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@@Nerdtendo6366 I imagined it now what? Nothing happened, I told Mr PlayStation I'd give him a call back and that I was on a date and proceeded with the date after turning off my phone. The date went alright, since the girl I envisioned wasn't a massive idiot so she didn't pay no mind.
Owned it in highschool, the joysticks were a crime against humanity but the integrated dpad made gameboy/GBA emulators heaven to play at school instead of doing classwork.
So true. I'm not even against the touchpads as joysticks as a concept, but they just do not stand up to repeated use. Still, it is pretty nice as an emulation box that can handle anything up to PSP emulation
I wanted one so bad, but they were so expensive! Eventually I found exactly one teenager at my middle school that had one and he'd turned it into an emulation machine. I remember catching him playing it in class once or twice. Then it disappeared as soon as it arrived...
Tbf, Sony should've went all in on the Psvita as a phone, give it texting and calling on any provider and sony could've slowly merged their mobile and portable markets
@@TimDespairBear11 nah it's needed because a backbone isn't very pocketable. A Bluetooth/USB-C controller that transforms a phone into an Xperia play would be cool tho and the most feasible option.
This was my first Android phone. And I still have it. The greatest phone ever made. I really wanted this concept to get a sequel. As a 15 year old this was the coolest thing ever to show off and play. It was awesome that I Minecraft pocket edition very first came out for this phone. It was so cool to be one of the first to ever play Minecraft pocket edition. And this was hands down the best emulator phone of its day. NES, GBA, SNES, GENESIS my god having the super clicky responsive built in controller was fucking incredible.
To be honest they could just release the Switch or rather Switch 2 with a SIM-Card Slot and say there you have a phone. It's more like a tablet, but you can surely use the Switch as such when you remove the Joy-Cons. I believe you can even put Android on there with homebrew (Switch is powered by a modified mobile processor after all), Nintendo could just make it official.
I bought a refurbished one in 2020 because I always wanted one. I installed custom ROMs on it, and see what I could do with it. Although it's a very competent SNES and GBA emulator, it's a dumb phone with a controller attached. Anything Android works as slow as any 8-year old smartphone, the App Store was discontinued so everything had to be installed with an APK installer, and N64/PS1 emulation is nothing to write home about. The touchpad sticks are a nice idea but very few games support it (and it's not really comfortable), so even though I'm glad I bought one to tinker around, there's a reason they didn't came back with that form factor, or why retro handhelds filled that Android gaming niche. It's an interesting piece of gaming history, but it's far from a daily driver.
@@aturchomicz821 You know who I wanted to build an Xperia Play instead of Sony? Xbox. Microsoft never made a handheld, and while Vita was striving towards graphical handheld power and the 3DS had its bells and whistles, Xbox could have made a mobile/handheld hybrid to compete with both; it would have given Windows Phone much-needed value as a mobile OS. Imagine a WP-exclusive Halo or Gears of War running flawlessly on a handheld. Would it be succesful? Don't really think so, as Windows Phone also flopped, but damn I would have wanted to see them try instead of seeing two Sony branches (Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Ericsson) tripping over each other as to who would take the lead in the final generation of the handheld console wars.
It's still so crazy to me that no modern gaming phones have ripped off the Xperia. With GameCube and PS2 emulation performing very well on Android, and people already used to phones getting larger, there's no time better than right now for one IMO. There's a bunch of standalone android handhelds too, none with that added phone functionality.
Now you can just get a Bluetooth controller that holds your phone. No need for built in gaming crud to cut into profit. Besides who wants to replace their whole phone when a joystick stops working
Well there are tons of android handheld gaming console tho, but yeah most of them don't have mobile data. One of the rog phone had a kind of sliding controller attachment but they stopped making it for newer rog phone.
It's not crazy because it's not a good idea. A sliding controller mechanism costs a lot of money to produce, is fragile and has a lot of moving parts to break, would make a phone unreasonably thick, makes it impossible to put on a robust case like we're used to now, and actively prevents you from choosing your own controls because it would probably be too thick to accommodate the external mobile controllers we have now. Drop it once and you might break the sliding mechanism, which would be a terrible look for the company. People who want to use their phones to game on already have tons of choice for controllers. You would be solving a problem that doesn't exist. External controllers for phones like we have now didn't really exist back in 2011, so the xperia play was technically solving a problem of the time. The fact that it flopped even then says everything there is to say about that concept.
