Keepin' it real fake, part XIX: the $9 "PSP"

Engadget reader Richard Heard came across this "PSP" in the Queen Victoria Markets, in Melbourne, Australia. The price: a mere AU$12 (US$9). Of course, this isn't the first PSP clone we've seen, but it may win the award for the cheapest one to actually dare to include "PSP" in its branding. Just who do they think they're fooling?

[Zack @ Jan 29th 2006 3:07PM]

A PSP I CAN AFFORD, AWESOME I WANT ONE!!!

[Alex @ Jan 29th 2006 3:17PM]

Uh Oh! Me sense someone enough of a dumbass to use the PSP logo on their rip-off. Me smells a lawsuit!

[Evan @ Jan 29th 2006 3:35PM]

X, Y, A and B buttons??? who the heck falls for THAT?

[Duckula @ Jan 29th 2006 3:46PM]

It probably has a better selection of games than the real PSP.

[Mark @ Jan 29th 2006 4:04PM]

What is "XVIV"?

[K @ Jan 29th 2006 4:09PM]

^^ hehehe

[phlavor @ Jan 29th 2006 4:17PM]

The people who buy those inevitably on the receiving end of these words, "No grandma, it's not the same thing. GOD! Don't you know anything?"

[Ethan @ Jan 29th 2006 4:27PM]

I think it should be XIX, not XVIV.

[tainted @ Jan 29th 2006 4:33PM]

I think he meant to use XIX, probably.

[Lexar @ Jan 29th 2006 4:42PM]

Let's see.....Rocky IV + Rocky V = Rocky IX

[Wildoman @ Jan 29th 2006 5:23PM]

I want one too!

[dave @ Jan 29th 2006 5:31PM]

how does this crap ever get to the stage where someone actually builds the thing...

http://www.bontragerphotography.com/psp/

[corporation @ Jan 29th 2006 6:00PM]

this is hot.

[Mike @ Jan 29th 2006 6:45PM]

Lol, no way, thats awesome. Me thinks i'll be off to the Queen Vic Market next weekend to get one. (and a Napoleon Dynamite T-Shirt).
But then again, $12 bucks seems a bit steep considering its a PSP, hmmm i might just stick with the t-shirt

[Tom Kelman @ Jan 29th 2006 7:10PM]

Err, the website stamped on the front of that psp fake has the name Richard Heard stamped on their homepage, the same guy that "came accross" this in aus.

[thetrash @ Jan 29th 2006 7:13PM]

The funny part about this is the fact that the psp in this article probably has no dead pixels, and a better game selection.

[dave @ Jan 29th 2006 7:43PM]

ho ho, funny number 16 ;)

I just spent 2 hours playing GTA, now im converting a DVD to watch on the train tomorrow and earlier I checked my gmail via the PSP while watching the F.A cup... boy do i regret not getting a DS :P

http://www.bontragerphotography.com/psp/

[Joost @ Jan 29th 2006 8:50PM]

Rocky II + Rocky V = Rocky VII Adrien's Revenge!

[nojok3 @ Jan 29th 2006 9:33PM]

#16-The guy's name is on the PSP as well...he did that so people can't copy the picture and not have that in the picture so the picture stays in his possession and if it doesn't, it gets posted with his website, so he can assume all credibility

[Gizmo Forum @ Jan 29th 2006 11:30PM]

Man that is the cheapest looking thing I have ever seen... wow, they have some balls to put that out there.

[Eltolad @ Jan 30th 2006 12:34AM]

Heads up, readers - this kind of piracy goes on throughout the world. Many times, the rip offs are so apparent (such as this one) that they seem almost hilarious. My wife is from Indonesia, you can find "Video Game Systems" that look just like the old 8-Bit Nintendo Entertainment System. Many times, the cartridges are packed full of pirated games as well. This one just happens to be the first to look like the PSP. Believe me, it will not be the last.

God bless!

[john mcgowan @ Jan 30th 2006 1:18AM]

if only the real PSP had a king of fighters game...

[Tait Brown @ Jan 30th 2006 2:34AM]

Can I just let you know that the Queen Victoria Markets in Melbourne arn't usually like this, the worst they manage to rip is sticking a really bad clip-art apple and the brand name on an obviously off-white ipod accessory.

Lawsuits will follow.

[andrwe @ Jan 30th 2006 2:53AM]

king of pretenders

[Idnas @ Jan 30th 2006 6:22AM]

It's unfortunate that the Original manufacturers of PSP couldn't bite a loss for two or three years during the initial stages of the Original PSP being on the market and not price the product so increadibly high. If the Original were made available to the general public at the onset at a lower price, piracy would be less likely to occur in the first place. Also, my son owns one of these, and I am pretty sure the knock-off cannot do what the real PSP can do.

[Dave @ Jan 30th 2006 9:34AM]

Man, some of you are seriously lacking in the humor department. Or humour... not sure which spelling's correct in Australia.

[Laurens @ Jan 30th 2006 10:47AM]

I want one!

[William @ Jan 30th 2006 1:46PM]

Can it play doom?

[Otis @ Jan 30th 2006 5:38PM]

That is just crazy. It has a b&w screen, or more like green and grey. Nine dollars?! This is just about the dumbest knockoff ever. Why does the company even bother making them?

[Mike @ Feb 1st 2006 3:49AM]

Hey Otis, this isn't really a serious knock off mate, its just there so that little kids will see them, buy them and then can pretend they have a PSP, which at the age of 4, can almost definitely not afford.

[Steve @ Feb 18th 2006 8:08PM]

All of you act like PSP is a bad system, it's better than Nintendo Revolution and PS3... I can't say that about X-Box 360 though, it is quite awesome. But PSP does have a lot of good qualities you aren't looking at. Sure the games are limited, but there will soon be an explosion of games for PSP, just like PS2, Gamecube, and X-Box.