Sooooo ahead of its time. As a kid it was not just a games console it was a TV, a cinema, a web browser, a messenger, a phone, etc. I used to use it for everything!
Counter intuitive but being without LTE is why it was so versatile. Every device, once you introduce a built in internet connection, becomes something that can break when update support ends. Offline makes apocalypse proof things.
I still stand behind my opinion that the psp was the greatest thing that happened in that era. Imagine if they made a new gen handheld. I would buy it instantly
The PSP was absolutely amazing. It came during a time where companies were still experimenting with what they could do with all the progressing technology. The Vita was also great, but Sony price policy, the friggin propietary memory cards and the lackluster first party lineup killed it... Luckily these days the PC handhelds have filled that "lets see what we can do with modern tech" void.
The PSP was a holy grail for me during the early 2000s. The ability to bring videogames to any plance you wanted was out of this world, and some of the PSP exclusives, like God of War, were awesome.
I have, and have had, that GPS addon. Got it during my trainee years for a surveyor job back when it released, and it made me the coolest trainee in the entire company overnight. All the other teams had to print out map quest instructions, I just whipped out my GPS module, the PSP holder, and off we went. It went so far that occasionally team leads would fight over who would get to have me on their team because they had to go some really far away surveying site that day. I felt like a god damn king.
"Watch movies when I was flying!" The most obnoxious first world statemente ever. Meanwhile the rest of the world just wanted something to eat or perhaps get a chance to check something like the PSP. And the most funny part is that you people don't even know this. And no I am no fuc&king woke bitch who doesn't know shit, I am a southamerican who has lived some hard shit, like all here.
It should be illegal to make advancements on really good technology. Punishable by death. We made the best thing.... now use it till the end of time. I was perfectly happy playing psp with the boys no internet only the local link thingy. We'd do racing games and put gameboy roms on it. Now it's all phones which have so many different uses everybody is all over the place! Let's pass some legislation boys!
@@triskits_mmm and somehow sony just forgot how to make good handheld console again now, they had it on their first try. And i feel like they gave up too early with the vita as well
@@farhankurniawan7567 Yeah def 100%. I have a buddy who has the Nintendo switch I think it's called and he's playing many of the same games we played like 10-15 years ago. He's buying games for the third time! Bring it back baby
@@triskits_mmm Making it illegal to make advancements is dumb. PSP was great but I think they can make a new one. Sony should make another PSP or device similar like it. The PS Vita was cool, but it was flawed with its memory cards. A PSP with modern Gaming Laptop hardware would be nice. Its been a over decade since Sony made a handheld
It's major flaw was the spinning UMD reading noise, especially on the later games where the memory limit was constantly dumped for new data to load. But now I'm able to tolerate it a bit better especially with a decent headset.
This thing was my connected dash. I used it as a dash cam, sat nav and media player in the car. It was and still is one of the best handhelds of all time. Very underrated for what it actually did.
@@LouisianaBurns but PSP doesn't require a PS3 to run. It can be used to remote-run PS3 games, but it's also a console on its own, unlike PS Portal and WiiU pad
The vita was also ahead of its time! I’ll never forget being able to connect my blue tooth AirPods to my vita and how smoothly it connected whereas the switch didn’t even have that ability yet… 🤦♀️ PSP and Vita are, till this day, amazing handhelds. Totally sucks that corporate greed completely killed them.
Do you have slight audio delay with your airpods? I tried using gen1 galaxy buds on mine and there's like a half second delay in audio. Even the steam deck has this issue with bluetooth headphones.
@@TheStapluh ah, that sucks! No, I have not experienced any delays connecting my air pods to bluetooth directly. The one time I experienced a delay was when I bought this third party bluetooth for the switch (back when it didn’t have bluetooth) but it kinda made sense being third party and all.
Ps vita honestly had the potential to be just as good as switch library wise and could've and should've been a hybrid(the psp was before but Sony removed the feature from vita and tried to sell it as a second extra vita without a screen) if don't didn't smother it in its crib. It'll always be one of the biggest what ifs in gaming history.
Man I remember back in high school around 2014, I would have my modded PSP Vita with me and a lot of PSP, GBA, and PS1 games and movies with me at all times. That was so much fun back then.
