PSP Lite owners?

[KANG the Crybaby]

PSP: Slim/Lite/2000/Electric Boogaloo, whatever you wanna call it.

Anyone own one?

Did they fix the D Pad and Buttons from the fatty? I heard they were raised, but were they raised enough? Since I don't wanna have to mod the system just to play games like Alpha 3. I'm gonna be in Tokyo soon and the temptation of buying titles like Initial D Arcade Stage is gonna be too much.

Is the slim a solid system with the controls fixed?

[Specineff]

From what I hear, the D-pad is raised high enough that people can play Gradius collection the way God intended. But the system itself feels made of El Cheapo plastic all over.

[KANG the Crybaby]

From what I hear, the D-pad is raised high enough that people can play Gradius collection the way God intended. But the system itself feels made of El Cheapo plastic all over.

Yeah a kid in one of my art classes one day dropped his PSP on the floor, and the entire back of the case popped off! I don't know the dude so I didn't get a chance to ask him about it, but he only dropped it a few feet.

Is the first PSP of a higher build quality as far as material goes?

I'm sure a good 70% of the price of that system comes from the huge LCD screen, that's why they cheap out on things like the UMD door and the casing.

[Frogacuda]

Both PSPs and the DS Lite are made of much more brittle plastic than they should. It looks nice, but it isn't durable.

[The Bastard]

The PSP Lite isn't the most durable thing in the world, but I don't think the original was all that tough either. If you aren't some button smashing maniac whose clumsy, the system should survive. The buttons and D-Pad which are raised slightly are much better for the fighting games than that old shitty one. The weight difference between the two is ridiculous. All I can say is that it does feel really cheap, but the positives of the system out weigh the negatives to the point where I can overlook them.