hmm, well i guess this was bought and paid for way before the economic crisis. The issue is whether this will revitalise the PSP market share. Nothing else has been working so we'll see.
I agree the design is weak and clumsy but this is whats happened to Sony, there designs just arn't as great as they used to be. Would have suited the old widescreen look better if the buttons slide out from each side, like racing wheel grip, im thinking Game gear style, and there wouldn't be complaints about the squashed controls underneath.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