Sony NEEDS to get back to that, like their old marketing department even, was just so flashy and enthusiastic and the company wasn’t scared to take risks
I legit used this thing as my home computer for a time. Emails, podcasts, videos, webs. Probably more that I've forgotten. You have to remember this was before smartphones, before streaming netflix and Spotify. This was like alien technology
I think some later models also supported video calls with Skype. I was so amazed and mind blown at the time (though I never tried). Very ahead of its time
The psp was ahead of its time not only because of its features, but also because it's a (roughly) phone sized handheld. And now that everyone knows that gaming on the go is great, a handheld console that actually fits into your pocket would be a HUGE hit. Hell, a lotta people are still buying used 3ds and psp's for that very reason
This was difficult for me to grapple with too, but yes, that's the way it is. 2004 wasn't 5 or 10 years ago the way I sometimes feel like it is - it was 20 years ago, two whole decades ago.
The PSP is more or less the same age now as the NES was back when AVGN started making videos to "take us back to the past". We're all getting old, and what qualifies as "retro" has evolved with the times.
I used to use the psp as a phone when I was younger and would skype my friend on it by walking around an apartment complex and using unsecured wifi networks. Did it for months lol
Psp was so far ahead of its time that I still play psp games to this day. Not on a psp but a emulator but none the less I'd love for the psp or the psp go make a huge come back
They literally gave up on handhelds. After the failure of PSVita, they understood that they can’t compete with Nintendo in the handheld market, and shifted all focus to home consoles.
@@jareknowak8712 You don't have to imagine. The handheld market has never been richer or more diverse. The biggest change is that the main innovators are no longer Nintendo or Sony. Now it's companies like Valve with the Steam Deck, and a bunch of smaller Chinese companies like Aya Neo, Ayn, Retroid, and Anbernic. Even if you don't want a PC handheld, they've got you covered with devices like the Odin 2 or Retroid Pocket 4. I bought an Odin 1 when it first released to play Gamecube & PS2 games, and it works perfectly for that purpose, plus I find myself using it a lot for android games too. Odin 2 is even more powerful and can even play a ton of Switch games without a hitch, in addition to all older consoles up to the Wii. Things are only going to get better from here, too, not to mention the Switch 2 and Steam Deck 2 on the horizon. We are truly in the midst of the Handheld Gaming Renaissance.
My parents bought me a second hand one and it came with speakers all kinds of cords and cases and tons of movies and shooter games! I was so young I can't even remember how old I was. Now adays I don't agree with that decision, but at the time my world was brighter than ever before. My first ever elcetronic device
The PSP was absolutely amazing. It came during a time where companies were still experimenting with what they could do with all the quickly progressing technology. The Vita was also great, but Sony price policy, the friggin propietary memory cards and the lackluster first party lineup killed it... Luckily these days the PC handhelds have filled that "lets see what we can do with modern tech" void.
I assume that (if it hasn't already happened yet) it's only a matter of time until someone mods the files for the app that accompanies this peripheral to update its map data
The PSP was and still is epic! I loved the ability to share games from only one UMD and play multiplayer in the ad hoc network it created. We used to have epic PSP parties with games like Fired Up and M.A.C.H.
*It's just a saved database of maps and locations, with which you don't need to use the internet to access to it.. It's just a pre-loaded GPS tracking system..*
The successor to the PSP family was the PS Vita, which competed against the Nintendo 3DS. It didn't sell as well as the PSP. It used expensive, proprietary memory cards and had to compete with smartphone gaming. Sony shifted their focus to the PS4, but I've heard there's a decent amount of homebrew software available for it. There's a Vita emulator called vita3k. The device he showed at the end of the video was the Playstation Portal, which can only be used to stream games from a PS5 while on the same local network. Kind of a stupid product when a Steam Deck can do that and a lot more for a similar price.
Why do you say that? I don't necessarily disagree, I just don't understand. I don't know a ton about the vita. I don't recall it having many more features over the psp besides the other stick and touchscreen(?). Vita came out in the beginning of the age of the smartphone, I don't think it did much most of those couldn't. Psp had a lot of features that phones and other mobile devices just didn't have, web browsing n all that
Honestly that unit did so much. My mobile phone got killed by sea water while on holiday and I was able to get the PSP online to update family via Facebook. Brilliant.
