Sony Releases New PlayStation Portable

24 Mar, 2005 at 11:12pm ET Article published in Tech

First “Star Wars” movies, then Harry Potter books. Now, Sony Corp’s new PlayStation Portable is getting the midnight-release treatment reserved for the most hyped of pop culture products.

What remains to be seen is whether the handheld entertainment system can live up to consumer expectations — and whether Sony has manufactured enough to meet demand.

Sony had stocked North American retailers with 1 million units for Thursday’s launch, and many stores scheduled midnight hours to meet demand from gamers, the company said Wednesday.

Sony hopes the sleek, portable system — which allows users to play games, view movies and pictures and listen to digital audio — will transcend the traditional young, male gaming demographic.

Both storefront and online retailers have taken pre-orders for the system since it was announced in September. And Sony has sold more than 1.2 million units in Japan since the system’s launch there on Dec. 12.

Source: Yahoo

Comments

25 Mar 2005 ~ 1:18am jared Gotta love Sony's Dead Pixel Policy! Oh wait they don't have one! You could recieve a new unit with 20 dead pixels and you are just screwed.
25 Mar 2005 ~ 3:59am RWB

jared wrote:

Gotta love Sony's Dead Pixel Policy! Oh wait they don't have one! You could recieve a new unit with 20 dead pixels and you are just screwed.

That's very unlikely as LCD's have gotten much better in quality even the cheap crappy ones.
25 Mar 2005 ~ 8:23pm profdlp I think this has been out in Japan for some time already. Unless I'm confusing it with something else my Niece's husband has one. If I'm right, I can tell you that this thing is very, very cool.
25 Mar 2005 ~ 8:31pm primesuspect I saw a huge display with like 50 of them at CostCo today. NOBODY was buying them. Nobody was even looking at them. For such a hyped product, this was a pretty ho hum reception.
25 Mar 2005 ~ 8:54pm Armo if they release the original FF7 for it, ill be foreced to get one.

real FF7, not that advent children junk
25 Mar 2005 ~ 9:24pm gibbonsl

Armo wrote:

if they release the original FF7 for it, ill be foreced to get one.

real FF7, not that advent children junk

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