Finally it’s arrived. The monster of last year’s E3, stealing all of the attention and making gamers worldwide drool with anticipation, Sony’s PlayStation Portable has been unleashed in full force in the United States. It’s Japanese release only a few months earlier prompted a storm of popularity and demand that Sony is still struggling to keep up with. Delaying the European release as to have more units on hand for the exceptionally high demand in the United States, it’s clear that Sony has a winner on it’s hands, one that has all but easily triumphed in the first round against Nintendo’s new handheld device, the Nintendo DS.
The $250 price tag is a little steep, but for a portable music player, a portable movie player, 802.11b wi-fi internet access and networking, PDA functionality, and of course, the beautiful games ported to and created just for the PSP, many people don’t seem to find it much of a problem. It’s available in stores now, and of course we’ll bring you a more in depth review when we have the opportunity to get our hands on one, but until then, this first look from PCWorld will have to do:
[ http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,120117,tk,prx,00.asp ]