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Perhaps proving the case that gamers are never satisfied, Sony has come under fire from a barrage of angry blogger’s who say that the new PSP 3000’s ultra-bright screen increases the visibility of scan lines during game play. It’s got so bad, that Sony have had to release a statement on the issue.

Sony Statement: “On some occasions, scan lines may appear on scenes where brightness changes drastically, due to the hardware features of the new LCD device on PSP 3000.

“Installed with this new LCD device, PSP 3000 offers more natural and vibrant colours on its screen, but the scan lines have come out to be more visible as a result of improving response time to alleviate the afterimages on PSP 3000. Since this is due to hardware specification, there are no plans for a system software update concerning this issue.”

What dies this mean? We’ll if you traded your PSP 2000 in for a shiny new one, you have to suck it up and move on, because Sony doesn’t look very willing to fix the problem.

In all honesty a few little lines here and there don’t entirely spoil the gaming experience, and changing the colour settings to ‘normal’ from ‘colour space’ should alleviate the glitchyness – but it will make you feel like you’re playing an old PSP so can’t help feeling hard-done by.

Sony have often been left picking up their teeth after a shoddy hardware release, but in all honesty most game console manufacturers have struggled with their hardware demons. Microsoft’s now infamous “Red ring of Death”, which I myself have experienced – twice – has not stopped gamers shelling out near £200 on a console, so it shouldn’t affect the PSP 3000’s launch too badly.

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