The PSX Is The Craziest PS2 Ever Made
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- In 2003 Sony decided to create the ultimate media box for the living room called the PSX. In it they packed a full PS2, digital recorded and DVD burner as a do everything box. Unfortunately it didn't work out and only lasted on the market for a year before being discontinued. Today I wanted to take a look at the system and see what happened.
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I can’t believe the PlayStation 10 is already here.
21 years too late.
😂😂😂
This is a good comment. Unfortunately by the time a ps10 would even come to be, consoles will be an ancient concept. By then it probably wont even be streaming youll be playing true vr through your mind lol
Remember the PS9 commercial? With the spores that go into your brain?
@@artate92 VR wont even exist, we will have transcended into the gaming dimension..
When you said this box, I thought that was literally the box and the PSX was inside
Five minutes in and i still thought it was the box it came in till he showed the disc slot
Same here..
The PSX was no doubt a big boi, how they thought this would succeed in Japan is beyond my comprehension.
John Doe it’s a THICC BOI
Same
it’s absolutely mind boggling that there was the crossbar UI IN 2003!!! for me personally that was crazy.
that was during the time when japan had everything first.
The PSP released in 2004. Whats so crazy about it in 2003? Just one year or less apart
DAYUM
Well, not many knew itwas on a system prior to the psp
And they ruined it with tye ps4 and ps5. It was literally perfect on ps3.
"Japan gets all the cool looking games" that sums up the entire video
I love that it’s loud. Can’t have a proper Sony gaming experience without being afraid your console is going to launch itself into the stratosphere right at the most important and difficult part of your game
PS1 cry
PS4 Countdown...
****PlayStation starts to overheat
Me: "So the final boss battle begins....."
If you can hear your game over the console, then it's not worth it. Dem fan soundz
@@polishprince47 * Ps5 *
Wait a minute? That thing was real!?!? And here we thought that kid with the magazine during 7th grade was making up stuff.
Yo same!
I saw this and was like "wait? wasn't that a myth??"
Go figure xD
I always thought psx was another name for ps1
@@harrypottersucks12 it was a code name for the original PlayStation.
Bro I remember being that kid reading about this...
Lol that kid was me 😂
This thing deserves to be in astros playroom
Would have been a super cool hidden gem
It would be cool if the PSX DVR easter egg had a full XMB menu you could navigate with the PS5 features. And TV would be replaced with Sreaming Services.
You know I don't know why it isn't? I guess I never thought of it they had almost everything else PlayStation related on there
You know what's funny, the PS5 has a very similar color scheme....
Nope
Not hard to have a matching scheme when the colours you are dealing with are black and white.
Then they should rebrand it as the PSX/II
Eduardo DLR you could argue the PSX 2 is just the PS2 lol
PS X/2
Is equal to PS 5 if consider roman number
Heavy metal plate for premium feel. "Let's put a small fan and crappy heatsink."
Well he did say premium "feel." That doesn't mean the internals are premium too. Actually to be fair the internals were pretty premium for 2003 they just cheaped out on the cooling for all of that hardware.
@@augustcelineiii946
Which is funny when you think about what they were charging for it and it had this huge flaw.
Imagine paying $700 and then this thing overheats and frys yikes!
I hope they stop fucking around and finally put in some proper cooling. I had a couple ps3 failures and the ps4 always sounds like it’s going to take off whenever I’m playing cod or r6. 🤦♂️
Taking lessons from Beats headphones haha
@@brokedownsystem get a pc !!!!!!!!! fuck consoles
If this thing was 700, that might explain why they felt comfortable with 600 on PS3...
this ^^^^^
the PSX came with a 250GB HDD which was pretty big at the time. The PS3 that came later only had 60 (20 in the cheaper version) for reference.
It cost them $800+ to make the PS3. They took a $200 loss on it.
Sony actually lost money on every sale of the PS3. They put a Blu-Ray player in it, which was expensive at the time even though they made it. They could've gone way over $600.
@@megapro125 ahh also forgetting the ps3 had a sata hdd not ide
That heat sink... my gosh. What the hell?
For a 700 dollar+ machine its mind boggling.
Burg The Burger
OMG got is memeable. that is by far the worst heat sink I have EVER seen. there is more metal on a pop can. just wow
Looking at your profile picture I thought for a second you were AlChestBreach
Clean your fucking room.
I purchased one of the first DVD players in the US, back in 1997. That had a similar price to the PSX when it released. So yeah, the cost of the machine was actually not bad. It was a DVD-RW, DVR, and PS2 combo, pretty awesome if you ask me. I also built my first PC during 1997 as well. It was a great year.
