I hope this brings you the WAVE of nostalgia and joy that it brought me :,) To see the next episode in my console collection series: th-cam.com/video/jmWmiQt24sU/w-d-xo.html
It was goated, I have so many memories with my silver grey psp, I still play on it on weekends and I buy a couple games every now and then, was gold and still is and always will be
My little brother wants a console for Christmas and this time of year is tough money wise for Christmas I am not used to asking people for stuff but I really want to make him happy he doesn’t even care what console he gets he just loves games and me and him wake up in the morning and turn on your videos and I really would love to make him happy and it would mean the world to him if it was from you
It still is ahead of its time, Sony just forgot how good it was and slapped a controller on a AliExpress tablet instead. I ain't paying 2/3rds a Steam Deck for that.
i know going to sony showroom back 2015 or 2014 to buy psp ,i was 11 yrs old , mom gave an option to buy psp or mobile phone lol but i opted for psp played many games my fav was god of war
I grew up with gameboys, and, eventually, the DS, but when I saw people with PSPs, I was always in awe. We were incredibly lucky to live during those generations of handhelds. So many amazing gaming memories
I enjoyed my PSP so much, Ive spent hours on it, watching my kung fu hustle disc over and over again, listening to my 15 songs over and over again. Tekken 6 and Tony Hawk Skate 8.
The PSP was legitimately perfect. It did everything you could possibly want and it did it well. The controls felt good, the screen was crazy good at the time, the gloss black with clear buttons, the start up animation and home screen was so clean. I kept my PSP for years even after it was no longer relevant. I couldn't get rid of it even though I hadn't played it in years because it had so many good memories.
The Playstation Vita is my guilty pleasure in game consoles, was the only ps handheld that i had and thanks to the homebrewing and modding comunity, i made the most of it, and continue to use it today.
The community support and mods for the Vita, going strong still to this day is absolutely nuts.. the Vita just wouldn't die and id say with homebrew it shines brighter than it ever did in its life cycle
@@bigfatbub the fans supporting the vita with new mods and features is justified by the strong hardware and easy to hack software i mean come on, you can play counter strike 1.6 on the damn thing!
Dude, I bought my first vita yesterday Being able to emulate almost any retro console and psp and vita library is just a perfect portable all in one for 2024
Yep, first time I saw one was when a guy I was working with at a car dealer whipped one out and said check this out. I could not believe how something so small was capable of such incredible graphics. Classic Sony packaging too, incorporating a disc mechanism and all the buttons into such a small device that aged so well, it doesn't look bulky and out of date even today.
I love how he meticulously incorporates details into his videos. Each time a new handheld is featured on the couch, there's a delightful touch with a movie poster and console that perfectly matches the era.
I think it's worth noting that the PS Vita was absurdly popular in Japan and recieved support well after it did in the west. I picked one up toward the end of its life span and loved it, but stopped playing when they stopped releasing new games for it.
Eh, "absurdly" popular is maybe a bit of a stretch. The vita ended its life at a bit under 6 million in Japan, compared to 3ds which was at 24 million. And now the switch has surpassed both combined as it pushes past an impressive 32 million in Japan.
It's a peek into the best and most developed technology from a specific company. He does an amazing job of delivering that story. He's got a great format and has developed it to almost an annoying point (I don't care for the longer form content myself) but he is recording an example of the history of this product line. I trust what he says to a point but remember, this is his research and opinions. Most of my research and opinions often line up with his, but I don't like some of the technology he leaves out in the devices sometimes, that's me being picky though. Besides all that, the history of consumer electronics is a crazy battle between many great minds and greedy fingers. This is, indeed, going to be a new category of videos. 'history of tech' already exists, but the story beyond even what Arun provides, is incredible at almost every corner. Much love, keep life good.
I think the Xperia Play deserved at least a mention, I used to have it and playing emulators and PS1 games with physical controls on a smartphone I already had always in my pocket was like a dream came true
Wow, Arun! Your background aesthetic in this video is next-level! The subtle nods to each handheld's era through popular games and movies really added depth and context. It's like you're telling a visual story alongside the history of PlayStation handhelds. I was particularly impressed with how you captured the vibe of the PSP era with the "Lord of the Rings" and "Avatar" movi es and not to talk of "Barbie". It's details like this that separate your videos from the rest. You clearly put a ton of thought and effort into everything you do, and it shows!
