The new PSP Go was the hardware announcement of E3. By this we mean that it's actually happening in the near future.
We posted the tech details of the UMD-free device last week, including the fact that it will use USB. We also posted pix. However, one thing that we didn't notice amid all the hubub was that the USB port on the unit (see the picture on this page) does not take a standard connector.
For its part, Joystiq took some snaps of the add-ons available for the PSP Go. And yes, "more expensive existing accessories -- such as component A/V cables, voice headsets and pretty much anything made to work with the 3000 -- are completely incompatible... that's not even taking into account third-party add-ons, or things like Sony's own GPS module." is, as Joystiq points out, "cringe-worthy".
Actually, we don't understand why Sony would feel the need to replace a perfectly good standard (e.g. cheap, readily available cables fit it) port with a freakishly new socket. Maybe you've got an opinion. Tell us in the Forum.
We posted the tech details of the UMD-free device last week, including the fact that it will use USB. We also posted pix. However, one thing that we didn't notice amid all the hubub was that the USB port on the unit (see the picture on this page) does not take a standard connector.
For its part, Joystiq took some snaps of the add-ons available for the PSP Go. And yes, "more expensive existing accessories -- such as component A/V cables, voice headsets and pretty much anything made to work with the 3000 -- are completely incompatible... that's not even taking into account third-party add-ons, or things like Sony's own GPS module." is, as Joystiq points out, "cringe-worthy".
Actually, we don't understand why Sony would feel the need to replace a perfectly good standard (e.g. cheap, readily available cables fit it) port with a freakishly new socket. Maybe you've got an opinion. Tell us in the Forum.
Companies:
Sony
Read More Like This
Comments
DoctorDee 8 Jun 2009 16:11
1/5
we don't understand why Sony would feel the need to replace a perfectly good standard (e.g. cheap, readily available cables fit it) port with a freakishly new socket.
Space!? And I would have thought that a (relatively cheap) adaptor lead would solve all the problems.
config 8 Jun 2009 16:26
2/5
@DoctorDee unless there's some sort of encoding going on and they play the DMCA card, then the adaptor won't be so cheap.
I still wish iPhone used plain old USB jack - it's a pisser to charge on the run when you've forget to carry the special cable. I've yet to figure quite what those 20 some pins on the iPhone/Pod connector are for...
I still wish iPhone used plain old USB jack - it's a pisser to charge on the run when you've forget to carry the special cable. I've yet to figure quite what those 20 some pins on the iPhone/Pod connector are for...
more comments below our sponsor's message
PreciousRoi 8 Jun 2009 16:26
3/5
Long standing Sony tradition, going back to the original PlayStation.
DoctorDee 8 Jun 2009 16:43
4/5
config wrote:
I've yet to figure quite what those 20 some pins on the iPhone/Pod connector are for...
It's twenty-ten pins.
Several different GNDs, Firewire, S-Video chrominance, S-Video luminance, L and R audio in , L and R audio out, iPod serial Tx and Rx, Firewire +12v, accessory sensor, Firewire TPA pos and neg, Firewire TPB pos and neg, USB power.
It's a very multi purpose/legacy connector.
KH 8 Jun 2009 22:00
5/5
so sony can charge through the nose for propirtory cables