Last May I bought a Sony PSP because it was a really cool portable device. I’m not big on games but I figured if I could play them for five minutes at a time here and there, I might enjoy that. More than that though, the device plays movies and music and it has built in wi-fi and web browser. The web is what really hooked me. And the USB port. I couldn’t believe it: a standard port on a proprietary device from Sony? Imagine the possibilities. All the wonderful toys that could run off of that USB port.

Well, it’s been a year and do you want to know what you can run off of that USB port: jack and shit. There is a 4GB external hard drive that looks cool but why can’t I plug in my digital camera and moblog with pictures on the go? That’s the kind of shit I want to do with my Sony PSP. That’s the kind of shit that would let the PSP dominate it’s market, whatever that market would be at that point. It would certainly be more than “portable gaming” and would probably cross-over into the “ultra-portable” category.

It looks like Sony is finally going to release Sony hardware for GPS and VOIP. Great. They can’t license these things out? This tells me that: a) they’re going to cost 4x more than it should and b) they won’t work very well until at least version 2.

This is a perfect example of a killer device being destroyed by the very company that released it. At least one of the predictions I made when I bought the thing finally came true: Sony will start releasing UMDs and DVDs together since nobody wants to pay twice for the same thing. I’m looking forward to being able to pay once and watch a movie at home on my DVD player or on-the-go on my PSP.

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