?)? Yippee skippy. I hope thats not just it. I dont remember the hours for whatever type of media but i remember them being pretty bad.

Something like 8 hours I think?I am not sure.
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Lord Nicon on August 26, 2004, 09:10:41 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Unicron!
Something like 8 hours I think?I am not sure.

8 hours gaming or 8 hours audio? Makes a big difference.
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Unicron! on August 26, 2004, 02:19:03 PM: 8 hours gaming I think.But dont take too seriously what I am saying becuase I dont remember exactly what was siad in the article.But if I am not mistaken it was about gaming battery life that its actually longer than believed.
But as I said earlier dont take it as a fact.
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Deadly Hamster on August 26, 2004, 02:58:34 PM: 8 hours gaming and something like 4 hours movies if im correct.
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Ace on August 26, 2004, 03:00:28 PM: Hey, what am I chopped liver? Anybody care to answer my question or am I going to have to break a sweat and search it out?
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Lord Nicon on August 26, 2004, 03:16:30 PM: Youre young enough. Get those little wrinkled fingers movin Acey.

;)
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Unicron! on August 26, 2004, 04:17:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ace
Hey, what am I chopped liver? Anybody care to answer my question or am I going to have to break a sweat and search it out?

Who the hell cares about chopped livers except when they are god damn hungry? :p
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Ace on August 26, 2004, 05:54:06 PM: Bastards! :p
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on August 26, 2004, 09:18:41 PM: It\'s 3 hours for anything which requires constant spinning of the disc, which may/will include games.

It all depends on the developers of the games to use the systems RAM efficiently so that it isn\'t constantly reading from the disc. In which case it will last up to a maximum of about 8 hours.

Though, when I play handhelds, I often turn my sound off.. so perhaps that\'ll make it last even longer. :)
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: fastson on August 27, 2004, 12:11:14 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Ace
When is this sucka coming out, 2005? Sooner? I hope sooner.

Nothing set in stone as far as I know..

The estimated release dates are:
For Japan: End of 2004
USA: Q1 2005
Europe: Q4 2008 :( *

EDIT: Ah, here we go..
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Sony has informed publishers, developers and retailers that while it still plans to launch its handheld gaming and entertainment device in Japan this holiday season, the PSP will not hit shelves in North America or Europe until calendar year 2005.

"The reason we pushed it out here is we wanted to be sure there\'s a reasonable amount of software titles to launch with hardware," said Teresa Weaver, a spokesperson for Sony Computer Entertainment.

The system will ship globally before the end of Sony\'s fiscal year (which ends in March 2005).

* ;)
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Avatarr on August 27, 2004, 05:07:33 AM: What I don\'t get is they tie Australia\'s release dates with Europe\'s. We\'re the closest damn country to Japan, but the US gets it before us. MOOOOOO!!!!!
Title: PSP price, $150??
Post by: Lord Nicon on August 27, 2004, 09:33:05 AM: How about you read
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the PSP will not hit shelves in North America or Europe until calendar year 2005.

If aus. is tied with europe then it comes close to the same time.

We just have a higher priority.