Arrogance? Stupidity? Corporate-Speak? Or something else? You decide!

[Great Rumbler]

TOKYO--About 4,800 Japanese PSPs have been returned to Sony due to problems with the handheld's square button, according to a recent interview with Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi in Nikkei Business magazine.

Kutaragi acknowledged that the button is less responsive than the others, in part because it's so close to the PSP's 480x272 screen. Because there isn't enough room to put the square button's detection switch directly underneath, it's off to the right, making it less responsive--and sometimes causing it to stick.

Nikkei Business reported that, to date, .6 percent of the 800,000 shipped units have been returned to Sony for repair. Kutaragi was unapologetic about the issue: "This is the design that we came up with. There may be people that complain about its usability, but that's something which users and game software developers will have to adapt to. I didn't want the PSP's LCD screen to become any smaller than this, nor did I want its machine body to become any larger.

"The button's location is [architectured] on purpose," Kutaragi added. "It's according to specifications. This is something that we've created, and this is our specification. There was a clear purpose to it, and it wasn't a mistake."

Offering additional testimony praising the handheld, Kutaragi said, "I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architect's blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It's the same as that."

Tranlation: We enjoy making products that are faulty.

Gamespot

[OB1]

Gotta love that Sony prez.


P.S. OLD news! :p

[Great Rumbler]

Gotta love that Sony prez.

He definitely loves his products, shoddy though they are.

P.S. OLD news!

[OB1]

http://www.wellexcusemeprincess.com/

[EdenMaster]

Offering additional testimony praising the handheld, Kutaragi said, "I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architect's blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It's the same as that."

Yeah, it's just like an architect building a gate three inches from a wall on the side of the building. t's a design flaw and they won't fess up to it. Sony's not big on the whole idea of "quality hardware", are they?

[A Black Falcon]

Bah, quality, who needs it when you can have quantity?

[Dark Jaguar]

I have a better architectual blunder that points out how totally silly this comparison is on this guy, who shall henceforth be known as Mr I'm a frickin' egotistical jerk.

Let's say someone designs a lovely bridge, looking excellent, very thinly designed, and exactly to specifications. The next day, it collapses because the laws of physics said no to the design.

You see how that works? It doesn't matter if THEY like it if the design fails. Just be glad Sony, or more to the point this specific person, isn't actually constructing buildings.

[OB1]

I just hope the square button isn't as bad as everyone says it is.

[Great Rumbler]

Nobody would criticize a renowned architect's blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It's the same as that.

I'm sure that's what the people that made the Leaning Tower of Pizza said. Too bad the whole thing leaned to one said and became a huge joke...then a huge tourist attraction. Go figure.

[A Black Falcon]

The Leaning Tower of Pizza? I seem to a remember a restaurant with that name on Route 1 near Boston... :)

[OB1]

Haha, that was actually witty, ABF! Bravo!

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.gethep.net/road/dine-pizzatower.html :)

[Great Rumbler]

Be that as it may, I'm talking about this Leaning Tower of Pizza:

[OB1]

The joke is that you spelled the name wrong. It's Pisa.

[A Black Falcon]

This is the Leaning Tower of Pizza. I should know, I've driven past it many times...

[Great Rumbler]

It's Pisa.

AGH, I knew it should've been spelled that way!! Stupid, Google...

[A Black Falcon]

Did you really need to tell him so soon, OB1? :D

[Great Rumbler]

Google, you...you tricked me...*cries*

Incidentally, I actually found quite a few sites that spelled it "pizza", weird...

[Dark Jaguar]

Didn't you have to type it INTO google as pizza to find them all like that? You got it wrong from the start.

[OB1]

Hahaha, Bo Jackson forgives you, Johnny. Bo Jackson forgives you.

[A Black Falcon]

If you beg for his forgiveness, that is...

Didn't you have to type it INTO google as pizza to find them all like that? You got it wrong from the start.

Yup. :)

[Great Rumbler]

First I put "Pesa" which didn't work, so then I thought "it can't be pizza...right?" So I typed it in and found a whole bunch of sites that listed it as pizza so I said "Huh...maybe it is pizza after all...?"

[OB1]

There are a lot of dumb people on the internet, so it's no surprise that you found that.

[A Black Falcon]

True. :)

[Great Rumbler]

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[OB1]

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[Dark Jaguar]

You know if they spelled the name of it wrong then the accuracy of the rest of their info should at the very least be suspect.