In countries where Nintendo didn't had official presence (India), PSP was extremely popular. So popular, that my parents and sisters calls my Switch a PSP
Yeah its 2023, still I don't understand why Switch is not yet available in India officially. I only play on Switch I have PC as well but that Nintendo magic.
Those consoles were the golden age of handheld gaming. For me it was never a competition because each console tried to do something different and stand out rather than copy each other. The PSP was the first console to bring the home console experience to a handheld by offering high quality games, a multi-media experience and a PS store before the App Store was even a thing. The DS on the other hand was Nintendo building on a core design the GBA set before it and taking it to the next level, it was the cheaper console but that dual screen utility is something developers all over the world adored and it created a platform for many amazing games. These consoles are why I love handheld gaming and I can never stop thanking them for it.
The DS also was very multiplayer oriented. DS download play was amazing. With a lot of games you only needed 1 copy and you could play multiplayer. Not to mention the novelty of that little chat room where you could connect to your friends and draw stuff. Or playing Animal crossing and joining each other's towns. Pokemon diamond and pearl with their underground multiplayer crystal mining thing. I have so many memories of playing DS with my friends.
Still have my PSP 3000. What a machine it is. Still works like a gem and the battery still last 6hrs. Havent changed it at all. With soft mods makes it an awesome retro machine that can emulate most older games i.e. snes, nes gba etc. Loving these video series btw!
I remember importing my PSP from Lik-Sang back in the day. Kinda sad that Sony eventually sued them into oblivion for exporting PSPs worldwide. I miss Lik-Sang :(
Lance McDonald I got mine from a Chinese seller on eBay. I created the eBay account specifically for it and it's took a month for PayPal to verify my account. I'd won the bid but they'd only ship once I paid with a certified account. Still.. a month later it arrived, felt like I had a device from the future.
Honestly both handhelds were so great for their time, truly the best era of handhelds. Sadly with smartphones we will never see such devotion to pure handheld gaming again. The DS lite straight up had over 15 hours of battery life. It's funny how people mocked the PSP over its 5 hour battery, but nowadays the switch can only push 3. Both devices are still absolutely worth owning today and each have an amazing library of games to play. Here's hoping the switch can live up to such a grand legacy.
@@mpforeverunlimited Vita and PSP were mainly marketed for Teens and adults. But they said they'd rather home consoles until all of a sudden it's a complete switch when the switch drops and it's. But I can play on the go lol
Oh Freedom Unite, how could I ever forget a game that reduced me to tears and took so many hours of my life. The memories bro... not going to lie Portable 3rd was pretty amazing too.
DF Retro could easily be its own dedicated channel. It deserves that, in my opinion. DF Retro is to the then, what NoClip is to the now. I should also add that My Life in Gaming is DF Retro's own DigitalFoundry, more like AnalogFoundry, and then some!!!
The time I had with my PSP was amazing! I got Kingdom Hearts, Dissidia Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, and Crisis Core. The last game being only playable on my PSP as far as I know. It may not have done as well as the DS but it was my handheld of choice at the time. An excellent piece of hardware
The PSP was really ahead of it's time, I remember the last game that I bought before moving on was SOCOM: Fire Team bravo 3 and it was for just 10 dollars/euros (back when they were launching the Essentials titles) Now for the next DF Retro video. It would be interesting to look back at the Xbox 360 reveal (as you guys stated near the end.) or even the whole Xbox One debacle reveal in 2013.
I’m holding out for the day when a grizzled, grey-beard Reggie (with an eye patch) returns as Nintendo’s Frontman… but I’m wearily losing hope by the day
The PSP was truly ahead of its time. I remember owning three of them (don’t ask why) and it was so much more than a video game console. I often used it as a music player, to browse the internet and yes, I watched movies on the damn thing. It was an amazing device.
I remember when the idea of Reggie being this tough, intimidating badass was basically a meme within the gaming community. There was this magazine I used to buy in the mid 2000s which joked about it pretty often. His public image really changed since then. i think the switch happened in 2007 or so. Btw, I found it funny how much cooler the prototype of the DS looks compared to the final product. I really like the first model of the ds, but I think it was really ugly looking, especially because of all of those holes for the audio. I would have really preferred that other design. Also, I think that the Wii still wasn't that well finalized at this point. Iwata in this conference said that they didn't want to focus on power, but he also said something like "don't worry, the graphics will still make you say "wow"". I think that they originally didn't intended to rehash the GameCube hardware. Some former Factor 5 employees confirm this theory: since they were working close to Nintendo back then, they had access to some of the first prototypes of the Revolution and apparently those were as powerful as the Xbox 360, more or less. Also, in one of his GDC talks, Iwata stated that back in 2004 they still didn't know precisely how they wanted the Revolution to be "revolutionary", they still had to design the Wiimote. So I suspect that the name of the "Revolution" wasn't a reference to its technology, but to its intent (which was to lure non-gamer to gaming).
At the time of the release of the PSP, I was working at Sony DADC. We were making UMD's before we even knew what they were for. We could buy them for next to nothing so, I had a nice collection before the PSP even released. I could grab a UMD straight off the line and play it on my breaks. They actually encouraged that at the time. That was when physical media still reigned supreme and business was booming. I LOVED my PSP, especially working there.
darsirious yes he was and I thank him everything he did for the industry especially smash (he saved the development of the original smash) but he was the cause of Nintendo's darker days, I'm talking about shovelware and Wii u, gimmicks and bad kid marketing
yes i am aware, but i choose to value him more as a person, gamer, game developer, and all around a very capable person on every aspect of hardware and software than marketing. i choose to see the light rather than the dark.
