Posted on Wednesday 7 September 2005 on 3:02 pm
One of my favorite gadgets: Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) is just launched in United Kingdom after it retailed in United States and Asia.
Although PSP is half a year delay in United Kingdom, they still managed to sell 185,000 units in first 4 days according to UK market analysts Chart-Track. As compare to previous record holder, Nintendo DS which had sold 87,000 units on its launch weekend, PSP has sold more than double the sales of Nintendo DS.
Other than PSP console, softwares of PSP are also strongly sold. 20 out of 24 games that currently available in UK were entering into the All Format Top 40 and 9 games break into the Top 10. From the launch, Namco’s Ridge Racer PSP game being the number one seller.
Sony has said that it hopes to sell 1 million PSP units in Europe before Christmas.
Due to PSP’s capability, there are great number of consumers would like to own a PSP, count me in as well. 
Hope i can grab this devices in future.
I know it has been asked before, and this probably isn’t a good place to ask, but if one’s PSP Motherboard has IC1003 on it, but also has another number on the opposite side, what does it mean? Mine says IC1003 and IC6001, so what version do I have? Or is there any program out there that has been developed that will let you find out without bricking your PSP?
I would take a picture, but the IC6001 is hard to see and I am not skilled enough to open my PSP without destroying it.
Mike:
Very sorry that I still have no clue about this motherboard. As there was someone (Ragna) asking me bout this question as well. Unfortunately I have no idea bout whether such PSP can be downgraded.