Yeah it would be cool to have an Xperia play with a similar size and modern or at least a Bluetooth controller that transforms a phone into something like the xperia play. People under your comment definitely don't get the idea that a pocketable device with a hidden joystick is great for portable gaming because it makes the device very pocketable (the backbone isn't very pocketable).
I remember this being woefully underpowered compared to other phones at the time. Like, considering it was supposed to be a _gaming_ phone it had a hard time running games at the time.
it ran most games just fine when it was new. it was hampered by the rom flash size which made them drop the official kitkat update from coming out. and where it really shined was emulation anyways, it was 2011 after all and you can only play so much gta3. it's like a 2nd gen android phone after all. and you didn't want the first gens.
Minecraft Mobile (known at the time as the pocket edition) was an Xperia play Exclusive, it came later to Android and iOS. Notch debuted it at e3 2011.
A lot of phones of this era actually required a valid sim card for a lot of their functions, especially online features. I wonder if Scott could've actually gotten some functionality out of this if he hadn't fumbled the sim/microSD card thing.
@@KoopaKid660 depends really where you are if one of the supported bands is still available. anyway it can work on just wifi just fine. it was great when it came out though. "mid range for 2011" .. I think he just forgets how it was in 2011.
This “PlayStation Phone” got me thinking of two things on opposing sides. On one hand, it makes sense when you consider PlayStation was done by Sony, who makes phone-like products, but on the other hand, it doesn’t make sense due to the fact that there was already the PSP, which was more accessible.
Sony doesn't just make phone like products, they make phones. Xperia is still a long lived line and before that they had bought Ericsson and made their phones.
A smartphone from 12 years ago is my dedicated music device. It can have playlists bigger than a thousand songs and equalizer settings that don't exist anymore. And I don't have to pay a monthly rate for it. Granite reads all sorts of different audio files unlike modern phones today which somehow it's more high-tech to be able to read less audio files.
This was my first phone I got when I was 7. I remember playing so much Asphalt 6 and a little bit of Crash Bandicoot and Bruce Lee on it. This is before I knew what a Playstation controller was, so I just thought this was what a normal phone looked like.
I also played Crash Bandicoot on this thing when I was 7, but the phone belonged to my dad so my brother and I would always try to take it without him noticing.
No other company has done a sliding gamepad ever since. I NEED A SLIDING GAMEPAD FOR PHONES. I hate carrying a full gamepad or one that makes it longer. It doesnt matter if makes the phone thicker, just give it to me.
@@Natsukashii1111 yeah but that one was still a separated controller, i think this fine folk is asking for it to be integrated to the phone and/or case
I legitimately wish I could buy a phone with a built-in controller. Some people may not want it but I don't care. I really do. I would use it all the time.
I had this phone and absolutely loved it! I was able to finish a couple PS1 games on this by just having it on my whenever I had spare time! No phone since has given me the same feeling this did 😌
I had this as a kid. Felt super cool. Didn't know about any modding communities let alone how to change an SD card so I just played the hell out of those preloaded games. Left me with like zero storage for other apps so I had to choose between having the Twitter or Facebook app on my phone as my only social media. Really changed the trajectory of my entire life
I worked at a Verizon store back when this went on sale. It wasn’t a bad phone, but it was always a little awkward to demo Crash Bandicoot to customers and try to explain what the goal with PlayStation game availability was since there weren’t actually man games at all on it…
Scott, you're like a Jehovah witness for gaming. "Hello kind sir, do you have 20 minutes to hear about the PlayStation Phone?" And the fact is, you can convert anyone.
A common misunderstanding I often see online regarding Sonic N for the Nokia N-Gage is they say the screen was vertical, I even remember Sam Procrastinates said that to Scott but that's not entirely true, Sonic N has two view options, a vertical and a horizontal, in fact the horizontal option is set by default and you had to press a button "if I recall it was Num 0" to switch to the vertical view.
My friend bought the Sony PlayStation phone, the device was cool and I’ve played Crash Bandicoot and Need for Speed on his phone, but the lack of joysticks were a problem why many PlayStation games didn’t get ported to that device. Sony just didn’t try hard enough in mobile games, they didn’t want it to cannibalize their dedicated handhelds like the PS Vita! Sony at least made a phone that looked like the PSP Go and not the infamous Nokia N Gage!