It's pretty great, but I found it not to be quite as good as some people make it up to be, I have a GO model, and RetroArch crashes A LOT in it, which is bad because RetroArch has the only decent PC engine emulator for it that I'm aware of, the only other one I found runs worse than NitroGrafx on the DS which is unacceptable... However when RetroArch DOES work it wipes the floor with NitroGrafx! But it won't boot every game... PC engine aside, there's also the SNES which doesn't run great, I couldn't get a single game to boot with RetroArch, but a lot of games will boot on Snes9xTYL, but you have to turn off Vsync to get a decent speed, it's not ideal, but it works, and I can get a bit of a Ninja Warriors fix on-the-go that way... There's a bit of input lag though... Oh and, WonderSwan emulation on the PSP is abysmal! I try to boot Guilty Gear Petit 2 on the [e]Mulator, and I get 20fps at best when the game is supposed to run at 60... Those systems aside, everything else I tried runs surprisingly great! Mega Drive, Neo Geo, GBA, all of them run great! (And I have no idea why considering those systems are supposed to be considerably more powerful than the ones that run poorly) And they don't crash the system! There's also NES and Neo Geo Pocket Colour which also run pretty well on the system, but I don't play those nearly as much...
Michirin9801 I want the GO model because I use my PSP for downloads and as an MP3 player more than I use my UMD's. That and 16 GB out of the box is better than having to use a memory stick pro duo.
You could just buy an SD to Memory Stick adaptor, there's one particular model which has 2 micro SD card slots which support cards of up to 64GB each, so you could have 128GB of memory that way! You know, I almost regret having bought a PSP GO, because it doesn't support regular Memory Sticks or Memory Stick Pros, I have to use an M2 card, and the only SD card solution for PSP GO models involve an intrusive mod which I'm not capable of performing, and even if I was, I don't even think has parts is available anymore (I could be wrong though), so I'm stuck with M2 cards, which only go as high as 16GB, so with one of those I can only have up to 32GB on my PSP at a time... I don't quite regret it though because I get to play emulators on it on top of PS1 and PSP games~ Not to mention the PSP GO is quite small, it's even smaller than my small old 3DS, while having a slightly larger screen! (To be fair though, the 3DS has two screens, and the clamshell design protects them, the PSP GO has its screen always exposed, and mine already came scratched... Yeah, I got it used) I also found that putting RetroArch on an M2 card instead of loading it from the internal memory causes it to crash a lot less often... It still crashes though, but only if I switch the games too many times, never during a play session...
I put so much time into Peace Walker and Dissidia 012. And I experienced many great games like Locoroco 1 and 2, Daxter, Crisis Core, GTA: VCS, Maverick Hunter X, LBP, Ys Seven and Ghost of Sparta. It was a great platform.
In the case of the PSP, it WAS a plastic shell. More importantly the ones that were actually ON were also plastic shells, just built around an LCD displaying an external video feed, as of it were a frame on a small PC monitor. Notice the hard mounting and obviously fake button press. They didn't give specs because they werent final, beyond the dimensions. They didn't show games running on a PSP because those psps couldn't take input. It was all an illusion
Still have my Day 1(Europe launch, Sept. 1, 2005) PSP1000, still works flawlessly. For years it has been my go to emulation machine. I replayed so many of the old Gameboy, Ps1 and SNES games I played as a kid on it. The library of PSP games was also impressive. Even though it was outsold by the DS by 2:1, 80 million units sold for Sonys 1st handheld is extremely impressive. In fact, for my tastes, handheld gaming was so good last gen that I only very late in the gen got a home console. I think I only got a used Xbox360 and Ps3 in 2012 or something like that.
I just pulled my old psp from the drawers, and playing on it again made me realize what a revolutionary device this was. I spent so much time on this thing, I wish I could travel back in time and experience all this awesomeness from the psp as a kid again.
These videos have been great. John and Rich make a good duo, and it's a lot of fun looking back on these presentations. Looking forward to the Xbox 360 video!
Awe man.. this takes me back to when I was 18. I worked a last minute job my dad's buddy needed. It was construction, hauling concrete into a truck and drilling holes with an auger (building a park). 10 hours later, $500 later I was at "target" buying a PSP, MLB, NHL and "hellboy" then off to the airport and flying to Texas on vacation. Good little system, saw "hellboy" on it for the first time, listened to mp3s on it. Way ahead of it's time.
PSP is a phenomenal device. The day I got mine and played Wipeout Pure for the first time was absolutely mind bending. Now I have the Ys games, Lunar, Breath Of fire, Gradius Collection, Valkyria Chronicles II... So many awesome games.
dajam9035 Hahaha, same as me! The demo disk was actually very good. It had a little of everything. I've started collecting PSP games, better do it now before they get insanely expensive. So far the Ys games are the most pricey, luckily I already got all of them at reasonable prices.
The PSP did have shaders 2 Pixel shaders and 1 Vertex shader! So impressive for a handheld of the era, not even the PS2 or 3DS actually had true shaders
The first time I saw the PSP was in an import tech shop next to Manchester Picadilly train station in February 2005, which was over 6 months before the official UK release. The guy in the shop kindly brought it out of the display case to let me have a go on it, and it genuinely felt like something from the future with all of its features, utterly jaw dropping. I'd say it impressed me even more than when I first tried out an iPhone back in 2008. I was tempted to buy it, but it was a Japanese import and the price was I think £350, maybe even more and 18 year old student me couldn't really afford it, so I decided to wait.
I loved how the DS was very multiplayer oriented. DS download play was amazing. With a lot of games you only needed 1 copy and you could play multiplayer. Not to mention the novelty of that little chat room where you could connect to your friends and draw stuff. Or playing Animal crossing and joining each other's towns. Pokemon diamond and pearl with their underground multiplayer crystal mining thing. Metroid Prime hunters is the only handheld FPS multiplayer game I can remember, and it's glorious once you get used to it. I have so many memories of playing DS with my friends.
I see the Switch as a spiritual successor the PSP consoles (including the Vita). The PSP was groundbreaking when it came out. Console quality games on the go is pretty much what the Switch is selling us today. And despite being a major source of headache, I loved the UMDs. When you bought a physical copy, it actually felt like you bought something tangible as opposed to the small cartridges of Vita and Switch. I mean I get why Sony and Nintendo went for cartridges but holding a UMD actually felt like I am holding something cool and awesome. Also, the PSP was built like a fucking tank. PSP and PS2 was the golden age for Sony Computer Entertainment.
I remember seeing the PSP for the first time in a freshman college programming class. A friend just handed it to me and said hey check this thing out. I was blown away by Ridge Racer. I finally bought my own a year after it was released. I have fond memories of PSP. I really wish they would make a Ridge Racer for Switch.
