PSP Slim and Lite slips to September 14th across Europe

We mentioned yesterday that the revised PSP model would miss its announced September 5th launch in the UK (an odd date, given that video games and hardware almost always come out on Fridays in Europe) but assumed the rest of the continent would get a chance to purchase the unit (again, an odd situation seeing as Sony likes to treat its European territories as one entity – but stranger things have happened).

That was the impression we got after visiting several French sites but, perhaps predictably, those same retailers have now brought the availability of the new PSP in line with their counterparts in the UK – September 14th.

The one remaining difference is that they continue to list the Ice Silver model as being available on that day, whereas over here our choice remains limited to the Piano Black finish.

Where the French appear to face the same restrictions as the British is in the lack of the official video-out cables with which to exploit the PSP's new function at launch.

However, the Germans have come to the rescue, with company Sunflex Europe announcing today that it is manufacturing two versions of the appropriate cable (composite and component). We don't know how easily it will be to obtain them but you can at least start off your research by reading about them here.