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Sony to PSP Owners: Just Adapt

Posted by Zonk on from the company-is-always-right dept.

Cymoro writes "In an article Gamespot posted recently Ken Kutaragi, Sony Computer Entertainment president, was quoted in a japanese business magazine about the PSP square button defect as saying "There may be people that complain about its usability, but that's something which users and game software developers will have to adapt to." Apparently, flaws are a feature."

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  1. Re:Good quote... by ZephyrXero · · Score: 5, Informative

    This sounds like classic Sony to me. Do note, I say this as a fact and not an opinion... Look at the original PS1 design with the ventilation on the BOTTOM of the console...or the way 1 in 10 or the first edition of the PS2 accidentally bumpped the laser's lens and DVD/CD against each other, ruining both game and system..... They'll change it, it'll just take a few months. To call the PSP's design "perfect" is a fairly wrong use of that word too.

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    "A truly wise man realizes he knows nothing."
  2. Re:.6% are flawed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    0.6% of the products were not broken, .6% of the people who bought one were annoyed enough (or had the button stick PERMANENTLY) to complain to Sony asking for a new one.

    You can see for yourself how the buttons line up here:

    http://www.gamesarefun.com/consoles/psp/square.jpg

    Having talked to people who own the console, when pressing right on the pad you can hear grinding on the side, the square button is less responsive than the other buttons and meets resistance about 2/3rds of the way down with an audible click. If you try to push over the pad, eventually the button gets stuck, and apparently can get stuck beneath the screen just by pushing straight down.

    This hardly new information, it's just that the major media is finally starting to pick up on it. Not owning up to a mistake that could be fixed by extending the unit an eighth of an inch or removing around two vertical columns of pixels is not only stupid, it's asanine.

  3. Re:"Flaws are a feature" by Raverrn · · Score: 2, Informative

    Quote from the article:
    "There was a clear purpose to it, and it wasn't a mistake."

    That's not how most people admit to a mistake, at least not where I live. Sounds more like he's being a pompus ass.