What a strange combination! A patent fro 2009 from Sony gives an illustration for a dock for a PSP Go. This isn't just some charging dock, though. This dock contains a camera that works like the PlayStation Eye, and would detect PlayStation Move controllers. It seems this patent is for a dock that lets you use Move controllers for the PSP Go, which is probably one of the strangest ideas I've ever heard.
It seems even more silly when you scroll through the pictures in the patent document. Fig. 3A is particularly funny. It could be the stand-in for cover art for Samba de Amigo 3!
I'm with Joystiq in that this would probably be better as a NGP dock, as the PSP Go is old news. Even then I don't see people playing a portable game system with controllers.
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9:40 AM on 05.24.2011 | 
It's everything Marcus hoped for in his short little life.
This is a bad idea.
Last Guardian is so being pushed to 2012 and after that Sony really has nothing in the way of development.
Me, too. I'd have the world best and busiest job - just packed with chances to say "that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard."
God, I'd love that.
EVERYONE AND THEIR DOG predicted the PSP Go would fail. Same for the Move. Now this. Just who the hell comes up with this stuff and is actually CONVINCED it will work?
what's the point of a PORTABLE system if you can't move around with it?
Want some advice to get money quick and now? Upload a ps2 emulator in the next update. There, loads of cash will be coming your way.
What is the point of PROTABLE NOTEBOOK when you using it at HOME? With, OMG, mouse?
lol
NO ONE would ever buy this thing. The patent itself even tells you that you have to be considerably far away to be in range and that completely defeats the purpose of a portable machine.