My PsP had tons of homebrew apps and even OS. It was crazy how you could mod those things. There were tons of awesome things you could do with them. I feel thats a big part of the PsP history.
HUGE I should say. I remember being blown away by the fact that I can play PS1 games on it. I can play CTR & Digimon Tamers! Like holy shit! And then some!
I still remember I begged my parents for months to buy me the original PSP. Eventually the got sick of it and bought it, and bought my brother the DS. Still to this they I play games on it. Midnight club 3 - DUB Edition still my favorite game to this day. Also still play games on my Gameboy Color (I have the purple transparent one). It brings me back to the old days. Love it
It's still crazy to me how far ahead of its time the PSP was. Just bought one again a couple years ago. I mean it could do almost everything a smartphone can do today. You had Videos, even "DVDs", a Camera, Video calls via Skype and you could actually add a freaking GPS to it and use it for navigation. To this day itself and the UI look sleek and modern - it's just damn crazy. I gotta say - I just LOVE the PSP - it's a legend! EDIT: also had the PsVita - and to this day it hurts me how it was just let down by its game support. But the crazy thing is that it even had an OLED panel :) EDIT2: well you just mentioned the OLED panel :D and thanks for the heart - love to see someone who's also in love with the PSP/Vita from the time :)
It's always funny when people write their Oscar's acceptance speech to thank some TH-camr for a pin/heart and, in doing so, lose their pin/heart. It makes sense, too - if you kept the pin or the heart after an edit you could just change the entire comment to say something super awful and make it look like the TH-camr held some heinous beliefs.
Bro you are so talented and creatively genius!!!! I suffer from a short attention span for what ever reason and this video I really say through the whole thing entertained wanting more, forgetting about everything and just being happy as you took us through this incredible special journey. Thank you!!
I still have my Vita to this day and occasionally play it. The homebrew scene around the handheld has really demonstrated just how good it can be, and it’s only gotten more active since Sony discontinued support.
Imo it's exactlu because the discontinuity, no official support = allowed to break abandonware = do whatever you want instead of paying sony for license and stuff.
@@fltfathin i mean sd to vita was the thing that saved the ps vita for me since the sony memory card was ridiculous. over all it can do everything the psp can but better cause of homebrew.
@@stargamer7576 agreed, steamdeck is gamechanger, and i really yearn for laptop to become 2-part hardware, chonky brick like steamdeck but with good cooling and slim display/keyboard like macbook air or smth
@@stargamer7576my steam deck made my ps vita MORE relevant , I dont want a huge chunky unwieldy device , my vita goes straight into any back pack any pocket and the battery last more than an hour!
You can play ps1 games on most ps consoles I believe. My ps3 and ps4 play them. (I mean physical copies, of course you can stream them or whatever from the ps store)
I opted for the non-oled vita slim and I freaking love it. Just an amazing portable emulator with really good native games too! ….Tbh the size is part of the reason I love it, the ps portal or like the steam deck and legion go etc are all portable-ish but still so massive it’s like taking a laptop with you almost.
The Christmas I got a PSP was the best Christmas of my childhood. Being able to get HD gaming and being able to watch films while in the car or travelling was amazing.
A modded PSVita is still an amazing device today. It can: - Play PSVita, PSP, and PS1 games at a native level - Emulate other platforms like N64, SNES, Genesis, GBA, and more - Use the much cheaper MicroSD cards for storage (up to 1TB) - Games ported over to the system by the community (e.g. GTA SA, Bully, Dead Space mobile, and recently Hollow Knight) - A lot of homebrew apps, patches for games (e.g. higher res patch), apps allowing overclocking to get more performance out of the vita - Remote play with PS4
And it's safer than modding a PS3. Nobody's ever been banned for jailbreaking their Vita. But you forgot the most important part: You can stack different regions of games, where before, you could only use 1 account on the Vita.
@@FlameCommanderalso increased functionality, risk free overclocking (vita is underclocked by default, dependent in game to save battery life) highly reccomend it it fits in pocket perfectly and dpad is best dpad ive ever used
@@zayzafy6969there is actually a way to circumvent that. It will delete the Near all temporarily, which frees up enough space to jailbreak the device and get an SD2Vita working.
