PSP Defects Reported

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Grand Master

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I own a sony digital camera, sony camecorder, and sonyplaystation.. And none have every given me problems our have broken. I have owned sony products for a long time and never had defective parts.  Quality has always been great from sony. This is just a bad batch that has come out, it will be fixed.  Who would have thought twisting an electronic device in ways it wasnt meant to be twisted would do something bad :rolleyes: And how many flatpanel monitors have been sold with dead pixels, must not be alot if they come with a 8 dead pixles or more for a refund policy :rolleyes:

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Agreed. Every Sony item I have ever owned has been of superb quality and has lasted far longer than I expected. A friend of mine still has one of the first portable CD players they ever released - its something crazy like 15 years old and it still works fine.

Its a bad batch and the problem will be fixed for certain. Sony don't skimp on quality - I don't care WHAT the fanboys say. I've owned a number of MiniDisc players, CD players, Playstations.. all fine. And their TV's are superb and seemingly indestructible!

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And for every 1 that says they have not had problems there are 5 who had to replace their PS2s (at least from the accounts I've heard/read). It's ironic actually, practically all of my AV equipment is Sony and no problems but I never latched on to their gaming side of things.

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Wouldn't surprise me. I was watching X-Play, and Morgan was wrecking these systems.

PS2 was out first, Xbox second (lost the power button :p), and Gamecube won. Proves that Nintendo makes some pretty durable stuff.

Also, with my years of Nintendo experience, (every single GB from the first to SP) I've dropped each of them many times (once down a flight of stairs into my basement :wacko: ) and they all worked just fine. I find that to be pretty good, since I'm practically abusing these Game Boys. :p

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These are some of the dumbest points I've ever read. How can you all use arguments that are TOTALLY subjective? "Oh a friend of a friend of mine had all his Nintendo products break down at once, same with all of his friends too!" :rolleyes:

What's with these idiots who reak of fanboy-ism too? This fool ABC tries to put down the PSP any chance he gets. Is your life so meaningless that you need to go on a forum to reassure yourself that buying the DS wasn't a complete waste of money?

And yes, every product's first shipment has bugs. Do I think it's fair? Hell no, but I don't make tons of money to buy the latest things right when they launch so it doesn't matter to me, let the rich people have the problems. Sony is notorius for launching things (half) broken and fixing them later; they do this with almost anything they release, from games (Everquest) to consoles. There are some things I would NEVER think about buying from Sony because they are made so poorly, like MiniDisc players, MP3 players (WTF is this ATRAC ****?), and 1st gen consoles. Then there are others I would prefer be made by Sony like their cell phones (which I think are generally very well made), and TVs.

As for the DS vs. PSP, --if you look at this objectively and without bias-- in all honesty the PSP is better value for the money and the superior console. It costs like $25-50 more than a DS and provides so much more. I mean, for $185USD it's an okay price for a very nice looking handheld with a huge screen but to be able to play your own movies and MP3's, it's an even better deal. If Nintendo were the ones to make the PSP instead of Sony I would still buy it, but as is, the DS looks like it was designed for a 8 year old who likes dropping the system a lot; it just doesn't look good, period. I'm also not a fan of rated E games like Pokemon and crap like that. If I recall correctly, the only game for the GBA created for older audiences was probably Max Payne.

Phew, that was a long rant but I'm happy to get it off my chest.

ABC and a half!

(LMAO.)

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These are some of the dumbest points I've ever read. How can you all use arguments that are TOTALLY subjective? "Oh a friend of a friend of mine had all his Nintendo products break down at once, same with all of his friends too!"  :rolleyes:

What's with these idiots who reak of fanboy-ism too? This fool ABC tries to put down the PSP any chance he gets. Is your life so meaningless that you need to go on a forum to reassure yourself that buying the DS wasn't a complete waste of money?