When I got my PSP on launch day in May of 2005 it was just mind blowing. There was nothing like it before and it was truly next level. The way it just felt in your hands and the crazy number of features was really impressive at the time. Being able to play ad-hoc/wireless multiplayer with a group of friends in high school was so much fun. Games like Untold Legends and Medal of Honor. Having Grand Theft Auto on a little handheld was super neat-o. It has a ton of amazing games plus the entire PS1 library. I remember a group of people huddling around watching me browse the internet. It was a smartphone before they ever existed. They're so easy to mod too. The Vita might be the way to go now though. It's super easy to mod as well and you can of course play PS1, PSP, Vita games and a bunch of amazing ports like GTA SA/Vice City/3, Bully, Max Payne and Dead Space. They all run nicely as well. Plus you can emulate a bunch of stuff from gameboy to N64. Hard to beat for a ~$100 device. The OLED screen is awesome too. Too bad Sony fumbled the Vita so badly. It had so much potential. Luckily the modding community has kept it alive and it's more popular than ever now.
PSP was way ahead of its time. If it came out a few years later and had an SSD to dowload games to from the PS store versus physical UMD or whatever the discs were called, it would've been huge. They could've launched it along with the PS3 and branded it similarly.
Not only was it ahead of its time, but we'll never again have something like it in gaming that pushes the boundaries so far in such an enjoyable way. We are so used to tech now it'll never hit the same way again. This was back when you didn't have a smart phone and access to everything at anytime; you went out and used this to game with what little bit of games you had, watched your collection of movies, listened to what little bit of music you had. You didn't have it all at your fingertips, it was your true companion that enhanced your life. Now we just have everything so much so, it's uninteresting and you no longer bond with your media. I had like 2 movies I rewatched over and over and a nirvana album and they came with me on long trips, outings, etc. and they meant more for being there in those times, when I had nothing else.
Gps, classic PS1 game, PSP games, movies, music, manga... I used my PSP for everything in trade school back in 09-10.. I should check it still works one of these days🤔
I cannot believe this actually existed, me and my girlfriend were just watching this and both thought it was insane. We're both very big fans of the original psp and this just blew our minds
PSP was always my favorite system growing up. I remember how stroked and blown away I was they made little movie disc as well and had a small collection. Never got why no one else cared.
PSP was one of the best consoles. I installed as a child/teenie an custom firmware and played online Counter-strike 2D where i could chat online with other people, also there was so much possibilitys what you could do with the psp... minigames, download any .iso / rom file and put it on the SDcard(wich was verry expensiv the reason why i had only 1gb)... good old times
The PSP was definitely ahead of its time. It was the first way for me to watch "high-definition" videos portably although high capacity SD cards (1gb 😂) were unreasonably expensive at that time.
Was the PSP ahead of its time??
Yeah
Yes
Yeah
Agree..
Yes. Even the Vita was as well.
Just imagine being in a strange place in the apocalypse and the only thing you have to navigate is an old psp with this attachment.
In a true apocalypse the gps satellites will not be maintained and will eventually fall out of orbit.
GPS satellites would be gone
You may be confirming the next Key Item in The Last of Us Part 3.
I wish I had this confidence in life
You guys must be fun at parties . . .
“And now we have this…” cracked me up 😂
The way he held it says it all.
And now Sony is so proud of the sales of the Portal. Ugghh
Hit and sunk. That’s an old battleship reference.
"And now we have this sh**" 🚮 he say that 😂
Oh most definitely
Imagine calling an Uber and the driver shows up with this on the dash 😂
Perfect for navigating AND for the downtime! 😂
Instant 5 stars 🌟
instant 5 starsss🎉
Then that'd become the only Uber Driver that *I* would start a conversation with willingly 🤣
Plot twist, he's driving that guy who was caught filming a concert with his Vita.
Sooooo ahead of its time. As a kid it was not just a games console it was a TV, a cinema, a web browser, a messenger, a phone, etc. I used to use it for everything!
