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PSP Smashes Sales Records in the UK 327

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the gaming-is-here-to-stay dept.
404Ender writes "According to recent numbers the PSP has sold more than 185,000 units since launching September 1. This blows the previous record away, which happened to be set by the Nintendo DS. This is wonderful news for fans of the Sony handheld, and it certainly quiets many of the naysayers who have been pointing to the success of the DS sales compared to the PSP. Does this solidify Sony's position in the handheld market with a firm foot in the door?"
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  • No Way! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:10AM (#13498026)
    The PSP broke the N-Gage's record?!

  • No (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:10AM (#13498031)
    Does this solidify Sony's position in the handheld market with a firm foot in the door?

    No.

    ... Next.

    • Re:No (Score:3, Funny)

      by blinksilver ( 889330 )
      Does this solidify Sony's position in the handheld market with a firm foot in the door?

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      Well you see, it does not.....BATTERY LOW
    • If they don't follow up with more interesting games then the foot may be planted firmly in the mouth. I bought a PSP a couple of weeks ago and so far I'm pretty happy with it playing Lumines, Wipeout Pure, and tooling around with the web browser, but I really want to see some really interesting stuff before the year is out. What I'd really like to see in the near term is Flash support for the browser which would suddenly make thousands of web games potentially playable on the PSP. I wonder if Sony is actual

  • Yes it does (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:10AM (#13498032)
    Of course it does, it really is an impressive piece of kit for the price and is better for gamers since a bit of healthy competition in the handset market for nintendo will hopefully produce better games for both the DS and PSP.
    • Why kind sir, you must be mad, because they'd have to make games for the PSP in the first place!
    • Better games? How about "some" games. There really aren't enough to make it worth while IMHO.

      • Re:Yes it does (Score:3, Informative)

        by plumby ( 179557 )
        How many games there are is pretty irrelevant to me - how good the games are is far more important.

        I only own 4 games for my X-Box, and around 6 for my PS2 (and 3 of those are PES1,2 and 3), yet I play on both of them very regularly.

        I've got my PSP today with 2 games, which on first play both look like they will keep me happy until PES5 comes out. I don't care if there's 10 or 100 on the platform, if those other 90 are ones that I'm not going to play.

    • Actually, this device WANTS more than games. There's a lot of potential here for all kinds of third party/community apps. Granted, text input is by way of an onscreen "keyboard" which is more like a phone's pad than anything, but with features like WiFi and a browser there are all kinds of things that could be done from the community if Sony would release to the public a (legal, approved) SDK for it.

      A couple of things could be done to improve the unit itself, number one being the addition of a larger (i

  • Late Release? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by TheRaven64 ( 641858 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:11AM (#13498035) Journal
    Perhaps the sales figures are inflated somewhat by the fact that it's been released in other markets for some time. People here have had a chance to hear lots of reports of it from elsewhere before the launch. It also probably has a larger set of games at launch than the DS did, for the same reason. It will be more interesting to see how many units in total each sell after a year on the market.

    • Re:Late Release? (Score:3, Insightful)

      by neillewis ( 137544 )
      Yes, is this just hype and deliberately pent-up demand? A lot will be down to sustaining sales by delivering great games.

      No Nintendogs in the UK yet to switch attention to the DS.
      • They've been pre-selling it for 6 months beforehand *of course* there will be a lot of sales in the first week.

        Let's see what happens in the future...

        At the momemt there are no half decent games (only about 10 games at launch day) and movies are really expensive (£10 for a movie on a tiny screen with crap sound? Sod of..). Unless this changes fast it'll die, since the DS has hundreds of games and some of them are apparently quite good.

    • Re:Late Release? (Score:3, Informative)

      by Altima(BoB) ( 602987 )
      At the same time, its late release here in Ireland (same time as UK) and higher price (extremely important, most Europeans don't realize how much they get ripped off) prompted me to buy it while I was in America. The only two people I know with the PSP in Ireland also bought it in the States.