This concept is ahead of its time but only of its time as well.... One of those designs that only really makes sense in the current year given the controller support and the power of mobile chips now... but it was something that would only happen in the very early smartphone days. I don't think we'll see anybody try this again, but I say that now is the perfect time for this design to make a comeback.
This device and the PSP Go should have been combined into one device. An Android phone that could play PSP games would have made it make sense imo. I think that people wouldn’t have mixed as much that the PSP Go was download only if it was also a fully fledged Android phone.
Now there’s a wild stunt you wouldn’t see Nintendo pull, they were far too busy conjuring up important stuff like baby controllers and heart monitors for your Wii .
Nintendo doesn't have a mobile phone hardware division. This would have been more likely from Microsoft who owned Nokia and Windows phone in this era of phones
I remember seeing someone in middle school with this and thinking this was the coolest shit. Especially given I had a weird ass fat slide phone that slid vertically, not horizontally.
I had one that slid both ways, which was super useless lmao. I would sometimes entertain myself by trying to open both the vertical and horizontal keyboard at the same time since you could get around the locking mechanism with a deft touch.
Here is another problem with the limited internal storage problem. There were too many apps on the Google Play store (cough, Facebook at the time) that would not let you install on the micro SD card. It had to be installed onto internal memory. I had to root my phone to uninstall those preinstallled games and a few preinstalled apps to make room for apps that I actually used. Other than that, best phone I ever had.
I've wanted a new one of these for like ten years. Back in the day I played NES and SNES stuff on mine a ton; hauling around multiple devices (or clip-on controllers or whatever) is kind of a pain when my phone can _almost_ do the same stuff, so being able to just pull out my phone and use that was worlds more pleasant.
I feel like there was a specific version of Minecraft for this thing, but I feel like a lot of things are the case that I actually just made up, so who knows
I had one. The ribbon cable between the screen and the controller wore out from flipping it too much and the screen wouldn't work no more. I replaced with another chinese market gaming phone with integrated controls. There were a few on the market for the Asian market. I had two of them over the years. They were upgrades over the Xperia Play, but they were not very good at being phones.
This thing was my first smartphone ever, I loved it to bits. Got me into minecraft since pocket edition had support for the play’s controls. was also my first exposure to crash bandicoot that I can remember I remember being super upset when they reneged on their promise to update the xperia play to android 4.0, but it didn’t matter much since I lost it on a flight to houston a few weeks later. ah, good times Another note, scott is right about the play being a verizon exclusive, but only initially, a 4g refresh came out for at&t later on
@7:53 LMFAO I did the same with my xperia play bought in aliexpress. Had an SD card stuck for ages. When I tried to take it out, the SIM slot didn't work anymore.
I still have my PlayStation phone to this day! Not as a phone because it had the least memory of any phone ever. But I remember emulation was the best on that device
I remember getting phones with a slide out keyboard just so I could use it for emulators but the phones were all pretty trash. but hey played a bunch of nes games when I should have been sleeping.
I had one of these in high school entirely so that I could have a physical controller for the GBA and SNES emulator I had on my phone. Miss that thing.
The Xperia Play was my first smart phone. And one of the few I held on to all these years. Loved playing on it back when it was brand new. Only to be disappointed by how fast Sony killed it to push the Vita...a console they also killed off very fast... Sadly i dropped mine in water, nearly destroying it. I planned on restoring it one Day. But just have had the spare cash to commit. So it just sits lifeless on a shelf. Until the day i can revive it.
I'd buy another Sony handheld if it was a beefed up vita with slide out controls and mixed with an android phone. Might be dicey on sonys end for how broken it would be with the hacking scene and pirating but for the end consumer use, it would be legendary
For anyone who keeps saying this wasnt needed because you can just blutooth a controller to your phone, you miss the point. People have their phone with them all the time. No one keeps a blutooth controller in their pocket everywhere they go all the time.
Fun fact: the first version of Minecraft pocket edition released for this phone in 2011.
Damn you beat me to it
@@bob171did you know the first version of minecraft pocket edition was released for this phone in 2011
@Brick_Eater_ thats a really cool fun fact, it reminds me of that first version of mcpe
made me feel like the hottest shit playing it on the bus in 2011 around a bunch of random kids
And I had it day one
Imagine being on a dinner date and your date said “hold on, Mr. PlayStation is calling me” and pulled this thing out
Instant proposal, no questions asked.
