Ken Kurtagi adresses PSP flaws

Charles Starrett • Jan 24, 2005 • Comments ()

Today IGN posted a excerpt from an interview in the Nikkei Business magazine with Ken Kurtagi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment. Kurtagi seemed to think that many concerns coming to them, the biggest being buttons not returning to their original position, are simply complaints about the design. Of the current shipped PSP units, SCE has so far repaired 0.6% due to button problems.

"We didn't want to make the screen any smaller than it is, nor did we want to make the PSP system any larger," said Kurtagi. "The position of the buttons were exactly what we aimed for. These are the specifications. This is a product that I made, and these are its specifications. It's not the case that error was a made -- it was all my desire. I think we made the most beautiful thing in the world."