      I kind of wonder if these figures would be higher if they had just mirrored the US price, or are the consumers here truely sheep waiting ot be fleeced...

    • Re:Late Release? (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Keichann ( 888574 )
      But perhaps the same sale figures are deflated somewhat by the fact that a lot of people who wanted a PSP will have already had one imported - like me, from Hong Kong or America/Canada. The global sales figures will be the only interesting ones here (unless you're an economist) - the same applies to games.

  • Real info... (Score:5, Informative)

    by inkdesign ( 7389 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:12AM (#13498036)
    05/Sep/2005

    Sony's new PSP console has sold an estimated 185,000 total market hardware units in its launch week, outdoing Nintendo's DS (87,000 units at launch) to become the most successful UK console launch ever. 24 games were available at launch, the largest for any console, with 20 entering the All Formats Top 40 and 9 games breaking into the Top 10. Games were priced at £34.99 with the console itself retailing at £179.

    Sony PSP takes over the All Formats chart this week with the biggest software launch for any console. 20 out of the 24 PSP launch titles enter the All Formats Top 40 with Sony's 'Ridge Racer' (PSP) topping the list, knocking Codemasters' 'Brian Lara International Cricket 2005' (PS2/XB/PC) down to No2 and becoming not only the fastest selling PSP game but also the fastest selling Ridge Racer game across any format. 1 in 5 people who bought a PSP game bought 'Ridge Racer', but it was over 6 years ago since a Ridge Racer title reached number 1 in the All Formats chart with Ridge Racer Type 4 (PS1) back in week 17 1999. 'Brian Lara International Cricket 2005' is the only non-PSP game in the Top 10 with PSP games filling all the remaining Top 10 positions and Sony claiming the top 2 PSP games with 'Wipeout Pure' (PSP) entering the All Formats Chart at No3. Sega's 'Virtua Tennis' and Konami's 'Metal Gear Ac!d' debut at No4 and No5 respectively, holding off EA's big PSP release 'Need for Speed: Underground Rivals' which is a new entry at No6. The most popular type of PSP game is racing with 5 racing games in the Top 10 PSP chart, including 'Toca Race Driver 2' at No6 and 'Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition' at No7, while out of the 24 PSP games released, 5 are new IP. Non-PSP new releases are eclipsed by the dominance of Sony's new console with Novalogic's 'Delta Force: Black Hawk Down' (new this week on XB and PS2) debuting at No1 in the Xbox Chart, but only reaching No15 in the All Formats Top 40. Microsoft's new RPG 'Dungeon Siege II' also suffers the same fate, reaching No1 in the PC Full Price Entertainment Chart, but only No33 in an All Formats Top 40 where half of the games are new PSP titles.

    • Re:Real info... (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Boogaroo ( 604901 )
      The number one game in the UK before Ridge Racer(PSP) was Brian Lara International Cricket 2005?! No fucking wonder it's a hit!

      I hear European gamers bitch and whine and moan about how things take forever to get over to them. When the latest and greatest is out for six months to a year before you can touch it, it creates pent up demand.

      I'm not making a comment on one system versus another here. I'm just trying to say that people in Europe are a completely different market from the US. They've been itching t

  • Cool :) (Score:4, Interesting)

    by MaestroSartori ( 146297 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:16AM (#13498050) Homepage
    Disclaimer - I work for Sony :)

    The only longer-term UK figures I can find for DS say that they sold "over 200,000" units in the first six weeks. So it looks like the initial surge of sales is definitely in the PSP's favour. Whether this momentum will continue remains to be seen, but it's still an impressive launch.

    Just wish I could afford one myself :(

  • Dead Pixels (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:17AM (#13498053)
    Four of my friends bought PSPs. Only one of them got a perfect PSP, the other three got dead pixels.

    Whats annoying them is that they are getting conflicting information as to returning.

    #1 Returned with no problem. Had another dead pixel got it returned again. Third is ok.

    #2 Two dead pixels. Told by shop that they are allowed sell them with a certain amount of dead pixels. Refusing to replace.