It's not necessarily correct to say that "PSP has skipped a generation". Because GBA wasn't "basically SNES", it was in between SNES and N64 in terms of graphical capabilities. And PSP was right in between PS1 and PS2. So it was a generation, precisely and exactly.
Right? People calling GBA a portable SNES is stupid. GBA was easily able to run Doom while SNES was struggling in anything 3D. Even the 2d games looked much better on the GBA in terms of animations, color and resolution.
@@PurushNahiMahaPurush so what? Most games still looked like a snes game just as most psp games looked like a ps2 game Saying that anyone who calls it a protable ness are wrong is like saying doom is not a first person shoter because the engine renders it as a top down
@@dumitriman but it ran like trash. Have you seen Driver 3 on the GBA ? I looks almost as good as a very early PS1 game. That's impressive. So, GBA is between 4th (snes) and 5th (n64) gen, but a bit closer to 4th gen. DS is right between 5th (n64) and 6th (gamecube) gen and PSP is closer to 6th gen (ps2)
Reasons I bought my DS - Hotel Dusk The Last Window Ace Attorney series Mario Kart Mario 64 DS. Reasons I bought my PSP - The 2 Ace Combat games Dissidia FF & 012 KH Birth By Sleep MGS Peace Walker GTA Liberty City Stories GTA Vice City Stories I love both but the PSP just edges it for me console and games and bonus you can play PS1 games and watch UMD movies 🎥
D-MMA Indeed, I wish Cing made more visual novels. Although if I recall there was like a "successor" or a game related (sort of) to Last Window for 3DS I think, I don't remember its name right now.
Ioannis Stefanakis, are seriously comparing backward compatible GBA games for DS with PS1 titles for PSP? Although I played some GBA titles.. via emulator on my PSP.
Thank you SO MUCH Digital Foundry for making these kinds of videos!! I absolutely LOVE your analysis of gaming history. PLEASE continue to make more of these videos!!
i recently bought a psp very cheap, bought some secondhand classic gow umds and 2 64gb memory cards,popped up some jrpgs,emulators and maybe iam set for my gaming life,psp is certainly ahead of its time...glad i got that..anyone else missing out?grab a psp..u wont regret....
I loved my PSP, but the lack of a second analog really limited gameplay possibilities. When the Vita came out with 2 sticks I was excited to buy one. However, by the time I got around to it I could see that Sony was basically abandoning the system. Really, Sony just failed to market the Vita properly, and they failed to support it with enough Triple A games to bring buyers in. What a shame.
I love how the psp used in the reveal panel looks like it's been used, with smudges and bits on the screen, that's something that just wouldn't be tolerated anymore, its like our expectations and standards have sub-consciously improved.
Everything seems kinda low budget and cobbled together. Especially the boring slides and shit. Looking back I remember it as an amazing, futuristic presentation and now it just seems kinda strange.
Best Reggie quote is from E3 2005. “To date, global sellthrough for Nintendo DS stands at over 5 million, or more than twice the level for the PSP. Now, I know what some of you are thinking: "Well, the PSP hasn't arrived in Europe yet." So we got there when we said we would, and they didn't. You know what? That's Sony's issue, not my problem.”
Smartphone+a good controller can do the job better when it comes to emulation. I mean, if you really want a PSP, then go ahead. I just don't see the point of buying one nowadays unless you used to own one and lost it somehow since PSP is a 10 year old, smartphone-like gadget. I actually own one and it's still working. But even I prefer to use my phone instead.
I always wanted a PSP, it looks like a pretty cool system. I’m definitely going to have to pick one up at some point. Still, the DS was just too amazing not to have back in the day.
Oh hell yes! New DF Retro is always a treat! Gonna watch this now. Do you think one day you could do a DF Retro on Jet Set Radio? I think it would be really interesting to get a retrospective on the game that pretty much invented cel shading...
Sly2Cooper I don't recall ever seeing one and as far as I can tell I've seen all the DF Retro videos. Also just did a quick search and there's nothing on it. Maybe it featured briefly in another video, or another channel did it?
Great vid. Took me right back. I remember also paying a fortune for the PSP on import and being blown away by ridge racer; and then being quite disappointed when I got the DS (the 1st version wasn’t so pretty)....until I started playing and it was so much fun. Dr kawashima brain training was great.
The PSP blew my away. The launch model had such an amazing build quality. Ridge Racer was amazing on the screen and Lumines was the killer puzzle games that Tetris was for the Game Boy.
Don't dis the vita. Sony may have fucked up but the Vita's developers sure as hell didn't. Cyber Sleuth, Lego Marvel Avengers and Yomawari are phenomenal games which really make the vita shine.
Actually it's got a pretty fucking stellar line up of horror and beat em ups as well. Marvel Vs Capcom, Street fighter X Tekken, Arcana Hearts, Skull Girls.
Actor Adam Anouer My vita got stolen. I was pissed off, cause I played pretty much EVERYTHING on there. Hell, being able to remote play with a PS3/PS4 and using it as a controller? Cool!! I used it at my friends house cause they have a PS4 and I have the Xbox One
Yeah, seeing the PSP do the things that it did back then, was just mind blowing. I remember drooling over it in gaming magazines and being bummed out that I was too poor to own one lol. Years later, when the thing was already retro and I was in college, I finally bought it and had an absolute blast. Some of the best gaming memories I’ve ever had.
Compared to ps2. Sony marketed it as a handheld console but it was far from that. I was largely disappointed because we never got the same games as ps2. and whenever we got a game of the same franchise it was some whack knock-off version of the game.
Omg I feel like crying. I was in Middle School when the PSP and DS were announced. I remember seeing both handhelds in the newspaper and bringing it to school to show everyone.
@DigitalFoundry Wow. Was it really 2004 when PSP and DS was announced? 14 years... I think the main weaknesses with the PSP is the UMD format, the proprietary charge cable, and the battery. The DS is basically like an overclocked GBA
No, no, no. These lames are seemingly knowledgeable about specs. etc. but gosh darn it, they have zero love for creativity and innovations, regarding actual gaming experiences - particularly the old guy, meaning that listening to the wooooooooooooshhhhhhh sound of innovative brilliance going over his head becomes quite painful. The old mush in this video actually said that paying an exorbitant amount for a PSP import was worth more than anything else in the world....... so he could play Ridge Racer! A decade old arcade game where the main appeal was the shiny new 3D graphics and blasting techno soundtrack, all while sitting in a giant cabinet - a full scale car if you were lucky!!! AND you could play this...... on a 4inch screen with a d-pad (oh pardon me, 4 directional buttons!), Best, Import, Ever!!!!!! No, no, no sir. I wince whenever he talks Nintendo.