I used to take ctinge selfies when i was 9 🙏☠️
Even hentai those school days were good
And a girlfriend
same
Yep it was my smartphone before smartphones but I mostly used it to emulate Chrono Trigger
I called it a GPSPSP and now my cats won't leave me alone
😂 gold
Underrated comment
Brilliant 😂
😂dayum
PSP was so fucking ahead of its time. If it had a sim card it probably would have been unstoppable
Well the vita did and it was a flop. And the 3g version was even more of a flop lol
@@nsfmpizza1932it’s the timing he’s referring to. By the time the vita came out, it was too late
@@chrismichaud5906vita came out 2012, iphone came out 2007, psp came out 2004.
Do the deduction.
I remember a guy in high school who has this phone where you can play crash Bandicoot on it he was a fucking awesome
Counter intuitive but being without LTE is why it was so versatile. Every device, once you introduce a built in internet connection, becomes something that can break when update support ends. Offline makes apocalypse proof things.
I still stand behind my opinion that the psp was the greatest thing that happened in that era. Imagine if they made a new gen handheld. I would buy it instantly
Nope, all you get is the screen casting thing they just released
Sony executives are too lazy and greedy to dare compete in Nintendo's territory and many of us too poor to afford to buy it if it launched anyways
@@Mister0menthat was also the vita oh wait I forgot that was just a side note and not the main purpose of the vita
The vita was that but nobody bought it and sony didn't care about it too since the ps4 was successful
The PSP was absolutely amazing. It came during a time where companies were still experimenting with what they could do with all the progressing technology.
The Vita was also great, but Sony price policy, the friggin propietary memory cards and the lackluster first party lineup killed it...
Luckily these days the PC handhelds have filled that "lets see what we can do with modern tech" void.
The PSP was a holy grail for me during the early 2000s. The ability to bring videogames to any plance you wanted was out of this world, and some of the PSP exclusives, like God of War, were awesome.
PSP was everything as a kid 🥹
I have, and have had, that GPS addon. Got it during my trainee years for a surveyor job back when it released, and it made me the coolest trainee in the entire company overnight. All the other teams had to print out map quest instructions, I just whipped out my GPS module, the PSP holder, and off we went.
It went so far that occasionally team leads would fight over who would get to have me on their team because they had to go some really far away surveying site that day.
I felt like a god damn king.
dude thats freaking awesome
Aw man 😂
you’re still a King 👑
PSP was positively glistening pre-iPhone.
I'm a surveyor too! Still doing it?
Loved my PSP in high school! It was my go to mp3 player and I’d watch movies on it when flying.
Same! It was truly the best media device before the smartphone era. I would totally get a modernized one if they made one
Me too! 64mb of storage, so I had about 15 songs I could rotate between
Same for.me.
"Watch movies when I was flying!" The most obnoxious first world statemente ever. Meanwhile the rest of the world just wanted something to eat or perhaps get a chance to check something like the PSP. And the most funny part is that you people don't even know this. And no I am no fuc&king woke bitch who doesn't know shit, I am a southamerican who has lived some hard shit, like all here.
Me too it was my first everything for me. I put music on it, movies, etc
It really is ahead of its time, the screen, the build quality and its timeless design is just so good
It should be illegal to make advancements on really good technology. Punishable by death. We made the best thing.... now use it till the end of time. I was perfectly happy playing psp with the boys no internet only the local link thingy. We'd do racing games and put gameboy roms on it. Now it's all phones which have so many different uses everybody is all over the place! Let's pass some legislation boys!
@@triskits_mmm and somehow sony just forgot how to make good handheld console again now, they had it on their first try. And i feel like they gave up too early with the vita as well
@@farhankurniawan7567 Yeah def 100%. I have a buddy who has the Nintendo switch I think it's called and he's playing many of the same games we played like 10-15 years ago. He's buying games for the third time! Bring it back baby
@@triskits_mmm Making it illegal to make advancements is dumb. PSP was great but I think they can make a new one. Sony should make another PSP or device similar like it. The PS Vita was cool, but it was flawed with its memory cards. A PSP with modern Gaming Laptop hardware would be nice. Its been a over decade since Sony made a handheld
It's major flaw was the spinning UMD reading noise, especially on the later games where the memory limit was constantly dumped for new data to load.
