North America Release Date: March 24, 2005
It will sell only as part of a value pack for $250. The value pack contains the PSP, a soft carrying case with cleaning cloth, a 32MB memory stick, a demo disk, headphones with a remote control, a battery pack, AC adapter, and, for the first 1 million PSPs, a Spider-Man 2 UMD.

COMPLETE LIST OF LAUNCH GAMES
Ape Escape: On the Loose, Sony Computer Entertainment America
ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails, SCEA
Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower, Capcom
Dynasty Warriors, Koei
FIFA 2005, Electronic Arts
Gretzky NHL, SCEA
Lumines, Ubisoft
Metal Gear Acid, Konami
MLB, SCEA
MVP Baseball, EA
NBA, SCEA
NBA Street Showdown, EA
Need for Speed Rivals, EA
NFL Street 2 Unleashed, EA
Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory, Konami
Ridge Racer, Namco
Smartbomb, Eidos Interactive
Spider-Man 2, Activision
Tiger Woods PGA Tour, EA
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix, Activision
Twisted Metal: Head-On, SCEA
Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade, Sony Online Entertainment
Wipeout Pure, SCEA
World Tour Soccer, SCEA

This turned me off the PSP a bit, but I will still get it, I'm just contemplating whether to buy the Value Pack or whether to wait and buy it alone later, when they inevitably sell the PSP alone. As for the launch games, I'm excited about Dynasty Warriors, Metal Gear Acid, Need for Speed Rivals/Ridge Racers, Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade, and Wipeout Pure.

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