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when will it come to asia hm? Any ideas?
PSP is just too irresistable
[ This Message was edited by: cha_rles on 2004-11-01 14:28 ]
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Posted: 2004-11-01 15:27:06
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Most prob will be Q1 05.
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Posted: 2004-11-01 15:28:29
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if only it was quadband, had a keyflip with thumbboard and symbian too
psp910 sure would have kept alot of people happy
I still get cravings for an Atari lynx when I see portable gaming though.. Maybe its just a love of California games?
Either way this should be a nifty lil gadget.
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Posted: 2004-11-01 20:45:12
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Speaking in an interview with Japanese site Impress PC Watch, Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi has admitted
that graphically intensive game will drain the PSP's battery more rapidly than the quoted figures.
"A puzzle game will last longer, but Ridge Racer will probably be shorter than that," he told the site, referring to the battery life
statistics released by SCE last week - which claimed four to six hours of battery while playing games.
The figures quoted by SCE rely on playing with headphones, without using the wireless multiplayer capabilities of the device, and
with screen brightness set in a specific range - leading to widespread speculation that using the full power of the system will bring
the battery life down closer to the originally rumoured two hour level.
Kutaragi's comments seem to confirm that games which use the features of the console more intensively will drain the battery life
faster, and are backed up by the firm's efforts to restrict developers from using features such as data streaming from disc (as
used in a large number of PS2 titles) due to their high power consumption.
The SCE boss was adamant, however, that the battery life problem would be solved in future - telling the interviewer that "in the
future, we'd like a single charge to last for a flight between Narita [Tokyo] and New York" - a fourteen hour trip.
He cited the Sony Walkman as an example of battery technology progress, pointing out that the device had started off with an
exceptionally short battery life. However, he stopped short of saying that the company plans to upgrade the battery technology in
future revisions of the PSP, instead focusing on the possibility that developers will find ways to optimise their games to use the
battery life more efficiently.
The implication is clear, however, and Kutaragi's comments will undoubtedly be taken as a tacit admission that there is a problem
with the PSP's battery life - and that the firm may be hoping to fix this in a later revision of the hardware.
Whether this problem is likely to scare off early adopters or not is a major question - but Sony is certainly being conservative in
its shipment estimates for the device. Reports today indicating that the company expects to ship three million units of the device in
its financial year, compared with Nintendo's projection of four million units of the similarly-priced Nintendo DS console, citing this
as the ceiling of its production capacity for the system.
Looks like they pulled another 'Sony'. Gonna be fun a fun day out with one of these, lol.
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Posted: 2004-11-02 12:41:00
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Wow
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Posted: 2004-11-14 00:24:29
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PlayStation Portable billboards — So close, yet so far away…
Seriously, Sony, how badly do you want to torture us? 3Yen has some pics of a bunch of billboards they’ve just installed in the Toyko subway with actual working models of the PlayStation Portable behind plexiglass. And yes, they already anticipated that someone might be tempted to do a smash-and-grab, and so despite Japan’s notoriously low crime rate they’ve hired three security guards to keep an eye on things just in case.
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Posted: 2004-11-15 19:25:14
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I want street fighter, metal gear solid, ff, tekken... :-(
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Posted: 2004-11-15 19:38:56
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Yeah a good Tekken game would have me sold
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Posted: 2004-11-15 20:14:13
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So...any new report about region lock, anyone? Im a bit confuse bout this and thinking to get one for my chrismast present.
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Posted: 2004-11-15 21:11:44
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The 12th of December is less than a month away. On the 12th Sony will start shipping the Sony PSP in Japan.
Sony now launched a new Sony PSP site, featuring a video commercial and more important the Game line-up at launch. There are 7 games available at launch based on that list. Until the end of December 14 other are supposed to be available. From the first 7 games only Ridge Racers is really hot.More details on the official Sony PSP Japan Site.
www.playstation.jp/psp/
The Sony PSP is region-free for games, this and the fair price makes it attractive to order a japanese release Sony PSP. Play- Asia offers the Sony PSP (PSP-1000) for $219.90. The Sony PSP Value Pack. (PSP-1000K) sells for $269.90.
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Posted: 2004-11-19 19:47:49
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