I'm talking about the year 2005/2006 when the PSP got liberty cities and vice city stories. China town came out in 2009 by that time it was already too late imo.
In countries where Nintendo didn't had official presence (India), PSP was extremely popular. So popular, that my parents and sisters calls my Switch a PSP
Yeah its 2023, still I don't understand why Switch is not yet available in India officially. I only play on Switch I have PC as well but that Nintendo magic.
@@harsharippiracy for one. Nintendo got their hands burnt with the Samurai NES and I suspect import tariffs might be an issue.
"It probably felt like a lifetime" We need more of these. Richard's personality really shines through.
Those consoles were the golden age of handheld gaming. For me it was never a competition because each console tried to do something different and stand out rather than copy each other. The PSP was the first console to bring the home console experience to a handheld by offering high quality games, a multi-media experience and a PS store before the App Store was even a thing. The DS on the other hand was Nintendo building on a core design the GBA set before it and taking it to the next level, it was the cheaper console but that dual screen utility is something developers all over the world adored and it created a platform for many amazing games.
These consoles are why I love handheld gaming and I can never stop thanking them for it.
Actor Adam Anouer well said, great generation of handhelds
Bless you buddy. :) Already rep these 2.
Actor Adam Anouer well Said.
Thanks dude, these consoles are irreplacable and I think anyone who's seen them when they came out can see that.
The DS also was very multiplayer oriented. DS download play was amazing. With a lot of games you only needed 1 copy and you could play multiplayer. Not to mention the novelty of that little chat room where you could connect to your friends and draw stuff. Or playing Animal crossing and joining each other's towns. Pokemon diamond and pearl with their underground multiplayer crystal mining thing. I have so many memories of playing DS with my friends.
Still have my PSP 3000. What a machine it is. Still works like a gem and the battery still last 6hrs. Havent changed it at all. With soft mods makes it an awesome retro machine that can emulate most older games i.e. snes, nes gba etc.
Loving these video series btw!
Still have my Japanese launch 1000. Works, but sometimes the dpad gets stuck left
I remember importing my PSP from Lik-Sang back in the day. Kinda sad that Sony eventually sued them into oblivion for exporting PSPs worldwide. I miss Lik-Sang :(
Lance McDonald I got mine from a Chinese seller on eBay. I created the eBay account specifically for it and it's took a month for PayPal to verify my account. I'd won the bid but they'd only ship once I paid with a certified account. Still.. a month later it arrived, felt like I had a device from the future.
I assume you're meaning profit
Kjngpjn Nah he definitely has Ezikiel living in his basement. It's ok though, he doesn't make much mess.
The battery 🔋 life was the only thing I didn't like about my PSP 😔
I did that too, I got a white Japanese PSP-1000 from them. 😊
Honestly both handhelds were so great for their time, truly the best era of handhelds. Sadly with smartphones we will never see such devotion to pure handheld gaming again. The DS lite straight up had over 15 hours of battery life. It's funny how people mocked the PSP over its 5 hour battery, but nowadays the switch can only push 3. Both devices are still absolutely worth owning today and each have an amazing library of games to play. Here's hoping the switch can live up to such a grand legacy.
Of course, if you play snake, minesweeper, solitaire or something of the like LOL
I'd still take god of war for 4-5 hours :p
The vita and 3ds were on the market for like 7 years
Xgen001 now the switch can push 9 and the 3ds can push 12 hours
@@mpforeverunlimited Vita and PSP were mainly marketed for Teens and adults. But they said they'd rather home consoles until all of a sudden it's a complete switch when the switch drops and it's. But I can play on the go lol
Stop playing Botw with max brightness. For offline games I always enable airplane mode as well. I get more than 3 hours out of the system.
I love how you roast these old conferences, it's like watching Beavis and Butthead when they made fun of music videos LOL
The PSP introduced me to so many franchises i love. Monster Hunter and Persona come to mind
Game Head MH was introduced on PS2, not sure about persona bit I think it also came on PS2 first
+Fulvio Narciso Well no shit. lol He's saying tht the system introduced him to the series', he didnt say it started on there.
Fulvio Narciso Persona started on PS1
Game Head mon hun
Oh Freedom Unite, how could I ever forget a game that reduced me to tears and took so many hours of my life. The memories bro... not going to lie Portable 3rd was pretty amazing too.
DF Retro could easily be its own dedicated channel. It deserves that, in my opinion. DF Retro is to the then, what NoClip is to the now. I should also add that My Life in Gaming is DF Retro's own DigitalFoundry, more like AnalogFoundry, and then some!!!
Stadium ARTs analog foundry! Love it!
I only watch the "retro" videos, I don't care about the other content, so I would totally subscribe and watch the df retro channel.
Channel not big enough so that'll be unnecessary
I doubt they release enough Retro content to justify splitting the channel up.
I watch Digital Foundry on occasion, but I consistently watch their retro videos. No idea why they haven't made a second channel dedicated to it.
The time I had with my PSP was amazing! I got Kingdom Hearts, Dissidia Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, and Crisis Core. The last game being only playable on my PSP as far as I know. It may not have done as well as the DS but it was my handheld of choice at the time. An excellent piece of hardware
Oooohhhhh yes little Johnny ooohhhh yesss grandpa very much pleased
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The psp was mind blowing, I remember playing Tony Hawks Underground 2 and Twisted Metal and just being dumbfounded.
Watching this with my psp laying on my table 50cm away from me. Such a glorious device.
the psp, the most successful non-Nintendo portable console
jedixo The PSP + Monster hunter freedom 2/Unite might of been the best games ever made for a portable.
@@MIBxSpartan MH games on PSP were hot garbage dude
@@metacube9913 Certainly hard to go back
@@metacube9913 these games were the reason the psp was so popular in Japan
I take it you've never heard of Tiger Electronics. Almost every kid had a portable Tiger handheld. They were garbage, but they were cheap.
