A Sony PSP in Australia

So yes, after being routed across the world in eighty days (well seven days that felt like eighty), my PSP has arrived in my hot little hands. After my initial bedazzlement at the screen, I've browsed the web using the Wipeout Pure hack, downloaded some clips from Sony Connect, compressed and transfered some video and music onto the 32Mb Memory Stick Duo and played so many hours of Lumines that i dream in falling blocks and Japanese techno. The actual unit doesn't feel that solid, and I suspect that PSP owners will be a combination of people who take its portability too seriously and end up with 1000 PSPs, and others for whom portability means taking it to the kitchen.

An early highlight of my new hi-res type portable gaming habit was whipping out Wipeout Pure in the pub at midnight, and watching people lean left and right, simultaneously steering the ship in the first person perspective, and resisting the ensuing motion sickness.

I hope that Sony Australia launch a WiFi PSP content distribution program like the Korean Nespot, allowing WiFi browsing (with the browser on a UMD), video and music on demand and other connected services (eg. chat, email). I also hope that when it launches in Australia we get a nifty PSP site full of mermaids like the Koreans have.

UPDATE: Sony have announced an Australian release date of September 1, 2005.