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Red Spiderman 3 PSP for Europe and red PSP for Japan - No PSP Love For The US

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has announced that it will release two PlayStation Portable bundles for Japan and one for the Europe, Sony recently announced two different types of red PSPs for Europe and Japan. Europe will receive the Spider-Man PSP, which features a red face with black buttons and back. It will also include Spider-Man 3 the game and the UMD movie. Japan they will receive a 2 new deep red limited edition PSP models. We don’t have any details on the Europe Spiderman version.

Details on the 2 new bundles for Japan:

“PSP Deep Red Value Pack” and “PSP Deep Red 1 Seg Pack” will be available beginning Thursday, December 13th 2007 for a limited time, for 22,800 ($198) and 29,800 ($260) respectively.

The Deep Red Value Pack, which the company says is intended as a “starter pack” for new PSP owners, includes a new “Deep Red” PSP, a pouch, a hand strap, a cloth and a 32MB Memory Stick Duo. The Deep Red 1 Seg Pack bundles one of the red PSPs with a 1 Seg tuner (for mobile audio and digital broadcast in Japan), a stand to hold the PSP during long TV-viewing sessions, a strap, a cloth, and a 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo. It’s marketed as an all-around entertainment pack, clearly highlighting the mobile TV feature.

Halo 3 Is Top selling Game in Japan … Or Was It?

Halo 3 is the top-selling game for the week ending September 30… in Japan. Unless you live under a rock, you will know that this is a Big deal since most US games don’t normally do very well in Japan.

1. [360] Halo 3 - 59,000 / NEW

2. [DS] Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Toki - 55,000 / 440,000

3. [PSP] Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII - 54,000 / 649,000

4. [DS] Tamagotchi Petit Petit Omisecchi Minasankyu! - 54,000 / NEW

5. [DS] Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Yami - 46,000 / 389,000

6. [PS2] Bleach Blade Battlers 2nd - 31,000 / NEW

7. [DS] English Test 2 - 28,000 / NEW

8. [PSP] Yugioh Duel Monsters GX - 28,000 / NEW

9. [PS3] Oblivion - 27,000 / NEW

10. [PSP] Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops+ - 25,000 / 119,000

Really it’s a trick by Microsoft. They have some guy going around buying all the copies of Halo3 he can get his hands on. So we can say he has …. oh … about 50,000 and Japan really only sold about 9,000

PlayStation Store On Your PC but Only For Japan

Gamers can connect their PSP to the PlayStation 3 console to download PSone games to play on the handheld from the PlayStation store. Those without a PS3, however, are shit out of luck – unless they live in Japan.

Sony has announced at TGS, that the PlayStation Store can now be accessed using a PC. Here is the kicker … wait for it ……This currently only applies to the Japanese market *BAM!*, North America *BAM!* and European *BAM!* PSP owners must continue to access the downloadable content via the PS3. *BAM! BAM! BAM!*

Will this option will make it to the North American and European markets, who knows. If Sony is smart they will quickly open this up to the other markets, but who knows.