Official PSP Thread

[max-pain]

Sony delays the PSP

Sony delays the PSP

Game Boy competitor, "Walkman of the 21st century" won't hit U.S. until 2005

http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/25/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm

 

[Megadrive1988]

PSP delayed to 2005. at least for the U.S.


http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/25/com...aming/index.htm

The battle between Sony's PSP and Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, which was shaping up to be one of the biggest clashes of the upcoming holiday season, has been pushed to next year.

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).

 

[max-pain]

Something technically wrong with this forum.

 

[max-pain]

test

 

[MfA]

Sometimes it takes a couple of extra post for the latest page to turn up ... you can always see the posts by letting it show newest first.

 

[Paul]

"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.

Well it's an acceptable reason IMO, atleast Sony is thinking about software.

Could also be good to work out any bugs in PSP hardware seen in the Japanese units.

 

[Qroach]

Well that's the same reason I don't think PS3 will launch in 2005. Software.

 

[Paul]

Don't even bring PS3 into this post, just delete your reply and I'll delete this one; we don't want this thread getting off-topic for pages.

It's been pretty clean so far..

Paul, please quit being such a cheerleader and just relax. Jeez!

Only I've seen such off-topic little one-liners(think, Chap) send relatively clean topics into hell, and you relax; because I'm not worked up.

 

[max-pain]

Sometimes it takes a couple of extra post for the latest page to turn up ... you can always see the posts by letting it show newest first.

In the meantime I figured out but thanks anyway

 

[Qroach]

Paul, please quit being such a cheerleader and just relax. Jeez!

 

[cthellis42]

Somewhat expected, especially if any of the proposed "feature-pulls" (a la PSX) had legs. They'd want to wait for the unit to be whole before launching in NA and Europe. Also stresses manufacturing less.

I don't think we'll see global launches from any party for a good long time--there doesn't seem to be much reason to hold back one major region (and the press and excitement they'll accrue by being out there) just to be able to launch in them all simultaneously. We'll probably see the launch timetables shortened, though.

 

[Qroach]

Agreed. I don't think any company out there is capable of a global launch when it comes to gaming systems. It's too difficult a task to manage. I said the same about PSP/PS3 in a discussion a few weeks back.

 

[ChryZ]

Paul, please quit being such a cheerleader and just relax. Jeez!

He was right, please keep PS3 out of this thread. Keep on topic or keep away.

 

[cthellis42]

I don't think it's "too difficult a task" but it certainly requires them to hold back areas to manage it... and I can't offhand see WHY they would want to hold some areas back, since they gain all sorts of benefits by getting a good-sized launch SOMEwhere first, and mainly what they'd gain from a global launch would be... uh... the somewhat added impact of launching globally. So while that would net them props for doing something that hasn't really been done before, it doesn't seem like it would in any way be BETTER than earlier impact, tracing early sales trends to measure demand for the other areas, getting to see some widespread playtesting done in case a technical problem crops up and can be fixed before launch elsewhere, earlier press impact, increase in demand and feeding import channels...

 

[MfA]

Dont forget getting the price down.

 

[Evil_Cloud]

At least we won't see anything like PS2's buggy launch titles.

 

[cthellis42]

Prices are always a matter of "how much is the company willing to sacrifice." Waiting in one market to launch globally would actually increase profits, as they'd be waiting longer to launch at a premium everywhere. (And if others came out in the meanwhile or launched earlier, they'd be able to work out the better price point.)

Launching globally does not necessitate running risk production to get everything available faster than normal. A company could do that, or it could do everything normally and just wait on some regions to launch everywhere simultaneously. Each method has different trade-offs, and neither really make more sense than a reasonable, staggered one.

 

[Dural]

Didn't see anyone post it yet, here is the first screen of a PSP game;

 

[V3]

Too early for April's fool isn't ?

EA really doing that ?

 

[Dural]

It was in the April issue of EGM, and they always have an April fools joke, so you be the judge.