I was born in 1997 and u built ur first pc
@@SwerveNationI haven't had a great year since I was like 10
@@DmonDhaBoss this was random lol
TRUE
@@DmonDhaBoss
Same, but for me it was 8
And psp. The media bar was also there, not only Bravia TV and ps3
And DVD players, blu players and Sony systems
It’s also on sont bluray players
@@PhinioxGlade and like every ebay knockoff device ever made
Its on sony ericsson phone too, I had once w995 and it have the same menu on the multimedia
It’s called xmb interface
Would love to see a Part 2 where you replace or upgrade the laser, heat sink, fan and such.
Also wonder if the DVD reading laser is the same as the PS2’s. Or perhaps one of the more premium Sony DVD players at that time.
The left laser seems to be a KHS-400B, the same used in fat PS2s that would get disk read errors.
Probably firmware locked going by comments on here. Which means that if you replace the laser or HDD the system wouldn't boot.
@@xmlthegreat firmware locking is for the devil
complains how hard it is to access the rear cables for 10 mins, next scene slides out flap conveniently built for accessing rear cables
Lmao
😂😂 I was thinking that same thing
Yeah, unbelievable.
Right, because everytime we go to play video games we have the console unplugged and flipped over in our hands so we can 'conveniently' plug in our controllers....
Thought the exact same, I thought for sure he was going to mention that he missed how it’s meant to work. But... no.
People who call the PS1 the PSX: *Confused screaming*
Me who told them to call it the PS1 because this exists: "They called me a madman."
I've been both
before launch in 1994 that's what Sony Japan was calling it as it's project name, so it caught on with the Playstation magazines at that time. The PSX might not count to the older fans as that thing above came out in the 2000s and didn't last
@@MrVidification It was also used in lots of places in the developer tools. The 'C' compiler supplied with the devkit was called "ccpsx", the assembler was called "aspsx", the program you ran to display debug output on the development card was called "psxcons". And the directory all the platform specific tools were installed to was called "psx". And if you burn a CD without a system.cnf file on it, then the boot ROM tries to boot a file called "psx.exe" (obviously, you need a debug console or a modchip for this to work).
Interestingly, the name on the very earliest documentation I ever saw was written as "PS-X" - and this is also used in the executable file header - the magic number used is the ASCII codes for the string "PS-X EXE".
They could also call the first Play Station the PSOne which is what the logo changed to in the end of its cycle.
That's pretty much me like, "Wait wasn't the PS1 called PSX too? The fuck's going on??"
Anybody else thought at the beginning that it was still in packaging and your mind is blown that it’s the actual console?
the original PS2 was quite bulky too though, which the PS2 slim looks truly tiny
Same I was like take it out the box......and the whole time....it was out the box 🤣😂🤣😂
Wow. Looks like a VCR trying to be a DVD player. Gotta love the early 2000's .
Ps5: futuristic gamery design
Ps10: ay yo this a ps2 with a handicapped heatsink from the early 2000's
Bro I’m a fan
@@thaneshyi I'm a coolant reservoir.
@@SomeGuy_GRM
PS5 sucks dude
@@BB0ysGames yeah
I remember being so damn obsessed with this PSX back in the day. It was an enigma, something I could never get my hands on.
I'm thinking of getting one for my young son.
@@gloman9377
Did you get one?
That looks like something a little more recent
@@ShockinglyBleh i disagree. I think they did a great job with the ps5. Everything from the headphones, console design, controller looks futuristic. Can't wait for the UI deep dive. There are a lot of innovations in the architecture also if i'm not wrong. Yes they played safe with the ps4 to regain market share. But they aint playing safe with the PS5.
@@prachu111 that little teaser at the PS5 dashboard really reminded me of the PS3.
@@prachu111 the only problem I have with the ps5 is its size. I love the design, but people scaled it by using the usb ports and it was bigger than an Xbox one fat, and that is way too big imo
@@ShockinglyBleh The PS3 Phat has aged well.
@@leonardohernandez8367 Hopefully they at least make use of that size
10 year old me would have really wanted one of these despite the ps2 having nearly the same functionality as a gaming console and DVD player.
Hey there Wendy! It’s me, Dipper! Remember me?
I have one of these...Plays backups of PS1 and PS2 games (any region) as well with a FreeMcboot....Also translated the XMBC to English...Theres a lot you can do with this system and its great. Truly was the inspiration to a PS3
Whoa! Cool!
_This_ is the kind of stuff I'm subbed to you for; tearing down weird and obscure iterations of beloved consoles.
Cool that you gave credit to MVG, I like him too.
