If you wanted some talky talky on your PSP but haven’t wanted to spend a crap-ton on both parts to get it, April is your month. Shipping April 15th from Amazon, it looks like Sony will have a $20 solution.
Prior to this product, you had to buy the PSP Headphones to get the adapter volume controls as well as the PSP Headset to be able to speak. Now, it’s all bundles in one easy to use package for a great price.
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m all over this one. Not as much for Skype as for voice chat in PSP online games.
The good news first. If you are in US or Europe, the Skype update will come on time to coincide with the firmware update do out sometime at the end of the month. There is a problem with the Japanese microphones that is causing this delay. The apparently do not reach the standards for the Japanese release, yet the Western equivalent does. Hmm. Either way, sucks for Japan. Not sure how well Skype is going to do anyway, but its nice to see the Western hemi not get screwed once again.
Sony’s big secret that the PSP will be Skype compatible was let out early but there was one caveat that we did not see coming. A future firmware update will allow only users with the PSP Slim to obtain the update. No one knows the exact reason, but a future microphone that is to be released to allow voice communcation might not work with the older model. Although I like the idea of firmware updates, alienating a good amount of your users who were loyal to you in the beginning stages of the handheld is a huge, huge, kick to the junk.
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