The PSP was really ahead of it's time, I remember the last game that I bought before moving on was SOCOM: Fire Team bravo 3 and it was for just 10 dollars/euros (back when they were launching the Essentials titles)
Now for the next DF Retro video. It would be interesting to look back at the Xbox 360 reveal (as you guys stated near the end.) or even the whole Xbox One debacle reveal in 2013.
HarryTheGreekGamer Fireteam Bravo 3 was an amazing game. FTB2 was fun too if not for the horrible performance issues.
"kicking ass and taking names" god damn you reggie lol
Rip Reggie.
He was a legend
@@colemin2 he is alive iwata is ripping
I’m holding out for the day when a grizzled, grey-beard Reggie (with an eye patch) returns as Nintendo’s Frontman… but I’m wearily losing hope by the day
The PSP was truly ahead of its time. I remember owning three of them (don’t ask why) and it was so much more than a video game console. I often used it as a music player, to browse the internet and yes, I watched movies on the damn thing. It was an amazing device.
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I remember when the idea of Reggie being this tough, intimidating badass was basically a meme within the gaming community. There was this magazine I used to buy in the mid 2000s which joked about it pretty often. His public image really changed since then. i think the switch happened in 2007 or so.
Btw, I found it funny how much cooler the prototype of the DS looks compared to the final product. I really like the first model of the ds, but I think it was really ugly looking, especially because of all of those holes for the audio. I would have really preferred that other design.
Also, I think that the Wii still wasn't that well finalized at this point. Iwata in this conference said that they didn't want to focus on power, but he also said something like "don't worry, the graphics will still make you say "wow"". I think that they originally didn't intended to rehash the GameCube hardware. Some former Factor 5 employees confirm this theory: since they were working close to Nintendo back then, they had access to some of the first prototypes of the Revolution and apparently those were as powerful as the Xbox 360, more or less.
Also, in one of his GDC talks, Iwata stated that back in 2004 they still didn't know precisely how they wanted the Revolution to be "revolutionary", they still had to design the Wiimote. So I suspect that the name of the "Revolution" wasn't a reference to its technology, but to its intent (which was to lure non-gamer to gaming).
At the time of the release of the PSP, I was working at Sony DADC. We were making UMD's before we even knew what they were for. We could buy them for next to nothing so, I had a nice collection before the PSP even released. I could grab a UMD straight off the line and play it on my breaks. They actually encouraged that at the time. That was when physical media still reigned supreme and business was booming. I LOVED my PSP, especially working there.
What were you playing the UMDs on if you were playing them before the PSP released?
@@townsjim I didn't say I was playing them before the PSP released. I said I had a nice collection of UMDs before the PSP released
satoru iwata was a gem
darsirious yes he was and I thank him everything he did for the industry especially smash (he saved the development of the original smash) but he was the cause of Nintendo's darker days, I'm talking about shovelware and Wii u, gimmicks and bad kid marketing
yes i am aware, but i choose to value him more as a person, gamer, game developer, and all around a very capable person on every aspect of hardware and software than marketing. i choose to see the light rather than the dark.
@@AtomicBoo yeap, but man he's one person that really does learn from his mistakes and pull a 180 at the end
PSP + jailbreak = heaven
Back in my day we called it CFW/HEN
No joke. I have a GO model. Beautiful system for emulators.
It's pretty great, but I found it not to be quite as good as some people make it up to be, I have a GO model, and RetroArch crashes A LOT in it, which is bad because RetroArch has the only decent PC engine emulator for it that I'm aware of, the only other one I found runs worse than NitroGrafx on the DS which is unacceptable... However when RetroArch DOES work it wipes the floor with NitroGrafx! But it won't boot every game...
PC engine aside, there's also the SNES which doesn't run great, I couldn't get a single game to boot with RetroArch, but a lot of games will boot on Snes9xTYL, but you have to turn off Vsync to get a decent speed, it's not ideal, but it works, and I can get a bit of a Ninja Warriors fix on-the-go that way... There's a bit of input lag though...
Oh and, WonderSwan emulation on the PSP is abysmal! I try to boot Guilty Gear Petit 2 on the [e]Mulator, and I get 20fps at best when the game is supposed to run at 60...
Those systems aside, everything else I tried runs surprisingly great! Mega Drive, Neo Geo, GBA, all of them run great! (And I have no idea why considering those systems are supposed to be considerably more powerful than the ones that run poorly) And they don't crash the system!
There's also NES and Neo Geo Pocket Colour which also run pretty well on the system, but I don't play those nearly as much...
Michirin9801 I want the GO model because I use my PSP for downloads and as an MP3 player more than I use my UMD's. That and 16 GB out of the box is better than having to use a memory stick pro duo.
You could just buy an SD to Memory Stick adaptor, there's one particular model which has 2 micro SD card slots which support cards of up to 64GB each, so you could have 128GB of memory that way!
You know, I almost regret having bought a PSP GO, because it doesn't support regular Memory Sticks or Memory Stick Pros, I have to use an M2 card, and the only SD card solution for PSP GO models involve an intrusive mod which I'm not capable of performing, and even if I was, I don't even think has parts is available anymore (I could be wrong though), so I'm stuck with M2 cards, which only go as high as 16GB, so with one of those I can only have up to 32GB on my PSP at a time...
I don't quite regret it though because I get to play emulators on it on top of PS1 and PSP games~
Not to mention the PSP GO is quite small, it's even smaller than my small old 3DS, while having a slightly larger screen! (To be fair though, the 3DS has two screens, and the clamshell design protects them, the PSP GO has its screen always exposed, and mine already came scratched... Yeah, I got it used)
I also found that putting RetroArch on an M2 card instead of loading it from the internal memory causes it to crash a lot less often... It still crashes though, but only if I switch the games too many times, never during a play session...
Absolutely love these videos! I never had PSP and deeply regret selling my OLED Vita.
the first porn i ever saw was on a psp
megazenn22 This is why you can't buy a pre owned psp :s
nah, just buy a white one you wont notice
Yeah, it was my first mobile fapping device.
