Sony to PSP Community: No, YOU'RE wrong!

[lbd_nytetrayn]

From Penny Arcade Forums, quoting a Gamespot article where Sony makes no apologies for the sticking Square button on the PSP:

Sony PR wrote: This is the design that we came up with. There may be people that complain about its usability, but that's something which users and game software developers will have to adapt to.

My reply:

What a maroon.

This explains a lot, though.

Those aren't burned-out pixels; they're "strategically-selected spaces for the conservation of battery power to give the PSP a longer life."

The ejecting software isn't a flaw, either; "it's to save the game itself for when the PSP starts to burst into flames or lose power."

And the buttons that fall off? They're "just contoured to your fingers, and you're letting go of the system too quickly."

Man, they thought of EVERYthing.

LBD "Nytetrayn"

Comments

[piratedtv.livejournal.com]

How about this? Make it slightly bigger and give me buttons that will work? Think about that one?

[lbd-nytetrayn.livejournal.com]

"This is the design that we came up with. There may be people that complain about its usability, but that's something which users and game software developers will have to adapt to. I didn't want the PSP's LCD screen to become any smaller than this, nor did I want its machine body to become any larger."

LBD "Nytetrayn"

[guido-jacobs.livejournal.com]

Nintendo DS is awesome, by the way

[storm-wolfe.livejournal.com]

How about Sony 'adapts' to failure when I, and a shitload of other people, refuse to purchase their second rate crap. Oh, and by the way celebrities... no one gives a fuck about you or your opinions of how 'sexy' the PSP is.

[decemberism.livejournal.com]

"I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architect's blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It's the same as that."

Uh, hi? I don't care how renownwed you are. If I feel the gate isn't in the right spot, I have -every- right to criticize it. I mean, how hard is it to move everything around?

Wait, no. Don't answer that.

[gelgameth.livejournal.com]

And in the case of the PSP, it's far easier than correcting the position of said renown gate...

And it's not like Sony's demonstrated much divine creativity. They took the SNES controller, made it bigger and stuck more buttons on it (Buttons that rarely get used). Then they started tacking more controls ontop of that..

With the PSP.. They made a functional error.. and it could easily be corrected just by cutting ONE PART differently. And they're making a big stink about how they're not gonna do it. These are not the architects of the Tower of Pisa discovering too late that the ground can't support it. These guys are just MORONS.

[galapagos29.livejournal.com]

The ironic part is that they compare the button flaws to a "gate". Um, if the gate were to collapse on me as I walked under it, shouldn't I have every right to criticize it?

That guy annoys me so damn much...