PSP 189 Bucks.

Just called ebgames, and they told me that is the retail price cheapy

 

I'm surprised they know for certain. I'd think that the instant pricing information becomes final someone will leak it to IGN. It sounds about right though, I can't imagine them charging over $200 for a standard unit, it'd never sell.

I'll pay $199, but no more.

 

Link? Not that I'm doubting it at all, as the PSP retails for around $185 in Japan, but 189 sounds like the prices back in the Genesis days. :smt043

 

So that means it'll be like 250 Euro when it reaches Europe, probably. God, I remember when the PS2 came out - it was IR£280! :smt1069

 

I wouldn't take EB's word as fact. That might be what is in their computers but like certain release dates is just an estimate. Sony didn't release the price at the CES show.

 

Video game stores never know the right date or price. The head office knows an estimate, or the sales person is tired of kids asking what is the price so they make it up. I had a guy ask me how much the Xbox 2 and the PS3 was going to be 2 years ago. That wouldof been fine until 90 other people asked me the same question everyday. What made it worse was the same guy asked the same question for a year until i quit/got fired.

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Don't listen to a damn thing EB Games says - if the company hasn't officially announced it yet, it's not an official price/release date.

I've gotten jerked around by their phony release dates many a time before with several different games, and I really think they start making up dates and prices to look like they actually know what they are doing.

 

I dunno whose fault it is, but I was pissed, and Gamestop was pissed at me, when I kept asking them if Growlanser: Generations DLX, friggin' came in or not.
:angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry :angry

 

yeah and a import will be 150euro =)

 

Heh, I'd have told him that's simply impossible to tell and give two outlandish examples:
"Well you know it could be about $200 but then again aliens could attack causing humanity to engage in a fierce war for survival which would drive inflation through the roof causing even a simple loaf of bread to cost $12USD."
-OR-
"Before the projected release date a metor could crash to Earth and give us a limitless supply of perfect matter from which anything could be manufactured for next to nothing and it could cost you nothing more than the pocket change you have right now."
I'd love to be insolent to people who ask inane questions seeking legitamte answers. :smt043
~Krelian

 

That's nothing, I read about Germany during the Interbellum (1918-1939), about a writer who withdrew his life's savings which were at that time just enough to buy a subway ticket for a ride across Berlin... then he starved to death.

Is this relevant? Obviously not. But I thought it interesting.

 

After shipping like 175 Euro, but still a better deal. :smt033

 

Hell yes it's interesting! But more importantly... if he starved to death, who wrote about the writer?

 

Geert Mak, a Dutch writer whose books I wholly recommend... but I don't think they've been translated.

 

Holy crap, that's less than £100. Sony can blow me if they think I'll buy a UK model now.

 

I remember reading in a history book that inflation for Germany was so bad at that time you literally needed a wheelbarrow of cash to buy a loaf of bread.

 

yeah that was after world war 1..... (between then and the 2nd war)..... why couldnt they just use debit cards ;-) :-D

 

Still can't pay with them in US stores it seems tho :smt043

 

American Debt, err... Debit

Oh come now Anti, I've honestly only been in ONE legitimate store in the past three years that didn't take debit.
Oh uhm... most movie theatres don't though... but there's always Fandango.com to pre-pay. (Are movie theatres legitimate in this day and age with all the bleeding-heart shit the MPAA is pulling?)
~Krelian

 

OK sorry, but that was just my personal experience when I was in the US. They (well, I only went to Gamestop and such) on several occassions told me that they wouldnt take debit cards, so after that I always paid in cash or by credit card. Sorry for jumping to conclusions, was just an attempt at a joke

(even though I had the same experience in Japan, often they wouldnt even take my credit card, and the employees of one store even laughed at me for suggestion it)