Sony Sues Over PSP Sales

Hello again :) Soooo, New Orleans has been very very bad to me this last week or so! My car is broken, my baby sitter has disappeared and I'm in danger of loosing my main income source because they require 20 measly office hours a week to maintain the network. So if you have a babysitter that is reliable and wants to move to New Orleans.. Send 'em here! The wonderful laptop I currently use to post this blog will vanish like a puff of green smoke if I loose my main gig too.. which means.. All my other gigs get put on hold until I can scrape up the funds to get a cheapo desktop... So if you were having a bad week, now you know.. someone out there has it even worse than you this week lol. Oh.. and the whole reason of this post as the title implies.. Sony is at it again!

Lik-Sang.com, a retailer based in Hong-Kong, announced today the Sony Corporation has filed a law suit against them for selling Japanese PSP units to the UK via internet. The PSP is scheduled to debut in Europe next month so it's a minimal amount of time we are talking about here. This wouldn't be the first time Sony has sued over similar issues either, the company has targeted Lik-Sang.com before in 2002 for selling PS2 Mod Chips...

"This is the most aggressive move against its own customers that a console manufacturer has ever taken in the 30 year history of video games," said Pascal Clarysse, Marketing Manager for Lik-Sang.com. "Sony wants to completely cut hardcore gamers away from items released in Japan or anywhere else outside their own country. A very active part of the gaming community has been enjoying Japanese gaming culture for over two decades, and that's what the Empire is now willing to destroy."

Lik-Sang issued a public statement reassuring their customers sales will continue to be filled as usual so Europe cheers on as they order the PSP a month or so early. Why is it so vitally important Sony retain control of the exact date the product is available for a specific area, especially a gaming system such as the PSP? A game like Final Fantasy XI Online, where you have to manage server load balance, it makes sense to stagger release in different areas of the world to keep pace with the growth and power of the servers that are the backbone of the multi-player online games.

The question is, will the Sony Corporation win this legal battle over early release forcing Lik-Sang.com to take it off the digital shelf? Probably. But I'll bet by the time the court proceedings are over it will be PSP Europe Release time.

Until next time be good... Or be good at it!