The ps Vita is such a beast, with the whole community still importing games and mods, they truly bring out what the ps Vita was really capable of. Sad to see that Sony wasn't able to do it
The vita is an absolute beast. Ps1, Psp, Psvita and some ps2 game + N64 emulator, gameboy , Gta sa, vice city, 3 and bully. Best handheld released ever
It's not behind. It's a PS5 accessory and that's about it. How is it so difficult to understand ? You don't want to stream your PS5 to your mobile phone for some reason (tiny screen, bad controls, cumbersome) , there : here's an accessory built in. You don't need it ? Cool move on. Seeing review talking about how the hardware is nit powerfull enough is idiotic at best
I have some good memories playing games on my PSP. The best thing about it was how easy it was to install custom firmware and as someone who didn't have access to a games store at the time, it was incredible for me. I uploaded so many non PS games on that thing and discovered some absolute classics because of that
The PSTV came bundled with a Dualshock 3 but did support the Dualshock 4, so that should answer your question about controllers. As to why it existed, Sony claimed it was to penetrate into the Chinese market and it did initially release in China and southeast Asia. The reason it made it to other markets was because firstly, it was significantly cheaper so it wasn't competing with the ps4 or ps vita and secondly because microconsoles and digital media players(not all TVs were "smart" at the time) were a big thing at the time, especially a combination of the two. Essentially it was meant to compete with the likes of Ouya, Fire tv, apple TV and Nvidea shield. Looking back it might not make much sense if you don't remember the microconsole fad and prominence of digital media players at the time.
the other thing with the PSTV is that it works as a perfect companion to the PS4. The PS4 didnt have any proper way to play PS1 PSP or PSVita games. the PSTV could play PS1 games (which the PS3 could do but the PS4 cant) PSP games on your TV upscaled to 720P which was intresting cause with 2D sprite games they generally looked pretty solid played this way. Of course there is the limited selection of Vita games just on your TV in general. i remember one day sony had actually got rid of the white list restrictions (by mistake which they went back on) so a bunch of games that "weren't compatible" worked and i DLed a bunch of them. it also could remote play your PS4 which i guess if you didnt want to move your PS4 to another TV in your house it was a choice although personally i never really touched this...
I loved my PSP Slim, multiplayer and RPG games were amazing on it, back then we didn’t have smartphones so it was very advanced and limitless as a handheld, the only annoyance was its battery life
When I was a kid I wanted a PSP so bad. I remember when it launched, and i was stunned. The thought of being able to play games like Jak and Daxter or Ratchet and Clank on the go was incredible. With my GBA SP, I really only played Mario and Pokemon. I just knew I would be able to play way more games. Sadly, I never got it. I had a buddy who had one, and it was great to be able to play his when I went over. I'd play it while waiting my turn for something like the DBZ Budokai games.
Than u shloud get one NOW, By me it was the opposite, i wanted a 3DS as kid but got insteed a PSP and had no idea it was from Playstaion lol... i had fun with it but it was a big dream to own a 3ds and guess what buddy :) ... i bought one when i grow up AND I DIDN'T REGNET IT... its like some of your biggest childhood dream just came ture... good luck!!!
Every once in a while you hit me w a truly uncontrollable laugh when you do something like have a disembodied arm catch a jar of pickles. I'm never ever ready for it.
These are the kind of comments I'm looking for. Instead of this copy/paste garbage. "I liked my own comment" or "I edited my comment" , for fun, attention or God knows what.
This was an amazing video! I always enjoy your “I bought every ___ ever!” series no matter how many times I watch it? Maybe the next video can be you using every windows version and doing tests like boot up test, gaming test, etc?
The only thing is how this guy can afford all of this tech! Ive been a supporter for just over 4 years and i am not disappointed! Keep up the good work Arun! ❤
@@charlierose1708it is a job, unique , odd, limited privacy life, uncertain if you go viral, uncertain how long your fans will stay, uncertain if TH-cam will de-money your account.
@@cat6926set us straight then, if he's making nothing from this, how's he funding it? Educate us instead of just saying someone is wrong. Give us the breakdown, just approximately is fine.