But now I'm able to tolerate it a bit better especially with a decent headset.
Psp is really an amazing handheld. One of my favourite items i got as a kid was my psp! So much fun with it. I rly loved watching movies with it!
psp screen still looks so clear and colorful and the buttons and the clear, man that one looks so good.
This thing was my connected dash. I used it as a dash cam, sat nav and media player in the car. It was and still is one of the best handhelds of all time. Very underrated for what it actually did.
Wowwwww. I might do that with my vita fr
very cool psp housing you got there
Amazing one
Looks like a PS Vita... So clean
PSP: look at me I got a GPS!
the portal: i have absolutely nothing
the portal: I can copy what the Wii U game-pad does
@@man3389. dont you mean it can copy what the psp did with the ps3? i mean..psp to ps3 was first
@@LouisianaBurns but PSP doesn't require a PS3 to run. It can be used to remote-run PS3 games, but it's also a console on its own, unlike PS Portal and WiiU pad
Xbox Cloud: I got nothing. Just BYO phone and internet. No controller required. Even works on a f***ing Sony Xperia.
@@1centimetre Xbox Cloud. Richest countries only!
The PSP has always had such a special place in my heart. The Steam Deck is the first handheld since then that has made me feel the same way. ❤
Movies were awesome on psp, could watch them on the tv with a ac cable, the games felt fresh and new, was a wonderful piece of tech
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@@alvallac2171 he's sharing his thoughts, not writing a novel.
The vita was also ahead of its time! I’ll never forget being able to connect my blue tooth AirPods to my vita and how smoothly it connected whereas the switch didn’t even have that ability yet… 🤦♀️
PSP and Vita are, till this day, amazing handhelds. Totally sucks that corporate greed completely killed them.
Do you have slight audio delay with your airpods? I tried using gen1 galaxy buds on mine and there's like a half second delay in audio. Even the steam deck has this issue with bluetooth headphones.
Remote play on Vita was criminally under advertised, even most people that actually owned one didn't fully realise how good it was....
I didn't kno u could do that, how?
@@TheStapluh ah, that sucks! No, I have not experienced any delays connecting my air pods to bluetooth directly. The one time I experienced a delay was when I bought this third party bluetooth for the switch (back when it didn’t have bluetooth) but it kinda made sense being third party and all.
Ps vita honestly had the potential to be just as good as switch library wise and could've and should've been a hybrid(the psp was before but Sony removed the feature from vita and tried to sell it as a second extra vita without a screen) if don't didn't smother it in its crib. It'll always be one of the biggest what ifs in gaming history.
Man I remember back in high school around 2014, I would have my modded PSP Vita with me and a lot of PSP, GBA, and PS1 games and movies with me at all times. That was so much fun back then.
since it's not using internet it does not get confused and send you into a subway or over a cliff unless those things are new🤣
Sony NEEDS to get back to that, like their old marketing department even, was just so flashy and enthusiastic and the company wasn’t scared to take risks
It's like a nut you can play with outside.
They NEED to? Do they really NEED to? They must NEED to then.
They coward to fight it with Nintendo company competition
I've never knew that this gps device existed on psp. Thanks for dropping this.
I still have a PSP and play it today, never knew about this GPS add-on, even more reasons to love this OG console!
and it has a radio plug in feature too if it had a sim it would be untouchable... well til steve jobs invented the iphone in 07 lol
Wow... I thought I knew everything about the psp. Great video!
Thanks!!😎🔥🙏🏽
As a childhood PSP owner, there were SO many things they did ahead of their time.
Yes it was king of the handhelds
Wow I'm famous mommy
Thanks
it still is
@@kamaki.mp3 3DS dethroned it, don't even act like it didn't.
@@near5280if not the 3ds then the switch definitely did
Who owns psp
There is so many unique things about older technology which surprise me despite being in my 20s and I'm always wonder how it works sometimes
The PSP was like the equivalent of having an iPhone in 1997. Too advanced to appreciate man we took it for granted
I legit used this thing as my home computer for a time. Emails, podcasts, videos, webs. Probably more that I've forgotten.
