{"id":1124,"date":"2008-01-30T03:17:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T08:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/01\/30\/skype-skips-me-and-other-psp-1000-owners\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T03:17:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T08:17:21","slug":"skype-skips-me-and-other-psp-1000-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/01\/30\/skype-skips-me-and-other-psp-1000-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype skips me and other PSP-1000 owners."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of the PSP 3.90 firmware, Sony officially supports <a href=\"http:\/\/skype.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/skype.com\/', 'Skype');\" target=\"new\">Skype<\/a>, but only on the PSP-2000 series.  Come again?  Yes, those of you with a PSP-1000 (the original, non-slim version of the PSP) are left in the cold when it comes to using Skype.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pspupdates.qj.net\/Skype-only-for-PSP-Slim-Lite-because-of-Phat-s-memory-limitation\/pg\/49\/aid\/111190\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/pspupdates.qj.net\/Skype-only-for-PSP-Slim-Lite-because-of-Phat-s-memory-limitation\/pg\/49\/aid\/111190', 'QJ.net');\" target=\"new\">QJ.net<\/a> recently explained (or speculated)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAlthough PSP-1000 and PSP-2000 are identical in basic functions, there are differences in hardware specifications to some extent and, for that reason, PSP-2000 may differ in features from PSP-1000. We had studied the possibility of supporting Skype with PSP-1000 but had to give it up because of the smaller size of main memory on PSP-1000 series.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess I really did not pay too much attention to what was going on behind closed doors.  After all, last fall I came close to preordering a new PSP (wanted that Star Wars version), but decided that the smaller footprint, video out, and faster load times were not worth the upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the memory upgrade (64MB vs. 32MB) was the hallmark feature of the PSP-2000.  Now the cows are out of the barn.  What other future features will be excluded from PSP-1000 owners?  Last night I wrote about PS3 SKU confusion, and now we get this beauty.<\/p>\n<p>In the interest of disclosure, I do not use Skype, but that is irrelevant.  Sony is going to isolate and piss off their core fan base, myself included.  I have owned a PSP (original, fat, phat, PSP-1000, etc) since its launch, and I am rewarded by Sony deciding that my PSP is no longer in its future.  I never realized that the leap from the PSP-1000 to the PSP-2000 was akin to a hardware leap.  I thought this was more along the lines of Nintendo\u2019s typical strategy of releasing a GameBoy Advance, followed by a GameBoy Advance SP, followed by a GameBoy SP Super Special Limited Edition (or whatever).<\/p>\n<p>I am all for progress, but I would rather Sony come clean and say that those of you with a PSP-1000 are about to be left in the dust.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of the PSP 3.90 firmware, Sony officially supports Skype, but only on the PSP-2000 series. Come again? Yes, those of you with a PSP-1000 (the original, non-slim version of the PSP) are left in the cold when it comes to using Skype. QJ.net recently explained (or speculated) \u201cAlthough PSP-1000 and PSP-2000 are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/01\/30\/skype-skips-me-and-other-psp-1000-owners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skype skips me and other PSP-1000 owners.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}