Shoutbox

Well Blade I have to agree with you on one thing: forcing people to buy games alogn with the PSP is ridiculous, however, every store is doing the same thing, in the US too. I've yet to see a place on the net (other than eBay I suppose, I didn't check though) where you can order the PSP without some stupid "all public" games. Stores almost always lose money (or make non) on video game hardware (PS2 are still selling $5 below cost nowadays in many store) and it seems that this time, they found a way to prevent this from happening. I find this completely ridiculous, if they're not happy with the suggested price, they can just increase it: too bad for Sony if their handled device costs twice the price of a Nintendo DS to produce, consumers shouldn't have to bear with the consequences.

That being said, the Value Pack is something completely different. The price did not change when Sony decided to sell the PSP in a pack, this is more a promotion. Sony wants to get a maximum of chances for his fight against Nintendo so they decided that the PSP should be released with some extra stuff to look more interesting. Thsi is actually agreat move for anybody who will buy the PSP in the first weeks.

Last thing, about the 6 months delay for new PSP, I highly doubt that. I can't believe stores will be out of PSP for half a year, that's just not possible.