[Jay Mitchosky]

Figured we would start fresh on the PSP as we're hours away from its release. This is really a continuation of the previous thread but folks looking for new user info, reviews, and complaints won't need to search through the pre-launch discussion. Have at 'er.

[Dave Scarpa]

Yeah alot of folks will be out about now standing in line to get one so the impressions will be coming soon. I lucked out I was one outside the preorder list for tommorrows launch, lucky for me the EB's had some cancellations and I'm getting My PSP tommorrow, I'll pick it on my Lunch break. It'll be hard going back to work. I already bought Ridge Racers, Lumines, Gretsky, Wipeout and Twisted Metal so I'm covered fro games and I have MLB 2006 on preorder. I also been converting a bunch of movies and TVshows and have a 512 Pro Duo ready to fill. Want a 1 gigger but they're hard to come by.

Look forward to all the Impressions to come !

[Steve Felix]

Got mine at an EB midnight sale. It's almost exactly as I expected. The only surprise to me was that the headphones are actually pretty good for earbuds.

-Spider-Man 2 (the movie) is "formatted to fit this screen," as I mentioned before. P&S, it looks like, not open matte.

-Lumines puts a death grip on those who dare to start playing. It is hypnotic.

-Ridge Racer is Ridge Racer, except portable.

-Man I'd love to see Virtua Fighter be Virtua Fighter, except portable.

-Does anyone here actually plan to buy UMD movies? How about anyone in the world?

-I get the feeling that everything Sony Corporation does is aimed at selling Memory Sticks.

-Oh well, the PSP is a marvel anyway.

[Jeff*S*C*]

I held one of these bad boys a couple days ago when my work got them in (only one case which is 10 units). It truely is a work of art. Too bad I'm broke from recently buying an iPod. My new temporary credit card keeps calling out to me.....Must.Resist.

I was surprised no one was standing outside waiting when I left work this morning. We had a line when the PS2 came out.

[Jay Mitchosky]

Quote:

It'll be hard going back to work.

That's what cubicles are for.

[quote[I also been converting a bunch of movies and TVshows...[/quote]
I didn't realize you could burn your own - thought it was a proprietary video format.

[Dave Scarpa]

Jay I was speaking on Converting to Store on my Memory stick you cannot as of yet burn on UMD's

I would consider buying a movie on PSP (In the right Aspect ratio( if Sony was pricing these at below a $9.95 list price. As it is they are too expensive. I'd take the resolution hit by putting it on a Memory Stick instead.

[RichardK]

I bought mine this morning (12am) at Walmart..There were 10 other people along side me. The line(albeit small) started at 11pm. I picked up Wipeout also. I'm at work now so I havent had a chance to even open mine up yet. I plan to try and convert movies and store. I wont buy movies unless they are <$10. Im looking forward to future titles with the internet online gaming feature.

I'm looking forward to getting some play time in late tonight when the wife and kids are asleep!

If I get a chance I'll post back impressions tomorrow.

Peace.

[Mike_G]

Got my US one last night. Nothing new except I can FINALLY use the X key for "Enter" instead of O. That was driving me batty!

Spider-Man 2 looks damn good on it. There's no way in hell I'd ever buy UMD movies when I could get a memory stick and rip/encode it myself from a DVD. I mean it IS mine and I'm not sharing it, so really, who's getting hurt? Besides, movies on the PSP are more for a distraction than to actually sit and WATCH a movie on the thing. You have to hold it the whole time, it's not really the most practical way to watch a movie. A nice option for those who would like to do it that way.

US and J versions of Lumines and RR don't talk to each other in AdHoc play .

Get the $9 Pelican cover. Now. Leave. Go.

Mike

[Dave E H]

Looks liek Bestbuy.com shipped my pre-order. Soon..