TALKING TO Edge Magazine, Gavin Cheshire, Codemasters Studios vice president, revealed that he isn't the world's biggest fan of the Sony Playstation Portable, or PSP.

Cheshire, given his role and position, has a lot of experience with the PSP, and none of it sounds particularly good.

"Well, speaking as a person who bought a PSP, the problem was that I always thought - because it was a better screen than Ipod's - that I'd be doing more with it," he said. "But it was such a bollocking useless waste of space; just getting stuff on it was ridiculous. That was its downfall."

It gets worse too. The PSP sickness, or sickness with the PSP soon spread around the company. "Our senior VP bought one the day it came out and has a great story, because he ended up on some customer support line just trying to do basic stuff. He had to re-download his software, do an immediate firmware update, and that's your user experience," Cheshire added.

"Sony just hasn't got it right. Stuff like that will make people leave it alone," he concluded. µ