Breaking: PSPgo dismemberment reveals battery placement chicanery!
You remember when Sony said that the PSPgo battery would be untouchable in an effort to curb piracy? Well, it turns out that the battery can be removed, but that Sony thought it could simply slap a warranty-voiding sticker over the thing to try and dissuade people, rather than employ some sort of competent security.
That's about the only reason I can think of for Sony doing this, effectively ending the warranty of anybody who feels the need to replace their PSPgo battery. The battery itself is not soldered in place, which makes this sticker a rather lazy (and likely ineffective) way of discouraging homebrewers from screwing with the machine's innards. Not to mention the fact that iFixit believes patient pirates will be able to slip the battery out while leaving the sticker intact.
In other news, the PSPgo has no metal framework whatsoever, meaning that its entire structural integrity is provided by a thin plastic shell. The original PSP never exactly felt durable, but you can expect this one to require as much care as a baby with brittle bone disease. One wonders how much this $250 device actually costs to make.
Still, that battery thing is hilarious. Just whacking a sticker on the thing? Come on, Sony -- even the constant, irritating firmware updating is a better idea than this, and that idea was sh*t.
[Thanks, electro lemon]
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9:20 AM on 09.23.2009
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Sony, we wanted an internal flash drive to install our games to so that we could increase the system's battery life due to the massive energy drain the UMD drive is. By having the battery life be even worse than a regular PSP playing games of a memory stick, you already neutered a decent portion of your target audience.
The only people that I can see buying this iteration of the PSP is those who have yet to purchase any past iteration of the PSP and/or those who have plenty of expendable income.
Still the PSPgo is evil.
With a strongly worded questionnaire to determine piracy
Sony: Did you pirate this
Not Idiot: No
please tell me the battery is the same size as the current gen psp. wow.
I fucking HATE firmware updates. Nothing pisses me off more then "hooray, my copy of Dissidia is in, lets pop it in on the way home to play i-"FIRMWARE NEEDS TO BE UPDATED< INSTALL NAO?"
FFFFFFFFFFFF!!!
If there were such a thing as a nuclear-powered facepalm, this piss-poor excuse for an ill-conceived clusterfuck would be deserving of at least a dozen.
The fact that its held together with nothin but plastic might be a reason.
Then, you know... cracked... dur hur pun.
It just seems like the ever time I read about it on this site, the writer is taking whatever problems the system has very personally.
I understand that this is one of those "personality" based blogs, but dial it back a bit, please?