PS3 Slim
To be fair, this one has behaved pretty well. I bought it in 2011 or so, used, and it's been pretty much perfect. I've carried it half way across the world from Japan to Sweden and then back to Japan again and it works just fine. Despite being the "slim" version it's still sort of big and bulky so I guess that's why I'm not having any trouble with it. I did have an issue where the controller would just randomly start pushing buttons on its own but this just kind of went away on its own. I have no idea what caused it and no idea what fixed it but I'm just happy I can play my games. That's more of a controller issue than a system issue anyway.
PS2 Slim
I bought this guy a few years ago when I came back to Japan long term. Generally speaking it works pretty well but there was one issue about a year ago that pissed me off pretty hard. My wife fired up the thing to play Kamaitachi no Yoru 2 with her friends where the system just wouldn't make the disc spin. The fucking thing wasn't recognizing that the drive door was closed so the disc wouldn't spin and therefore you couldn't play the fucking game. I realized that inside the system there's a little switch that gets pushed down when the door is shut and for some reason this wasn't being pushed. I put some tape on it which remedied the problem but I had the original PS2 from pretty close to launch and used it all the way up to the end of university with no problems, this thing is just built like shit.
Then there's the issue of the controller which for some reason will just start going right and won't stop until I smack it. I have a new controller that seems to work well now though and once again that's more of a controller issue than a system issue and could be because I bought it used.
PSP 2000
Now this fucking thing has been a problem since I bought it years and years ago. I probably should have traded it for a less defective fucking thing but I was too lazy and now I'm paying the price.
The first issue I had with this thing was dead pixels in the screen. A red one and a greenish looking one which should have set off alarm bells in my head but they are in such unimportant parts of the screen that I didn't think anything of them. While annoying in any part of the game that goes bright white, generally speaking they aren't noticeable but it's frustrating that they are there.
The second issue is a bit more serious. During game play I will randomly get the grey "Do you want to quit the game" message despite the fact I've not touched the home button. The button itself isn't sticky and I think it has something to do with a little switch behind the UMD door but I have no idea what the fuck is going on really.
Then a few days ago I went about 10 minutes down the road to a place with my wife, took the thing in my pocket. I didn't fall down, run or jump on anything and yet when I arrived at the place and took it out for a spin, there were some strange transparent lines going down the left hand side of the screen. Play it for too long and I get graphical distortion and more lines and a quick google search seems to indicate that the fucking thing is dying.
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So if I've learned anything from this experience it's that slim type Sony products are a bunch of shit with the exception of maybe the PS3. I know that when I go and buy a new PSP in a couple of days I'm going right back to the PSP 1000 with its metal frame and bulky ass case. Reliability over portability from now on.
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