Massive queues in Japan as PSP sells out
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Queues over a thousand people long formed at some retailers in Japan yesterday as Sony&#39;s PlayStation Portable went on sale, with fears of a shortage realised as stocks sold out within hours at some major outlets.
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Sony began selling the new PSP Playstation Portable yesterday in Japan. The company says it will ship 500,000 units of the console, which plays music, videos and games by the end of the year.
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TOKYO  - Japanese video game fans have bought nearly all 200,000 PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld video-game machines launched on Sunday by Sony, the company said.
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Console craziness continues Updated with video Two Canadians last week won their 15 minutes of fame by standing in line for two days to splash out CAD550 on a 20GB PS3s - only to take the machine straight out of the store and destroy it with a sledgehammer.â¦
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Sony has confirmed that itâs PSP handheld console, due to go on sale in Japan on December 12, will cost only 19,800 yen (Â£100), a lot cheaper than most analysts predicted.
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During its first full week of availability in Japan, sales were sharply lower than those immediately following its launch.
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Japanese buyers queue up for Sony's first handheld games console, the PlayStation Portable, as it goes on sale in Tokyo.
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The fight for the top of the portable gaming mountain has begun in earnest in Japan. Following up Nintendo&#39;s highly anticipated DS launch, Sony has launched their version of a portable gaming system, the PSP.
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PlayStation Portable, produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, hit Japanese store shelves Sunday and were reportedly flying off the shelves.
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Sales of the PlayStation 3 console during its first full week of availability in Japan were sharply lower than those during the two days immediately following its launch, according to estimates published this week.
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Game fans stood in lines through a chilly Tokyo night to be among the first in the world to get their hands on Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable, the consumer electronics firm's first handheld game machine.
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Ten days after the successful launch of Nintendo DS, Sony put its PlayStation Portable (PSP) on sale in Japan at a discounted price.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Thousands join queue for British release Â· Money-spinning power rivals Hollywood movies
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Rival Sony began its worldwide assault yesterday by launching a new handheld console, PlayStation Portable, in game-crazy Japan. Sony aims to seek and destroy GameBoy and its maker Nintendo&#39;s $5billion hold
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The Sony PSP went on sale in Japan this month. The Japanese launch release date was December 12; we learned that the first shipment of PSPs quickly sold out.
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Gamers were standing in line for days in cities across the country to be among the first owners of the Sony PlayStation 3.
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TOKYO -- The paper chase starts in the blackness of early morning, a cat-and-mouse game played on Tokyo's almost empty backstreets in the hours before businessmen shake off their hangovers and commuters emerge to flood the city.