I’m pretty sure that’s the charging/data port I use with my USB cable! The official charger is wall-only. I had a car adapter wooooo? But having USB is amazing because my car has a bunch of USB power ports anyway, and then you can use power banks!
I think one obvious answer would just be a dock or something that would let you connect it and play on a TV or monitor for more screen space when you're at home. Conversely, a powerpack/grip accessory would probably have gone over well with people who were frequently traveling with their Vita.
Sony has always pushed for exclusive formats that try owned. They had the minidisc when CDs were getting common, and pushed a Memory stick when CF/SD cards starred to pickup steam, on and on.
Some of the formats were actually good, but Sony had them utterly locked down to their own gear so they never caught on.
You’d be surprised. A lot of older hardware had ports available that were literally never used. Or they were only used for one thing many years after release.
The hardware was limited, and they wanted a way to expand the capabilities if a partner wanted to do something “extra”, and it really didn’t cost much to put them in place.
I wonder why homebrew hasn't taken advantage of it either. I've seen people do lots of cool things using unused expansion ports on other systems like Gamecube's SP2 or the NES' bottom expansion port.
But when you make it proprietary you can take your ball and go home so nobody else can use it in your attempt to corral users into using only your accessories.
Let us take this moment to thank USB and now USB-C for absolutely fucking obliterating these stupid hyper-specific ports, holy shit for all that the modern day sucks ass i'm so happy that we don't live in the connector dark ages any more.
I mean, yeah, but don't call me that
Not in public anyway. :3
Idk some people are into that sort of thing
Don't be hard your hole is worth a lot to me. <3
Only my owner is allowed to call me that
What kind of port is that? Looks like a weird type of eSATA
edit: Apparently it's a mystery hole that was only on the PS VITA 1000. Probably an expansion/accessory port that never got used? https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/620272-playstation-vita/76035974
That's exactly what it is
It is strange to not have any accessories that used it though. You'd think Sony would at least release some example add-on
But pirates found out it's a USB port, and even managed to use it.
I’m pretty sure that’s the charging/data port I use with my USB cable! The official charger is wall-only. I had a car adapter wooooo? But having USB is amazing because my car has a bunch of USB power ports anyway, and then you can use power banks!
Sony really dropped the ball with the vita, it could've been so much more. Although I have no idea what kind of accessory you'd even want to put on it
I think one obvious answer would just be a dock or something that would let you connect it and play on a TV or monitor for more screen space when you're at home. Conversely, a powerpack/grip accessory would probably have gone over well with people who were frequently traveling with their Vita.
They did sort of do that, but as a standalone device - PS Vita TV
Sony has always pushed for exclusive formats that try owned. They had the minidisc when CDs were getting common, and pushed a Memory stick when CF/SD cards starred to pickup steam, on and on.
Some of the formats were actually good, but Sony had them utterly locked down to their own gear so they never caught on.
Yeah the UMD minidisks were genuinely a super neat technology and I wish they had been less restrictive so we could have seen more of them
You’d be surprised. A lot of older hardware had ports available that were literally never used. Or they were only used for one thing many years after release.
The hardware was limited, and they wanted a way to expand the capabilities if a partner wanted to do something “extra”, and it really didn’t cost much to put them in place.
I wonder why homebrew hasn't taken advantage of it either. I've seen people do lots of cool things using unused expansion ports on other systems like Gamecube's SP2 or the NES' bottom expansion port.
But when you make it proprietary you can take your ball and go home so nobody else can use it in your attempt to corral users into using only your accessories.
So not a fun hole or can it still be fun?
It's the hole where you put all your fun
That explains it why it's a hole, utterly unfilled.
Let us take this moment to thank USB and now USB-C for absolutely fucking obliterating these stupid hyper-specific ports, holy shit for all that the modern day sucks ass i'm so happy that we don't live in the connector dark ages any more.
Careful slinging terms like that around, you're liable to generate passwords.
My nickname in high school
That's no way to talk about your mother!