These days, I guarantee you, pick the right *kind* of girl-- not just "the" "right girl" anymore-- and that will absolutely be a point in your favor.
God I need this
@@Nerdtendo6366 I imagined it now what? Nothing happened, I told Mr PlayStation I'd give him a call back and that I was on a date and proceeded with the date after turning off my phone. The date went alright, since the girl I envisioned wasn't a massive idiot so she didn't pay no mind.
if I was on a date with someone and they did that I would marry them on the spot
The day Scott runs out of things to talk about is the day the world combusts.
He’s saving the L button for a last resort.
"Closet doors! We all have them, but do we really need them?"
@@paperluigi6132don't forget about Nintendo's famous ZL button
Gaming would have to cease to exist in order for that to happen.
Well he can talk about the world combusting then talk about the world combusting again like in the Mario kart 8 deluxe and he can't talk now
seeing Scott's reflection in the phone NOT talking at the same time as the voice over has changed me
its so cursed
How am I just realizing that he just voices over the footage?
@@davidfc7136 I always theorized it because of how good the audio sounded but I ended up assuming he just had a good mic near him
what i find weirder is how hes not wearing the same pair of glasses as he is in the videos
@@clamdove3292obviously this is an alternate universe version of Scott who does these videos while our Scott works on the main channel's videos
No views in thirty seconds? That's actually perfectly understandable, as people have commitments, and may not want to watch this video right away.
Right on. It would be weird to take it as a sign that Scott's falling off. Not that I'm accusing anyone of course.
Also theres something called youtubes view count there buddy
@@sus-floppayeah, I reloaded the video after posting the comment and it had like 60 views lol
what
1000000 years ago is crazy
Owned it in highschool, the joysticks were a crime against humanity but the integrated dpad made gameboy/GBA emulators heaven to play at school instead of doing classwork.
So true. I'm not even against the touchpads as joysticks as a concept, but they just do not stand up to repeated use. Still, it is pretty nice as an emulation box that can handle anything up to PSP emulation
@@TheSynthPunkI know the psp isn’t very hard to emulate but I can’t imagine it running that well
It doesn't feel right watching someone talk about mid 2000s nugget phones without a green iPad.
Or pointing out how it's better than modern phones because it has a headphone jack.
Or having the speakers playing Scarlet Fire by Otis McDonald
Where's the snake? There's supposed to be a snake at the end!
What happened to the iPad with the green cover
Lmao I got recommended this from one of his vids
I wanted one of these so BAD as a kid, but by the time I wanted one they were already outdated. The PS controls were just too enticing.
I wanted one so bad, but they were so expensive! Eventually I found exactly one teenager at my middle school that had one and he'd turned it into an emulation machine. I remember catching him playing it in class once or twice. Then it disappeared as soon as it arrived...
IKR?
@@PrincessFeliciesame, but my parents didn’t allow me to buy one 😢
Same
I've said it for years now. Sony should revisit this. A modern gaming smartphone with a slide up screen with controls. I would pick that up.
I think with a decent team and marketing behind it, it could be really successful
Tbf, Sony should've went all in on the Psvita as a phone, give it texting and calling on any provider and sony could've slowly merged their mobile and portable markets
Ehhhh. You can use a backbone or regular controller on any cellphone anyway. I don’t think it’s needed.
@@TimDespairBear11 carrying around a controller all the time is not realistic
@@TimDespairBear11 nah it's needed because a backbone isn't very pocketable.
A Bluetooth/USB-C controller that transforms a phone into an Xperia play would be cool tho and the most feasible option.
This was my first Android phone. And I still have it. The greatest phone ever made. I really wanted this concept to get a sequel. As a 15 year old this was the coolest thing ever to show off and play. It was awesome that I Minecraft pocket edition very first came out for this phone. It was so cool to be one of the first to ever play Minecraft pocket edition. And this was hands down the best emulator phone of its day. NES, GBA, SNES, GENESIS my god having the super clicky responsive built in controller was fucking incredible.
Nicee!
