I Don't Have The Heart To Tell Them

*sigh* Sony. I have discussed already how the PSP is moving away from its portable state. Well maybe someone over at Sony read what I wrote (doubt it) because at CES just a few ays ago Sony announced a whole bunch of quite portable peripherals for their PSP. One of them being... a full keyboard. OK. Now hold on. A full keyboard? Are that many people struggling to type things on their PSP? I certainly was not aware of this problem. So now my portable gaming console has a freakin keyboard attached... ok.

They also announced GPS. I can actually see how this could come in handy. I know people who keep their PSP's in their cars and have little stands built for them on the dash board for convenient movie watching. So having GPS for those 12 people out there is probably really nice.

The biggest announcement is that Skype is coming to the PSP. Ok. I have a HUGE issue with this. Not because I have anything against Skype or Skyping or one device that does a whole bunch of stuff. But the PlayStation brand is so powerful, and means so much to video games that it deserves to be in the forefront. Make games for the PSP, don't just tack on new features to an existing platform.

If Sony wanted to make a GPS device that has wifi and a full keyboard that is also a phone, then I'm all for that. Hell add a camera! And pitch it to the correct people. But when you are still pitching it as a gaming system it still has to be able to do that thing best. Gamers don't care about all that extra stuff. They care about VIDEO GAMES. I know that sounds crazy.

I love my DS. And never once in the 2 years that I've had it ever thought "man, I wish I could watch a movie or know my exact location while making a phone call on this machine." Sony needs to really learn who their target market is and tune their products to them. I swear, right now, if the melting baby comes back to sell me a Skype enabled PSP, I will not purchase a single sony product for the rest of my life.

[image from Kotaku]