Sometimes I think having to replace the battery for the psp is a way for Sony to make more money.BBSVentusJunkie
Sometimes they just rush a product a bit much, and mistakes do happen (most famous case of a rushed product is the 360, great idea, great speedy delivery, horrible tendency to have the Red Ring of Death). There are even times where it looks like the components are in great working condition, only for minor imperfections in the material to cause it to malfunction or even not work at all (a la rechargeable batteries). The DS doesn't have it so much, but I can assure you it happens from time to time.
In fact, Nintendo's first home console as well as its first handheld console did have a huge battery flaw in it too, since save data on a Nintendo or Gameboy cartidge now requires one to actually open up the cartridge and replace the internal battery (which was not rechargeable, the battery just used a little power to write the save data...age was usually the slayer of this dragon)...I do believe the DS suffers from this problem as well, but I can't be certain since I haven't researched the technology behind the catridges for this generation.
Worse yet, there is no perfected rechargeable battery design out there, as over time these batteries lose their ability to hold a charge. Batteries are like Sean Connery, they perform time and time again. And again. And again. And again and again and again and again...but eventually Sean Connery has to tire from his career of punching the daylights out of spies, terrorists, evil organizations, ghetto grammar, a woman's ability to resist him, etc.
They sell the batteries mainly to help cover the bases of the flawed batteries that were out there in the shipped systems already, as well as for when the batteries simply cannot perform any more.
Why not a lithium battery instead?BBSVentusJunkie
Game companies make internal batteries as a form of convenience in both for the gamer and in designing the product. Plus,it cuts out the idea that you wouldn't have money to buy games because you were spending it on batteries to play the games.
On another note, a few lithium ion batteries tend to have corrosive acid come out of them under the right conditions of stress...last thing you need is to put a potential acidic agent in the PSP, damaging the battery containment field in the process of killing numerous teeny tiny PSP gnomes.
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