Waiting for the Nintendo phone that has interchangeable face plates and Zelda
Don't forget the NFC reader and AR cards
@@Mewoburner Most modern phones already have NFC and are capable of AR
To be honest they could just release the Switch or rather Switch 2 with a SIM-Card Slot and say there you have a phone. It's more like a tablet, but you can surely use the Switch as such when you remove the Joy-Cons. I believe you can even put Android on there with homebrew (Switch is powered by a modified mobile processor after all), Nintendo could just make it official.
@@LARAUJO_0They meant cards, like what the 3DS has.
New Nintendo 3DS 5g
Now Scott is turning into Dank Pods
I bought a refurbished one in 2020 because I always wanted one. I installed custom ROMs on it, and see what I could do with it. Although it's a very competent SNES and GBA emulator, it's a dumb phone with a controller attached. Anything Android works as slow as any 8-year old smartphone, the App Store was discontinued so everything had to be installed with an APK installer, and N64/PS1 emulation is nothing to write home about. The touchpad sticks are a nice idea but very few games support it (and it's not really comfortable), so even though I'm glad I bought one to tinker around, there's a reason they didn't came back with that form factor, or why retro handhelds filled that Android gaming niche. It's an interesting piece of gaming history, but it's far from a daily driver.
Yup its just like many phones from this era, mediocre at best
@@aturchomicz821 You know who I wanted to build an Xperia Play instead of Sony? Xbox.
Microsoft never made a handheld, and while Vita was striving towards graphical handheld power and the 3DS had its bells and whistles, Xbox could have made a mobile/handheld hybrid to compete with both; it would have given Windows Phone much-needed value as a mobile OS. Imagine a WP-exclusive Halo or Gears of War running flawlessly on a handheld.
Would it be succesful? Don't really think so, as Windows Phone also flopped, but damn I would have wanted to see them try instead of seeing two Sony branches (Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Ericsson) tripping over each other as to who would take the lead in the final generation of the handheld console wars.
It's still so crazy to me that no modern gaming phones have ripped off the Xperia. With GameCube and PS2 emulation performing very well on Android, and people already used to phones getting larger, there's no time better than right now for one IMO. There's a bunch of standalone android handhelds too, none with that added phone functionality.
Now you can just get a Bluetooth controller that holds your phone. No need for built in gaming crud to cut into profit. Besides who wants to replace their whole phone when a joystick stops working
You can get a BackBone for Android or Apple and most controllers work for your phone now. Lmao.
Well there are tons of android handheld gaming console tho, but yeah most of them don't have mobile data. One of the rog phone had a kind of sliding controller attachment but they stopped making it for newer rog phone.
It's not crazy because it's not a good idea. A sliding controller mechanism costs a lot of money to produce, is fragile and has a lot of moving parts to break, would make a phone unreasonably thick, makes it impossible to put on a robust case like we're used to now, and actively prevents you from choosing your own controls because it would probably be too thick to accommodate the external mobile controllers we have now. Drop it once and you might break the sliding mechanism, which would be a terrible look for the company. People who want to use their phones to game on already have tons of choice for controllers. You would be solving a problem that doesn't exist. External controllers for phones like we have now didn't really exist back in 2011, so the xperia play was technically solving a problem of the time. The fact that it flopped even then says everything there is to say about that concept.
Yeah it would be cool to have an Xperia play with a similar size and modern or at least a Bluetooth controller that transforms a phone into something like the xperia play.
People under your comment definitely don't get the idea that a pocketable device with a hidden joystick is great for portable gaming because it makes the device very pocketable (the backbone isn't very pocketable).
This device had such potential. It's a shame Sony decided to just phone it in
I would actually buy a phone with a game controller attached nowadays ngl lol
That thing you did... I see it.
Knowing the setup is NOT actually on his floor is cursed knowledge. I am crying
This knowledge has left me a broken man
scott do you smoke weed
Idk why but I couldn’t imagine Scott smoking or even drinking a beer
Smoking I can't see, but he has had a beer on camera.
Maybe after all, he did play burnout revenge for the PS2
@@danieldubrovin8813and he has a belly full of diet soda
scott does ketamine
I remember this being woefully underpowered compared to other phones at the time. Like, considering it was supposed to be a _gaming_ phone it had a hard time running games at the time.
it ran most games just fine when it was new. it was hampered by the rom flash size which made them drop the official kitkat update from coming out. and where it really shined was emulation anyways, it was 2011 after all and you can only play so much gta3. it's like a 2nd gen android phone after all. and you didn't want the first gens.