    #3 same as previous friend except they would exchange if more dead pixels appeared. (same shop).

    • Re:Dead Pixels (Score:4, Informative)

      by FrostedWheat ( 172733 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:43AM (#13498136)
      I find it funny how Sony are trying to soften the problem by calling them 'stuck pixels' rather than dead.

      Almost like you could give 'em a little nudge and they'd start working again!

      • Re:Dead Pixels (Score:5, Informative)

        by Troed ( 102527 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @06:52AM (#13498390) Homepage Journal
        Almost like you could give 'em a little nudge and they'd start working again!

        Well. You can. [engadget.com]

      • Re:Dead Pixels (Score:2, Informative)

        by TyrionEagle ( 458561 )
        Well a dead pixel shows up as black, but a stuck pixel stays turned on, red, green or blue. So there is a difference.
      • "I find it funny how Sony are trying to soften the problem by calling them 'stuck pixels' rather than dead. Almost like you could give 'em a little nudge and they'd start working again!"

        They're not dead, they're... stunned. Those PSP pixels stun easily. Give 'et a rest and it will come right back! Remarkable things, those PSP pixels. Beautiful colors!

    • Try the Sale Of Goods Act (Score:5, Informative)

      by Silver Sloth ( 770927 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:54AM (#13498167)

      Tell friends #2 and #3 to go back to the shop and discuss the Sale Of Goods Act with regards to Merchandising Quality. Tell the shop that they're not allowed sell them with a certain amount of dead pixels by law. That normally makes them think again. If it doesn't try Citizens Advice or even a solicitor.

      If enough people do this then shoddy salesmen will get the message

      • Yes, that's true, but the allowed number is 7 dead pixels, or 3 in a cluster.

        So that arguement wouldn't work, although in my view 1 dead pixel should be enough to warrant a return.

      • Re:Try the Sale Of Goods Act (Score:5, Informative)

        by Richard_at_work ( 517087 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @06:23AM (#13498277)
        But, they are allowed to sell them with a certain amount of dead pixels by law. The Sales of Goods Act has no bearing on this matter, if the type of TFT display used is Class II (and most consumer items are), then you are allowed a certain number of dead pixels per inch of screen space as that is what is laid down in the TFT standards and that standard is the level of quality that the law will extend to. One or two dead pixels do not render the unit unusable.
        • they are allowed to sell them with a certain amount of dead pixels by law

          No they are not! That is not what the law says. Shops may claim otherwise, but that is all they are claim. They have absolutely no right remove consumers statutory rights.

          Departments of Trade and Industry Guide lines on Sale of Goods Act [dti.gov.uk]

          Wherever goods are bought they must "conform to contract". This means they must be as described, fit for purpose and f satisfactory quality (i.e. not inherently faulty at the time of sale).
          • And as was pointed out elsewhere if you buy online or by mail-order you are covered by distance selling regs and may just decide you don't want the goods and return them for a full refund. You don't have to give a reason but you do have to pay postage and I think you have two weeks to do this from receiving the items(s) but I may be wrong there.

            You are of course supposed to return things in the original packaging and in saleable condition but I can't see a retailer getting away with calling a device unsale

            • I think you have two weeks to do this from receiving the items(s) but I may be wrong there.
              I was wrong, the cooling off period is seven working days. Some companies may allow a little longer for good custoemr relations but they don't have to.
          • Yes, they are. THe law that you quoted backs me up as the device in question is a Class II TFT screen - you cannot expect perfection on a device that is already presented as not guaranteed to be perfect, so the screen would conform to contract and meet the rest of the criteria under the Sales of Goods act so long as the dead pixel count conforms to the Class II criteria. This is what a reasonable person would consider satisfactory. You cannot expect goods to conform to higher standards than they are sol

    • They have 'statutory rights' which are legal rights and despite what many shops claim they cannot vary those rights.

      They should tell the shop that unless the shop fullfils its statutory obligation they will Inform the local trading standards dept and local newspaper.

