Wait.... They actually released a game for the PSP? Worth owning? Wow!

To be honest though, how many game breaking hardware crashes have you had on a psp i am going to assume isn't modded :p.

Nintendo is known for scaling back hardware because it's familiar and easier to program with and is more stable. It's completely expected that their hardware would be reliable, which hilariously wasn't the case with launch wii's and their hardware issues, despite some occasional bricking which happened on the 360 as well, ps3 had some of the best hardware reliability in it's launch phase. I had 2 RROD's 1 bad wii GFX card and 1 wii drive breakdown, no ps3 issues to speak of yet.

More on topic, again how often do you actually see your psp breaking? i have any number of friends and acquaintances who have psps which work perfectly fine sans some really old ones with stuck pixels.

It's not the credibility of the core system i was throwing in question and your article had nothing to do with the system coming out broken.
TBH isn't referencing the launch window stability of the system somewhat moot, when all things considered recent/new purchasers will never see any of those old "broken" issues, and current owners are far past this time as well?

The point is, Sony shouldn't really be releasing a system that has needed *this* many updates, which means it's either meaningless busybodying, fruitless anti-piracy measures, or fixes to a broken system. None of those reasons are enough to make me feel better about putting up with bullshit when I want a demo or I'm trying to play a game while traveling somewhere.

It's a handheld system. The firmware update system, especially with such regularity, is not suited to a portable gaming environment.

i'll agree with the firmware issue not being suited to the portable environment.

A big seller is the get up and go play functionality.

I think the need to update firmware should be optional, or allow background downloading.
There should defiantly be a balance between getting in and playing an downloading required firmware updates.

I'm of the camp that firmware is necessary essentially and sometimes you have to take some bad tasting medicine to keep you 100%. I simply don't think it's fair to call sony so harshly out when all they are doing is actively supporting creating a more stable environment.

At least they're not 3Gig service paks a'la windows.

i don't think you know what a douchbag is.

If exercising some form of humility and offering a concession in my opinion is being a douchbag to you, then i have to salute your not-so-douchbag action of attacking my credibility indiscriminately with your not-so-douchbag vin diesel avatar.

"note: the above statement IS smug and douchbaggy of me"

agree with commander poopy pants buri is just a sony fan boy, and thus should be ignored, or a employee of sony themselves, and again thus should be ignored he starts of bashing jim for saying that FW updates are a pain in the ass, then says that the FW issue is not suited for a portable enviornment.....

i have had the PSP-1000, PSP-2000, and so far i have not had one technical problem, that said i seemd to have to update the firmware a hell of a lot untill i hacked it, since then i have not had to update my firmware once, and have not had a single hardware issue.....keep saying that its for t3h st4biliti3z untill you believe it, i sure as hell dont....

................... an update, I like those, yay?

@ Takeshi why are you comparing ps3 updates to PSP? i do not have that waste of money console, and think about it if you get a game for a portable, and that portable's battery is at 45% say, you end up having to wait somewhere in the vacinity of an hr just for the batt to charge, then the update goes through, all with providing nothing usefull to the client, i have not looked into PS3 FW updates, and what they contain, but since the web browser update on the PSP (4 yrs ago) i have not seen one single thing that sony has put in their FW updates that make it worth the hassle, and the locking of your system.

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