PSP japanese launch date and price is out

[SilverBolt]

The price of the PSP is going to be 20790 yen which is approxamitly 150 euro's/ 170 ish dollars and will be launched on the 12th of december.

Here are the accesoiures and prices:

Memory Stick Duo (Product Code PSP-M32): Yen 2.800 (Euro 21)
32MB, 20mm (L) x 1,6mm (H) x 31mm (B), Gewicht: ca. 2g
AC Adapter (PSP-100): Yen 3.500 (Euro 26)
76mm (L) x 22mm (H) x 46mm (B) Gewicht: ca. 44g
Battery Pack (PSP-110): Yen 4.800 (Euro 35)
52mm (L) x 12,5mm (H) x 36mm (B) Gewicht: ca. 44g
Koptelefoon met afstandsbediening (PSP-140(W)): Yen 2.800 (Euro 21)
Wit, in-ear
Soft case and hand strap (PSP-170(B)): Yen 2.000 (Euro 15)

21 launch games:

BANDAI:
Lumines (Music & Luminary Action Puzzle)
The legend of heroes Gagharvtrilogy White Witch (Role Playing Game)

CAPCOM:
VAMPIRE CHRONICLE The Chaos Tower (Fighting)

CyberFront Corporation:
KOLLON (Puzzle Action)

Electronic Arts:
Need for Speed Underground Rivals -Working Title- (Race)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour -Working Title- (Golf)

FromSoftware:
Armored Core Formula Front (Mech Customizing Simulation)

HUDSON SOFT CO.:
RENGOKU: The Tower of Purgatory (Action Role Playing Game)

KOEI:
Dynasty Warriors (Action)
Mahjong -Working Title- (Table)

Konami Computer Entertainment Japan:
Metal Gear Acid (ACID)
Mah-Jong Club (Board Game)

Marvelous Interactive Inc:
AI Go (Board Game Master)
AI Mah-Jong (Board Game Master)
AI Shogi (Board Game Master)

NAMCO:
Kotoba no puzzle mojipittan daijiten (PUZZLE)
RIDGE RACERS (RACE)

Sega Corporation:
Puyo Pop Fever (Puzzle)

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.:
Dokodemo Issyo (Misc.)
Hot Shots Golf (Sports, Golf)

TAIto:
Puzzle Bobble Pocket (Puzzle)

And for 180 euro's you can buy a starter pack containing:



PSP
AC adapter
Battery pack
memory stick 32mb
headphone with remote control
carry case

I must say i'm amazed at the price, i might even be tempted to cancel my DS pre-order and buy a PSP starter pack

[cos2k3]

Quite a sollid games support for the launch,
BTW does anyone know the battery life on PSP yet?
The price is lower than i expected, but im not holding my breath on the UK price being so low!

[Kron]

Its a shame none of the launch titles interest me or I'd probably buy one as soon as possible.

[Evangelion-01]

damn... nice going.... is it region protected?

[Chief Chujo]

Dont forget,

Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/games/psp/ccff7/

Compilation of FF7 for the PSP.

:smt082

That's a nice price as well.

[Funkstar De Luxe]

Cool, cheap as chips!

[Greatsaintlouis]

Well now, this is a nice surprise, lower than all of us naysayers said! There's nothing there yet that would make me forego my DS order, although I remain interested in seeing how well the Vampire Chronicle and Dynasty Warriors are pulled off.

No Death Jr. for Japan though? I wonder if it will be a strictly US-only release?

[adam-james]

nice price!
Grrr, liksang have not updated their site yet with the pack... im gonna get puyo puyo and Vampire Chronicles as well... can't wait!

:o)

[Alchy]

Uh... link?

[PrOfUnD Darkness]

The hype has started!!

[SuperGrafx]

Its a shame none of the launch titles interest me or I'd probably buy one as soon as possible.

I also feel that way.
I'm also not that crazy about the size of the unit...reminds me too much of an Atari Lynx.

