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Big announcement from Sony with the Playstation Portable being set to release on December 12 in Japan for a price of 20,790 yen (about $195.00) along with accesories and the such (including the pictured value pack. The battery life is supposed to be about 4-6 hours for game play or 4-5 hours for movies, not too shabby and equivalent to most laptops.

I agree with my friend Chris in that with the price Sony has set, they’re gonna lose a lot of money with each unit. Though, I think it will be really competitive with the Nintendo DS and it has potential for it to surpass the DS. I’m still just as much interested in the DS as before though the Sony bitch inside me is still thriving, haha. With all these portables around, I am going to put on hold my plans for a Treo 650 for a while (I can play with the PDA-like DS for now, haha) and hopefully in time another upgrade will come along with a better camera and more storage for the Treo.

Anyways, back to the PSP, I think it will do really well. Japan is a given but I think it can have a lot of success in the States. Sure portable systems like this are expensive - so you’d think mostly older gamers buy this stuff - but video games are still heavily geared towards kids and a bunch will no doubt be wanting this. Hmm, just seems like these days a lot of kids have so much money to spend. With like 8-year-olds carrying cellphones and junior high kids listening to iPods, why wouldn’t young gamer kids get chance to own a PSP. Craziness I tell you, craziness!