      Everybody should also pay for expensive goods with a credit card because the credit card company is 'jointly and seperatly responsible' under the law. If the shop refuses to exchange the goods you leave the goods in the store and charge it back

    • What you meant to say was Dead Battery (Score:4, Informative)

      by cgenman ( 325138 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @08:32AM (#13498995) Homepage
      I heard this from a helpful EB employee.

      Bring the thing back, and say it has battery problems. A: They'll be required to return it, as battery problems are a valid reason to exchange a PSP, and B: It takes too bloody long to test, so nobody tests them.

      I don't think anyone is happy selling a substandard screen, especially not with the hype around how super the screen is. Just tell the people at the store that the battery doesn't hold a charge, and that you'd like another one. Try to get one you can test first "just to make sure." Used PSP's are great for this, if the store has any.

  • Firm feet? (Score:4, Funny)

    by rxmd ( 205533 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:17AM (#13498054) Homepage
    Does this solidify Sony's position in the handheld market with a firm foot in the door?
    Hmm... maybe with a firm thumb in the door...

  • Shipped or sold? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by lwells-au ( 548448 ) <lwells AT bigpond DOT net DOT au> on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:19AM (#13498061)

    Are those figures for actual sales to end customers? According to this [findarticles.com]1UP article, Sony has an interesting sales counting methodology:

    "As a rule, Sony prefers to release "sell-in" figures, or "units shipped" figures -- for instance, it recently announced that it "shipped" 70 million PlayStation 2s worldwide. What that means is that retailers have ordered and received 70 million PS2s, not that consumers have bought 70 million PS2s. Many of those 70 million PS2s have already been bought by consumers, and all of them may eventually be bought, but for now, the "shipped" figure is more impressive."

    And also...

    "Sony is going against type here. Though it's rounding off its sales figures, at least it is releasing genuine sales figures, a practice to which it is generally averse."

    • Re:Shipped or sold? (Score:2, Informative)

      by wario78 ( 572319 )

      The BBC says [bbc.co.uk] it's how many have been sold, not how many have been shipped. Apparently the figures don't come from Sony, but from Chart-Track [chart-track.co.uk], who are the official stats providers for this sort of thing.

      Gavin

  • As a DS owner (Score:4, Interesting)

    by rishistar ( 662278 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:19AM (#13498064) Homepage
    I like my DS and everyone I've shown it to has been impressed by it and enthusiastic about it (even my girlfriend bought one!)...but what my (non-gaming) friends have been talking about is the PSP, and in salivating in the same way my Apple friends were pre ipod launch. It also helps that at launch they have a wider (though not necc. better!) range of games than the DS has after 6 months here. If it wasn't for importing certain items I'd be less enthusiastic about the DS than I am. That will be sorted out by the end of November.

  • With that screen (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:27AM (#13498081)
    we all know the reason the Brits love it is that it's great for perving on pr0n in the dunny.
    • we all know the reason the Brits love it is that it's great for perving on pr0n in the dunny.

      Yeah, like the Brits are unique in that respect.

      I bet the Australian model has little corks attached to the sides to scare off the flies in the "dunny".
    • But its a bit big to hold one handed.

      That makes it difficult to hold the PSP at the same time.

  • marevllous peice of hardware, but.......... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Dimble ThriceFoon ( 567451 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:30AM (#13498089)
    ......stop crippling it! The day Sony releases a firmware update allowing MP4 video playback from Sony memorystick i WILL buy one, until that day.............. maybe. I don't like buying deliberately crippled hardware, leaves a bad taste in ones mouth. It would be worth Sony's while, because i would even buy one of their hideously expensive 1GB Memorystick Pro's. Sort it out Sony.
    • You can playback mp4's from memory stick - just not at full resolution. you have to play back at reduced resolution (which you can then stretch to full screen if you so wish).

      Probably an attempt to a) mitigate piracy on the console by reducing the ability to playback off MSduos (though if you want to pirate a dvd, you'd watch it on something bigger than a psp surely?) and b) Persuade people to buy more UMD movies.

