wow - what bozos.

Nintendo fan slang I guess I don't get it either.

Namco announced that the PS2 RPG Tales of Rebirth will come with an UMD demo of a new PSP title Tales of Melfes, exact details of Tales of Melfes is currently unknown, Tales of Rebirth is scheduled to release in Japan on December 16.

Hmm.. so with Tales of Eternia, that's two Tales games already slated for PSP.

Its misspelled l33t speak. It is really "pwn3d" which is l33t for "owned".

Anyway, I'm really disapointed in the price Lik-Sang is charging... looks like I will wait even if they have a unit for me.

Well, I went ahead with two of my orders, one from Lik-Sang & one from Play-Asia. Both charged $529, of course, but if someone out there is willing to pay 1k for these babies then I have no problem listing them.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=5918

Massive queues in Japan as PlayStation Portable sells out at launch

Rob Fahey 16:42 13/12/2004

Sony's pint-sized wonder hits streets in the Far East, but not enough to go around

Queues over a thousand people long formed at some retailers in Japan yesterday as Sony's PlayStation Portable went on sale, with fears of a shortage realised as stocks sold out within hours at some major outlets.

News agency Bloomberg reports that around 1200 people queued up for a chance to buy a PSP at the Bic Camera electronics store in downtown Tokyo, with many queuing overnight.

The size of the queues may well have been related to Sony's exceptionally small initial shipment numbers, which saw just 200,000 units of the console being released for its launch day - compared to over half a million units of Nintendo's similarly priced Nintendo DS handheld, which was launched earlier this month.

Queues were especially large at retailers such as Bic Camera which did not take pre-orders for the hardware, with a spokesperson for the retailer telling Bloomberg that "it's the most people we've seen lined up for a game device in recent times."

According to market research firm Media Create, 171,963 units of the PlayStation Portable were sold yesterday in Japan; taking exports and untracked sales into account, it seems likely that practically all of the initial allocation has been sold out.

Sony hopes to ship additional units to Japanese retailers on an ongoing basis between now and the New Year, bringing final numbers to around 500,000 units by the end of the year.

Exporters have been quick to cash in on the difficulty faced by most customers in getting hold of PlayStation Portable hardware, with many charging more than three times the retail value of the console to ship units outside Japan.


Chris

Once again, Sony's hardware quality rocks!

From Slashdot:

How many is "several defective PSP units"?

That's a good question.

Here's a video of disc popping out when you play:
http://www.gamesarefun.com/consoles/psp/pspdefect2.mov

"Several" probably equates to a handful of problems being posted on tons of message boards. From what I've heard, the unit is pretty solid. As for that video, why the hell is that guy twisting the unit? It is as if he is trying to break it

Looks like he is playing it to me, but then again I usually don't treat my toys like fine china.

Nice video! The screen is just so BIG and BRIGHT! I'm glad I didn't get a DS!

Hopefully, they will work some of these problems out before the US launch. My brother got a Nintendo DS and it, too, had a dead pixel.

Has a US release date been set and a firm price? I'm think I will pre-order one, something I've never done with a game system before.

I've read on a few message boards that if you hit the PSP with a hammer it doesn't work too well any more... Who the hell twists their electronics like that?

I know some of you are new to portable gaming (or gaming in general from some posts) but portable games are NOT held still. Obviously movement isn't as active as shown in the video (at least I'd hope not) but that was probably done simply to get a video of the issue at hand. I think a good question for this is: how many units are affected (already asked above) and to what extent? If it only happens with a sudden jerking movement it probably won't be a huge issue (though still something that needs to be corrected), but if it happens during normal movement I'd consider this an emergency issue.

As for dead pixels, my girlfriend had one on her DS, but managed to get it swapped at Target before they started becoming impossible to find. I think that's just a problem that's bound to come up with mass production of these kinds of screens. Hopefully by the time PSP comes here (March?) the screen production will have slowed down or improved a bit. Bubbles and dust are probably victims of the same mass-production issue.

I heard you can hit the gamecube with an hammer and it works fine still.

Did anybody here NOT cancel their pre-order and have a report for us (or just haven't gotten theirs yet)?

wow, and this isn't trolling? i really don't understand why that other thread got locked just because people were making fun of nintendo for releasing a video player add-on. it's ridiculous. also, the ds is not perfect either. many of them have screen problems. can any mod explain to me why it's ok to talk trash about sony, but when it comes to nintendo, LOCK!

I think the other thread was closed for this:
rather than it's jabs at Nintendo.

But as always, if you are unhappy with a post, you should click on the "report this post to a mod" button.

Yep, that was closed for the personal attacks, not nintendo bashing, and the mod said to feel free to start and new thread on the DS music/video thing.

And as, the other poster said, use the report this post button (the little triangle on the bottom left of each post) to report posts you think area against forum rules. The mods can't read every post.

Sorry guys, didn't mean to be a part of what got that thread closed. I don't regard the term "fanboy" as being an attack, I was using it to describe the attitude present in the posters comments, I shouldn't have used it. I regard myself as a Nintendo fanboy, but not one so blinded by my love of Nintendo that I attack other companies/systems. I digress...

...and what does this have to do with PSP? The topic of this thread is Presenting (drum roll) the PSP! ($195)

Has anyone recieved their import yet? Still waiting for mine.

Aw, pixy, did you delete your posts or did someone else? that was funny! Anyway, I'd like to hear from someone who got their imports too. I've seen those really small videos where the discs pop out, and I can't help but wonder if those guys are some how sneakily hitting the eject button while playing...