From an article on GameSpot, Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi comments on the unresponsiveness of one of the PSP buttons: "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."

He's picked the wrong analogy, of course. That gate still works. This is more like a renowned architect making the gate too thin and too short, so a significant percentage of the population can't get through. And that architect will get slammed for making such an idiotic design decision.

I would like a PSP. WipEout has ALWAYS been a weakness of mine. But reports like this and the ability to fire the game media out of the system make me nervous as to whether I can trust the damn thing to last.