That explains why I'm subscribed to both, thanks. 🧐👻🕹️
You should watch the Spawncast, he's on there. Saturdays@~17:00
Thanks, I'll check that out! ✨
"Mistakes were made."
please come back to this. I'd love to see a second video showing you improve things!
When I was a kid I thought this was just a legend. Nice to finally see it alive.
The funny thing is, Sony's PlayStation division in Japan didn't build or design the PSX. Actually Sony's electronics divison built and designed this which is why it was prone to overheating and failure.
2:07 Damn, look at those daddy arms
He could beat me any day
hugs n cuddles are more than enough for me
PSX was also an initial of PSOne that i often seeing in gaming magazines back then.
Okay, so I'm not going crazy. When I saw this video I was so confused. I remember all my friends referring to the original playstation as a PSX.
Psx is the code name of the first PlayStation. It was called that by developers and by Sony internally and that got into the media. It looks like they liked the name so much they named this box after it.
Yep! He mentioned it in the video.
Yeah at first i though this video was about the ps1
PSX was never the initials for the PSOne. It was for the original PlayStation, which was not a PSOne. PSOne is exclusively the name of the smaller, white redesign of the PlayStation or PSX.
I need to admit this is the best design I have ever seen for a PlayStation. Great work!!
It just looks like an xbox series s
@@albertalberto2288Nah it looks a bit more like xbox one s i think but both similar
I clicked on this video because of the look of "DISAPPOINTMENT" this dude always seems to have in all of his video thumbnails. 😅
His mom probably opened his bedroom door while he was recording
@@DS-us8sc 🤣👍
He always looks as though he's trying to hold in a fart, in church.
I imagine this dude is insanely annoying IRL, can't bring him anywhere with women around. His videos are decent though.
The video was cool but god damn yall ain't have to do him like that 😂
The PSX has a cheap laser and disc read errors too, color me surprised.
I've had way too many PS2s with laser failure. Bogus.
@@WaysideWade I've had my PS2 since around launch and the first time the laser failed was fixed after I took it apart and cleaned the laser lens about a year ago. I played Tomb Raider Anniversary yesterday!
Mine still works 17 years later. *Knock on wood*
Do you basically clean it with alcohol and a swab, is it more complicated and delicate?
My PS2 would take like 5 tries to read blue disc games. :(
Fact: The PSP was actually sony's first console to have the XMB media bar and memory stick after the PSX, not the PS3
False.
The PSX was the first to take XMB media bar.
As the PSX was launched December of 2003.
And the PSP was launched March of 2005. Essentially 2 years after the PSX Japan launch.
@@TruePlatform Yes, like I said in my comment "After the PSX"
@@Aomicplanelmao
The PS2 was already amazing, it could play every PS1 game, had all those great exclusives, could play DVDs, could connect to the internet....imagine a box with a recorder and a burner! Sadly it just cost too much.
I remember reading about this in an EGM years back. It sounded so freaking cool, I wanted one incredibly bad just because of how obscure it sounded. Would like to own one nowadays just as a curiosity.
that metal plating is probably also to block RF interference
Likely its primary purpose given it doesn't actually contact any chips as far as I can tell.
No, the Bravia PS2 TV is the craziest. Good luck getting one lol
I believe in Spawn’s eBay skills, let’s go !
A guy named Nostalgia Nerd did a video on it
@@lightspeedmurphy7546 watched him ages ago and forgot about his existence completely
Strabby Crabby now you can go back and watch his videos and be a ‘nostalgic nerd’
I had one
The first Play Station with an XMB video. I didn't think a video about it would ever exist! All I had was research, but now, the time has come to watch this videoooo...
The PSX had good ideas but was poorly executed.
Honestly, it's a very forward thinking concept of a system. It had networking and the ability to store things on the HDD, which could open the door to patches.
It just had a lot of flaws that couldn't be gotten around.
The console of the future.
I remember this thing! Never saw one in person, but it looked AMAZING! Unfortunately, I was poor back then and was lucky to get a regular PS4.
Get with, Linus, you two can do a video together where he's making a heatsink for it.
Man Spawnwave really liked this video a lot glad to see someone else remembers the PSX besides me. I've always thought the PSX was the coolest PlayStation Sony had ever made it just looks awesome and being able to burn DVDs it was way ahead of its time. I surely hope you are able to find a working laser for yours so we can get a video of you fixing it would really love to see that.
First off, its such a cool interesting piece. Secondly, repair it please!
NGL Looks sleek af
I love this breakdown and I look forward to your eventual repair of the system.
Really enjoyed this thank you. Goes to show even if a product doesn’t become big or successful, it can be carried over to another product like the PS3. This was cool.
The lens may have a pot sensor where you can adjust the screw to fix the laser maybe that might help. Very common with the ps2 laser.
