Sony delays Skype, microphones for PSP in Japan

wow. sony is SO good at what they do.

delaystation 3 strikes again

Still though this will come out and IMO the PSP while not having all the great games the DS has, does hold an advantage in the multiple ways it can be used. Not to mention the graphics.

Its probably a long way off but I hope the next Nintendo handheld happens to possess great graphics.

Lets take wagers on how many comments get posted until Fernando gets here.... under 4 more i say

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not that i use my PSP at all... but this would have rocked...

Apparently its a delay for Japan only. Europe and the US are on schedule for end of January release.

http://kotaku.com/347868/sony-postpones-japanese-psp-skype-launch

OMG! Sony delayed another product again? NO FREAKING WAY...

This is nothing new to me. Sounds pretty normal to me since its coming from Sony.

wait... Sony is releasing a skype add on? i'd figure it was some dork in his basement that goes by the name M3GAHaX0rXtreem...

...not that I don't those guys' work :)

Wow I didn't see this coming /sarcasm

Now I have to first confess that I don't have graduate degrees in marketing, electrical engineering or dumbfuckery (just a B.S. in dumbfuckery) but my due to the information taken in by my ill trained eyes and little brain I am beginning to believe that Sony just doesn't know what the hell is it doing. Are they suffering from the same sort of corporate bloat and lack of maneuverability that castrated Atari and titans of other industries (see the entire American automobile industry)? It just seems that they've had a really long run of luck where they just can't seem to get anything right- and I would submit that since their embrace of the DVD format and advent of the PS2 they have whiffed majorly just about everywhere, especially considering that the jury is nowhere close to finished on the question of blue ray. All I do know for certain is that I were a Sony investor, I'd take a good hard look before holding onto that stock.

Copying Nintendo again? The DS already has a microphone. /biasedcomment

The DS has homebrew SIP phone capability however.
Been out thx to the homebrew community for months.

I believe you need skype the company to actually put out clients/make it compatible since it's not an open-source system.

Dude, how can a microphone NOT be compliant with Skype?

It's just Skype trying to sap some Sony money, and I'm not judging them.

Once again no surprises from Sony. I'm so tired of hearing announcements from Sony for things that either:

a) never actually happen
b) are massively delayed (PS1 games on PSP anyone)
or
c) are useless without the required peripheral (The fairly major PSPout feature on the slim but no cables available until 6-8 weeks later here in Australia)

I wish they'd just keep their mouths shut until the product was ready to ship. But I guess it's all a big marketing ploy... promise everything in the hope that people will buy their products, and not the competitors. I got suckered into that with the PS1 games on PSP thing that they announced well over 12 months ago, and then required a PS3! The PSP ended up being unused for months, while I played games on the DS.