Why not to buy a PSP. (56k stay away) "Updated"

Why the hell was he telling me that? I don't care about you iPod.

 

I always did this, mostly because i never have money to buy these stuff when they are released. My PS1, although SCPH-1001 / 94000 was bought a year after release. Worked for 8 years flawlessly. Gonna repair it soon.

My PS2, is a 3001R (V5), has a modchip since the beggining and i'm going to put a newer one, Matrix Infinity, by the end of the week. Still works flawlessly.

I guess i'm lucky

PS: By the way, if you go to Lik-Sang.com and check the page they show the disassembled, you can see that the LCD is made by Sharp, not Sony.

 

Sony made a faulty console? Pish-posh!

 

How times have changed - I never heard of any faulty Hit-Bit MSX's when they came out...

My PSX has seen better days, too - I have to play it upside down to be on the safe side - and that was a 1996 model (5502)!

Also, it seems the PS2s started off crap, then got better around 2002, and then they moved production to China and they became crap again! I know someone who got a new PS2 this summer, and it's already making seriously dodgy-sounding clicking noises when loading stuff...

 

Apparently the 'Ridege Racers only lasts 90 mins to 3 hours' claim was either bullshit or from people using the psp out of the box with the 51% charge:

From the Gaming Age :

 

Of course Gamespot's test doesn't count...nope, not at all. They're not respectable...

Oh, but that reaction to the news report from the absolutely hilarious Spong is.

Give me a break.

 

Calm down. Gamespot's test mayhave been from a faulty, or not fully charged battery. Or else how is the test above from Gaming Age explained where they got 4 hours from a fully charged battery playing Ridge Racers on max brightness and 75% volume? There's an obvious discrepancy here.

What are you implying here? And how is Spong 'absolutely hilarious'?

einbebop, you know i respect you but you are getting way too sensitive over the DS and replies to your comments on the PSP. You've already said that you want the PSP to fail miserably so it's pretty clear where your attitude on the PSP and over-defensiveness on the DS is coming from, bias. You pretty much lose any image of objectivity when you blatantly say you want the PSP to 'fail miserably.'

 

That's pretty retarded of them to not charge the batteries first if they didn't - rechargeable batteries are NEVER EVER fully charged out of the box, and that's how it's always been! I know they may not have been able to read the manual, but seriously - who doesn't know this fact? Anyone who's ever even bought a mobile phone (and that's pretty much everyone between 10 and 75 these days) would have been told to charge them by the shop assisstants.

 

Spong is hilarious because of their often inaccuracies or colorful spins on events.

The hap-hazard marketing of the PSP, the subsequent lackluster line-up, the fact that the unit is nothing new, and finally, Sony's bullshit hype o meter about the graphics, capibilities, and, let's not forget, fake, self imposed launch shortages are why I wish the PSP to fail miserably. I'm sick of Sony's ridiculous business and marketing manuevers, and utter and complete lies about hardware. That is why I would like the PSP to fail miserably.

The PSP is simply a representation of the bullshit company Sony is. I am in no way comparing it to the DS, on its own merits, the PSP and Sony can die in flaming hell.

That being said, while I really hate Sony as pretty much a whole, I buy their game systems (not touching their shite consumer "products" with a ten foot pole), because I like the games. Thus, I will probably buy a PSP at launch, and contribute to Sony's take-over of the handheld market.

It's not entirely Sony's fault though. It seems to do with the problem of "being in the lead"--you become conceited, and act assholetastical. Nintendo certainly did it in the NES days, as they knew they had everyone hooked on their system. Same with Sony now. Except their whole company sucks monkey balls. I digress.

 

I actually DISPISE sony, with a PASSION and WAS loyal to Nintendo until they took the patent on portable emulation. Honestly, to me, with the exception of battery life (which is a BIG factor me as I'm rarely near an outlet, and when I am I dont plan on taking my charger with me EVERYWHERE I go) I think its the ONLY thing Sony has done right so far. Ive got to leave but I will explain later if I remember to come back to this topic

 

Source please.

 

That's the problem though. Sony has such a horrible record when it comes to hardware, that people are expecting the system to be loaded with flaws and faults, especially to first batch of systems.

 

GSL was kidding... :smt043

 

Stop this shitty talk about PSP x DS. Damn. :angry Move on! Discuss other stuff!

This Sony hate is getting ridiculous. If you don't like them, or their systems, don't buy! Sony makes bad products? (i agree at some extent). Buy from other company!

The funniest coments are about the LCD dead pixel. It's known to happen on LCD for ages, and people complain about them. Sharp makes the damn LCDs! The PSP is brand new, if you have a bad PSP, i'm sure they'll replace it. Think about the bad marketing if they don't.

I agree with Yakumo, about the shitty battery life. 6 hour (max) is terrible. Don't compare it to the Nomad or the GG, because they are old, and batteries technologies are different today. I think some company, will release a better battery in the future. I don't think it will be bigger than 10hours of life, but it will be an improvement.

One of the curious thing about people is how easy they endorse other people's opinion, and make it their own, without thinking about testing it first.

I won't say the PSP is bad before i test it in my hands.

 

:smt083 :smt082 Sarcasm is hard to tell when written.

Agree with Johnny whenever I open a thread about DS or PSP thinking I´ll get more information on each handheld it always ends up in a fight between the two :smt014 and this is happening on the whole damn net.

 

I think it was on Slashdot.

 

Cahaz, I wasnt being a sony fanboy...just to let you know, but Evangelion has said some pretty nintendo fanboyish things in the past...and if it was "sarcasm", I guess I didnt see it.

That aside, I dont bash systems, or glorify others, or make threads devoted to how crappy something is, im with Johnny, im tired of all the Sony hate, that gets old and repetitive.

 

I have nothing against the PSP but everything against Sony. I bought a $100 pair of headphones that seemed to be designed to break, when they did, they charged me $140 for the repair....which is bullshit. Then my MD which was $250 broke after 2 months of light use, the lid wouldn't close and it wouldn't record, when I sent it in for repairs it came back but the buttons didn't work...so now it sits on my desk, I might as well have burned the $350 I gave to sony.

 

you paid 40% more for the repair than the product itself...you sure you didn't deserve it.. :smt042 :smt082 :smt043

 

I didn't pay for the repair, that's just how much they were asking for it.