That's this year in case you're lost. Actually, Sony's (growingly infamous) handheld will likely only make its Japanese debut by year's end. According to Chief Technical Officer Masayuki Chatani, "[PSP will] definitely be able to launch at the end of the year." Sony has made these types of claims before with the PlayStation, but Chatani assured the doubters that the PSP's development is "far better". As for a US/European release, there's no definite date, but if the PSP does appear in Japan by December, we can expect to see a westward expansion sometime in the spring of 2005.