You have to remember this was before smartphones, before streaming netflix and Spotify. This was like alien technology
It wasn't really good for that, I wanted it to do all that too.
@@rc.... well I watched my first porn on it lmao
I think some later models also supported video calls with Skype. I was so amazed and mind blown at the time (though I never tried). Very ahead of its time
@@sonydominates some freaks even watched pr9n on it.
There already was smartphones but of course they weren't as common as in 2010's and now
that's... genuinely incredible
My Dawg!🔥🔥
no way, the funny man.
Man that blue psp looks amazing
The psp was ahead of its time not only because of its features, but also because it's a (roughly) phone sized handheld. And now that everyone knows that gaming on the go is great, a handheld console that actually fits into your pocket would be a HUGE hit. Hell, a lotta people are still buying used 3ds and psp's for that very reason
It really was. My PSP was literally a mini pc. Downloaded and put movies on it, web browsed, gamed, etc..
Loved my PSP. It was really one of my last handheld gaming system along with the DS. So many great games and system features. Truly ahead of its time.
I honestly didn’t even know that there was a GPS feature for the Sony PSP… I learned something new today.
True, the PSP was ahead of its time. I still have one and it still works.
I remember when psp released. I was in middle school and this rich kid brought one in. He instantly became popular 😆
Same with the PS3, way ahead of its time!
"back in the day" is the 00s now 😭
Hell 2010's is considered back in the day.
It really hurts me when I see cars that I remember being the hot new thing when they came out getting called "retro" and even "vintage"
Yes it's called "the passage of time"
This was difficult for me to grapple with too, but yes, that's the way it is. 2004 wasn't 5 or 10 years ago the way I sometimes feel like it is - it was 20 years ago, two whole decades ago.
The PSP is more or less the same age now as the NES was back when AVGN started making videos to "take us back to the past". We're all getting old, and what qualifies as "retro" has evolved with the times.
I used to use the psp as a phone when I was younger and would skype my friend on it by walking around an apartment complex and using unsecured wifi networks. Did it for months lol
Those were the days. Now you'd have to go to a coffee shop or something haha
Props to the Ape Escape music in the background, I'd recognize that track anywhere
love how I knew it was ape escape but I definitely don't know what game or track
@@gerardoduran4240 1st game: New Freezeland - Frosty Retreat (I knew it was the first game but forgot the stage and had to double check lol)
Yep, I recognised it too. I still listen to that OST album to this day. I love it.
Rape escape
Psp was so far ahead of its time that I still play psp games to this day. Not on a psp but a emulator but none the less I'd love for the psp or the psp go make a huge come back
*PSP
*PSP, but
*an emulator (because "emulator" starts with a vowel sound)
*nonetheless, I'd
*PSP
*PSP Go to make
*comeback.
@@alvallac2171 damn dude your life boring af
PSP was definitely ahead of its time. Honestly they should try to make a rerelease
Sony wanted it to be *One Piece* of tech...
Understandable
ONE PIECEEE
@@Penguinizerrr is real
They literally gave up on handhelds. After the failure of PSVita, they understood that they can’t compete with Nintendo in the handheld market, and shifted all focus to home consoles.
The Vita failed because Sony made stupid decisions.
@@Jake1702the psvita probs failed for the same reason the Wii U did
Just imagine what could be done with todays tech, and how cheap it will be. I miss PSP.
@@jareknowak8712 You don't have to imagine. The handheld market has never been richer or more diverse. The biggest change is that the main innovators are no longer Nintendo or Sony. Now it's companies like Valve with the Steam Deck, and a bunch of smaller Chinese companies like Aya Neo, Ayn, Retroid, and Anbernic. Even if you don't want a PC handheld, they've got you covered with devices like the Odin 2 or Retroid Pocket 4. I bought an Odin 1 when it first released to play Gamecube & PS2 games, and it works perfectly for that purpose, plus I find myself using it a lot for android games too. Odin 2 is even more powerful and can even play a ton of Switch games without a hitch, in addition to all older consoles up to the Wii. Things are only going to get better from here, too, not to mention the Switch 2 and Steam Deck 2 on the horizon. We are truly in the midst of the Handheld Gaming Renaissance.
