The PSP does a lot of things right. The one thing that really blows about the system though is that d-pad. It's just horrible. There's no good way to control a fighting game on the PSP ...

At the risk of appearing controversial, we'll say it: the PSP D-pad is smelly doo-doo when it comes to fighting games. Sony whipped together one hell of a system in the PSP, but fighting games ...

Better yet, PSP Go's D-Pad is nowhere near as painful for playing the game as the PSP Fat was when it was first released on UMD. So you get faster load times, no pain and a fraction of the ...

Some other subtler improvements were made to the PSP's D-pad, which was raised slightly due to consumer feedback that cited poor feedback, as well as a repositioning of the PSP's speakers from the ...

Miyamootoo from GameBrink sends us word of a new PSP D-pad cover that will come with the Japanese release of Tekken. No word on a US release of the accessory, but we wouldn't mind having 8 ...

I fired up my PSP-3000 yesterday to give the service a whirl ... automatically zipping from panel to panel every time you bump the d-pad to the right. This auto-pilot feature doesn't always ...

When Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower first came out alongside the PSP, many gamers complained ... the Pacific), Capcom included an adhesive D pad cover with each copy of the game to ...

The PSP D pad took a bit of adjustment to get used to, but we were quickly up and kicking tail. While we hope the PSPs we played at TGS see a bit of tweaking to their D pad designs, it's hardly an ...

In terms of operation, the inclusion of PSP-3000 style d-pad and face buttons is a nice touch. Pulling off combos and more complex moves in games like Tekken didn't present us with much of a ...

The D-Pad is above the analog stick (the way it should ... This time around it’s Dreamcast and PSP emulation that proved touch and go. I had to turn frame skipping on for most games.