Hmmmm that surely is something to think about if someone wants to, maybe the sponsers pay alot to actually afford all of them? or maybe he has some good investments or secret side hustle, idk i am just speculating so dont pick a fight with me XD
Turning on the PSP at the time blew my mind. It was so ahead of its time. As was the PS Vita. While I respected the Switch, it wasn’t until the Steam Deck and ROG Ally I got back into mobile gaming. The latter is my current desktop pc as well. Let’s hope Sony comes back with a real portable!
Yea the switch had terrible hardware but the sales came from the fact that it's hybrid and the exclusives as not many people are buying consoles to play competitive games on it as you would then buy a pc
@@gamesforlife2670 I'd disagree about the hardware part sure it's weaker but around the time it released it actually did what it set out to do play console quality games on the go and it did it well with maybe no graphical drop or a barely noticeable one and obviously lower res like maybe instead of 1080p on ps4 it was 720p instead (bare in mind I'm talking about during it's first years) nowadays yeah a good number of games either have bad resolutions or bad fps honestly I just hope Nintendo's next console is powerful or atleast sony comes back because pc handhelds are just ridiculously overpriced
@@unilator4534 yea I agree, it was weaker, but it's also been around for a while and considering it takes around 5 years for a new Nintendo console to release, the switch is really old, thankfully the rumors claim that the next Nintendo console has PS4 or Xbox 1 performance which is a generation behind but is really good for a presumably hybrid console
lol imagine using a rog ally as your desktop, that thing has pitiful performance, even a gtx 1080 from 2017 is faster. handhelds and laptops are gimmicks. the only good power for pc gaming is a real desktop. RTX cards or nothing else works.
Still hammer my Vita, my PSP is still on the shelf but the Vita once hacked/modded can play psp games, often with better graphics and controls. It's such an amazing machine
So basically the PlayStation Portal is literally if the Wii U Gamepad was actually an accessory to the original Wii like some people thought back in the day.
yeah it is, and each to it's own, I'm not really interested in the portal, i have a steam deck OLED instead for recent portable gaming but he seems to like it
Man what a trip down memory lane. I didn’t know a couple of these existed. I had like 8 different psps growing up. They kept releasing limited editions so I kept swapping lol. Psp, psp slim, god of war psp, madden psp, ratchet and clank,Star Wars psp. Ah man so many great limited edition consoles. Also I love the background switching as you go through the generations. Definitely created the feel of when I was playing these consoles.
Watching old psp gives me chill 😎 i also had one at that time 😌memories , it was my first smart gadget , I watched movie with that used as mp3 player wow nostalgic 😅
The PSP is my favourite console of all time. So many great memories, it was defo ahead of its time. I wish Sony makes a proper handheld again. The PlayStation Portal is halfway there.
Still playing with my modded psvita slim..its a great choice for portable gaming..and i really like the touch of different movie posters per console, and the subtle equivalent of the console to its portable counterpart..great vid as always Arun..
I owned a PSP Street and while it gave me an amazing experience the lack of Internet access was something I was unsatisfied with. I wanted the Vita badly but being from a middle class family I couldn’t buy it during its time. I asked my father to buy the Vita, he did not straight up said “No” but he was like “Its a bit expensive don’t you think” so I had to drop my plans for it. It was around ₹20000 at that time Iirc. What impressed me about the Vita is how the UI was so different from my PSP Street. It had a touch screen, a touch pad and the Internet access too like way more than the PSP, It also had the GoW titles which I wanted to play badly. I had played Chain of Olympus and Ghost of Spart on my Street but still I wanted to play the GoW2 on it. I had completed GoW2 on my laptop multiple times but my laptop had extremely low specs and I could not see the cutscenes either so I wanted a full-fledged experience on the Vita with cutscenes and a smooth gameplay experience. It also had TASM game which I wanted to try out as well I can probably buy it now but I don’t think I’ll have the same fun I could have had back then
Hey Arun, Veeresh here.. This video really reminds me of my time playing PSP Slim, and the time spent with changing theme colours and cookie theme. Thanks much for reminding my beautiful experience.❤
I went from my GBA SP straight to a PSP and never got a Nintendo handheld again. Now I have a liberated PS Vita and playing all the PSP titles from my teenage years and it's the best thing I've done in years
Yes vita game drought and updates was crazy. 2012 was many weeks or months barely squat. 2013 was a bit the same aside from the major titles that would release but fall flat right after. Pretty sad. 199 price, microSDs(long as a certain speed rating, a micro usb cable, and quicker updates and making sure mobile games were ported a bit more and often to help.... would have made it sell insanely well
23:55 my favorite part about reviews with streaming devices is how youtubers try to make the latency sound like it's decent. THey never want to admit it's crap LOL because it is.