@@nandanthony nah, it failed bc Sony got scared of smartphones
The PSP the good old days
The fuck is your profile
Me too, bro
Bro your channel is fire 🔥
I remember i was only 12 years old working construction with my father to buy my own psp. Keep yourselves motivated gentlemen.
My parents bought me a second hand one and it came with speakers all kinds of cords and cases and tons of movies and shooter games! I was so young I can't even remember how old I was. Now adays I don't agree with that decision, but at the time my world was brighter than ever before. My first ever elcetronic device
PSP might be the last device you actually got if not more, equal value to its purchase amount
What about ps3?
The PSP was absolutely amazing. It came during a time where companies were still experimenting with what they could do with all the quickly progressing technology.
The Vita was also great, but Sony price policy, the friggin propietary memory cards and the lackluster first party lineup killed it...
Luckily these days the PC handhelds have filled that "lets see what we can do with modern tech" void.
Finally. A video that's actually interesting and cool. You get a like from me
The PSP was an important part of my childhood❤❤❤❤❤❤
I assume that (if it hasn't already happened yet) it's only a matter of time until someone mods the files for the app that accompanies this peripheral to update its map data
I was thinking the same thing. They could use data from OpenStreetMap, which is a map anyone can edit (kind of like Wikipedia).
As long as the roads in your area haven’t changed in 20 years it’ll still work with dated GPS
Uh.. He checked New York what about 9/11..
@@SergeantPickles870had this exact thought lmfao
@SergeantPickles870 the PSP is not that old man it came out AFTER 9/11 I'm pretty sure it came out in 2004 or 06
Even a early 90s GPS receiver will still work
@@shiptheb4559 exactly
“And now we have this”😂😂
The PSP was and still is epic! I loved the ability to share games from only one UMD and play multiplayer in the ad hoc network it created. We used to have epic PSP parties with games like Fired Up and M.A.C.H.
PSP’s were lit I loved those damn things so much nostalgia
sony did an amazing job with the PSP, sometimes I wish the PsVita woudnt have failed so bad... we would still have sony handhelds :(
Basically PS3 is a home PSP
I miss these portable machines
Definately ahead of it time... Wish it would make a comeback
*Definitely
*comeback.
*It's just a saved database of maps and locations, with which you don't need to use the internet to access to it.. It's just a pre-loaded GPS tracking system..*
I can just imagine someone somewhere sitting behind a screen seeing an alert for one active user on that game appear on screen.
Hope PSP2 have useful feature like this.
The successor to the PSP family was the PS Vita, which competed against the Nintendo 3DS. It didn't sell as well as the PSP. It used expensive, proprietary memory cards and had to compete with smartphone gaming. Sony shifted their focus to the PS4, but I've heard there's a decent amount of homebrew software available for it. There's a Vita emulator called vita3k.
The device he showed at the end of the video was the Playstation Portal, which can only be used to stream games from a PS5 while on the same local network. Kind of a stupid product when a Steam Deck can do that and a lot more for a similar price.
@@alvallac2171sounds Iike something i'd onIy use in the bathroom
Shout out to Volusia/Flagler County
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That was a lovely comparison at the end.👏👏👏👍👍👍
Man that attachment is beautiful!
The psp is truly the greatest ❤
Would've been nuts if there was an accessory that used the psp as an fpv drone remote for either ground drones or quadcopters
The PS Vita, was ahead of its time
Why do you say that? I don't necessarily disagree, I just don't understand. I don't know a ton about the vita. I don't recall it having many more features over the psp besides the other stick and touchscreen(?). Vita came out in the beginning of the age of the smartphone, I don't think it did much most of those couldn't. Psp had a lot of features that phones and other mobile devices just didn't have, web browsing n all that
Not even close to the psp
I still have mine, this video makes me want to bring it back to life
*mine. This (to fix your comma splice run-on)
*life.
Honestly that unit did so much. My mobile phone got killed by sea water while on holiday and I was able to get the PSP online to update family via Facebook. Brilliant.
