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Industry News: PSP Launched |
by Guest 3/25/2005 |
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Source: Pro-G
GameStop, the largest videogame retailer in the US, has called the PSP launch a tremendous success. Many of the 1,800 GameStop stores opened at 12.01am on Thursday 24th March in order to let their customers get their hands on the PSP as soon as possible.
"GameStop was proud to be among the first retailers, at the stroke of midnight, to offer our customers the ability to purchase their PSP, along with all accessories and hot titles available at launch, during these midnight openings. We try to make these events a 'celebration,' and strive to ensure our customers are amongst the first to have the product. We believe that our buy-sell-trade program affords all of our customers the ability to own any system(s) and games that they desire the most," said Jack Beuttell, Senior Vice President Marketing and Merchandising. "Our successful launch proves that the market is ready for a state-of-the-art portable unit that, in its early stage, has even greater potential with the continuous availability of additional games, movies and accessories. We expect that sales of Sony's revolutionary new PSP system will continue to be strong throughout the year, and this system promises to be a great entertainment value for teens and adults alike."


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Dorky
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Success. Yea right. Look at the various gaming boards. If it were a success it would be fully sold out yet by the sounds of it, outside of a few major cities there are TONS of PSP stock left. My local Best Buy still has about 200 units left. Similar stories all over the city. Plus the usual Sony crappy quality is everpresent. I had to exchange my PSP TWICE thanks to dead pixels. Good job Sony on putting more dirt over your quality control rep. I bet they'll count the returns as units sold.
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The Last Bandicoot
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still sold more on opening day than xbox did u fool.
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Keeping it real folks, just doing my job.
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Grimlok
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PSP is having alot of issues w/dead pixels right now, it's all over the net and msg. boards. That's a major issue when you're spending $250 on a handheld plus another $50-100 for games/accessories. IMO, the thing is d@mn pretty, but for the price and issues, I'll pass. The launch games are dismal as well.
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obryanstars
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I'll wait a few months until they fix all the kinks and bugs. Until then, I'll get a good laugh at the people who bought it on launch day... Always wait a few months, these 1st generation things just always have issues.
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poptart
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I will pass altogether.I think I can get a better deal spending $250 on an xbox with Halo 2,Splinter cell CT and KOTOR.
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ThatOldGuy
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I'll probably get one in a few months. Playing games is one of the last things I think about when I think of it though. I think about all the other cool things it can do. It can play movies, songs, store pictures so it is perfect for my kids on trips and showing family pictures when I see relatives. If you look around the net you see people doing some pretty creative things with them too. They have figured out how to use it as a web browse and to view TIVO content. They have also figured out how to use other sorts of memory cards by using an adaptor Sony made for Ericson cell phones.
Dead pixels are certainly an issue but it will be fixed. I don't see how the DS can compete besides the pre teen market.
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BIG D
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I got mine at midnight from game stop and not having problems what so ever . As far as dead pixels goes thats a problem I have read in a article that they had on the units in japan not the us. PSP is a very nice unit far as I can see. I'm not a sony fanboy and I love my xbox but sony did come out with a nice hand held system hands down plus the (wi-fi) kicks butt.
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djkid4
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Yea I had to take mine back because of 2 dead pixels. Also, the ring on the back was coming off.. I still love it though....Nice peice of hardware... :-)
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mithrazor
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"Plus the usual Sony crappy quality is everpresent. I had to exchange my PSP TWICE thanks to dead pixels. Good job Sony on putting more dirt over your quality control rep. I bet they'll count the returns as units sold."
Dog, every LCD screen has dead pixles. Just wait about a three or four weeks for those the get warmed up. Cause mostly they're NOT dead pixles. Just unwarmed. After those weeks they should be back to normal. If not then exchange them back in.
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Grimlok
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It's been such a great success that you can go into any electronic store (best buy, circuit city, etc.) and find one w/out a problem. And when you do p/u the psp, be ready to get back into the car and return it for a new one because you have dead pixels! You're better off flushing $250 down the toilet IMO. Don't get me wrong, it's a great looking handheld, the best I've ever seen, but don't launch a half a$$ed machine when consumers are paying top dollar!
This same thing happened in Japan and Sony knew it was going to happen here. This is why I tend to stay away from any Sony products!
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This shit is going out in Game Gear style...
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Hey at least game gear had working screens
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PSP is sweet. I just hope they come out with one with the new micro 4gig hard drive. That sony stick duo crap sucks. Besides that it's a great Gameboy DS/ iPod killer or at the very least competitor.
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Xbox360 and PS3 in my future (sorry Nintendo)
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I personally will be getting a psp as well as keeping my ds. Noone can deny it’s a quality piece of kit, the ds. Although I will have to wait till September 1st to get my psp coz I’m in the uk. I mean come on Sony get your act together. Everything about the psp is rubbing me up the wrong way at the moment, the price of hardware, price of software, dead pixel, short battery life, the fact that Europe like America wont get the sharp screen like in japan and of course the fact that the psp will have been out in japan a whole year before its even released in Europe. I will probably even have to wait till 2006 to get one without dead pixels. All Sony has to do is send over from Japan some psps, there wouldn’t even be any problems with the umd film disks coz japans films are region 2 like Europe’s films. Oh yeah the ps3 looks like a fridge/freezer in my opinion
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