      Personally, I don't care too much if isn't at a huge resolution - the screen is tiny anyway -
    • Troll! My UK PSP will happily play MPEG-4 video from it's memory stick (2.0 firmware). Not sure if it supports H.264 encoded MP4 files though.

  • That's nice, but (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Willeh ( 768540 ) * <rwillem@xs4all.nl> on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:30AM (#13498090)
    What about all the markets where they sold less than the DS? Ie, most everywhere in the world. Ridge Racer seems to deserve it though, it's quite a good game. Overall i'd say the PSP launch line-up is better than that of the DS. It doesn't hurt that the line-up was padded with UMD's, even though they're (IMO) overpriced, even moreso if you take the freeware video converters into account.

    Disclaimer: I own every modern console, and alot of older stuff too. I couldn't care less about sales figures, but thought this point was saillant enough to make.

  • The next question is why (Score:3, Informative)

    by DrXym ( 126579 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:34AM (#13498103)
    HMV, Virgin and the other stores are gouging the early adopters. The console, games and UMDs are selling at rip off prices. In the ROI, games typically cost 50 euros but I've seen them as high as 55. The crappy movie titles are selling for 30(!) euros on UMD when they're in the DVD bargain bin for 8.

    I was actually looking forward to the European release since I already own a PSP (a US one), bought for a reasonable price. I don't care about the movies (since I can make them myself from my DVD collection and region encoding mean they don't work) but I was looking forward to being able to buy games locally. I don't think I'll bother for a while - what's the point when I get the same game sent all the way from Honky Kong from Lik-Sang.com and still pay less, even if I did get caught for the duty?

    Why would anyone be so eager to buy a PSP in this climate? I realise the PSP is a great console, but to be honest most of the current titles are pretty meh. Lumines is great but most of the others are so-so. I'm looking forward to seeing what GTA & PES looks like when they appear on the PSP but they're at least a month or two away.

    The same goes for the XBox 360 BTW in case you think I'm rooting for that. Assuming it appears this side of Christmas, you just know early adopters are going to be raped for their zeal. In return they'll be rewarded with an overpriced box and a handful of games.

    • Err, did you just move from the US, perhaps? They've always done this. Part of it is tax (at 17.5%), but mostly they're just being evil money grabbing...

      *takes a deep breath*

      Oh, and that's not just launch prices. 50-55 Euros for a PSP game is around what I'd expect, given the prices of games for other consoles.

      Particularly interesting (given that many people in the US seem to be complaining how expensive it is) is that the XBox 360 will be one of the cheapest console releases in the UK, ever. At only 220 UK

      • Re:The next question is why (Score:4, Informative)

        by DrXym ( 126579 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @06:20AM (#13498263)
        No I was in the US for a holiday. It has nothing to do with VAT. The RRP in the UK is £179 which ex VAT is £152 which converts to $280. You can get a PSP in the US for $230. Even if you slap on a bit of sales tax - say 10% or $23 it is still nearly $40 cheaper in the US.

        As for the price of PSP games... Nintendo DS games are 5-10 euros less. I don't see why PSP games should cost any more - especially when PSP games sell for $40-50, and UMDs from $15-25 in the US.

        There is no accounting for discrepancy except that Sony and the stores are in gouge mode right now. They know some people have been fed so much hype that they'll rush out to buy a PSP even when there is precious little reason to do so. It's not going to disappear overnight, titles are going to increase and prices are only going to come down, so such behaviour to "get it first" just mystifies me.

  • A couple of clarifying points. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by iainl ( 136759 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:36AM (#13498109)
    Firstly, in case anyone hasn't read that fine article, this is UK sales, not Euro-wide, worldwide or whatever.

    But my main point is that they're so impressed with their stuffing of the software charts. Frankly, there's such a massive games drought here in the UK at the moment that I'm almost surprised it wasn't even more 'impressive'; they've got nothing to compete with.

