problems arise for some PSPs

[London Geezer]

No, it really doesn't seem he's twisting the PSP at all :?

But I do disagree about the Sony launch product quality.
My PS2 was bought at european launch, and it has had zero problems, even the original DualShock2 lasted until late last year whan the O button started to stick (I did fix that by opening it and cleaning the button contact from plastic dust that had collected there, but still I bought a new controller)

Dust?
.......... Dust doesn't get sticky........... Errrrrrr............

 

[rabidrabbit]

well, not sticky as the button stuck at the "on" position, but "sticky" in that it didn't always contact, so it kinda stuck on "off" position... should that have been "stucky"?

To this day I've restrained from using the DS as a sex toy, though it did cross my mind when played "REZ" and read abut some women enjoying the Trance Vibrator.

 

[Mulciber]

The PSP. or DS really are not meant to be carried in your trouser pockets. I don't think it would even come to most (sane) peoples minds to put a device of their sizes in such a tight place.
How many people even carry their cell-phones in their trousers back or front pockets, and they are much smaller than PSP r DS
There are at least two reasons such devices are not pocketable:
1. If you put it in your back pocket, it will fall off there when you walk.
2. If you put it in your front pocket, you'll feel like you're trying to walk with a massive hard-on inside your thight jeans.

Most people don't carry their cellphones in their pocket because when they receive a call while driving or sitting down, it very difficult to pull it out and by the time you do eventually pull it out your VM kicks in.

That's why MEN carry them on their belts while women usually keep it in their purse. I wouldn't carry a huge PSP on my belt becaue 1. You'd look like a dork. 2. You'd look like a dork that is showing off.

hah, yea, because its so easy to find something in a womans purse. i carry my phone in my pocket, but thats because its about 1/4 the size of a psp or a nds.

 

[Kalin]

The PSP. or DS really are not meant to be carried in your trouser pockets. I don't think it would even come to most (sane) peoples minds to put a device of their sizes in such a tight place.
How many people even carry their cell-phones in their trousers back or front pockets, and they are much smaller than PSP r DS
There are at least two reasons such devices are not pocketable:
1. If you put it in your back pocket, it will fall off there when you walk.
2. If you put it in your front pocket, you'll feel like you're trying to walk with a massive hard-on inside your thight jeans.

I agree you're not supposed to carry such a portable in your trouser pockets, as you wouldn't carry your Walkman or PDA, but the PSP and DS should definitely be designed for easy carrying without a backpack. E.g. in your jacket pocket. A non-pocketable PSP is a dead PSP, end of story, it's a light-weight home console with batteries and screen - far from Sony's PR and vision of a 21st century Walkman. This means it has to be prepared for exposure to significant twisting and vibrations - in a car, while riding your bicycle, jogging etc.

Nothing a very simple revision won't fix

This is a very poor excuse. It's called a low-quality product.

That said I have to question the validity of any early reports... We have to wait a little before making any conclusions on PSP quality, and I doubt it's a significant number of the units having any problems. Sony have the know-how to make a portable, with an exceptional quality.

 

[rabidrabbit]

You didn't jog or cycle with the 1st gen Walkmans, as they would have skipped a lot if you did
..or was it DiscMans :?

 

[Kalin]

You didn't jog or cycle with the 1st gen Walkmans, as they would have skipped a lot if you did
..or was it DiscMans :?

As you weren't expecting a lot of the battery of the first GameBoys, nor would you expect s SNES to support your widescreen HDTV... what's your point? The PSP with Sony's Connect service is trying to take on iPod, remember?

Again - I expect no skipping problems in PSP, judging from what I have been witnessing a MiniDisc Walkman take, while recording, and all, repeatedly, it's probably a minor set of the units being defective, which is nothing to write home about.

 

[Berserk]

doesnt seem that forceful to me.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cf6y-oot/umd/fly_004.avi
never buy a sony product at launch imo.

Oh come on! That's fake. What's the chance that it pops open when the ingame voice says "3, 2, 1 GOOO" and then the UMD flies out.... Yeah right

This is easily cheated by pressing the OPEN button yourself but hiding your fingers behind the PSP.

I don't believe this bullshit except the dust behind the screen, the dead pixels and bubbles maybe.

Now look at this

Which are fake, and which IS real?

 

[Teasy]

The PSP. or DS really are not meant to be carried in your trouser pockets. I don't think it would even come to most (sane) peoples minds to put a device of their sizes in such a tight place.
How many people even carry their cell-phones in their trousers back or front pockets, and they are much smaller than PSP r DS
There are at least two reasons such devices are not pocketable:
1. If you put it in your back pocket, it will fall off there when you walk.
2. If you put it in your front pocket, you'll feel like you're trying to walk with a massive hard-on inside your thight jeans.

Well if you constantly wear tight jeans then no you wouldn't be able to put a DS in your pocket (what sort of sane person always wears tight jeans? ). But for the none tight jean obsessed its no problem. I've worked once or twice with a DS in my pocket (and no that's not a euthomism ) and its not a problem. I think people need actually try something like this before commenting on it. Instead of just looking at a picture and guessing..

