- Kotaku Comments

krunkjuice — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:16:14 MST

I don't need skype on my large and burly PSP....I have a fucking cell phone.

krunkjuice

bigdude209 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:38:27 MST

@Frank: Yeah, because if Sony and other companies say that the PS3's hardware is that powerful, then should have came up with a way for the PS3 to analyze the PS2 graphics and show up on any screen without a problem.

They should take some time to see if they could do that, instead of focusing canceling previous console models that were capable these actions. I wonder how many people actually paid or are going to pay for the 40GB model without knowing it doesn't play PS2 games?

bigdude209

TearsandScreams — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:20:21 MST

@finder39: Chances are slim to nil if you follow instructions carefully, and there is some way to unbrick the psp using the battery. I'm afraid I'm going to have to suggest google for much more detail I'm afraid, because I don't want to get in trouble for explaining how to do what is a questionable practise, and I'm not sure if I can link to sites or not.

TearsandScreams

finder39 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:10:55 MST

@TearsandScreams: yeah, I'm getting patapona dn i think need for speed prostreet. I have a question though. I have 3.90 downloaded on my PSP but not installed, and have 3.80 official firmware on my psp installed. When 3.90 custom firmware comes out, hopefully in a short number of days, do i just download that and rename 3.90 offical firmware to what it says and install it or do i need to do something to my psp. I have a slim. I've never used custom firmware before. Also, what are the chances of it screwing up my PSP?

finder39

LittlestLamshi — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:05:26 MST

Damn you PSP Slim!
Damn you!
Damn you to EMP Hell!

LittlestLamshi

TearsandScreams — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:58:22 MST

@finder39: I doubt any games you're buying any time soon will require 3.90. Stick with what you have and wait for more custom firmware.

TearsandScreams

xAngelGabrielx — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:40:21 MST

@EvoAnubis: What sucks for me is that I moved when I bought Warhawk and still have not got to play it. Frustration is the key word with my new ISP but hopefully get fiber optic through FIOS by the end of February.

xAngelGabrielx

finder39 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:16:00 MST

Question, If i have oficial formware 3.8, and i want to wait for custom firmware 3.9, do i just upgrade with the custom and it will work, or do i have to do something special. I want to be able to play n64 and NES and GBA games on my psp, but still be able to play the new games that are coming out. Can someone please give me advice on this?

finder39

EvoAnubis — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:12:50 MST

@xAngelGabrielx: I've done much the same thing. Picked up a bunch of Blu-Ray movies, play Fire Pro Wrestling and Indigo Prophesy a whole lot, download movies, and blow up anything that dares to be in my sky in Warhawk.

EvoAnubis

GUNDAM-RX-78-2 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:56:20 MST

Sweet I guess But I cant wait till firmware 4.0 cause thats when PSP is going to be able to play DivX and thats awesome.

GUNDAM-RX-78-2

superaktieboy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:07:40 MST

ooh don't worry, D_A will come with a custom firmware that will have skype for the phat users ;) just a matter of time!

superaktieboy

Gekopa — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:00:47 MST

Hey is there any way to download the latest firmware for the psp on my computer_?

Gekopa

xAngelGabrielx — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:53:20 MST

@EvoAnubis: Neither do I. I got a bunch of Blu-Ray movies, a great game console and a decent media hub. Plus being able to retire my PS2 to the closet and free up my media center is nice. The Wii is the only console that without a price drop is not worth it to me.

xAngelGabrielx

realyst2k — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:52:49 MST

Give the hacked firmware a few months, they'll get skype going.

realyst2k

EvoAnubis — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:48:58 MST

@xAngelGabrielx: On that we can certainly agree. I forgot that other regions more or less got screwed from the get-go.

I'll just say that I certainly have no regrets.

EvoAnubis

Ryadic — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:47:22 MST

I find it upsetting that the "fat" PSP isn't getting skype. I know it's not compatible, but no love for the people (me) that bought the system on it's release and love it no matter what people say about it's lack of games.

Hell, a free game would be nice.

Ryadic

xAngelGabrielx — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:43:02 MST

@EvoAnubis: Sony launched with two consoles and History you can't rewrite History (without killing off witnesses) and when the PS3 Launched in PAL territories it was gimped so early adopters there were screwed just because of the locale. Now I am with you the the PS3 was worth the money but the best time to buy a CE product is always tomorrow.

xAngelGabrielx

Frank — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:42:11 MST

Wow, I don't get Skype. I've got MSN, AIM, Yahoo, and even GoogleTalk, but the PSP gets the one IM service that I don't subscribe to? BAAWWWWWW.

@EvoAnubis: I don't know why people say software BC sucks as compared to EEBC. If anything, I think the Cell processor should be more than capable of that sort of thing.

Frank

EvoAnubis — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:32:31 MST

@xAngelGabrielx: *chuckles* No worries. And as far as the 360/HDMI thing is concerned . . . lie to me. Tell me you're not referring to that $90 MadCatz device. Even if you are, you have a point there; I had forgotten about that. Although, in my own defense, you still can't watch an HD-DVD movie in 1080p (it'll switch back to 1080i) and it apparently has some problems with screen flickering until it warms up.

However, the rumble . . . come on. As I said before, I could go out and get one if I chose to.

Now, as for the 20GB PS3 . . . *chuckles* . . . did anyone actually buy that? If so, I'm sorry, but even my 10 year old cousin knew the things was too gimped to be worth the money. I've said it once, and I'll say it again, IMO the only "real" PS3 is the 60GB one.

EvoAnubis

Gekopa — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:27:32 MST

My internet connection is piece of 5#!7! I was downloading the update on my psp, it took me two hours and when it got to 95% I got disconnected from the internet and the download failed!

