Yahoo! Finally PSP arrived in Malaysia. Although it's not official, but at least it's better than never. Okay, let's get down the drill. PSP enthusiasts might know that there are two version bundled:

Basic Pack: PSP, charger & battery
Value Pack: PSP, charger, 32 MB memory stick duo, remote control headphones, cleaning cloth & UMD demo

Problem is that they don't see the Basic Pack unit here in Malaysia. Perhaps later but not right now. So, all I ever see is the Value Pack unit.

And in the US, it's only going for USD $249 (RM 946.2) but however the unit arrived here cost RM 1699! That makes it nearly twice the price! In Japan, it cost about 19,800 yen (RM 720). Since I checked the set and the whole manual seem to come in Japanese, I can safely assume that this is a Japanese version.

Why the increase of price? The guy couldn't answer me. The price is hardly justifiable for paying extra additional RM 700 for such a device. Moreover, Nintendo DS cost only about USD $149 (RM 566) and they're marking up to RM 799. It's not so bad considering you're paying about RM 200 for such a revolution piece of portable console.

The guy in the shop asked me to get the PSP. Told him I might consider it because previously that's about the same price I paid for my Playstation 2. I think I'll wait till the end of this year for my bonus, and let's hope so by then it'll go down for less than RM 1000.