Hmm - I just got an email from Sony telling me:
“Sign up to Continuous Play™ for just £2.49 a month and we’ll replace your PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) or PlayStation®2 system within two working days if it develops a fault or becomes damaged by accident.”
Sounds good, and look there is a picture of a PSP in a dog bowl, it looks kind of broken. Dog slobber everywhere.

But hang on, lets read the terms and conditions.
Well this may be a good deal for some people, and £2.49 may not sound like much every month, but I`m always a little suspicious of these sorts of deals because you have know way of knowing how good they are until something goes wrong with your hardware. Although it tells you some things that are not covered, it doesn’t give examples of what sort of accidents are.
These deals are also designed to make money (not for you), so Sony are effectively gambling against their own build quality standards when you think about it.
I personally have never had a games console fail on me ever so its no good for me. I’m no betting man but the odds just don’t sound good enough.
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October 29th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
I’d love to know what the failure rate of PSPs actually is, then at least you can make an informed choice about this insurance.
Oh, hang on, that’s not going to happen is it?
October 30th, 2006 at 12:48 am
Hang on… in what is not included they have:
Like… on a train? *blink*
But… but… it’s portable. Didn’t they have a massive ad campaign that was all about playing it on buses and trains and stuff? I’m sure I remember seeing something like that…
July 14th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
This is so typical with everything you buy nowadays, I guess it was only a matter of time before it hit the PSP market. I know hundreds of people who have the PSP and my experience, like yours is that none have failed.