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    Default PSP Release Date and Price

    allegedly from PSM:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...er/PSPscan.jpg

    Basically three packages:

    $199 - PSP and 32 meg memory stick
    $299 - PSP and 64 meg memory stick + headphones + digital camera
    $349 - PSP and 256 meg memory stick + GPS attachment + chrome case

    A GPS attachment? Bundling with memory sticks? I dunno...

    [EDIT: made the title as clear as possible since this topic has been poste five times today! - Joe]

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    $199 for a PSP and a memory stick? I could live with that.

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    What magazine is this from?
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    PSM. Unofficial Playstation magazine. Not 100% trustworthy, but not totally unreliable.

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    Thanks.

    It looks like everyone was right about the prie point though. Who could of known that it would retail at 349 and 199?
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    And it's only in the hot lead section of their magazine. It's kind of like the "Rumor Mill" of EGM.
    Definately is unreliable, but who knows??

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    I'm still going to play the DS Fanboy here and say that Sony has yet to give me a reason to want a PSP - I think it's really going to boil down to if I like Wipeout Pure from a playtest - other than that I'm not as interested as I am in the DS.

    I'm not a Sony-Hater. I'm a huge fan of the PS family brand and all that goes with it - but in this portable war, we can't simply have portables with better graphics and handheld versions of console games - it's gotta do something cool, and I already have a digital camera and a dvd player - so what else ya got Sony? We're listening...

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    honestly, the supposed online plans for the DS with warp pipe are much more intriguing to me than the PSP, but for someone like me who only really wants a PS for one game (GT4), this is a much more intriguing prospect than having a whole other console around for one game.

    early reports made it sound like an AV out for connecting it to a TV was a definite possibilty as well, so for someone like me that has a passing interest in the system, this might be the way to go. i'm sure lots of arcadey stuff that never makes it to the PS2 on these shores will find it's way to the PSP as well...

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    Still not sold on the PSP.
    My Gaming Collection (Now at Google Drive!)

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    I like the idea of the GPS module, it's a shitload of money then for a handheld console, but if it could be a travelassistant also then it's a more intresting object. Hopefully then it will work with standard navigation software (stuff that's also on the PDA's)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaine23
    Still not sold on the PSP.
    Neither am i, I think i'll go for the DS first, although if the PSP turned out to be something special, i might brake out the cash! :P

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    If Sony can launch the PSP at $199, Nintendo will be pissing in their pants. PSP has the cool factor with the general public, something the Digital Press community likes to avoid thinking about ...

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    Yes.

    $199 and they're covered by their "proven track record" (disc games, I mean...we've yet to see about the PSP, but most people won't know until told that the PSP uses small discs, I'd imagine).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oobgarm
    PSM. Unofficial Playstation magazine. Not 100% trustworthy, but not totally unreliable.
    This appears to be a bogus Photoshopped mockup, as reflected by the tons of typos: "Playstation" instead of "PlayStation", "cant" instead of "can't", "conveniantly" instead of "conveniently", and on and on. If this actually saw print, PSM's proofreader is a drooling idiot (or a former IGN employee).

    -- Z.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zmweasel
    Quote Originally Posted by Oobgarm
    PSM. Unofficial Playstation magazine. Not 100% trustworthy, but not totally unreliable.
    This appears to be a bogus Photoshopped mockup, as reflected by the tons of typos: "Playstation" instead of "PlayStation", "cant" instead of "can't", "conveniantly" instead of "conveniently", and on and on. If this actually saw print, PSM's proofreader is a drooling idiot (or a former IGN employee).

    -- Z.
    I agree. I just read it and noticed the same things. Also, the title font seems "off" somehow, and is way too black compared with the faded look of the rest of the page. This is a total forgery IMHO. I also find it hard to believe that Sony would A: make a GPS attatchment for their PSP and B: sell it as a bundle. Remember these are the same people who took over 3 years to come out with a hard drive for the PS2.

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    Hey, don't insult drooling idiots by comparing them to IGN employees. :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by zmweasel
    Quote Originally Posted by Oobgarm
    PSM. Unofficial Playstation magazine. Not 100% trustworthy, but not totally unreliable.
    This appears to be a bogus Photoshopped mockup, as reflected by the tons of typos: "Playstation" instead of "PlayStation", "cant" instead of "can't", "conveniantly" instead of "conveniently", and on and on. If this actually saw print, PSM's proofreader is a drooling idiot (or a former IGN employee).

    -- Z.
    I didn't look at it too closely, only a brief once over of the body text. The typos never struck me, but after looking closer at the images on the bottom, I'lll have to join in the 'fake' crowd as well.

    Where did you acquire this, dethink? You scan it yourself? If you found it elsewhere I'd have to call bullshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jibbajaba
    I agree. I just read it and noticed the same things. Also, the title font seems "off" somehow, and is way too black compared with the faded look of the rest of the page. This is a total forgery IMHO.
    D'oh! Good catch guys.

    Any chance you could let us in on image source, dethink?

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    a writer from GamesDomain (or yahoo! games or whatever it is now)...

    note my use of the word "allegedly" up front.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zmweasel
    Quote Originally Posted by Oobgarm
    PSM. Unofficial Playstation magazine. Not 100% trustworthy, but not totally unreliable.
    This appears to be a bogus Photoshopped mockup, as reflected by the tons of typos: "Playstation" instead of "PlayStation", "cant" instead of "can't", "conveniantly" instead of "conveniently", and on and on. If this actually saw print, PSM's proofreader is a drooling idiot (or a former IGN employee).

    -- Z.
    Add on top of that, the "A" at the beginning of the article isn't big enough for the space left for it and the first sentence of that first paragraph totally goes into the margin. Another rule of thumb for good journalism is introducing your acronyms. Not done here. Hyphenating the word "beast"? That's a no-no. Inconsitent spelling: memory-stick versus memorystick.

    All that along with poor word choice and sentence structure and missing punctuation scream fake to me. Either that, or someone is about to lose their job.

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