Same here.
mofomanx10 it was all of ours flip phones was slow
I put so much time into Peace Walker and Dissidia 012.
And I experienced many great games like Locoroco 1 and 2, Daxter, Crisis Core, GTA: VCS, Maverick Hunter X, LBP, Ys Seven and Ghost of Sparta. It was a great platform.
I'd listen to an entire Iwata retrospective
didyouknowgaming did an excellent one around the time of his passing.
Chris Richfield I knew that, thanks! I just ask for different perspectives, also because I'll never get bored of listening to the man's life
In the case of the PSP, it WAS a plastic shell.
More importantly the ones that were actually ON were also plastic shells, just built around an LCD displaying an external video feed, as of it were a frame on a small PC monitor.
Notice the hard mounting and obviously fake button press. They didn't give specs because they werent final, beyond the dimensions. They didn't show games running on a PSP because those psps couldn't take input.
It was all an illusion
I remember playing nintendo ds as a teen and it was so cool having nintendo 64 graphics on a handheld in 2004.
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RACER!
fuck yes. someone gets it.
Remember that one?
Thanks for all of the effort you put in to these videos guys!
An hour of DF Retro! Yes please! Love my PSP still, such a great console still to this day.
Still have my Day 1(Europe launch, Sept. 1, 2005) PSP1000, still works flawlessly.
For years it has been my go to emulation machine. I replayed so many of the old Gameboy, Ps1 and SNES games I played as a kid on it.
The library of PSP games was also impressive.
Even though it was outsold by the DS by 2:1, 80 million units sold for Sonys 1st handheld is extremely impressive.
In fact, for my tastes, handheld gaming was so good last gen that I only very late in the gen got a home console. I think I only got a used Xbox360 and Ps3 in 2012 or something like that.
If I'm not mistaken, the 3ds has yet to top the psp
Lolozo214 yup, goes to show the impact of smartphones in general. From mobile gaming to watching videos and social media apps.
I also bought mine then, saved my pocket money and birthday money up to buy it I was 15 at the time.
PSP had some amazing games
"Had", so the amazing games have just vanished, huh?
Ethor ' salty af huh?
I feel like the multimedia functionality of the psp and the touchscreen of the DS set the framework of what a modern smartphone is
one hour of DF retro, here we go
I just pulled my old psp from the drawers, and playing on it again made me realize what a revolutionary device this was. I spent so much time on this thing, I wish I could travel back in time and experience all this awesomeness from the psp as a kid again.
These videos have been great. John and Rich make a good duo, and it's a lot of fun looking back on these presentations. Looking forward to the Xbox 360 video!
Cory Soto I'd like to see Tom get in on one of these.
I'm still using my phat PSP, as a portable PSOne.
This is exactly why the Vita has value to it.
@@freeflowingacid5182 Vita has its own great games.
I'm still using my vita
2004, what a year for gaming. Halo 2 and the best handheld ever made in the same month? Take me back.
Also Gta Sa 🙌
You guys really should consider selling DF retro DVDs as merchandise. I'm sure they would fly off the shelf I absolutely love the show.
Awe man.. this takes me back to when I was 18. I worked a last minute job my dad's buddy needed. It was construction, hauling concrete into a truck and drilling holes with an auger (building a park). 10 hours later, $500 later I was at "target" buying a PSP, MLB, NHL and "hellboy" then off to the airport and flying to Texas on vacation.
Good little system, saw "hellboy" on it for the first time, listened to mp3s on it. Way ahead of it's time.
PSP is a phenomenal device. The day I got mine and played Wipeout Pure for the first time was absolutely mind bending. Now I have the Ys games, Lunar, Breath Of fire, Gradius Collection, Valkyria Chronicles II... So many awesome games.
stonerdemon Lol I remember that I only had enough to buy the psp itself. I probably used that umd demo disk more than anyone 😅.
dajam9035 Hahaha, same as me! The demo disk was actually very good. It had a little of everything. I've started collecting PSP games, better do it now before they get insanely expensive. So far the Ys games are the most pricey, luckily I already got all of them at reasonable prices.
stonerdemon Wow I didn't know the price of the games were high.
stonerdemon wipeout pure was so good, plus it had gameshare.
Loundsify It was an incredible achievement for a portable of that era. And Burnout Legends was no slouch either.
Love the Ridge Racer music!
"Ridge Racer Type 4 - Move Me".....sickest videogame track EVER!
Zahid Tabassum Type 4... now THERE'S a game that deserves a remake or remaster!
It's About time Ridge Racee get it's own retrospective episode!
The PSP did have shaders
2 Pixel shaders and 1 Vertex shader!
So impressive for a handheld of the era, not even the PS2 or 3DS actually had true shaders
The first time I saw the PSP was in an import tech shop next to Manchester Picadilly train station in February 2005, which was over 6 months before the official UK release. The guy in the shop kindly brought it out of the display case to let me have a go on it, and it genuinely felt like something from the future with all of its features, utterly jaw dropping. I'd say it impressed me even more than when I first tried out an iPhone back in 2008. I was tempted to buy it, but it was a Japanese import and the price was I think £350, maybe even more and 18 year old student me couldn't really afford it, so I decided to wait.
I loved how the DS was very multiplayer oriented. DS download play was amazing. With a lot of games you only needed 1 copy and you could play multiplayer. Not to mention the novelty of that little chat room where you could connect to your friends and draw stuff. Or playing Animal crossing and joining each other's towns. Pokemon diamond and pearl with their underground multiplayer crystal mining thing. Metroid Prime hunters is the only handheld FPS multiplayer game I can remember, and it's glorious once you get used to it. I have so many memories of playing DS with my friends.
*PSP WAS A GEM*
TheBlackItalianGamer PS VITA EVEN MORE SO
Bought a psp 1 month ago, downloaded 30gb of games, amazing system
psp IS* a gem
Word, PSP has an amazing library. Vita doesn't even compare.
truly a hidden gem of last gen
I see the Switch as a spiritual successor the PSP consoles (including the Vita). The PSP was groundbreaking when it came out. Console quality games on the go is pretty much what the Switch is selling us today. And despite being a major source of headache, I loved the UMDs. When you bought a physical copy, it actually felt like you bought something tangible as opposed to the small cartridges of Vita and Switch. I mean I get why Sony and Nintendo went for cartridges but holding a UMD actually felt like I am holding something cool and awesome. Also, the PSP was built like a fucking tank. PSP and PS2 was the golden age for Sony Computer Entertainment.