Minecraft Mobile (known at the time as the pocket edition) was an Xperia play Exclusive, it came later to Android and iOS. Notch debuted it at e3 2011.
A lot of phones of this era actually required a valid sim card for a lot of their functions, especially online features. I wonder if Scott could've actually gotten some functionality out of this if he hadn't fumbled the sim/microSD card thing.
Too bad 3G is dead
@@KoopaKid660 depends really where you are if one of the supported bands is still available. anyway it can work on just wifi just fine. it was great when it came out though. "mid range for 2011" .. I think he just forgets how it was in 2011.
Nah.
I doubt it since he was also connected to Wi-Fi. The thing and everything that came with it is just way too old.
This “PlayStation Phone” got me thinking of two things on opposing sides. On one hand, it makes sense when you consider PlayStation was done by Sony, who makes phone-like products, but on the other hand, it doesn’t make sense due to the fact that there was already the PSP, which was more accessible.
Just run PPSSPP on it lol
@@Fay7666Exactly. Also, I think Scott mentioned in the video that you can hack a psp very easily.
Sony doesn't just make phone like products, they make phones. Xperia is still a long lived line and before that they had bought Ericsson and made their phones.
Nah this device makes sense to people that want a proper "gaming" phone.
@@Fay7666 the ppsspp performance on the play was very bad.
Very few games were actually playable.
A smartphone from 12 years ago is my dedicated music device. It can have playlists bigger than a thousand songs and equalizer settings that don't exist anymore. And I don't have to pay a monthly rate for it. Granite reads all sorts of different audio files unlike modern phones today which somehow it's more high-tech to be able to read less audio files.
Nothing says Scott the Woz more than wasting 256GB of storage just because he can't be bothered to take it out of the wrong slot
This was my first phone I got when I was 7. I remember playing so much Asphalt 6 and a little bit of Crash Bandicoot and Bruce Lee on it. This is before I knew what a Playstation controller was, so I just thought this was what a normal phone looked like.
I also played Crash Bandicoot on this thing when I was 7, but the phone belonged to my dad so my brother and I would always try to take it without him noticing.
Can’t believe Scott was beat by the PlayStation Phone
Oh sweet Scott jumscares!
No other company has done a sliding gamepad ever since.
I NEED A SLIDING GAMEPAD FOR PHONES.
I hate carrying a full gamepad or one that makes it longer. It doesnt matter if makes the phone thicker, just give it to me.
Asus did with the rog phone, it had a sliding controller attachment but the newer rog phone don't have that ci triller anymore
Look up the m-con controller
@@Emuland69 need an android version of that, he's just doing it for apple.
@@Natsukashii1111 yeah but that one was still a separated controller, i think this fine folk is asking for it to be integrated to the phone and/or case
I legitimately wish I could buy a phone with a built-in controller. Some people may not want it but I don't care. I really do. I would use it all the time.
Using this to play pokemon romhacks must feel so fucking good I bet you that
This is a device that you really needed to buy it at launch.
Because it actually fucking worked.
I had this phone and absolutely loved it! I was able to finish a couple PS1 games on this by just having it on my whenever I had spare time! No phone since has given me the same feeling this did 😌
I think "Video Gaming Centred Smart Phones" would be a great idea for an episode of Scott The Woz
Wow they really phoned it in.
I would’ve never expected for Scott to own a PlayStation Phone, let alone, talk about it
I had this phone. It was rad. I used it to play Pokemon romhacks at school.
I had this as a kid. Felt super cool. Didn't know about any modding communities let alone how to change an SD card so I just played the hell out of those preloaded games. Left me with like zero storage for other apps so I had to choose between having the Twitter or Facebook app on my phone as my only social media. Really changed the trajectory of my entire life
I worked at a Verizon store back when this went on sale. It wasn’t a bad phone, but it was always a little awkward to demo Crash Bandicoot to customers and try to explain what the goal with PlayStation game availability was since there weren’t actually man games at all on it…
Scott, you're like a Jehovah witness for gaming. "Hello kind sir, do you have 20 minutes to hear about the PlayStation Phone?"
And the fact is, you can convert anyone.
Seeing Scott’s face in the reflection of the phone breaks the fourth wall! All future carpet videos have been ruined!