@@MeepMeep88 The delay can be very low if you're on the same network as your PS5. If you're on the train or in a hotel somewhere, the delay is going to be high
About a month ago i bought a psp 3000 and i have been absolutely HOOKED its just so convenient and underrated. Also the amount of top tier high quality games you can play on it is actually impressive for the time.
The psp was so extremely good that even it's take copies were big. I could never have a psp, didn't even know it existed but I did get a copy of it and so did my brother on my birthday and it made my childhood. I cannot explain how much fun I've had with it. I really only played the true psp games when I learnt to emulate. Tho, I still really want one in hand. Great video! I loved it so much! A great hit of complex nostalgia for me :D
The PSPgo was a sad thing. Back in the day you could buy stuff in the PSN Store ONLY with credit card, which is a death sentence in germany where a debit card is common and a credit card is rare. My family never had a credit card and I personally didn't own one until last year. These PSN cards you can buy nowadays in stores weren't a thing either here in germany until a few years later. I remember them coming in actual PS3 game cases, which was nice because you could replace the broken ones from your actual games. :D
What’s nice is that there is a community of modders who keeps the vita alive. I plan on modding my vita to play the old gen consoles and some GBA titles I missed out on
This is an amazing overview of all the Sony Handheld consoles but I think you could have added the Sony Xperia Play in to the list as well, considering it's a PSP Go 2 (sort of)
OG PSVita was my favorite thanks to that OLED screen that you seemed to overlook. The revisions that followed the OG changed from OLED to LCD which was objectively worse.
I just found my old ps vita abiut a week ago and I completely forgot how awesome it was. Great to see plenty of other people also enjoying the ps handhelds
Arun's one of the best tech reviewer in the world. Personally, my favorite. There's just something unique about his own work that keeps me intrigued. ❤
8:49 - Sega beat both Sony and Nintendo to the draw, they made this possible way back in 1996 with the Sega Nomad. Not only could you play Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) games portably, but you could also output to a TV and it even had a controller port for easy two player gaming.
The biggest mistake I felt from the PlayStation handhelds is that they seemed to spend the majority of their development time for the software updates on squashing the homebrew community, which compared to Nintendo handhelds was *very* active, but most of that activity was wasted trying to get around their patches.
I hope this brings you the WAVE of nostalgia and joy that it brought me :,)
To see the next episode in my console collection series: th-cam.com/video/jmWmiQt24sU/w-d-xo.html
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can I give you a new Nintendo 3ds xl?
As a uk I can confirm London is london
the psp go was a treasure. it was so compact that it could have passed as an mp3 player during its time but also play psp games and even ps1 games
It was goated, I have so many memories with my silver grey psp, I still play on it on weekends and I buy a couple games every now and then, was gold and still is and always will be
My little brother wants a console for Christmas and this time of year is tough money wise for Christmas I am not used to asking people for stuff but I really want to make him happy he doesn’t even care what console he gets he just loves games and me and him wake up in the morning and turn on your videos and I really would love to make him happy and it would mean the world to him if it was from you
Its such an underrated handheld! I love mine :D btw the white ver looks so nice
@@JesseSmokesFishI have that one! Looks so fresh even if it's old 😂
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The PSP was so ahead of its time, i can still appreciate today the fun and multimedia consumption it gave me back in the day.
i still have it to this day my uncle bought it for me in my birhtday and seeing that screen is so nostalgic
Skullcandy headphones plugged into cord remote
Fml I miss vice city stories
@@PawAshtraysMatter Did we live the same childhood? I remember playing with my skullcandy headphones in the car.
