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Dualmask

Monday, Oct 19, 2009
WTF...stupid PSP.

I just got a refurbished PSP (replacing a damaged one) from Sony a little over a week ago, and this morning it started acting up. The D-pad has gone crazy. Don't ask me how, but for some reason every direction is Up. Press down, go up. Press left, go up. Press right, you get it. Naturally, this makes using the system virtually impossible.

It irks me because I just got this supposedly factory authorized guaranteed like-new PSP-2000 and it's already messed up again. I've tried pressing the d-pad keys harder to no avail...it's just screwed.

Worst part is yesterday it worked fine, and it didn't take any significant damage, it didn't get wet, nothing went wrong. I played it for a while yesterday and kept it in my coat pocket as I usually do, and this morning, it stopped functioning properly.

I really love the PSP, but I'm down to only 3 UMD games and 4 UMD movies.I don't want to leave it behind, but the problems I've had with the console (this would be replacement #3) are making me strongly consider it.

Either that or be one of the six people on earth to buy a PSP Go.

Category: Technology
Posted by Dualmask, 5:42am
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nate1222
nate1222
Dude, I ditched the PSP months ago. Sold it to a Katusa in Korea. The DS, on the other hand, has yet to give me problems. I think that Sony just made the PSP too intenernally complicated. Sometimes, genius is in simplicity.
Posted Oct 19, 2009 6:31 am PT
Dualmask
Dualmask
@nate1222, yeah, must be. Really, Sony's products are so freakin shoddy. Well, the PSP-1000 wasn't...that thing was a tank. It just died from old age and mistreatment (like letting my then-two-year-old son get his hands on it). But the two PSP-2000s I've gone through now have proven to be super-fragile. Even though I could send this PSP back and get it replaced for free (since the last repair gave me a 90-day warranty), I'm thinking I might not bother. I might just sell it and use the money toward something else, like a DSi (I already have a DS Lite but what the heck).
Posted Oct 19, 2009 7:32 am PT
Madmangamer364
Madmangamer364
Man... that's just not right. Unless you bashed the thing with a sledgehammer, ran over it with a cement truck, or something like that, there shouldn't be a reason for your refurbished PSP to just go nuts like that. I can definitely understand some of your frustration, considering that you just went through the task of sending your old system to Sony, which isn't exactly the most entertaining thing to do. I think if I were you, I would chalk this incident up as bad luck and give it one more go, especially if it costs nothing to you to do so.

Still, that hurts...
Posted Oct 19, 2009 4:01 pm PT
Dualmask
Dualmask
@Madmangamer364 Yeah, I whine, but I'm just going to go ahead and get the thing replaced or repaired again. But only because I can do so for free. If it weren't for that, I'd be done with PSP. Done.
Posted Oct 20, 2009 8:50 am PT
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