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[Spiritreaver]

Kuturagi always stated that very few withing Sony Japan knew what the PSP price was going to be. Even a couple days before it was unveiled. So I"m not sure how much stock I would put in those sources.

I wouldn't be surprised, weren't there people from, or very close with Sony stating the price would be something much higher than the $185ish price we have now?

 

[Mrbob]

Yes but truly how close were they? We don't know. It could be all a bunch of hearsay to ramp up speculation. For all we know these "Inside Sony contancts" could have been low level employees who knew about as much as we do.

 

[kaching]

I trust my sources.
Things just change.

Any of them the same sources for the 'ol rumor about MS tipping the console industry upside down? And it doesn't seem like they offered much to save you from purchasing a PSX...

 

[DCharlie]

well, if it was a closely guarded secret isn't this somewhat retarded if the original plan was to launch the machine at 19800 yen??

How many developers were shy to coding for the PSP given what they'd heard the price was going to be (or at least the range they had been quoted) ?

Surely, it would have made more sense to go to developers and say "look. we are aiming for this low price point" ?

 

[Mrbob]

Faf is a developer and seems to have an opposing opinion on this topic as you.

 

[DCharlie]

"Any of them the same sources for the 'ol rumor about MS tipping the console industry upside down? And it doesn't seem like they offered much to save you from purchasing a PSX..."

Nope - those rumours came from elsewhere and were heard by several other people in prominent places. Why not ride their dicks?- most of them post here too.

I only met the PSX software coder after i'd purchased the unit.
Call me a sucker for believing Sony.

 

[DCharlie]

"Faf is a developer and seems to have an opposing opinion on this topic as you. "

yes, me and Faf were discussing this last week when he came over.

Infact, Faf was talking to a lot of the people i know, and some knew stuff that Faf didn't about... certain stuff...

 

[deadhorse32]

DCharlie & friends >>>>> Faf & the rest of us

 

[AlphaSnake]

Damn, I was all pysched about getting my import on launch and all...but somehow I doubt I'll see it up until at least a week after launch.

 

[DCharlie]

"DCharlie & friends >>>>> Faf & the rest of us"

saying that, we've been self-powning recently as Kaching pointed out.

I don't think anyone at sony has a clue whats going on in terms of plans , including Kutaragi, so it probably IS best to ignore anything we try and predict from Sony.

 

[ninge]

well that's hardly news.. from my experience nobody ever has any idea what's going on at sony.