I miss my PSP 😢 all the games and movies were so convenient
When I got my PSP on launch day in May of 2005 it was just mind blowing. There was nothing like it before and it was truly next level. The way it just felt in your hands and the crazy number of features was really impressive at the time. Being able to play ad-hoc/wireless multiplayer with a group of friends in high school was so much fun. Games like Untold Legends and Medal of Honor. Having Grand Theft Auto on a little handheld was super neat-o. It has a ton of amazing games plus the entire PS1 library. I remember a group of people huddling around watching me browse the internet. It was a smartphone before they ever existed. They're so easy to mod too.
The Vita might be the way to go now though. It's super easy to mod as well and you can of course play PS1, PSP, Vita games and a bunch of amazing ports like GTA SA/Vice City/3, Bully, Max Payne and Dead Space. They all run nicely as well. Plus you can emulate a bunch of stuff from gameboy to N64. Hard to beat for a ~$100 device. The OLED screen is awesome too. Too bad Sony fumbled the Vita so badly. It had so much potential. Luckily the modding community has kept it alive and it's more popular than ever now.
PSP was way ahead of its time. If it came out a few years later and had an SSD to dowload games to from the PS store versus physical UMD or whatever the discs were called, it would've been huge. They could've launched it along with the PS3 and branded it similarly.
That sounds like the PSP Go and then the PS Vita. The Vita didn't sell as well as the PSP family.
@@alvallac2171 Those came out way later than what I'm talking about
That GPS system looks very familiar to my dad's old car
All in.. one... piece?! RAHHHH THE ONE PIECE IS REAL🗣🔥‼️
I loved my PSP when I was younger. Best thing ever
Not only was it ahead of its time, but we'll never again have something like it in gaming that pushes the boundaries so far in such an enjoyable way. We are so used to tech now it'll never hit the same way again. This was back when you didn't have a smart phone and access to everything at anytime; you went out and used this to game with what little bit of games you had, watched your collection of movies, listened to what little bit of music you had. You didn't have it all at your fingertips, it was your true companion that enhanced your life. Now we just have everything so much so, it's uninteresting and you no longer bond with your media. I had like 2 movies I rewatched over and over and a nirvana album and they came with me on long trips, outings, etc. and they meant more for being there in those times, when I had nothing else.
sometimes I don’t use PSP but the gps receiver is what ever console needs if your offline. Nice thinking Sony 👍
*Sometimes, I
*PSP, but
*every
*you're (contraction of "YOU aRE")
your = possessive
*thinking, Sony.
I miss my PSP so much! One of the best pieces of tech I've ever owned. Wish I had never sold it.
I never heard of this. Great video 🔥
Gps, classic PS1 game, PSP games, movies, music, manga... I used my PSP for everything in trade school back in 09-10.. I should check it still works one of these days🤔
The PSP was so cool. I wanted one for so many years. I thought the little micro discs were the coolest idea.
I used it all the time when driving.
For me it was my first navigation device to use.
The psp is still my favorite console!
PSP was the best handheld gaming device ever made, if they continued till this day it would dominate the market.
*made. If (to fix your comma splice run-on)
*day, it
A beautiful game system brings back many memories
I miss my psp and sidekick 😢
I cannot believe this actually existed, me and my girlfriend were just watching this and both thought it was insane. We're both very big fans of the original psp and this just blew our minds
What’s cool too is that I still have my PSP and the battery last for like 3 whole days with consistent use. And I can play games on that thing all day
*lasts (because "battery" is singular)
*day.
PSP was always my favorite system growing up. I remember how stroked and blown away I was they made little movie disc as well and had a small collection. Never got why no one else cared.
i always wanted a psp as a kid but i loved that the gba was my first handheld :)
psp was amazing. It's the only console I waited in line for. My girlfriend and best friend had one. we played so many games together.
PSP was one of the best consoles. I installed as a child/teenie an custom firmware and played online Counter-strike 2D where i could chat online with other people, also there was so much possibilitys what you could do with the psp... minigames, download any .iso / rom file and put it on the SDcard(wich was verry expensiv the reason why i had only 1gb)... good old times
The PSP was definitely ahead of its time. It was the first way for me to watch "high-definition" videos portably although high capacity SD cards (1gb 😂) were unreasonably expensive at that time.
Best portable gaming device ever created fight me