I remember seeing the PSP for the first time in a freshman college programming class. A friend just handed it to me and said hey check this thing out. I was blown away by Ridge Racer. I finally bought my own a year after it was released. I have fond memories of PSP. I really wish they would make a Ridge Racer for Switch.
You guys have tapped into a whole new nostalgic well. I think there will be plenty of fuel down there. I hope you guys keep doing videos like this.
(PSP)First gaming device I ever owned. Will always have a soft spot in my heart
you must be really young then lol
Moses Jonson I'm 16
It's not necessarily correct to say that "PSP has skipped a generation". Because GBA wasn't "basically SNES", it was in between SNES and N64 in terms of graphical capabilities. And PSP was right in between PS1 and PS2. So it was a generation, precisely and exactly.
Right? People calling GBA a portable SNES is stupid. GBA was easily able to run Doom while SNES was struggling in anything 3D. Even the 2d games looked much better on the GBA in terms of animations, color and resolution.
Its not just a generation , the gba is closer to the snes than the n64 and the psp was closer to the ps2 than the ps1
@@PurushNahiMahaPurush so what? Most games still looked like a snes game just as most psp games looked like a ps2 game
Saying that anyone who calls it a protable ness are wrong is like saying doom is not a first person shoter because the engine renders it as a top down
@@PurushNahiMahaPurush Doom was on snes
@@dumitriman but it ran like trash. Have you seen Driver 3 on the GBA ? I looks almost as good as a very early PS1 game. That's impressive.
So, GBA is between 4th (snes) and 5th (n64) gen, but a bit closer to 4th gen.
DS is right between 5th (n64) and 6th (gamecube) gen and PSP is closer to 6th gen (ps2)
i love this in-depth content on older moments in the gaming industry. keep this content up, it's probably my favorite thing to watch!
And here I was just looking online for a quality replacement housing to give my PSP 1000 life again. Well done!
Ridge racer type 4 soundtrack at the beginning of the vid...awesome choice!
Reasons I bought my DS -
Hotel Dusk
The Last Window
Ace Attorney series
Mario Kart
Mario 64 DS.
Reasons I bought my PSP -
The 2 Ace Combat games
Dissidia FF & 012
KH Birth By Sleep
MGS Peace Walker
GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA Vice City Stories
I love both but the PSP just edges it for me console and games and bonus you can play PS1 games and watch UMD movies 🎥
UMEDE, in Spanish is like húmedo (damp in english)
MoviesNGames007uk no Nintendogs?
Hotel Dusk, Last Window and Ace Attorney series.
A man of culture as well.
Also other excellent franchise for the DS was Professor Layton.
D-MMA Indeed, I wish Cing made more visual novels. Although if I recall there was like a "successor" or a game related (sort of) to Last Window for 3DS I think, I don't remember its name right now.
Ioannis Stefanakis, are seriously comparing backward compatible GBA games for DS with PS1 titles for PSP? Although I played some GBA titles.. via emulator on my PSP.
It's great to see Iwata-san smiling as he's presenting the DS, after all these years :)
Thank you SO MUCH Digital Foundry for making these kinds of videos!! I absolutely LOVE your analysis of gaming history. PLEASE continue to make more of these videos!!
i recently bought a psp very cheap, bought some secondhand classic gow umds and 2 64gb memory cards,popped up some jrpgs,emulators and maybe iam set for my gaming life,psp is certainly ahead of its time...glad i got that..anyone else missing out?grab a psp..u wont regret....
The two best handhelds in the 7th generation! I find both systems better than the 3DS & Vita.
But the 3ds can play ds gameboy 2ds and 3ds games?
@@sno19tux can’t play game boy games, and 2ds and 3ds games are the same. So it just plays ds and 3ds games. Plus a virtual console.
I loved my PSP, but the lack of a second analog really limited gameplay possibilities. When the Vita came out with 2 sticks I was excited to buy one. However, by the time I got around to it I could see that Sony was basically abandoning the system. Really, Sony just failed to market the Vita properly, and they failed to support it with enough Triple A games to bring buyers in. What a shame.
I love these types of videos, very relaxing and interesting look at history.
I remember the PSP launch so well. Took me about 4 PSPs to get it right because each one had dead pixel issues.
ron s My psvita has a similar problem
I love how the psp used in the reveal panel looks like it's been used, with smudges and bits on the screen, that's something that just wouldn't be tolerated anymore, its like our expectations and standards have sub-consciously improved.
Very true.
Everything seems kinda low budget and cobbled together. Especially the boring slides and shit. Looking back I remember it as an amazing, futuristic presentation and now it just seems kinda strange.
Hodthesenutz hodthesenutz
"curved surfaces" is a reference to nurb based modelling support at the hardware level, which really didn't get used by devs.
Best Reggie quote is from E3 2005.
“To date, global sellthrough for Nintendo DS stands at over 5 million, or more than twice the level for the PSP. Now, I know what some of you are thinking: "Well, the PSP hasn't arrived in Europe yet." So we got there when we said we would, and they didn't. You know what? That's Sony's issue, not my problem.”
I see and hear Baten Kaitos :( Underrated gem
One of the many gamecube's gems.
PSPs are going up in value now. Being able to play the entire PS1 library and the entire retro emulator library is amazing.
mofomanx10 It can't play the entire library but it does do a good amount.
Smartphone+a good controller can do the job better when it comes to emulation.
I mean, if you really want a PSP, then go ahead. I just don't see the point of buying one nowadays unless you used to own one and lost it somehow since PSP is a 10 year old, smartphone-like gadget. I actually own one and it's still working. But even I prefer to use my phone instead.
Psp go with ps3 controller over Bluetooth
@@myman7336 or you can use the switch
I love these flash back commentaries from past E3s. This is a great lead up for E3 2018. Keep em coming.
All these years later and I'm still playing my PSP and DS. Quality hardware with so many damn good games!