 

[darkblu]

Oh come on! That's fake. What's the chance that it pops open when the ingame voice says "3, 2, 1 GOOO" and then the UMD flies out.... Yeah right

i don't see a problem with that. if the psp is susceptible to twisting issues to a degree that it can open its disk bay what is the problem for people to master the mechanics causing that at will? question is, is the PSP frame that soft to twist?

 

[London Geezer]

Oh come on! That's fake. What's the chance that it pops open when the ingame voice says "3, 2, 1 GOOO" and then the UMD flies out.... Yeah right

i don't see a problem with that. if the psp is susceptible to twisting issues to a degree that it can open its disk bay what is the problem for people to master the mechanics causing that at will? question is, is the PSP frame that soft to twist?

That was my question...

 

[see colon]

the twisting, i think, comes mostly from people holding the psp toghtly in their left hand while pushing the dpad/analoug stick with some force forward.

i cary my ds in my front pocket. i only buy pants large enough to accomadate my needs.

every sony optical drive i've ever owned has died on me. i have a panasonic cd player that i've had so long it doesn't support any cd-r/rw playback at all, that i've used exclusivly for years (untill i got a burner, actualy) that i've dropped twice while moving, and it still functions perfectly, dispite the dents and scratches to it's outer casing. i've owned 6 psx's and 2 sega saturns. both saturns still work, and i played them on the rug with the vents plugged for 2 months just to prove a point after sony wanted nearly the price of the system to fix a psx 3 days after the warrenty expired.

so as a disclaimer, i'm biased against sony hardware.

 

[Kalin]

the twisting, i think, comes mostly from people holding the psp toghtly in their left hand while pushing the dpad/analoug stick with some force forward.

i cary my ds in my front pocket. i only buy pants large enough to accomadate my needs.

every sony optical drive i've ever owned has died on me. i have a panasonic cd player that i've had so long it doesn't support any cd-r/rw playback at all, that i've used exclusivly for years (untill i got a burner, actualy) that i've dropped twice while moving, and it still functions perfectly, dispite the dents and scratches to it's outer casing. i've owned 6 psx's and 2 sega saturns. both saturns still work, and i played them on the rug with the vents plugged for 2 months just to prove a point after sony wanted nearly the price of the system to fix a psx 3 days after the warrenty expired.

so as a disclaimer, i'm biased against sony hardware.

A question: does it say Made in Japan, or Made in Malaysia? I've never seen a broken portable Sony product with the sticker "Made in Japan" on it. Lots of the Ms though...

 

[see colon]

does what say it? i've owned several sony products.

 

[Kalin]

does what say it? i've owned several sony products.

The Sony products that failed you - were they made in Japan?

 

[see colon]

to be honest, i'm not sure. ones that i can remember are....

mini-disk player
at least 2 "boom box" type cd players
a cd-r/rw drive
4 ps1's thateither quite working or only worked upside down
1 ps2 that was getting flakey so i sold it to eb

since i no longer have the broken items i can't check where they were made.

-edit-
i just wanna say that my bias against sony doesn't stop me from buying their gaming related stuff. i'm a gamer first and foremost. i just don't buy sony gaming hardware without an extended "covers everything" warrenty. that's also my policy with anything portable. anytrhing i can drop or scratch easily gets ESA'd.

 

[rabidrabbit]

I wonder from the video where the UMD flies from the PSP, how does it fly with such speed? If the disk door is ejected during play, will it pop out so that it flies several meters?

I'm starting to have my suspiscions that video is indeed fake. Was the disk door already open so that the disk is dropped (is the PSP actually held almost upside down, so the disk actually falls off downwards rather than springs from the PSP). As you know, most games do play from the buffer for a couple of seconds even after the disk is removed.

 

[StefanS]

Now look at this

Which are fake, and which IS real?

OK, I'll take the bait. The upper and the lower are definitely fake. Not sure about the one in the middle, I just can't tell. it might be real or he might not be.

 

[darkblu]

I wonder from the video where the UMD flies from the PSP, how does it fly with such speed? If the disk door is ejected during play, will it pop out so that it flies several meters?

I'm starting to have my suspiscions that video is indeed fake. Was the disk door already open so that the disk is dropped (is the PSP actually held almost upside down, so the disk actually falls off downwards rather than springs from the PSP). As you know, most games do play from the buffer for a couple of seconds even after the disk is removed.

then you haven't seen that other video where you can see an UMD almost poping out of the PSP bread-loafs-out-of-a-toaster-style when the bay is getting opened. i can easily imagine how the disk would get ejected away from the device if the latter is being held with the bay side down. plus, keep in mind the view angle of the flying disk video may only create the impression the disk flies far, it could just as well be predominantly downwards.

 

[thop]

Jeez, that's a lot of problems for the PSP. Sounds just like a SONY launch allright And what's with the 1,5h-3h battery life for RR PSP i keep hearing about? I mean now that 200,000 PSPs are out do we STILL have no solid information on batterylife?

I wonder if SONY is gonna make a no dead pixel policy? With the money they're already losing on the PSP it's probably gonna be suicide.

 

[marconelly!]

I mean now that 200,000 PSPs are out do we STILL have no solid information on batterylife?

We have. There are many people reporting that you can play Ridge Racers for about 5 hours with max screen brightness.