It still is ahead of its time, Sony just forgot how good it was and slapped a controller on a AliExpress tablet instead. I ain't paying 2/3rds a Steam Deck for that.
i know going to sony showroom back 2015 or 2014 to buy psp ,i was 11 yrs old ,
mom gave an option to buy psp or mobile phone
lol but i opted for psp
played many games
my fav was god of war
I grew up with gameboys, and, eventually, the DS, but when I saw people with PSPs, I was always in awe. We were incredibly lucky to live during those generations of handhelds. So many amazing gaming memories
Yeah, my brother had a PSP while I played with a DS. I know the feeling
Agree
When something superior shows up be like
i used to have a psp
I enjoyed my PSP so much, Ive spent hours on it, watching my kung fu hustle disc over and over again, listening to my 15 songs over and over again. Tekken 6 and Tony Hawk Skate 8.
still no every sega console ever :(
He doesn't have time yet
@@GamingGeeks4evaAUTTPwhat about Nintendo?
@Wariobro10 already done.
@@redy_2rumble no like the history of Nintendo as in the company
Intro: ps 1 destroyed sega with the first console it was cheaper and more valuable. 👌
The PSP was legitimately perfect. It did everything you could possibly want and it did it well. The controls felt good, the screen was crazy good at the time, the gloss black with clear buttons, the start up animation and home screen was so clean. I kept my PSP for years even after it was no longer relevant. I couldn't get rid of it even though I hadn't played it in years because it had so many good memories.
Perfect? No. It should have had two analog sticks.
The Playstation Vita is my guilty pleasure in game consoles, was the only ps handheld that i had and thanks to the homebrewing and modding comunity, i made the most of it, and continue to use it today.
The community support and mods for the Vita, going strong still to this day is absolutely nuts.. the Vita just wouldn't die and id say with homebrew it shines brighter than it ever did in its life cycle
Its such a great piece of hardware. I love the people who supported it when Sony didn't want to
@@bigfatbubfacts
@@bigfatbub the fans supporting the vita with new mods and features is justified by the strong hardware and easy to hack software i mean come on, you can play counter strike 1.6 on the damn thing!
Dude, I bought my first vita yesterday
Being able to emulate almost any retro console and psp and vita library is just a perfect portable all in one for 2024
The psp was ahead of it's time
Yep, first time I saw one was when a guy I was working with at a car dealer whipped one out and said check this out. I could not believe how something so small was capable of such incredible graphics.
Classic Sony packaging too, incorporating a disc mechanism and all the buttons into such a small device that aged so well, it doesn't look bulky and out of date even today.
Mostly. But it should have had two analog sticks.
I love how he meticulously incorporates details into his videos. Each time a new handheld is featured on the couch, there's a delightful touch with a movie poster and console that perfectly matches the era.
Travelled 3 hours to central London to get those printed 😂
Fantastic
@@Mrwhosethebossthat is commitment😂😂
PLEASE @@MrwhosethebossSAY MY NAME IM YOUR BIGGEST FAN
i wonder where he got that PS lava lamp from! and is that a PS3 OG 60gb? it's in good condition!
I think it's worth noting that the PS Vita was absurdly popular in Japan and recieved support well after it did in the west. I picked one up toward the end of its life span and loved it, but stopped playing when they stopped releasing new games for it.
Oh dude, I modified mine to take normal micro sd and also runs psp games, it's my favorite mainstream handheld of all time now
crack it and play emulators!
Yeah, outside indie games, it was just JRPGs like Freedom Wars
Eh, "absurdly" popular is maybe a bit of a stretch. The vita ended its life at a bit under 6 million in Japan, compared to 3ds which was at 24 million. And now the switch has surpassed both combined as it pushes past an impressive 32 million in Japan.
I love how he can talk about tech a decade old but still makes it exciting
Edit: damn son 1k likes thats crazy
Been nearly 2 😅
in my opinion, I think that old tech is actually really cool
Its not that impressive 🤪
old tech is great so , it isnt rlly impressive
It's a peek into the best and most developed technology from a specific company. He does an amazing job of delivering that story. He's got a great format and has developed it to almost an annoying point (I don't care for the longer form content myself) but he is recording an example of the history of this product line. I trust what he says to a point but remember, this is his research and opinions. Most of my research and opinions often line up with his, but I don't like some of the technology he leaves out in the devices sometimes, that's me being picky though.
Besides all that, the history of consumer electronics is a crazy battle between many great minds and greedy fingers. This is, indeed, going to be a new category of videos. 'history of tech' already exists, but the story beyond even what Arun provides, is incredible at almost every corner.
Much love, keep life good.
The cat really said I’m the best PlayStation product you own😂
I think the Xperia Play deserved at least a mention, I used to have it and playing emulators and PS1 games with physical controls on a smartphone I already had always in my pocket was like a dream came true
Yeah it was a great handheld
Came to say the same thing!
