Kelvin

Actually this is pretty smart, putting the nubs above the D-pad (indeed, I've pretty much ASSUMED that any evnetual redesign would put them there). I HATE having the current nub below the D-pad and having to bend my thumb so far back to reach it. Go grip your PSP naturally and see where your thumbs end up: yah, ABOVE the D-pad and the face buttons.

Ironically none of the shop jobs shown in the link put the nubs above the D-pad and face buttons, so either nobody thought of ergonomics when designing them, or I'm way off base on this for some reason.

You folks trying to go highbrow by using an Economist cartoon?

I can live without rumble. On the other hand, tilt for Locoroco would completely own my world.

I thought the price of a 4GB Memory Stick was to sleep with a hot girl. Isn't that what those PSP commercials are telling us?

Don't waste your money: just sleep with hot girls and one of them is bound to give you a 4GB MS Duo as a parting gift.

Oh the stuff I learn from TV.

I'd have to see the silver one to know for sure (silver always look like crap in print), but the blue one is already drool-inducing... ...but nothing beats good old Ceramic White!

Add me to the list of Ceramic White users who got their gear in Asia.

It's weird why only Sony America is so anal about this. Even the Sony Europe is better about it, although any good karma is overwhelmed by their killing of Lik-Sang.

To > :
Yah there's a lot of poor people in China, but most of those are the people who couldn't afford a PSP in the first place. PSP consumers are the same the world over: spoiled middle class kids who bought it with their parents' money.

To Brett:
You ever buy gasoline without paying for it? Because I assure you that oil companies are way more evil than Sony, and you'd be doing cosmic karma a way bigger favour by stealing petroleum products than PSP games.

I'm not sure if the PSP is a loss leader, but if so, I'd say buying a PSP and then using it solely as an emulator would, yes, hurt Sony's bottom line.

pixelator: yah piracy galore for every platform, but PSP is easier because the MS Duo is a pretty straightforward storage device.

(ironically, despite all the UMD bitching, you can argue that the PSP is the LEAST proprietary handheld platform, with the possible exception of the N-Gage)

I've pretty much accepted that piracy is everywhere, not that I'm completely out of it yet (although I've bought all my non-free software since university), but it still pisses me off that people would be so blatant about it.

I got this game as a gift back in the day, and then it wouldn't run due to some weird DOS crap. I sure don't miss those days!