PSP Priced!

I'm expecting £200.

Consoles have a habit of being $=£. $200, £200. Simple.

I've stated my position way too many times now. I will wait for the next Game Boy, ta.

Yeah, when the EX was around £1 = $1.5. Now it's nearer £1 = $2, so if they released it at £200 it would be cheaper to import it (Region-free, nice!) from the US.

You don't pay for drugs, so you must either:

1. Be at the debutante stage where your dealer is still trying to get you hooked.
2. Be in a band.
3. Have rich friends who DO pay for your drugs.
4. Not do drugs.

Hyperdictionary should have a picture of that under the definition of "guilding the lily".

Or he only takes Magic Mushrooms. Gack.

Wah? But I have to get that skin so it fits in with all my other electrical goods. My lounge by candle-light is something to behold :-)

There's no MUST about it. You could easily get away with a MemStick of half or quarter gig - depends on how much music you want and how often you want to recycle the tracks.


Of course you wouldn't! Given a choice, who would sit at home watching movies on their PSP? But then, you can't watch movie on a HQ TV while sat on a train or airplane...

Sony has stated that their intended market is not the game boy crowd but rather the older crowd who actually has some money to spend on techy toys, i.e. the ipod crowd. Well... they own ipods... and the thought of spending a fortune on a psp and then paying extra for sony brand memory sticks is rediculous. especially since a 1 gig memory stick does indeed cost around 100 bucks and a 20gig ipod costs 300, its a pretty big descrepency... plus the user interface for mp3 play back is probably no where near as nice as it is on an ipod.




but again anyone who actually spends that much time on a train/plain/automobile (sorry i had to) and watches that many movies already owns portable dvd player... or perhaps... A LAPTOP (i still refuse to call them note books, i dont know when that happened but i dont like it, unnecesary change). any buisness traveler who is goign to spend obnoxious amounts of time on planes is very capable of watching their movies (the ones they already own on DVD) on their laptop without purchasing new tiny versions with less special features. (and for me sitting bored stiff on an air plane woudl be the perfect time to watch all those extra hours of spcial features)

Im not saying its not a cool idea... im just saying this thing will live or die almost entirly on its games... the ability to play mp3's and movies is so unimportant i woudlnt even call in secondary... perhaps Tertiary (spelling?), or something sub that... if it exists.

Sure - if you own an iPod there really is no point in using ht ePSP for music. I personally don't have a need for an iPod - I drive to work and only occassionally travel on business. I have a little 256Mb MSI MP3/voice recorder which I've found ample for travelling. No, I'd happily dump that for a PSP with stick same storage ($40) and a couple of games to play.

Anyhoo... no need for Sony branded Sticks. You can get other brands now - we've got a 1Gb Sandisk on the way for the office PSP.



LOL. Does anything have a UI as nice as a Apple alternative?



Sure. I'm with you 100% there. If you've already got a laptop, you won't want another bit of kit to lug around. But if you don't have one or need to take one on your travels, it'd be lovely to have a handy bit of kit that does music, video and games. A PSP will sure be useful for the next time I travel with my daughter, and the in-flight movie are crap...

BTW - you really have been hitting the spelling checker - spot on with the "tertiary" :)

Lets face it, The UMD movies and MP3 player is the Sony strategy to catch incautious people, its like the apple in the adan and eve story, if you bite the hook then sony will win. I am not sayng that this aplication are useless, it is just that Sony didnt work in a responsible offer, they just tell you that PSP can run MP3 and UMD movies, but they dont tell you all the other requirements the PSP need in order to run these aplications. In the rush of giving a hook to videoplayers they finished giving us a mediocre offer.(memory sticks are expensive)

when you bought the ticket for an airplain travel, then you think : "I am going to buy a UMD for this travel, how much will it cost?" Then in your next trip youll say: "ok ill buy another UMD movie". If i have a lot of money thats fine with me, but this is not the way most of the people think.

No, I'll be thinking "I'll put that ripped movie from my DVD collection on the memory stick".

Full length movies at good quality come in around the 700Mb mark (depending on running time, of course)
With the PSP screen being relatively low res, upping the compression might see two movies on a 1Gb stick. Dunno. Will have a play when the gig stick turns up.

Oh, they're not so bad, if you brew them into a "nice cuppa tea" rather than necking them like chewy s**te-flavoured crisps.

...or that's what I've heard.

Do you, like all the cool kids, have a Laserpod yet?

See it here.

i have also "HEARD" that if they are diced up real itty bitty in a chopper and then mixed in choclate and formed into candies that you don't get any of the s**te taste... so i've heard.

I would have joined in the discussion, but that GBA Classics ad wouldn't go away...

Those pirates love them ripped onto just one CD ;-)

I have recently discovered that I need to hint a lot more, in the build up to future xmas'

>:-(

I gave up hinting years ago. "Buy me one of these" I say now. Do I get what I want? Do I fudge!

eBay your useless pressies and buy what you want in January. It's the only way to fly. Tell your mother that your socks didn't fit and you got them replaced with a crossbow at the local M&S. Works every time!

Well, much as I hate to bring this thread back on topic. It appears that Amazon are no longer listing the PSP. At least not on the UK site.

Maybe we scared them away! :-)

Based on Sony's reasonable and measured response when we speculated on the price of PSP, I'm guessing that maybe they had a word with Amazon.