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It arrived today. Even though I had a US PSP serial number the yourpsp website let me register for a free Region 2 UMD of Spiderman 2 on the launch day of the PSP in the UK. It arrived this morning, so to satisfy my curiosity and suspicion that Sony were blowing hot air about region coding on the PSP I put it in to see what error message I got about the region formatting and I didn't get one.
So, are the Spidermand 2 UMDs a special region free version to save sony time, or are the European PSPs even more of a rip-off since they are over-priced and massively delayed units which turned out to be absolutely identical to the US PSPs in every single way even down to the software and movies which they will play?
I smell a conspiracy, but as I'm not silly enough to buy a UK UMD movie at the price retaillers here are charging for them, and have no wish to watch a movie on that small a screen unless I have a long loney journey coming up, I'm not likely to find out. It just interested me.
So, are the Spidermand 2 UMDs a special region free version to save sony time, or are the European PSPs even more of a rip-off since they are over-priced and massively delayed units which turned out to be absolutely identical to the US PSPs in every single way even down to the software and movies which they will play?
I smell a conspiracy, but as I'm not silly enough to buy a UK UMD movie at the price retaillers here are charging for them, and have no wish to watch a movie on that small a screen unless I have a long loney journey coming up, I'm not likely to find out. It just interested me.
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Vergil wrote:
> Besides, the movies are cheaper in america if you really want them.
The point isn't about the movies, mor about if the thing is completely region free, then the European models are identical to the US models but cost Sony less to produce and cost Europeans more to buy.
Bad Sony :-).
> Besides, the movies are cheaper in america if you really want them.
The point isn't about the movies, mor about if the thing is completely region free, then the European models are identical to the US models but cost Sony less to produce and cost Europeans more to buy.
Bad Sony :-).
I see you asked 'over there' then!
You might get an official reply if you're lucky.
You might get an official reply if you're lucky.
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