Just wait until you find out it’s just a table with carpet on it, not his floor
"Hey, Y'all, here's this thing I can't use, don't fully understand and can't get to work. Oh, and I broke it."
Quality content Scott. 10/10.
A common misunderstanding I often see online regarding Sonic N for the Nokia N-Gage is they say the screen was vertical, I even remember Sam Procrastinates said that to Scott but that's not entirely true, Sonic N has two view options, a vertical and a horizontal, in fact the horizontal option is set by default and you had to press a button "if I recall it was Num 0" to switch to the vertical view.
My friend bought the Sony PlayStation phone, the device was cool and I’ve played Crash Bandicoot and Need for Speed on his phone, but the lack of joysticks were a problem why many PlayStation games didn’t get ported to that device. Sony just didn’t try hard enough in mobile games, they didn’t want it to cannibalize their dedicated handhelds like the PS Vita! Sony at least made a phone that looked like the PSP Go and not the infamous Nokia N Gage!
This concept is ahead of its time but only of its time as well.... One of those designs that only really makes sense in the current year given the controller support and the power of mobile chips now... but it was something that would only happen in the very early smartphone days. I don't think we'll see anybody try this again, but I say that now is the perfect time for this design to make a comeback.
I miss physical keyboards on phones so damn much
This device and the PSP Go should have been combined into one device. An Android phone that could play PSP games would have made it make sense imo.
I think that people wouldn’t have mixed as much that the PSP Go was download only if it was also a fully fledged Android phone.
My first smartphone ❤️
Deapite the fact that this was not a really good phone, I still want a phone with a sliding mechanic on it.
It would work really well with game
Scott is definitely the type of guy to have the default wallpaper on his phone
He likes his devices FACTORY STOCK
My dad had one of these. I remember the analog stick (or lack of an analog stick) being uncomfortable.
I had and loved this phone. It was great for retro emulation. The best option was to root it and install a custom ROM.
This thing made me so cool in high school lol. Everyone wanted to borrow it and play GTA3 or Crash or Minecraft
"Do i really wanna spend my battery playing games on my phone?"
Yeah, that's a problem that android users don't suffer from :v
0:13 face reveal in reflection
Hes shown his face in all his videos in his main channel
@@scottgordon1646That's the joke
He kinda looks like Scott the Woz
Now there’s a wild stunt you wouldn’t see Nintendo pull, they were far too busy conjuring up important stuff like baby controllers and heart monitors for your Wii .
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@@SuperM789wolfman's gotta do it!
Nintendo doesn't have a mobile phone hardware division. This would have been more likely from Microsoft who owned Nokia and Windows phone in this era of phones
Pretty sure Nintendo didn't create the "Mama" franchise, and they never released the vitality sensor.
@@myhandleiswhat It was still something conjured up by them
I remember seeing someone in middle school with this and thinking this was the coolest shit. Especially given I had a weird ass fat slide phone that slid vertically, not horizontally.
I had one that slid both ways, which was super useless lmao. I would sometimes entertain myself by trying to open both the vertical and horizontal keyboard at the same time since you could get around the locking mechanism with a deft touch.
The Wii Phone is next
That's a funny way to say "The Rise & Fall of Nintendo's mobile endeavors"
Here is another problem with the limited internal storage problem. There were too many apps on the Google Play store (cough, Facebook at the time) that would not let you install on the micro SD card. It had to be installed onto internal memory.
I had to root my phone to uninstall those preinstallled games and a few preinstalled apps to make room for apps that I actually used.
Other than that, best phone I ever had.
I remember seeing this run Crash Bandicoot and thinking it was cool. And then never hearing about it again after that year.
I've wanted a new one of these for like ten years. Back in the day I played NES and SNES stuff on mine a ton; hauling around multiple devices (or clip-on controllers or whatever) is kind of a pain when my phone can _almost_ do the same stuff, so being able to just pull out my phone and use that was worlds more pleasant.
I feel like there was a specific version of Minecraft for this thing, but I feel like a lot of things are the case that I actually just made up, so who knows
MCPE was definitely supported on this thing
MCPE was first released on this
My mother had this phone, I thought it was a fever dream
I had one. The ribbon cable between the screen and the controller wore out from flipping it too much and the screen wouldn't work no more.
I replaced with another chinese market gaming phone with integrated controls.
There were a few on the market for the Asian market. I had two of them over the years. They were upgrades over the Xperia Play, but they were not very good at being phones.
