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Dec 28 2004
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| Summary: No Waiting in the Express Lane
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Okay so I read the last review of the PSP and how the individual stood in line for 5 hours in Akihabara. Well I can't resist telling my story either and here is how it went.
I moved to Japan at the end of September. Me being a HUGE gadget fan makes this move all the better. I know the PSP will be coming out and I have been telling everyone I meet/work with that I will be buying one on the day it comes out.
Now it is just a few days away for the PSP to come out and I am getting a bit worried. I start reading some webpages about the release of the PSP and wonder if I should start figuring out where to find one on release day.
I throw a Texas Hold'em Tourney at my house and start BSing about the PSP and one of the guys tells me that he has already seen it at a store downtown. He gives me the directions and I figure I will head there the next day.
Saturday 11 Dec 04. I run down to the local Seiyu (department store with an Electronics store on the top floor) and ask about the PSP coming out tomorrow. They don't understand me very well but after pointing to a picture of the PSP they grab a translator/dictionary off the shelf and explain to me that the PSP will be given out tomrrow morning in a lottery. They will only have 2 to be given out in the lottery, and that the lottery tickets will be given on a first come first serve basis when the store opens at 9am. I leave the Seiyu and go down to the local Game Store and find that they have been selling the PSP as pre-orders and that I am too late to get one. I leave disappointed in my pursuit. At this point in time I am contemplating standing in line for the PSP Lottery at the Seiyu.
Saturday evening comes and I am off to a Christmas Party. While at the dinner table I am telling one of the guys my wife works with about how I wanted to get a PSP but it looks like I will be unable to. He tells me there is a Toys-R-Us down the road and that I should check out that place.
I wake up Sunday 12 Dec 04 at about 8-8:30am. And I think to myself, you might as well go to Akihabara (called the Electronic City. Land of All gadgets big and small) and try your hand at getting one. I wake the wife up and tell her to get ready cause we are going to Akihabara. Of course I don't have enough yen to purchase a PSP and take the train to Akihabara (cost about $18 each round trip) so I need to run and change some of my cash to yen.
Needless to say, nothing is open on Sunday morning at 9:30am and I am unable to exchange my cash. Now I am really disappointed. But, the wife makes a suggestion. She says, why don't we go ahead and try the Toys-R-Us store. I figure why not, I have a slim to nil chance of finding one there but at least there is that slim chance.
Off the wife and I go to figure out where Toys-R-Us is. We haven't been there before so we run home and check to see if we have a map to it. Low and behold we do have a map. Of we go and find the Toys-R-Us with no problem.
10:45am Sunday 12 Dec 04. I race upstairs to the Toys-R-Us and find that they are completly sold out. But there is a Justin Pit One upstairs (sorta like a LOAX and a LOAX is like a Best Buy). I won't lie, I'm mopeing by now. My slim chances are getting smaller and smaller. I walk over to the section where they are selling games and DVDs. I see the display for the PSP and grab the PSP Value Pak, walk up to the counter to check out. They look at me and cross their arms signifing they do not have any and they are sold out. (Trust me when I say this is a universal sign because I have seen it many times.) I drop my head and put back the Value Pak. But they have a box for the standard version of the PSP. I grab it and walk up to the counter and the attendant leans down into a box and grabs up a Standard Pak PSP. OMG!!!!! I can't believe it. All of this worrying and disappointment has paid off. I am now the proud owner of a PSP. Purchased on opening day at almost 11am without having to stand in line for hours upon hours. Oh and of course like most everyone else I picked up Ridge Racers.
My opinion of the PSP is that it is the best portable system ever devised. No I have not seen/played with the Nintendo DS. I do wish the PSP had some type of chat program or some way to be informed that someone would like to play a specific game with me. Which from what I have been told is what the Nintendo DS is good for. But that is not to say that they can't make a small program that could be loaded in the games directory on the memory card with this capability for the PSP. I haven't had any problems with the analog stick. Nor the UMD drive bay. I do have a single dead pixel. But it is only noticable when the screen is dark. (ex. When a game has "Now Loading" The PSP Value Pak in my opinion isn't really worth the extra money for a headphones and 32MB memory card. I did purchase a 512MB memory stick duo for my PSP and the carrying case with strap.
Graphics are absoultely beatiful. I couldn't as for a better looking portable.
Thanks
Whistlre
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Another awesome Japan story. W00t for the gaijins who nabbed PSP's on the first day! Nice!
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