I always wanted a PSP, it looks like a pretty cool system. I’m definitely going to have to pick one up at some point. Still, the DS was just too amazing not to have back in the day.
"I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we are about making games" - Reggie
this series is great! Even though I've been a Patreon before, this entry convinced me to come back permanently. Looking forward to future episodes
This is great. Like two knowledgeable mates reliving gaming memories - keep it coming!
PSP was very advance for its time, PS2 cuality portable gaming in 2004
Oh hell yes! New DF Retro is always a treat! Gonna watch this now.
Do you think one day you could do a DF Retro on Jet Set Radio? I think it would be really interesting to get a retrospective on the game that pretty much invented cel shading...
If I'm not mistaken, they featured JSR in on of their videos. I've definately seen a video about JSR on DF Retro.
Sly2Cooper I don't recall ever seeing one and as far as I can tell I've seen all the DF Retro videos. Also just did a quick search and there's nothing on it. Maybe it featured briefly in another video, or another channel did it?
Great vid. Took me right back. I remember also paying a fortune for the PSP on import and being blown away by ridge racer; and then being quite disappointed when I got the DS (the 1st version wasn’t so pretty)....until I started playing and it was so much fun. Dr kawashima brain training was great.
referral madness you mean in your opinion which is just that - your opinion.
Starting the video with some R4 bgm makes me feel like I'm really back at Real Racing Roots '99!
Yes! just what i needed to have a good sunday.
did I see an early fruit ninja on the DS at the presentation?
2nd gen PSP model with it's new d-pad was awesome! Still is.
The PSP blew my away. The launch model had such an amazing build quality. Ridge Racer was amazing on the screen and Lumines was the killer puzzle games that Tetris was for the Game Boy.
Kinda sad sony had to abandoned the handheld console bcoz of the unsuccessful vita.
Don't dis the vita. Sony may have fucked up but the Vita's developers sure as hell didn't. Cyber Sleuth, Lego Marvel Avengers and Yomawari are phenomenal games which really make the vita shine.
Actor Adam Anouer PS Vita is really only exceptional if you're a fan JRPGs tbh. Definitely top notch in that regard. In other areas, not so much.
Actually it's got a pretty fucking stellar line up of horror and beat em ups as well. Marvel Vs Capcom, Street fighter X Tekken, Arcana Hearts, Skull Girls.
Simple Buddy they discontinued it in 2015. I cried
Actor Adam Anouer My vita got stolen. I was pissed off, cause I played pretty much EVERYTHING on there. Hell, being able to remote play with a PS3/PS4 and using it as a controller? Cool!! I used it at my friends house cause they have a PS4 and I have the Xbox One
The PSP was born with a dirty screen already. Anyway, for me, was the best handheld ever. Still playing today.
I remember being so impressed with the reveal of the Nintendo DS and Reggie himself.
Over 1 hour long DF Retro episode. Oh boy, Christmas came early this year.
i love the R4 ost in the backround
I still play my PSP once or twice a week. Thank you cfw.
I loved my PSP and is one of my favorite handhelds! Was pretty much my main handheld that generation outside of when I played Pokemon titles.
Yeah, seeing the PSP do the things that it did back then, was just mind blowing. I remember drooling over it in gaming magazines and being bummed out that I was too poor to own one lol.
Years later, when the thing was already retro and I was in college, I finally bought it and had an absolute blast. Some of the best gaming memories I’ve ever had.
Im still using psp. I dont know you but psp never gets old. I dont think its a retro machine today. A psp go still feels a modern multimedia machine.
Are you kidding? I got one at launch and it felt outdated back then.
durkadur27
lol what ?
Compared to ps2. Sony marketed it as a handheld console but it was far from that. I was largely disappointed because we never got the same games as ps2. and whenever we got a game of the same franchise it was some whack knock-off version of the game.
durkadur27 dude did you compare psp with ps2? Seriously?
Nintendo fanboys nowadays.
I traded in my DS for a psp, because the DS had like 2 games for it's first 2 years. At least it felt like 2 years at the time.
That Ridge Racer remix at the end LMAO. John makes the best video editing in DF.
Omg I feel like crying. I was in Middle School when the PSP and DS were announced. I remember seeing both handhelds in the newspaper and bringing it to school to show everyone.
Yeah, I remember being on the bus and three people had their DS systems playing MKDS all the time together, time really flies
PSP has sexy curved surfaces.
@DigitalFoundry
Wow. Was it really 2004 when PSP and DS was announced? 14 years...
I think the main weaknesses with the PSP is the UMD format, the proprietary charge cable, and the battery.
The DS is basically like an overclocked GBA
Gotta have the Nintendo gimmicks tho
I wish Valve made a proper press conference for the Steam Deck.
The PSP and DS are still arguably the two greatest handheld consoles of all time.
I hope you will do a video about the Wii U, it would be very interesting
No, no, no.
These lames are seemingly knowledgeable about specs. etc. but gosh darn it, they have zero love for creativity and innovations, regarding actual gaming experiences - particularly the old guy, meaning that listening to the wooooooooooooshhhhhhh sound of innovative brilliance going over his head becomes quite painful.
The old mush in this video actually said that paying an exorbitant amount for a PSP import was worth more than anything else in the world....... so he could play Ridge Racer! A decade old arcade game where the main appeal was the shiny new 3D graphics and blasting techno soundtrack, all while sitting in a giant cabinet - a full scale car if you were lucky!!!
AND you could play this...... on a 4inch screen with a d-pad (oh pardon me, 4 directional buttons!), Best, Import, Ever!!!!!!
No, no, no sir. I wince whenever he talks Nintendo.
GTA on the go won me over the Nintendo DS. Such great memories made with the PSP.
xXanaXBloodXx GTA China Town on the DS?
I'm talking about the year 2005/2006 when the PSP got liberty cities and vice city stories. China town came out in 2009 by that time it was already too late imo.
Chinatown Wars is on the PSP but yes it originally was a DS exclusive
MoviesNGames007uk *timed exclusive
xXanaXBloodXx the PSP had 3d GTA, While the ds had top-down GTA lol.
I STILL have my old PSP from when I was a kid. Memory Stick, UMD's and all
I loved the last retro E3 throwback! Happy you guys did another one!