Congratulations, all present and future PSP owners:  You get a free defective square button, courtesy of Sony and their hardware design team.  Apparently, because of space limitations due to the large screen, the square button sensor had to be placed at an angle below the button itself, instead of directly below it.  As a result, the square button is universally less responsive than the other shape buttons.  Oops.

What's funny, though, is that Sony isn't apologetic at all.  Their stance on the issue bacisally equates to, "We designed it this way, deal with it."  I don't know about you, but if I were playing Gran Turismo on the PSP, I sure as hell wouldn't want my brake button to be anything less than responsive.

 

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BreakmanX (AKA Matthew Nyquist) founded BreakmanX.com in 2001 after having small video game websites since around 1996. Things really took off in September of 2002 when he started The Game Show with Richie. BreakmanX.com quickly developed a tight knit community of gamers as the crew covered major industry events and interviewed top industry talent. Break later went to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts to get his MFA in Film and TV Production. He worked in Hollywood for seven years with people like Fred Roos (The Godfather Trilogy, Star Wars) and Dane Davis (The Matrix). He's now gone full circle and returned to Kansas to write and direct a feature film (EyesOpenMovie.com), relaunch The Game Show (BreakmanX.com), and spend his day time hours as an tenured Associate Professor.

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