    Just as an example, the UK's biggest selling DS title (which people are always desperate to compare the PSP to) is Mario 64. Yes, a launch game. We don't have Nintendogs yet, nor Advance Wars. The last big PC game was Battlefield 2 months ago, and there's been nothing on PS2 worthwhile since God Of War. This was the 'Full Price' chart, so the budget release of the new update to Ghost Recon 2 on the XBox doesn't count, either.

  • i know why i would buy one... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by BubbleSparkxx ( 879715 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:38AM (#13498120)
    when the PSP was release here stateside - there was very little reason to purchase one - the launch games were mediocre and the hardware price was twice its nearest competitor.

    fast forward to today, the game selection is much better and the movie support has been surprising as well. but thats not the true reason if i did purchase one.

    its the availablity of homebrews. that and the huge amounts of pirated software thats available for it. its the same reason why the xbox sold well with the "computer power users"

    300 bucks is easy to swallow if you know games can be gotten free....
    • 300 bucks is easy to swallow if you know games can be gotten free

      300 bucks is still quite hard to swallow if they give it to you in pennies.
    • its the availablity of homebrews. that and the huge amounts of pirated software thats available for it. its the same reason why the xbox sold well with the "computer power users"
      You can't play homebrew on the 2.0 machines being sold in Eu.

      That's what stopping me from updating my 1.0. (I even considered buying a new PSP just to play the latest games on. In Japan they are pretty damned cheap compared to here.)
    • My problem is, and continues to be, that the PSP is a tool. It is supposed to play games, movies, and I suppose allow me to do a few other things with some add-ons.

      With that in mind, 300 bucks is WAAAAYYY too much to pay for a tool. I would tolerate 100 bucks, and don't plan to buy one until the price is right.

  • You know... (Score:3, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @05:42AM (#13498135)
    It's nice for PSP owners since it somehow justifies their purchase (in bizarro fanboy land where they compare the sony's and Big-N's stock quotes instead of the quality and playability of games (no matter which system)).

    I think PSP still is no competition for DS because it seems to be still necessary to throw 14-year-old-biased-games.slashdot.org-shit at the other handheld in the same article. Even though the other handheld obviously wasn't purchased by the submitter.

    I mean what's the point of having games.slashdot.org when this childish crap still makes it to the front? And why are the articles passed by ScuttleMonkey always reading like Fud'ed-Yellow-Press-buzzword-shit?

    Thank god, I never bothered to subscribe and pay money for this.

  • The reason why (Score:5, Informative)

    by fussili ( 720463 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @06:31AM (#13498315)
    Have you SEEN our DS gameslist?

    Once again, the UK gets shafted by Nintendo and 3rd party publishers and has to wait months to get the games which people in the US enjoy.

    The DS ran away with the lead in the US because it had a damn good lineup of games (right now both Nintendogs and Advance Wars DS are selling strong). Here in the UK we haven't even had Meteos.

    All we're enjoying is a lengthy break before the killer apps get here and I've got to say it doth royally suck. The PSP's launch titles in the US were better than the DS but in subsequent months the DS got its excellent games into circulation and started to pick up momentum.

    What we're seeing in the UK is what happens when licensing and bureaucratic publishing houses delay the launch of games in Europe months after their release in the US. It's not normally noticeable for the companies concerned but at a time like this it's the games released soon after launch that are critical to a console's success.

    I'm a mac user so I'm kind of used to being treated like a 2nd class citizen for gaming (except for games produced by ID and Blizzard) but if Nintendo would like to know why their arguably superior system with its stellar lineup in the US is getting pounded here, they might want to look at the utter disgrace that passes for cross-continental licensing and distribution.

    (The author is currently sitting on his ass waiting for Advance Wars DS, Nintendogs, Meteos and a variety of other games already out in the US to be released in the UK)
  • ...the kids need something to watch all the movies they download on.

  • Does this solidify Sony's position? (Score:4, Informative)

    by Pingsmoth ( 249222 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @06:33AM (#13498330) Homepage
    No, I don't think so [codepoetsolutions.com].