That heat-sink needs replacing man..
I can't believe how modern this system feels for a 2003 release
LMAO I thought it was the box till you flipped it over haha
I remember seeing the PSX back in the day imported at a local game shop. I love it's aesthetics and wished the PS5 would have looked more like this and heck I bet this system will look even small compared to what is now the PS5 :)
I own one and it’s heavy as hell lol mines fully functional great machine n very easy to homebrew
"Just lasted over a year." Yep, reminds me of when my dad stopped paying child support. Happy father's day everyone LOL
bad joke detected
Ahh.. I see what you did there. And I'm still waiting for mine to get back from going out to get milk and a pack of smokes. ..Should be any time now! It's been about 35 years!
@@teacherfromthejungles6671 bad sport detected
@@graphicsgod same 😅 I'm 34 never even met mine and he lives like 20 mins down the road. Reasons why I personally chose to not breed.
I remember reading about these when they were coming out in Japan, and really hoping they would launch in other markets. A Sony PS2 that was also a digital TV receiver/recorder and DVD burner - that would be a no-brainer. PErfect home entertainment hub.
Sadly, they never released outside of Japan. So I looked forward to the backwards compatible PS3. Then they removed the PS2 chips. Still, I have a PS3 Slim, and coupled with the PS3's Freeview box, it's a pretty good home entertainment hub. I can record live and scheduled TV onto the PS3's hdd, and watch it back. I can even copy it to USB sticks. The only thing I can't do, it burn it to a disc, sadly.
That puny heat sink is a perfect example of Sony cheapen out on the most important things in their electronics
And the worst thing is that they put a shit heatsink into a premium console that definetly costed more than 500$
@@CreatorPolar actually no the heat sink is beast on the PlayStation 5 i can see that heat sink being more than enough for most games i bet they cheeped out on the disc drive and the SSD for the ps5 like they do with all of their consoles
@@ericmoeller3634 I was talkong about the PSX not the ps5
I was dreaming to have the psx when i was a kid back in the day, but i knew that my mother would kill me immediately when asking her to buy one
your free trial of living has ended
@@hacktrixapii and you must pay with your soul
@@spazerabanekozeroshki yez
Same dude, but honestly we dodged a bullet
wow, that heatsink was one of the crappiest heatsink I’ve ever seen and in combination with a smal as fan like that? What where they thinking?
and no thermal paste
Planned obsolescence
It couldn’t have been that bad lol
LOVE THE PS4 THEME SONG PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND
I always thought that the Playstation One was called the PSX not that thing. You learn something new every day
This is the kinda content i love.
I remember reading about this as a kid and thinking it looked so dope, and the design still holds up. Gotta get with LTT and put some proper cooling in that bad boi
5:42 Dude that thing was easy to take off because it was made to give you easy access to the back ports lol
I'm surprised nobody has managed to crack the HDD encryption yet. Once that happens, I'm totally down to buy one.
Anyone know where I can get the same Japanese copy of Metal Gear Solid 2 at? Looks freakin’ dope asf!
I wanted one of these so badly back in the day!
Launch model PS3's had the same problem with overheating. I've seen a lot of the "PHAT" models, but working ones are rare. They usually have the YLOD.
Calling PSX to the PS1 is like calling Holland to the Netherlands
The short name of Playstation was PSX from 1994 until the PS2 was released. It could only be a "PSone" when there's a PS2.
You better take care of that harddrive. It is married to the system and there is currently no method to remarry a new one. The system will die if the harddrive dies.
Doganderboss what a horrible design flaw
@@jipillow1 that's like saying not being able to play burned ps2 discs is a design flaw
@@sheepsnoopshep that's completely different, burned is piracy, now if the HDD fails ( which they do quite frequently) then you should be able to simply put a new one, just like you do on ps3 and ps4. thank god sony didn't do the same mistake with the ps3
I’m surprised no one has figured out how to unpair the Disc Drive from the system
Probably because there isn't very much interest in a system like that.
Japan was ahead of our time... their modern aesthetic in the early 2000's was really nice
I really like how it looks. Despite its size, it looks pretty sleek
I remember reading about this in a magazine way back
When your early and there's not a lot of comments to go through :/
@Mike UK hey you learned a new word! Good job troll
When I saw those S-Video connectors, at first I thought they were... PS/2 connectors lol.
The beginning of this video, you mentioned a teardown of a PS2... but you didn't recognise the left laser with the plastic shroud was the same. Take off the shroud, clean under it with compressed air, and clean the laser glass with a slightly dampened alcohol q-tip and your games should work. Also, there is software that enables a bit-to-bit copy of hard drives; get another 250 and try a swap. If the backup works, maybe it's not locked like the OG Xbox?
it was ""against"" for panasonic Q which was gamecube of panasonic edition. game companies tried to explore family entertainment center market at that time.