[Chief Chujo]

I'm also not that crazy about the size of the unit...reminds me too much of an Atari Lynx.

It's like a cm longer then the original GBA. It's just that freaking awesome screen makes it look Nomad/Lynx/GG size. It's pretty amazing considering everything that's packed in there(UMD drive, that screen etc).

PSP dimensions
length - 170 mm
width - 74 mm
height - 23 mm

And just for comparison,

DS dimensions
length - 148.7 mm
width - 84.7 mm
height - 28.9 mm

(Dimensions taken from)
http://ds.ign.com/articles/549/549922p1.html
http://psp.ign.com/articles/513/513175p1.html

[Tachikoma]

With those prices you can already see Sony's stock price plummet with such an obvious Price-vs-Cost differential.

[Joen]

Quite a sollid games support for the launch,
BTW does anyone know the battery life on PSP yet?
The price is lower than i expected, but im not holding my breath on the UK price being so low!

I've read that the battery life will be 4 to 6 hours when playing games and 4 to 5 hours when watching a movie.

[AntiPasta]

Quite a sollid games support for the launch,
BTW does anyone know the battery life on PSP yet?
The price is lower than i expected, but im not holding my breath on the UK price being so low!

I've read that the battery life will be 4 to 6 hours when playing games and 4 to 5 hours when watching a movie.

From what I heard, the difference in battery life is greater between playing games and watching movies... which kind of makes sense as the disc has to spin constantly. I wonder what the battery life is for playing music... I sure hope it'll be a lot better as music can be played from the Memory Stick (a solid-state device), I hope you can turn off the screen backlight (or the screen altogether) when playing music, a feature which is lacking on the GP32 (but then, its battery life is better)

BTW: Hi Joen, nice to see you posting again :-)
Are you the one that plunders the game section at the "Used Goods" store at the Hooigracht? ;-)

[Nintendomad]

Nintendo is absolutely shagged with this aggressive price by Sony, there is just no way the DS cab manage to have the same sort of success on it's pitifully old technology, I will buy a DS for mario 64 but I'm gonna buy myself a shiny new psp for xmas now that Sony has announced this amazing price point.Nintendo must be absolutely in a state of panic tonight.

[Paulo]

When does FF7 come out? That site has 2006 somewhere!?!

Anyways theres like one game that even interests me in that list. Let alone anything i would buy the thing for!

[wombat]

really good prices, now if only there was an UMD writer out there for the consumers... (so we could have emulators on the PSP... would mind playing some nifty megadrive on it)

[Nintendomad]

This was posted on another board by me in response to another board member.I have to clrify my position on this situation I think.

Board Member:
Seeing as you are Nintendo mad, Nintendomad you should remember the Gameboy vs Lynx/Game Gear.

Two of those machines were vastly superior technically.

END>

Nintendomad aka da man:

Yes but unfortunately we don't live in an age where Nintendo was almost synoymous with the word videogame, now the Playstation brand rules the roost and that's just life. I am still a huge fan of Nintendo but recently their business model is shit, they seem to make blooper after blooper , the whole online fiasco really pissed me off with the gamecube and so did the lack of truly great first party software from them in recent years for both their handheld's and home system's.

I hope they do continue in the industry as I love Ninty games but it does seem as they they are now making vast numbers of errors and misjudgements just like Sega did against a very powerful brand.(The Playstation.)

[cahaz]

well, im very impresed by the price, and i'm more and more intersted in it. but i don't think nintendo will have the kick-to-the-*ss of their lives (like when the psx arrived in the scene) . sure , they will loose points , but if they change as much as they look to, they will be able to do a great war.

the only tittles that really interest me are : Metal gear Acid (but.... its not made by kojima.) , Puyo Puyo Fever and Dinasty warrior ( but it will be the same as dynasty warrior 2 . dynasty warrior 3 , dynasty warrior 3 X-treme legends, dynasty warrior 4, dynasty warrior 4 X-treme legends, Dynasty warrior 4: Generals, And the other one (don't remember the tittle).... that's kinda repetitive)