European Date and Price for PSP

[Zerimski]

1st of September, £179 for the "value pack".

www.yourpsp.com

 

[lePobz]

Cool, so I got mine 9 months early then

Paid £120 extra for the privilege but what the hell, it was worth it... :imu:

I hope GT4 Mobile comes out soon, it looks awesome!

 

[NikolaX]

to long to whait

 

[kupocake]

Perhaps some interesting games will have emerged by then...

 

[rAdIOhEaD]

When in comes to consoles, poor Europeans always get screwed, it is sad you are getting the PSP almost a year after Japanese release. This is a sign of things to come, don’t wait for Playstation 3 (if you are planning on getting one, that is) until a full year later or more than the Japanese/American release, Late 2007 I would say. Every time Sony releases a new console, the release is more chaotic than the previous one. I am with you on this Euro people, the big companies should have for respect for your market.

 

[mortiz]

When in comes to consoles, poor Europeans always get screwed, it is sad you are getting the PSP almost a year after Japanese release. This is a sign of things to come, don’t wait for Playstation 3 (if you are planning on getting one, that is) until a full year later or more than the Japanese/American release, Late 2007 I would say. Every time Sony releases a new console, the release is more chaotic than the previous one. I am with you on this Euro people, the big companies should have for respect for your market.

It's not just that they don't have respect, remember there are localization and the PAL issues to deal with when they're translating consoles over to the European market. Both Japan and the US use NTSC. That doesn't just go for the consoles, the game developers also have to translate their games into PAL as well as the many different languages throughout Europe.

 

[kupocake]

PAL / NTSC simply doesn't apply to handheld consoles. Hell knows why it applies at all anyway: the vast majority of European TVs support a 50Hz NTSC mode anyway. That leaves the languages, and from the perspective of someone living in the UK, we can be understandably sour. Unless PSP games require a full half-years work to change "Color" to "Colour".

 

[rAdIOhEaD]

It's not just that they don't have respect, remember there are localization and the PAL issues to deal with when they're translating consoles over to the European market. Both Japan and the US use NTSC. That doesn't just go for the consoles, the game developers also have to translate their games into PAL as well as the many different languages throughout Europe.

Pal is lame excuse they gave you to release consoles and games later than in Japan/America, handhelds don`t need to be converted, Europeans will ge the exact hardware that Japanese/American people have right now.

 

[mortiz]

Pal is lame excuse they gave you to release consoles and games later than in Japan/America, handhelds don`t need to be converted, Europeans will ge the exact hardware that Japanese/American people have right now.

I wasn't speaking about handhelds in particular, I was speaking in general. They probably want to get all of the European versions of the consoles out at the same time, I doubt they really want to separate out release dates with the English speaking of portion of Europe getting the console before the rest and having two separate launch dates.

I know my TV doesn't support NTSC.

I know it sucks, but it's not like the European market isn't worth their time, it could make up a large percentage of their profits.

 

[Sir Phoenixx]

Unless PSP games require a full half-years work to change "Color" to "Colour".

Last time I checked, English wasn't the only major language spoken in Europe. They'd have to convert eveything in the PSP and manuals/packaging, and they also have to go through and change everything in all of the starting games to german/french/italian/spanish/etc. (and make some spelling changes for the English versions).