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Crisis Core PSP bundle will rape your wallet (and your Mom)
Leigh Alexander08.15.08 - 3:23 PM 36 comments

Crisis Core PSP bundle will rape your wallet (and your Mom) screenshot
So it looks like the Crisis Core PSP bundle is available for preorder in a few places. That's the new PSP slim, with a Buster Sword wrist strap and some Zack-Cloud-Sephiroth art as done by Nomura, from the looks of it. They're only making 77,777 of these babies -- and the whole works costs $409.

...Yeah. Next up, a piece of paper with the words "FINAL FANTASY" written on it, now available for only $599!!

The subliminal tentacles that Square-Enix have implanted in my brain make me want this. It cannot be denied. Before long I'll be gold-farming all day in a dimly-lit Chinese basement cafe, hopped up on mysterious caffeine drinks with a glaze in my jaundiced eye, grinding until my heart, mind, soul and wallet belong to gaming. OH SEFIROSU-SAMA


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Anyone know if I'll have to pay any import taxes / duties on this psp in the US if I buy from Play Asia? I've never imported anything above $50~ in value....

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Garbz's Avatar
Garbz at 08/15/2007 15:24

I have a PSP, and i am likely to buy Crisis Core anyway so this bundle shouldn't interest me but goddamn i like that wrist strap.

*prays someone sells it seperately on ebay*
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deiga-the-semivaliant at 08/15/2007 15:25

My mind: OMG WANT.

My wallet: OMG DO NOT WANT.
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Avatar
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain at 08/15/2007 15:25

This, combined with the new online store, will rape 77,777 Weeaboo wallets in North America.

Good show, Squeenix.
Ness's Avatar
Ness at 08/15/2007 15:27

No way! That's too expensive for a simple psp surface stuff.
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bc88 at 08/15/2007 15:30

Whoa!

I could have sworn I read that it was only going to be ~250 dollars. $409 is too rich for my blood.

Oh well still looking foward to Crisis Core.
Justin Villasenor's Avatar
Justin Villasenor at 08/15/2007 15:31

Anyone have any details on this upcoming piece of paper?
Doomtrain's Avatar
Doomtrain at 08/15/2007 15:34

I have a PSP already, so this pack doesn't pull on any heartstrings. DO NOT WANT

Now, lets think of a possibility...

The new PSP-slim has a firmware that is insta-exploited by the haxxors, and homebrew is easy as pie to run. DO WANT
Jchobot's Avatar
Jchobot at 08/15/2007 15:34

Oh crap. I do want this.

For FF, not for the lack of anything playable.
SniperFodder's Avatar
SniperFodder at 08/15/2007 15:40

I think PSPs are crap. I'm only commenting too say hi to Leigh.


Hi Leigh!


That is all.
kid icarus's Avatar
kid icarus at 08/15/2007 15:54

I always thought this would be the game that bought me a PSP. I'm such a wretched fanboy. Although the Rondo of Blood remake is a powerful draw, too.
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Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain at 08/15/2007 15:55

HAY CHOBOT CAN I HAS ACTUNG FIGURE?
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Altair78 at 08/15/2007 16:09

If it was $250 or lower, I would probably get it just to give my current PSP to my cousin-in-law (she loves my psp and guilty gear). To see her jump for joy to get a free, fully working PSP and a game... ALMOST priceless. that $400+ price take... sorry Squeenix, I don't love you that much.

I have no beef with the PSP like some people have. It may not be a DS, but it's solid and since all I would really like to play on the road is fighting games, racing games, and an occasional platformer then the PSP and it's ports of things like Street Fighter Alpha, Darkstalkers, and Guilty Gear are solid ports perfect for my PSP needs. DS can keep all its puzzle games and mini games (which, in fact, I have no problem with either).

Whoops, there I go blabbing again. Carry on people.
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Altair78 at 08/15/2007 16:10

Oh, and Hi again Leigh. You don't have any knives on ya this time, do ya?