And yes, every product's first shipment has bugs. Do I think it's fair? Hell no, but I don't make tons of money to buy the latest things right when they launch so it doesn't matter to me, let the rich people have the problems. Sony is notorius for launching things (half) broken and fixing them later; they do this with almost anything they release, from games (Everquest) to consoles. There are some things I would NEVER think about buying from Sony because they are made so poorly, like MiniDisc players, MP3 players (WTF is this ATRAC ****?), and 1st gen consoles. Then there are others I would prefer be made by Sony like their cell phones (which I think are generally very well made), and TVs.

As for the DS vs. PSP, --if you look at this objectively and without bias-- in all honesty the PSP is better value for the money and the superior console. It costs like $25-50 more than a DS and provides so much more. I mean, for $185USD it's an okay price for a very nice looking handheld with a huge screen but to be able to play your own movies and MP3's, it's an even better deal. If Nintendo were the ones to make the PSP instead of Sony I would still buy it, but as is, the DS looks like it was designed for a 8 year old who likes dropping the system a lot; it just doesn't look good, period. I'm also not a fan of rated E games like Pokemon and crap like that. If I recall correctly, the only game for the GBA created for older audiences was probably Max Payne.

Phew, that was a long rant but I'm happy to get it off my chest.

ABC and a half!

(LMAO.)

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word. every product starts off having slight flaws, sometimes qc (quality control) doesnt pick up on everything. this can be seen in games, softwares, products etc. those who wants their products on their hands first will have to realize that its a completely new product theyre buying. electronic gadgets, becoming more sophisticated, has so many tiny parts that its hard to keep everything right. of course the company blames it on qc and testing, but they cant do anything about it, and fix it up in later releases.

i dotn see how the recent rampage of the psp flaws are such a big deal. for heaven sakes its not even released worldwide. feel lucky that the rich and japanese are actually testing the product for you until the america launch.

ABC and a quarter! :no:

Grand Master

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Wouldn't surprise me.  I was watching X-Play, and Morgan was wrecking these systems.

PS2 was out first, Xbox second (lost the power button :p), and Gamecube won.  Proves that Nintendo makes some pretty durable stuff.

Also, with my years of Nintendo experience, (every single GB from the first to SP) I've dropped each of them many times (once down a flight of stairs into my basement  :wacko: ) and they all worked just fine.  I find that to be pretty good, since I'm practically abusing these Game Boys.  :p

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again, how does one case prove anything?

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again, how does one case prove anything?

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Have you ever seen the video where they hung a gamecube out of the back of a car and dragged it at 30-40mph bouncing like crazy for awhile? When they tried to play a game on it after this it still worked. The PS2 is famous for not being very durable; the laser spindle inside of it is extremely delicate. My PS2 has trouble reading cd based games sometimes and I have never moved it from my tv and I treat everything I own extremely well (my friends and family tell me I am a freak). My roommates PS2 fell off the shelf he had it on and his spindle got busted... Guess that's what we get for buying PS2s the day they came out. Owell, most games are on dvd, and after a few tries cds still work for me :p.

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Have you ever seen the video where they hung a gamecube out of the back of a car and dragged it at 30-40mph bouncing like crazy for awhile?  When they tried to play a game on it after this it still worked.  The PS2 is famous for not being very durable; the laser spindle inside of it is extremely delicate.  My PS2 has trouble reading cd based games sometimes and I have never moved it from my tv and I treat everything I own extremely well (my friends and family tell me I am a freak).  My roommates PS2 fell off the shelf he had it on and his spindle got busted...  Guess that's what we get for buying PS2s the day they came out.  Owell, most games are on dvd, and after a few tries cds still work for me :p.

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I bought a PS2 on the day it came out. Went through 5 of those junky models. But sony replaced all of them, now they finally gave me a v10. Sony makes up for their mistakes.

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,Dec 18 2004, 00:03]Wouldn't surprise me.  I was watching X-Play, and Morgan was wrecking these systems.

PS2 was out first, Xbox second (lost the power button :p), and Gamecube won.  Proves that Nintendo makes some pretty durable stuff.

Also, with my years of Nintendo experience, (every single GB from the first to SP) I've dropped each of them many times (once down a flight of stairs into my basement  :wacko: ) and they all worked just fine.  I find that to be pretty good, since I'm practically abusing these Game Boys.  :p

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I was just able to get a video of that.

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