I was expecting that here too!
Yo do you know the name of the cable he used to connect his psp to the tv?
Yet they nerfed it with such an ASS CPU and lame storage
Wow, Arun! Your background aesthetic in this video is next-level! The subtle nods to each handheld's era through popular games and movies really added depth and context. It's like you're telling a visual story alongside the history of PlayStation handhelds.
I was particularly impressed with how you captured the vibe of the PSP era with the "Lord of the Rings" and "Avatar" movi es and not to talk of "Barbie". It's details like this that separate your videos from the rest. You clearly put a ton of thought and effort into everything you do, and it shows!
Exactly, I thought I was the only one who noticed.
I'm more impressed he threw a jar of pickles behind him, and a disembodied hand caught it!
hey!
My PsP had tons of homebrew apps and even OS. It was crazy how you could mod those things. There were tons of awesome things you could do with them.
I feel thats a big part of the PsP history.
HUGE I should say. I remember being blown away by the fact that I can play PS1 games on it. I can play CTR & Digimon Tamers! Like holy shit! And then some!
Now ps vita I can run you lmao
I still remember I begged my parents for months to buy me the original PSP. Eventually the got sick of it and bought it, and bought my brother the DS. Still to this they I play games on it. Midnight club 3 - DUB Edition still my favorite game to this day. Also still play games on my Gameboy Color (I have the purple transparent one). It brings me back to the old days. Love it
Just bought a cheap 32 gig card for the PSP. So nice to have all that room for my collection. Timeless entertainment on the go.
It's still crazy to me how far ahead of its time the PSP was.
Just bought one again a couple years ago.
I mean it could do almost everything a smartphone can do today. You had Videos, even "DVDs", a Camera, Video calls via Skype and you could actually add a freaking GPS to it and use it for navigation.
To this day itself and the UI look sleek and modern - it's just damn crazy.
I gotta say - I just LOVE the PSP - it's a legend!
EDIT: also had the PsVita - and to this day it hurts me how it was just let down by its game support.
But the crazy thing is that it even had an OLED panel :)
EDIT2: well you just mentioned the OLED panel :D and thanks for the heart - love to see someone who's also in love with the PSP/Vita from the time :)
you lost the heart by editing your comment😢
It's always funny when people write their Oscar's acceptance speech to thank some TH-camr for a pin/heart and, in doing so, lose their pin/heart. It makes sense, too - if you kept the pin or the heart after an edit you could just change the entire comment to say something super awful and make it look like the TH-camr held some heinous beliefs.
Ps Vita can do all of that but better, it even has perfect PSP emulation
@@Cortanakyais it worth the trolling
@@Cortanakya never actually knew that - And I make TH-cam videos myself :D so yeah thanks for the info :D
PSP and PSV are some of the most underrated video game portables ever made
19:55 nice catch
Bro you are so talented and creatively genius!!!! I suffer from a short attention span for what ever reason and this video I really say through the whole thing entertained wanting more, forgetting about everything and just being happy as you took us through this incredible special journey. Thank you!!
I still have my Vita to this day and occasionally play it. The homebrew scene around the handheld has really demonstrated just how good it can be, and it’s only gotten more active since Sony discontinued support.
Imo it's exactlu because the discontinuity, no official support = allowed to break abandonware = do whatever you want instead of paying sony for license and stuff.
@@fltfathin i mean sd to vita was the thing that saved the ps vita for me since the sony memory card was ridiculous. over all it can do everything the psp can but better cause of homebrew.
@@fltfathin but to be fair the steam deck has rendered my psvita pointless
@@stargamer7576 agreed, steamdeck is gamechanger, and i really yearn for laptop to become 2-part hardware, chonky brick like steamdeck but with good cooling and slim display/keyboard like macbook air or smth
@@stargamer7576my steam deck made my ps vita MORE relevant , I dont want a huge chunky unwieldy device , my vita goes straight into any back pack any pocket and the battery last more than an hour!
Got a ps vita OLED last year and the ability to play PS1, PSP, and vita games has given me many hours of fun.
You can play ps1 games on most ps consoles I believe. My ps3 and ps4 play them. (I mean physical copies, of course you can stream them or whatever from the ps store)
@@mikewebb7807 Playing on a handheld feels much more comfortable and is quicker when compared to a proper console.
