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"Told you so"

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I knew it'd be a hit outside of Japan causing a big DS sales boost.

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More DS Propaganda!

I think the key to that post being utterly irrelevant is when you mentioned Woolworths

My local Woolworths had sold out by the end of the morning.

gerrid wrote:
> but I guess if you've slept outside HMV in Oxford Street for 12 hours
> you're gonna have some screws loose somewhere)

Why people would do that I have no idea. When shopping today there were PSP's all over the place. I couldn't find a single shop that had any "sold out" stickers or anything.

Maybe they'd have told me they had sold out if I'd gone to the till to buy one, but I gave myself a firm slap to stop myself from what would have been a very costly impulse buy.

Hah, UMD movies are such a waste of money.

Was in HMV today, the PSP was all over the place.

UMD movies for £22, and about a million PSPs on the shelves, as of 5pm.

Ahar.

Dringo wrote:
> Gaming is still seen as the fun medium whilst TV is the more
> influential one. I wonder if that is what the reviewer meant.

What? No, didn't you read my post. It was on the news, it wasn't a "review". he called it a childs toy! The PSP, and kept implying that gaming was just for children, despite the fact that all of the "gaming geeks" waiting for the PSP were over 25 (Although the people they interviewed did seem quite dimwitted:

"So what's so great about the PSP?"
"It's so nice to look at, and, er, it's cool to have the latest thing, you know, it's sort of like, it's cool to be the first with this sort of thing"

but I guess if you've slept outside HMV in Oxford Street for 12 hours you're gonna have some screws loose somewhere)

Good news I guess for the day the PSP launches. Then again, they are American figures. It probably guarantees it'll be a pretty huge success over here though.

Gaming is still seen as the fun medium whilst TV is the more influential one. I wonder if that is what the reviewer meant.

I saw the absolutly worst article on the BBC London news last night about the launch of the PSP. The ridiculously uninformed reporter referred to every single gamer as "the gaming geeks", called the PSP "a child's toy" and inferred that gaming was nothing more than an electronic form of Duplo. Happily, the guy he interviewed (from T3 I think), actually knew what he was talking about, and criticised the launch line up and pointed out the fact that the music and movie playing facilities were more extras than main features. Still, it was pretty poor reporting from the BBC, making no DS - PSP comparisons at all, and making out that consoles and gaming were like toys. You wouldn't say that DVD players were toys, so how are consoles any different?

Still, it's nice to see Nintendogs doing so well, as hopefully it will encourage Nintendo to come up with more original IPs instead of reusing their existing ones.

Good.