There are few things that an entertainment device can be called that are worse than “useless.” Codemasters vice president Gavin Cheshire wanted to make sure that he properly emphasized his disdain for Sony’s handheld in a recent interview, calling the system a “useless waste of space,” going on to also bash the user experience that it provides.

Speaking with Edge, he explained the impression he’s gotten of the system since buying one: “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. But it was such a bollocking useless waste of space; just getting stuff on it was ridiculous. That was its downfall.”

Codemasters actually released a game on PSP this past November, F1 2009 (pictured above), which Cheshire claimed they “didn’t do too badly” with. But with the way the system operates, he doesn’t appear to think too highly of its future. He continued, “But regarding the future, I think they’ve got — well… no. PSP Go’s a lovely device, really smart, but 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. Sony just hasn’t got it right. Stuff like that will make people leave it alone.”

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