Japanese PSP owners finally get Skype + mic this month

by Jem Alexander { Mar 4th 2008 at 6:00AM }

Poor Japanese PSP owners. They've been so used to being ahead of the technology curve for so long now, but when Skype was so suddenly delayed for the region they sadly had no choice but to wait. It seems that the headset related problems have no been solved, however, as Japan finally gets to sink its teeth into the VOIP service this month. A new firmware update will arrive on the 18th of March and will enable the service on Japanese machines - handy for those of us with Japanese import consoles.

The news of Skype's imminent arrival comes alongside an announcement of the new PSP microphone attachment. This will be released on the 19th at a price of 2,500 yen each (or 4,000 yen for two) and will plug into the USB socket on the top of your PSP, allowing you to chat with your other Skype wielding friends from all over the world. The press release states that the microphone is identical to the one that came with Talkman so we're curious to find out what the reason for delaying Skype rollout was. Still, it's all done and dusted now and we can look forward to chatting with our Japanese PSP owning friends in two weeks time.

Tags: Japan, skype

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

nailerr @ Mar 4th 2008 6:44AM

Funny, I just got my EU Slim remote and headset, and it does not work. My talkman one does. Skype forums show similar problems for others.

http://community.eu.playstation.com/showthread.php?t=224691

Kspraydad @ Mar 4th 2008 10:47AM

Um...one guy?

nailerr @ Mar 4th 2008 11:31AM

You might notice that A that is not the Skype forum, I figured if anyone cared they would use google, and B he does not have a headset himself.

Clues sir, they were there.

Diogo @ Mar 7th 2008 11:02PM

Good news there.
Just one question, and sorry about my noobness, but is Skype going to work on the PSP Phat or only the on the Slim version?

Jem @ Mar 4th 2008 6:47AM

Sorry, Skype is only for PSP Slims. Sony hasn't said anything about making it available for PSP phats, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

thissceneisdead @ Mar 4th 2008 10:24AM

where's ours?

Alien @ Mar 4th 2008 12:21PM

Wow ... that mic is so awesome . I would really want one :D

strike @ Mar 4th 2008 12:51PM

It is not available on the phat, due 2 lack of internal space

elephant_stone @ Mar 4th 2008 6:23PM

Ok ok ok....so can someone just tell me which mic to get??!?!

Shall I import the Talkman?
Shall I get the new headset (if I can find it in a shop over here in the UK)
Shall I get the Go!Camera

????

Andy @ Mar 4th 2008 3:33PM

"handy for those of us with Japanese import consoles."

You do realize that you can update from any region, right? When the web browser was released, I downloaded the Japanese firmware update and had the browser right away. What's even better, is that everything was still in English since all of the firmwares have all of the languages.