Sony Portable Unit Delayed
CNN Money reports that Sony has announced their mobile Playstation, dubbed the PSP, will be delayed until early 2005. Sony cites a lack of content suitable for US markets.
Plans are to launch the unit in Japan before the holidays this year however, which is standard fare for many hardware and software companies.
It’s good news for Nintendo, whose Gameboy Advance SP is virtually unchallenged in the handheld market. Although a price drop is predicted, what has become Nintendo’s real profit pusher will not be forced to drop it’s rates in order to compete. Not that they would need to anyway. Street value of the PSP is said to be $199 US. That’s a full 100 dollars more than the SP whose library of software titles is superior to nearly ANY other system, save for PC. It also gives them less speedbumps along they way to releasing their much speculated upon Nintendo DS, the dual screen handheld, recently announced.
