Abandon Ship!!!

Hmmm, gamesarefun.com is reporting Sony's newly released handheld is having some major problems with defective units.

Slashdot says:
"Among many to report on this issue, OneHungLo writes "GamesAreFun.com is reporting that several defective PSP units have been shipped, suffering from problems such as dead pixels, broken UMD drives, air bubbles in the screens, dust in the screens, and the analog "nubs" not working, or actually falling off. They also have a video of a UMD popping out of the PSP as it's running, due to the unit being twisted/turned. I wonder how long it will be until Sony issues an official statement about this?"

Link to actual article.
A nice movie of a game literally being lauched out during play.

Sony released a small 200,000 units this Sunday in Japan to which some 90% have already been sold. This is Sony's first attempt in the handheld arena so one might guess releasing a system that breaks before or when you touch it doesn't bode well with the consumer. Also the reported 6-10 hours of battery life seems to be a crock too as people now testing the system in real life conditions are saying about 90 minutes for graphic intensive games. (Early figures) And load times a plenty too.

All this bad news is a real bummer too since the decision to budget price the system to compete with Nintendo's DS really spiked my interest in it. When you actually hold it and feel the design and see the huge 16:9 screen sprawled over the entire face you'll be very tempted to jack the sucker who let you play and run away with it football style. Let's hope Sony fixes these sloppy mistakes and develops a battery that would actually make this handheld useful when it's not plugged into the wall.

And great original IP's would be nice too. Not interested in PS2 ports.

P.S.-How on earth did Sony get away with releasing such a shoddy, defective unit to the public? Usually if there's a mistake it's like one thing on a majority of units but this looks like everything is randomly wrong with it. Bubbles in the screen, dust under the screen, dead pixels, square buttons not lined properly with the circuitry underneath, the analog nub doesn't work or breaks off from use and some units won't boot up when you try turning them on. Oh, and games fly out of the system. Read all of that again. Who in their right mind would let this thing go to market? I wish upon them many sleepless nights of tossing and turning; but no twisting cause they might suddenly fly out of bed!

Think of those poor, poor early adopters.