Ratchet & Clank headline another PSP-3000 bundle; you're simply thrilled
By Paul Miller 
posted Nov 19th 2008 2:34PM
posted Nov 19th 2008 2:34PM
[Via PSP Fanboy]
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The R&C series is the most fun I've had with a cartoony-looking game. Not everything I need to kill needs to look like another human.
Am I the only person in America that despises bundles?
Right here, brotha.
Fear not, my good man; I hate 'em too. Want $169 PSP-3000...
Technically I'm not American, but I can't stand bundles either.
Why? Bundles normally give you some value to your purchase of a base unit. Nintendo has been doing this for years with just about every console. You don't have to buy them all you know.
It's just about as annoying as any other lame marketing ploy. If you don't like whatever comes in the bundle, you can simply buy the stand alone. Or do what I did and gift the games you have no interest in playing during the holiday season.
Primarily because it allows the hardware manufacturers to keep the prices of standalone units artificially high by piggybacking on the novelty of new/popular games. But also because the bundles generally suck and on one hand you feel pressured into it by the "bargain," while on the other hand you know damn well you don't want the bundled items. That's why.
So you buy the base model if you don't want the bundled item. You don't have to buy the bundle.
I can has JUST the PSP-3000, plz?
why would you want a 3000? the 2000 has a better non-interlace screen
Just like how Nintendo is the first ever company to have more peripherals than good games to play, Sony is the first ever company to have more SKU's available than people actually wanting to buy them.
HA! Brilliant. Me ranks you high.
Actually, I would argue that Sega was the first company to have FAR more peripherals than interest, but the SNES and NES do rank pretty highly.
The PSP-3000 isn't that the one with the new "interlacing" feature... FAIL.
I love it "when" people don't know how "to" use quotation marks.
I hope the interlacing problem has been fixed or mitigated in the new bundle.
Who in the WORLD wants to watch National Treasure 2 on their PSP?! Who wants to watch that thing PERIOD?
I use my PSP 1000 every day at work (on break and lunch) surf the web, play MOH on line, use the web radio and yes watch movies sum time..... who me!
Just know that when you watch National Treasure 2 on a PSP, somewhere a good movie and a good game die a little bit inside.
What suprised me the most is that they still are putting movies on UMDs. I might have to keep an eye out for new music on mini disc now......
So are they bundling the R&C series with the PSP because R&C isn't selling or because the PSP isn't selling? FAIL + FAIL = ¿Success?
I'm going out on a limb here to disagree with saying that 30+ million units "isn't selling".
It's not that they're not selling together it's that I doubt one would do that without the other!
do that well*** PSP is a dying platform. Honestly the DS has lost a lot of it's spark with many as well
i agree! we need a new ground breaking mobile platform.
I'll be buyin' one seein' that my first gen PSP was stolen.
BATED breath
Gah, fixed.
Old news here, had them physically in Radioshack (they sell games?) a week ago.
I'm not one to tell Sony how to run their business, but this PSP thing looks like it would be great to play games on...they should design some for it. It might also be cool if they could find some way for it to sync with my Folding @ Home console.
Charging more for bundled garbage is not how you sell a product. "Ever-desirable"? Ugh. I'd rather spend my $200 on a gun so I can shoot myself.
i think that was sarcastic. Can't imagine anyone is yearning to assume the identity of Nicholas Cage.
outside of national treasure 2, this bundle looks pretty sweet. R&C are always up for a great game, Everyday Shooter was a lot of fun to play on my PS3. All for $30 more than the stand alone unit? .... oh wait, R&C is $20, and Everyday Shooter is $10....hmmm, so much for that perceived value, eh? Unless you consider National Treasure 2 for free a "value"......
Umm Amazon's UK store has a few "non product" user photos
http://digg.com/nintendo/Amazon_UK_Wii_Fit_customer_image_gallery_has_personal_photos
I actually am thrilled...I much prefer classic black to the silver of the current.
So the PSP 3000 only came out a year later than the 2000 so is the 4000 come out late 2009?? I guess yes
yea!!!
NOT