It’s hot! PSP GPS sold out on Amazon Japan

We couldn’t wait to get our hands on it. Now we’ll have to wait longer. The MAPLUS portable GPS bundle for the PSP is sold out on Amazon Japan. Then again, it wouldn’t have done us much good because the mapping software only does Japan cities (?) (correct us if we understood the details incorrectly; our Japanese is as bad as our Klingon).

Anyway, about the whole GPS thing. Edia (or Edeia or Edea – it depends on your translator) has a GPS-mapping software that takes advantage of the PSP GPS receiver. Why Japan? Maybe it’s because Japan’s street names can be hard to figure out, and there are only a few places where streets run in straight rectangular grids. Will there be a US version? Maybe… we’ll have to see if Sony sees enough of a demand. (So start demanding already! Hehe.)

For now, it’s a good thing there’s Deniska’s Mapviewer (it’s a great map homebrew).

By the way, at the Amazon Japan page, we saw that “Customers who bought this item also bought Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.” Yeah, they may rent fembots out as prom dates, but the Japanese sure know their gaming fun: the GPS unit is actually used in the game! Wow!

We couldn’t wait to get our hands on it. Now we’ll have to wait longer. The MAPLUS portable GPS bundle for the PSP is sold out on Amazon Japan. Then again, it wouldn’t have done us much good because the mapping software only does Japan cities (?) (correct us if we understood the details incorrectly; our Japanese is as bad as our Klingon).

Anyway, about the whole GPS thing. Edia (or Edeia or Edea – it depends on your translator) has a GPS-mapping software that takes advantage of the PSP GPS receiver. Why Japan? Maybe it’s because Japan’s street names can be hard to figure out, and there are only a few places where streets run in straight rectangular grids. Will there be a US version? Maybe… we’ll have to see if Sony sees enough of a demand. (So start demanding already! Hehe.)

For now, it’s a good thing there’s Deniska’s Mapviewer (it’s a great map homebrew).

By the way, at the Amazon Japan page, we saw that “Customers who bought this item also bought Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.” Yeah, they may rent fembots out as prom dates, but the Japanese sure know their gaming fun: the GPS unit is actually used in the game! Wow!