.oO<Wonders if the knife mention is getting old, if even remembered>
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jerrt at 08/15/2007 16:11

so wait, this wasn't one of the bundles that were mentioned at e3? those were all slated to be $200. i'm really glad, i'm not so into crisis core, that i must have that. [still looks just like chobot and leigh, by the way. {read: gorgeous]
jerrt's Avatar
jerrt at 08/15/2007 16:13

***ignore my commas in that third sentence. i don't know how they snuck in there***
SniperFodder's Avatar
SniperFodder at 08/15/2007 16:30

Actually, Leigh is way hotter than Jessica Chobot (although Jessica Chobot's pretty smokin') and I think Leigh should have her own little action figure.


Oh, and I almost forgot, PSPs are still crap.
SniperFodder's Avatar
SniperFodder at 08/15/2007 16:34

Could you both lick the PSP at the same time? I would buy that PSP for realz, I wouldn't even care if it worked. And I'd pay $409 for it. Yes I would like pictures please.
SniperFodder's Avatar
SniperFodder at 08/15/2007 16:46

k

Worth asking though.

PSPs are still crap.
andazz's Avatar
andazz at 08/15/2007 17:04

all those sayin' that psp is crap are fanboys in denial
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Spectral at 08/15/2007 17:08

Nice bundle, but that's like, 2 and a half Nintendo DS', if you know what I mean.

I think that strap would like nice on a DS Lite though. You can probably just put the bundle and sell the strap on ebay and make more money than you did actually buying the pack.
Neonie's Avatar
Neonie at 08/15/2007 17:40

Wow, DO NOT WANT. PSP = FAIL *hugs my DS*.

(Oh and Leigh you seriously need to get off Secound Life, it fails worse then Runescape 8P)
Wedge's Avatar
Wedge at 08/15/2007 18:22

Lololol, isn't that the guy they were talking about with the furry av on Podtoid?

Also PSP is sweet, I support owning a PSP and a DS. I hope my boyfriend gets a slim one so I can take his old one c.c'.
andazz's Avatar
andazz at 08/15/2007 18:41

Wedge is a great man follow him
andazz's Avatar
andazz at 08/15/2007 19:02

Wedge is a great man follow him
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ChaosWing at 08/16/2007 07:40

God DAMN this PSP is HOT!!! Not as much as you Leigh but sooooooo close!!! ;)

Jokes aside, I like your writing a lot! Keep it up!

what's with me putting exclamation points everywhere?? wtf!!!
thisissami's Avatar
thisissami at 08/16/2007 09:22

isn't the PSP crisis core edition is so expensive because it's being imported from japan? square enix announced this deal only in japan like a month or two ago, and there it had normalish pricing. i don't think square enix ever announced a US or European version of it...
Lucca's Avatar
Lucca at 08/16/2007 09:39

LUCKY SEVEN! :D
Michymaster's Avatar
Michymaster at 08/16/2007 09:53

Marry me Faith!
Brass's Avatar
Brass at 08/16/2007 16:34

That's ridiculous. I was thinking a PSP was on the horizon for me, but goddamn.
MightyJAK's Avatar
MightyJAK at 08/21/2007 13:57

Let's see, I like Final Fantasy, I want a PSP, but...

New PSP slim: $200
MOST you can be expected to pay for a high-profile PSP game (think GTA): $50

So in this bundle, you're supposedly getting $159 worth art, wriststrap, and, uhh.... collectiblity, I guess?
JamesSorensen's Avatar
JamesSorensen at 08/25/2007 20:20

its cheap in japan its teh hype demand and crazy importers price rape..


but hey it's not stopping me from already placing my preorder with ncsx.com for $409
montalvoe's Avatar
montalvoe at 08/28/2007 18:46

Anyone know if I'll have to pay any import taxes / duties on this psp in the US if I buy from Play Asia? I've never imported anything above $50~ in value.

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