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 Member 13732 Level 4.68 Oct 2006 
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If the PSP is region free Sony cocked up originally by not planning to release the PSP worldwide all at the same time. It's so easy these days to buy internationally they should have realized exactly what would happen! Why would anybody who has the money and wants one wait for it to be released in their country?
I was in the UK last month and checked the prices of the PSP as I was thinking of buying one. For just the basic PSP, no extras - GBP180, HK$1100 or NZ$350. I can only convert them into NZ$ but the approx values are $540, $220 & $350 - that's a huge price difference in anybody's language! Why on earth would I buy one in the UK when I can get it for less than half the cost in Hong Kong? If prices were standardised world-wide there would be no need for illegal importing. And you can't blame local production costs as I would think they're all made at the same place. The same thing applies to games - I buy most of my games from the US as they are never released in NZ, even if they are released on PAL in Europe only the most popular reach us (same for Australia I would imagine). I was given figures once - for every 30 rpg games released in Japan (all consoles) only 10 make it to the US, and of those an average of 4 make it to PAL. I don't know if this is true or not but it would explain why most of my games are NTSC US! I also had to void my warranty by getting a modchip so I could play these games which I wasn't very happy about. I'm definitely not a huge fan of Sony anymore! Most amazing jew boots  |
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