I was a phone sales person and this thing was s nightmare st launch. Slow. Expensive. Ran out on onboard memory immediately.
my cousin had this phone. it definitely seemed like THE PHONE to have
I had one of these! I put quite a few hours into the Bruce Lee fighting game that came pre-installed.
That 200gig sd card probably costed more than the phone
This thing was my first smartphone ever, I loved it to bits. Got me into minecraft since pocket edition had support for the play’s controls. was also my first exposure to crash bandicoot that I can remember
I remember being super upset when they reneged on their promise to update the xperia play to android 4.0, but it didn’t matter much since I lost it on a flight to houston a few weeks later. ah, good times
Another note, scott is right about the play being a verizon exclusive, but only initially, a 4g refresh came out for at&t later on
@7:53 LMFAO I did the same with my xperia play bought in aliexpress. Had an SD card stuck for ages. When I tried to take it out, the SIM slot didn't work anymore.
I have always wanted one of these
Man. I really wanted this thing when it came out. But, I also wanted the Nokia N-Gage. I don't know what that says about me.
HE ACTUALLY RECORDS THE AUDIO WHILE TOUCHING THE STUFF???
I still have my PlayStation phone to this day! Not as a phone because it had the least memory of any phone ever. But I remember emulation was the best on that device
You should try to take that sd out hahahahaha
I remember getting phones with a slide out keyboard just so I could use it for emulators but the phones were all pretty trash. but hey played a bunch of nes games when I should have been sleeping.
god can you invent more things in the next 10 years so that scott's stash can make a 20 minute video about it
I mean god like God by the way not like god,
Ahead of it's time is the best way to describe it.
I had one of these in high school entirely so that I could have a physical controller for the GBA and SNES emulator I had on my phone. Miss that thing.
I remember seeing this thing in stores.
I had one of these, it was my first phone. It dropped out my pocket into the toilet a month after I got it and I was very upset.
2003-2010 the era of creative and vastly different mobile phones. A fun time to shop.
i can't believe we got a scott's stash face reveal in the reflections
I'm surprised this thing couldn't play PlayStation Portable or PlayStation Vita games because that definitely hindered its sales.
I wanted this thing so badly. May have even cried in the store about it to my mom.
Take a shot every time Scott’s face appears on the phone’s screen.
This was my first ever smart phone. Played all of Crash Bandicoot on it!
❗️I SOOOOO wanted one of these back then.
I probably still do so I can hack it and play old S/NES/MD/MS/GG/GB/GBC/GBA/CPS1 games.
Newer phone battery life is legit. My phone is a super convenient mobile gaming system now 😎
My sister had one of these! I was always so jealous of her. She barely played the games.
I had this phone in highschool, this WAS SO GREAT!
The full saying is: A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes is better than a master of one.
I had this as a teenager. This thing ruled!
The Xperia Play was my first smart phone. And one of the few I held on to all these years. Loved playing on it back when it was brand new. Only to be disappointed by how fast Sony killed it to push the Vita...a console they also killed off very fast...
Sadly i dropped mine in water, nearly destroying it. I planned on restoring it one Day. But just have had the spare cash to commit. So it just sits lifeless on a shelf. Until the day i can revive it.
Definitely had the LG Rumor as my first real phone. Sending 1500 meaningless texts a month on that bad boy. 😂
Sony Ericcson was a long time joint venture, so every phone was Sony Ericcson. In 2012 they dissolved it, only from then were the phones just Sony.
I had the phone. I freaking loved it. Its was my first smartphone.
It was amazing for emulation. Also there was a Playstation store with PS1 games. Long Live WILD ARMS.
your reflection in the phone's screen is very soothing scott
I'd buy another Sony handheld if it was a beefed up vita with slide out controls and mixed with an android phone.
Might be dicey on sonys end for how broken it would be with the hacking scene and pirating but for the end consumer use, it would be legendary
For anyone who keeps saying this wasnt needed because you can just blutooth a controller to your phone, you miss the point. People have their phone with them all the time. No one keeps a blutooth controller in their pocket everywhere they go all the time.
Thank goodness I can see Scott's face in the reflection. I was concerned he turned into just a pair of disembodied hands
Someone in my extended family definitely had one of these and let me try it out, and I hadn't thought about it in *years*
This was my first phone