  • PSP sounds better than DS on paper. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by master_p ( 608214 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @06:36AM (#13498339)
    The PSP is more 'lickable' than DS: the promise of better graphics, movies everywhere, superior sound, hackable etc make it a better choice.

    That's irrelevant though to the fact that DS games are more fun, simply because Nintendo is better at making games.
    • Yeah, but the DS will actually respond if you lick it ;)
    • DS games are more fun

      debatable... but look at what is coming for the PSP in the next 2 months:

      09/13 : Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children
      09/13 : Burnout Legends
      10/01 : Ghost in the Shell
      10/01 : Legend of Heroes
      10/24 : Grand Theft Auto - Liberty City Stories
      11/15 : Metal Gear Acid 2
      11/15 : Street Fighter
      11/21 : Need For Speed - Most Wanted

      Now, it sucks that it's taken this long to get that kind of line-up, but now there is.
      And what does the DS have again... Nintendogs?

  • I tried to find the PSP on Sony's Dutch website. That didn't even have a link or anything about it on the homepage. So I clicked Playstation. From there I could click on the PSP weblink, and had to wait forever for the website to load,just to be able to click my language of choice. And then I again had to wait forever for the website to load (I have a 1 Mb/s broadband connection).

    When will those stupid marketing people understand that I want information, not a shitload of crappy graphics and forever load ti

  • From a Sony fanboi (Score:3, Informative)

    by avik42 ( 889644 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @09:47AM (#13499721)
    Well I have been often teased as such by my friends. I live in Canada and mostly, I tend to buy Sony because they have this Macish (making up words here hope it make sense) style to them. Very slick, very intiutive.

    So, of course being a geek at heart, I went to buy a handheld. And after a bit of deliberation between DS and PSP, I was blown away by the PSP graphics and bought it. This is in the early days of PSP, when it was still hot off the press and very few people actually knew anything constructing about it and much about it was speculations.

    So why am I feeling ripped off and let down:

    1) since release of PSP, I have Hotshot Golf (ps1 caliber game at best.. but fun to play for a bit), Untold Legend (yet another ps1 caliber game completely linear, idiotically simple), Need for Speed (this existed in the arcade from my 2nd year university days) and Dynesty Warriors (ps2 game, choppy as hell, most frustrating).

    So where are the GAMES??? I think there is 3 or 4 game available that I couldn't get myself to spend the money on. I think I have wasted enough on the crap I already bought. Why is a Sony game device released with out any RPG??? Hello, Finaly Fantasy?? NO I don't want to be a fucken ghost and walk around town.

    2) What's with the crippled hardware??? WHY the hell would Sony do this?? Well I know why, because they want to code up the UMD for their god aweful movies that they are releasing all over the world with their fancy DRM. Anyone with more than 1 brain cell would realize that these movies are low quality in graphics and in sound and COSTS more than an actual DVD. And why make this cheap excuses for DVDs so bloody expensive?? DRM cost?? Why bother?? Who in their right mind will rip these crappy videos when they can do they can do ACTUAL DVDs?? Why region code in the first place?? it's a bloody hand held... Some corporate weenie needs to be smacked them hung from his/her finger nails (or made to live his/her mother-in-law for an year).

    3) Where are my bloody games?? I think I said that already.. Why is every bloody update designed to cripple my PSP even more??

    I know DRM is here to stay and it's the corporate mantra for salvation. I am just feeling tired of geting ripped off no apparent reason and paying good money for it (other than corporate greed and exclusivness).

  • Media (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Rydia ( 556444 ) on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @10:22AM (#13500122)
    This all ignores a real problem- that sources (such as News Corp's rag) had been. for a long while, actively whoring the psp and deriding the ds. In one cares there was a "comparison" when the psp wasn't out in *any* market.

    Unsurprisingly, I believe the psp got a 9 or somesuch.

    Then again, this IS the land of Edge....

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