@@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...
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.
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.
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).
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 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.
The very reason I don't want to buy it anymore (even tho I've been dying to have it for months). Came to the store, tested it for few minutes & it lags so much even for only scrolling the menu. It's already outdated by other Android mid-range phones at the time.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 “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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
@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.
Scott, you're unlocking memories in me here mate. This device was my initial journey into emulation, I learned so much and the feeling of getting Sonic 3 running on my phone was the ultimate "fuck me, it's the future" feeling
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!
That was my very first smartphone. I'll never forget having my mind blown when I got it going and found Crash Bandicoot on it. Going from a tracphone with Java games to that was revolutionary to me at the time. So many great memories with that phone.
I think the thing that truly kills this as a concept isnt just that andriod can easily do up to ps2 emulation now, but controllers are now bluetooth. I literally use my ps4 controller to play ps1&2 games on my phone like I do any other console game.
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.
I actually owned this and used it on launch. I have SO many stories with this device. I even still have mine like within arms reach too because I genuinely love using this phone still for GBA emulation games whenever I go into my office.
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 😌
Love to see a Scott Plays where you and your friends play the battle royal mode on the D-day map on Conker’s Bad Fur Day with the different weapon packs. My favorite was the samurai swords and chainsaws when I played it back when it came out as a teenager
I went through 3 of these things because the ribbon cable that connects the screen to the controls and internal hardware would always die on me from using it too much
my buddy had this phone in high school and i was so fuckin jealous. he was playin crash 1 on the smallest screen ive ever seen crash 1 being played (at the time) it was so cool back then
Everything bad you said about the Xperia Play could be solved with better hardware. A Xperia Play with the hardware and battery of a Galaxy A05 would make it the ultimate handheld.
I had this phone, so did my cousin. We loved the phone for playing Minecraft and old games, but holy shit was this thing faulty. We both had to get replacements, my cousin had to get 3 different ones. They just kept crapping out without us doing nothing to them. The hinges on the models we got seemed to be either really low quality or just faulty.
This is such the epitome of "It looked good on paper". It's a phone, but has an actual game controller! You can play console quality games on the go, and don't need another device! The reality was the controls felt a vastly inferior to an actual controller. You could theoretically play Crash, then switch to the phone when you wanted to take a call, though you had to hope that playing games didn't drain the battery by then.
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
This thing was crazy expensive back then! I remember I saved for it and was super hyped, but when I went to buy it there were already lots of reviews of how limited it was so instead I stick with my psp and a blackberry and was happier that way.
I think it was a totally missed opportunity for Sony to have a phone that had the PSP store, and it played all PSP games only digitally, and also plays previous PSP online purchases, that would’ve been so cool.
Sony Ericsson was the most popular phone brand with the youths of Europe in the mid 00s, so yeah, their phones were pretty darn popular... outside the US.
I had this phone for about 4 years as soon as I entered high school. There were a lot of PlayStation minis that had full controller support and I remembered playing a lot of crash on it as well. It was always a treat when a game that I downloaded supported the controller. As a smartphone, it is pretty basic. I do have a huge love for this thing though.
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
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
Your lucky I never knew you in highschool, I would have told teacher on you.
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
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
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
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 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.
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!
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).
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
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.
8:22 That was the most true, genuine, and relatable "wtf" I've ever heard.
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.
The very reason I don't want to buy it anymore (even tho I've been dying to have it for months). Came to the store, tested it for few minutes & it lags so much even for only scrolling the menu. It's already outdated by other Android mid-range phones at the time.
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
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.
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.
and that became minecraft bedrock
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.
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 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.
Can’t believe Scott was beat by the PlayStation Phone
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.
Now Scott is turning into Dank Pods
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.
I think "Video Gaming Centred Smart Phones" would be a great idea for an episode of Scott The Woz
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.
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
Using this to play pokemon romhacks must feel so fucking good I bet you that
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.
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.
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.
2003-2010 the era of creative and vastly different mobile phones. A fun time to shop.
your reflection in the phone's screen is very soothing scott
Knowing the setup is NOT actually on his floor is cursed knowledge. I am crying
This knowledge has left me a broken man
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.
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…
I had this as a teenager. This thing ruled!
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 so wanted one of these back in the day.
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
@@soreyJr 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.
I remember seeing this thing in stores.
“Nobody wants a 5 year old smartphone” me with my iPhone Xs
The Wii Phone is next
That's a funny way to say "The Rise & Fall of Nintendo's mobile endeavors"
Scott recording a video from 1:36 AM to 2:29 AM about the PlayStation phone a month ago is really funny to me
I used to have one of these when they were still in, pretty neat
This thing made me so cool in high school lol. Everyone wanted to borrow it and play GTA3 or Crash or Minecraft
@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 had this phone in highschool, this WAS SO GREAT!