It's pronounced PS Cross :D
Not really, if you watch PSX commercials from that period, the voice-over clearly says “PSX.”
@@netako you mean ekusu instead of curosu, probably, which is how Japanese would pronounce those names...
@@IERServer Yes, “Ekusu.”
It's a joke guys, he was referencing Playstation UK "educating" people by telling them the "X" button is supposedly called "cross" and how we've been calling it wrong for 25 years
Man when he grabbed that power supply my heart skipped a few beats...
The laser on the left in the black casing is a standard Playstation 2 laser. The one on the right is probably there to initialize and burn discs. Possibly read non Playstation discs as well to remove unnecessary strain.
I purchased the controller for one of these consoles last time I was in Japan. I didn't even realize how crazy long the cord is! Is it worth anything in collector circles?
Boxed? They go stupid expensive.
@@Tieigo0 unfortunately no, just loose
I remember reading about all these obscure systems as they came out, either in magazines or online. The Mega Drive with the built-in CD-ROM, the Panasonic Gamecube, I even own an NTSC-based Commodore Amiga CD32 (only ever released in Canada), and so much more. I've forgotten so many more important things, but somehow remember all this useless info about obscure gaming systems. :-)
It's called the Sega CDX
@@sorryiwaseatingamilkyway Ah yes, the Sega CDX, that's right. :) I have a Sega Nomad, but didn't have a Sega CDX.
Very cool I didn’t even know it existed. Happy Fathers Day!!!
Bit of trivia: In Europe, "PSX" was actually what the original Playstation was called.
It was never called ”PSX” in Europe.
Europe is big, dirverse place.
It's amazing how they can fit a 256GB hard drive into a system that is almost 20 years old yet the best they can do in a Xbox Series S is only 512 GB.
To be fair, the S series is a custom on board NVMe drive, but it is a bit on the small side for today's games, especially if you're installing the 4k texture packs.
It's not a hard drive in the S, that's why. It's a PCI E based SSD, and Gen 4 no less. Right now you're looking at a ballpark of about $100 to buy something like that outright for a PC in the same size. The Series S is $300, and the only cutbacks over the X they made in terms of cost, are a Blu-ray drive which isn't going to save them much money, some computer units on the GPU, some VRAM, and yes, halving the SSD from the X's 1TB.
The S still has the same eight core Zen 2 based CPU, and to buy the closest equivalent you could get for a PC legitimately costs more than the console. Something's gotta give.
Oh, and let's not forget this PSX that Spawn Wave is reviewing retailed for *$700* in a time when it would've been worth more than $700 today.
Lol the xbox series x doesnt have a hard drive its an SSD. not the same thing.
This thing looks amazing props to the designer.
That appears to be the case we got in Australia for MGS2
7:55 Ha! Accidental face reveal.
Saw "PSX" and I was like... that's the first PlayStation... not the 2.
@El-ahrairah stfu
@El-ahrairah PSX is the codename for the original PlayStation. Not sure why the used that name instead of something like PSX2 for this.
Love the tear down of the PS5. Also, your forearms are looking pretty jacked.
I'd check the spindle. The PS2 disc drive is notorious for building up residue and then letting the discs slip. I'm sure it's a different drive but something worth checking.
I've had a PSX for a while, but it's pretty beat up and not super working
Can you not mod it or clean it?
I thought that the PSX was some kind of weird joke among the PS fans
I think, having the console with a hard drive working, it is crucial to clone the hard drive because they are encrypted and there is no method right now to format a hdd to work with the PSX. On the PS2 they were encrypted too, but there are patches and mods for the console to accept a non-factory drive.
I'm lowley mad that you're taking this rare console apart, but also so glad you did it 😂
That heatsink is an absolute junker, where is the surface area in those fins lol!
Where’s the heats ink at?
Ps5 gonna be $700
Roadhouse
Yaha c'mon
Roadhouse
I managed to disassemble and assemble one of these things, one of the lasers is just a standard PS2 laser while the other one is not, also if your PSX doesn't read games just like this unit here you can force it making a Free Mcboot memory card for the PSX...
Seeing an original(non burnt) ps2 disc will never be normal to me.
I wonder where Sony got the inspiration for the PS5's design.
I hope you aren't referring to them using this. It's a full on box which the PS5 is not. Its curved and everything. You cant be saying this just because its white too lol...?
There is a meme where someone has put PS2 and PS3 and made a PS5...