Is there any way to download the update to my computer and then put it on the psp?

Gekopa

joelface — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:19:10 MST

ahh, sucks.

joelface

xAngelGabrielx — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:18:59 MST

@EvoAnubis: sorry for the errors in my last post but my son has me watch cars and couldn't double check my comment.

xAngelGabrielx

xAngelGabrielx — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:14:19 MST

@EvoAnubis: Then how can you count the 360 since Kotaku already did a story about an adapter that is being released. Then there is the fact that now Sony has Wifi built in on every model but the 20 gig launch model does not have that. Every thing has trade offs but if it was between being able to have BC orsave a couple two hundred bucks plus have built in rumble makes it seem that Launch was not the time to get the PS3 for some.

xAngelGabrielx

EvoAnubis — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:57:34 MST

Let me say more about my point. When I'm talking about early adopter things, I don't mean crap like price drops (which happens to damn near EVERYTHING) and things that can be added later on. I'm talking about things that the first generation of a product cannot do that later generations can.

Recent examples would be early stand alone Blu-Ray players not being able to have their firmware updated, making everything after Blu-Ray 1.0 useless in the new features department, and the early 360's lacking HDMI.

Now, as far as the PS3 is concerned, I'd love it if someone could explain to me what my 60GB PS3 can't do that the 40GB models can.

Actually, this is the first time ever that as an early adopter, I don't feel like I kinda got screwed.

EvoAnubis

EvoAnubis — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:51:02 MST

@xAngelGabrielx: Which was what, exactly? My PS3 can do things that no PS3 being currently offered can match.

EvoAnubis

EvoAnubis — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:49:51 MST

@xAngelGabrielx: Quick price prop? On what? The lessor models? And as for rumble, you're missing the point. I can still go and by a Dual Shock 3 if I wanted to, but there's no add on that can give a fat PSP Skype.

EvoAnubis

Lachoy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:32:51 MST

Early adapters? I thought it was adopters. At any rate I hardly think that buying something 2 years before an upgraded model came out is an early adopter. Less than 1 year sure but no more than that. Besides, I'd rather complain about the new, lower price rather than the new features, especially this one, as it seems like a pain to use.

Lachoy

nya-chama — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:23:19 MST

Bashcraft's head wants to run into my old PSP at high-speeds.

Boo~ No need to upgrade just yet, keep brining out new features~

nya-chama

MCWHAMMER — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:18:27 MST

Anyone know when GPS is coming to PSP? Have they firmed up a date yet or no? I think it would be great for my vehicle. I'm more interested in that than Skype.

MCWHAMMER

johnnywashngo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:13:48 MST

Who the hell wants Skype on the PSP anyway?

Don't most people carry mobile phones?
Don't a lot of mobile phones have the ability to use voip anyway?
Which most people don't use anyway because their service plans give enough free minutes to recite War and Peace and not be charged a penny?

It is a pointless addition to an increasingly pointless piece of hardware.

I have a handful of PSPs which I use for writing homebrew software, or at least trying to ;)

Its a great little games machine, but it doesn't need to be a phone as well. Its all getting a little too much like nGage for comfort to be honest :)

johnnywashngo

DaveKap — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:16:54 MST

"Take that early adapters!" - Brian Ashcraft

The irony of this typo is too hilarious to not point out.

DaveKap

ywpark — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:12:37 MST

@o0q: Call the test call number and it worked flawlessly. I don't have a microphone, so can't comment on the voice quality, but I could hear the sound coming from the other side pretty well. Only issue with it is that you can't can't play games or play music while running Skype. Also, you can't send SMS and text messages.

ywpark

Fluffy22 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:05:30 MST

@EvoAnubis: at least it paid off for the ps3 :P

Here's my fat PSP not getting any skype! :(

Fluffy22

xAngelGabrielx — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:47:47 MST

@medik: I think its pretty much the same. I used Skype for a while since it was free to use to call phones for a period of time. Once they went back to charing to call I stopped using it. Its still free to communicate with other users but not dial out.

xAngelGabrielx

gifurocks — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:45:58 MST

You mean adopters right? :P

gifurocks

xAngelGabrielx — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:42:50 MST

@medik: I completely agree with you its just evoanubis made it seem as though the PS3 did not and though I love my PS3 there was a big downside to being an early adopter there as well.

xAngelGabrielx

medik — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:38:24 MST

@xAngelGabrielx: early adopters know they will be screwed and they accept it most of the time.

As for the psp-skype thingy.. well... how is this different to skype with the laptop I have, which I take everywhere with me... yea I know I could google for how it works.. but I'm too lazy right now ^^

medik

VenoMuS — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:28:14 MST

you've screwed me again sony

VenoMuS

xAngelGabrielx — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:27:26 MST

EVOANUBIS- PS3's did screw early adopters with quick price drop, and lack of rumble.

xAngelGabrielx

EvoAnubis — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:23:30 MST

Yeah, early adopters are almost always getting screwed when it comes to electronics. PSP, computers, PDA, X-Box 360, TVs, stand alone Blu-Ray players, HD-DVD players period, PS3s . . . oh, wait; scratch that last one. Early adopters of the PS3 that could blow the $600 got the best deal in this entire console generation.

EvoAnubis

richard733 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:22:27 MST

yippee i guess?

richard733

Bombaaaman — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:14:33 MST

Unfortunately the update in Japan doesn't include Skype. They say they're still dealing with Skype about some mic compatibility... Too bad, all I have is a microphone that I can only use with Talkman...

Bombaaaman

o0q — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:11:35 MST

Is Skype any good ?

o0q