Scott, you're unlocking memories in me here mate. This device was my initial journey into emulation, I learned so much and the feeling of getting Sonic 3 running on my phone was the ultimate "fuck me, it's the future" feeling
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!
That was my very first smartphone. I'll never forget having my mind blown when I got it going and found Crash Bandicoot on it. Going from a tracphone with Java games to that was revolutionary to me at the time. So many great memories with that phone.
I think the thing that truly kills this as a concept isnt just that andriod can easily do up to ps2 emulation now, but controllers are now bluetooth. I literally use my ps4 controller to play ps1&2 games on my phone like I do any other console game.
"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.
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.
Thank goodness I can see Scott's face in the reflection. I was concerned he turned into just a pair of disembodied hands
Oh sweet Scott jumscares!
YES YOU MADE IT FINALLY THANK YOU SCOTT
The sliding mechanism for the controller is one of the best ways to add a controller to a phone IMO
i can't believe we got a scott's stash face reveal in the reflections
I freaking love this dumb little thing
For as powerful as phones are nowadays I'm surprised there hasn't been a redo of this concept.
My sister had one of these! I was always so jealous of her. She barely played the games.
This is a device that you really needed to buy it at launch.
Because it actually fucking worked.
Now I want my phone to have a square button and Crash Bandicoot
ngl This video makes me wish for a ScottTheWoz and DankPods collab video
I had this phone when I was 11 and I still cherish it to this day
I actually owned this and used it on launch. I have SO many stories with this device. I even still have mine like within arms reach too because I genuinely love using this phone still for GBA emulation games whenever I go into my office.
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 😌
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
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!
My dad had one of these. I remember the analog stick (or lack of an analog stick) being uncomfortable.
Drop everything, Watch the Woz
Seeing Scott’s reflection with round glasses feels like an alternative universe version
Love to see a Scott Plays where you and your friends play the battle royal mode on the D-day map on Conker’s Bad Fur Day with the different weapon packs. My favorite was the samurai swords and chainsaws when I played it back when it came out as a teenager
I went through 3 of these things because the ribbon cable that connects the screen to the controls and internal hardware would always die on me from using it too much
I wanted one of these so bad as a kid, It was before I had any smart phone, and didnt really need a fancier phone than what I had
my buddy had this phone in high school and i was so fuckin jealous. he was playin crash 1 on the smallest screen ive ever seen crash 1 being played (at the time) it was so cool back then
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
I used to use that as a kid. Very nostalgic and everyone had it back then. Can't believe that was over a decade.
The full saying is: A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes is better than a master of one.
Everything bad you said about the Xperia Play could be solved with better hardware.
A Xperia Play with the hardware and battery of a Galaxy A05 would make it the ultimate handheld.
My first smartphone ❤️
I had this phone, so did my cousin. We loved the phone for playing Minecraft and old games, but holy shit was this thing faulty. We both had to get replacements, my cousin had to get 3 different ones. They just kept crapping out without us doing nothing to them. The hinges on the models we got seemed to be either really low quality or just faulty.
This is such the epitome of "It looked good on paper". It's a phone, but has an actual game controller! You can play console quality games on the go, and don't need another device!
The reality was the controls felt a vastly inferior to an actual controller. You could theoretically play Crash, then switch to the phone when you wanted to take a call, though you had to hope that playing games didn't drain the battery by then.
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
This thing was crazy expensive back then! I remember I saved for it and was super hyped, but when I went to buy it there were already lots of reviews of how limited it was so instead I stick with my psp and a blackberry and was happier that way.
I remember seeing this in a store a long time ago and thinking it was so cool.
I think it was a totally missed opportunity for Sony to have a phone that had the PSP store, and it played all PSP games only digitally, and also plays previous PSP online purchases, that would’ve been so cool.
This is nostalgia for me, miss that phone
Sony Ericsson was the most popular phone brand with the youths of Europe in the mid 00s, so yeah, their phones were pretty darn popular... outside the US.
I had this phone for about 4 years as soon as I entered high school. There were a lot of PlayStation minis that had full controller support and I remembered playing a lot of crash on it as well. It was always a treat when a game that I downloaded supported the controller. As a smartphone, it is pretty basic. I do have a huge love for this thing though.
I remember playing tomb raider on that thing
The PSP Go Phone
This was my first smartphone!!! I loved this thing so much
Ah yes, I love my PSP: Playstation Phone
rest in peace PlayStation theatre. so many great memories there
HE ACTUALLY RECORDS THE AUDIO WHILE TOUCHING THE STUFF???
About damn time he covered this!