@@SiegfriedFafnirsbane I agree. I was just saying
I opted for the non-oled vita slim and I freaking love it. Just an amazing portable emulator with really good native games too! ….Tbh the size is part of the reason I love it, the ps portal or like the steam deck and legion go etc are all portable-ish but still so massive it’s like taking a laptop with you almost.
The Christmas I got a PSP was the best Christmas of my childhood. Being able to get HD gaming and being able to watch films while in the car or travelling was amazing.
You totally missed the Vitas OLED screen! was one of the biggest selling points. Imagine in 2011 having a handheld with a OLED screen.
I did and it was fuckn insane, specially cos I was in the hood lmao
Your photo is cringe
“ Your photo is cringe” bluds talking crazy
A modded PSVita is still an amazing device today. It can:
- Play PSVita, PSP, and PS1 games at a native level
- Emulate other platforms like N64, SNES, Genesis, GBA, and more
- Use the much cheaper MicroSD cards for storage (up to 1TB)
- Games ported over to the system by the community (e.g. GTA SA, Bully, Dead Space mobile, and recently Hollow Knight)
- A lot of homebrew apps, patches for games (e.g. higher res patch), apps allowing overclocking to get more performance out of the vita
- Remote play with PS4
Wow ok
And it's safer than modding a PS3. Nobody's ever been banned for jailbreaking their Vita. But you forgot the most important part: You can stack different regions of games, where before, you could only use 1 account on the Vita.
@@FlameCommanderalso increased functionality, risk free overclocking (vita is underclocked by default, dependent in game to save battery life)
highly reccomend it it fits in pocket perfectly and dpad is best dpad ive ever used
@@zayzafy6969there is actually a way to circumvent that. It will delete the Near all temporarily, which frees up enough space to jailbreak the device and get an SD2Vita working.
I modded my vita a year ago, BEST DECISION IVE MADE IN MY LIFE
The ps Vita is such a beast, with the whole community still importing games and mods, they truly bring out what the ps Vita was really capable of. Sad to see that Sony wasn't able to do it
True, even now people have been able to port Fallout 1 and 2 and even hollow knight.
@@agunemonand the gtas and deadspace and Max payne
simpsons hit and run is in beta rn also
@@David6_ccWAIT DEADSPACE WAS REVIVED ON THE VITA????
@ali_new_world deadspace mobile which was a pretty good game
The vita is an absolute beast. Ps1, Psp, Psvita and some ps2 game + N64 emulator, gameboy , Gta sa, vice city, 3 and bully.
Best handheld released ever
Its amazing how ahead of its time the PSP was, and its amazing how behind the ps portal is.
Lol
Hey.... That's strong
It's not behind. It's a PS5 accessory and that's about it. How is it so difficult to understand ?
You don't want to stream your PS5 to your mobile phone for some reason (tiny screen, bad controls, cumbersome) , there : here's an accessory built in. You don't need it ? Cool move on.
Seeing review talking about how the hardware is nit powerfull enough is idiotic at best
@@TheOxiongarden backbone those this and more...
I don’t remember playing 1080p, 60fps games supported with haptic feedback on the psp tho. 😂
It's nice to see someone with a big audience giving the pocket station some love
Agreed ❤
Agreed as well👍🏻
never seen the system in hand, i wonder how he got one of those
I have some good memories playing games on my PSP. The best thing about it was how easy it was to install custom firmware and as someone who didn't have access to a games store at the time, it was incredible for me. I uploaded so many non PS games on that thing and discovered some absolute classics because of that
The PSVita is legendary. The homebrew community goes insane with it.
Remember my old PSP and PS vita, some of my greatest videos. Thanks for the nostalgia!
LOL 19:57 - catches the pickle jar, then the table shakes as he makes his way back to the camera. Love it so much :)
😂😂
Lol I'm curious how many takes it took for that perfection catch dwl
Hope you gave them away to kids afterwards.
The PSTV came bundled with a Dualshock 3 but did support the Dualshock 4, so that should answer your question about controllers. As to why it existed, Sony claimed it was to penetrate into the Chinese market and it did initially release in China and southeast Asia. The reason it made it to other markets was because firstly, it was significantly cheaper so it wasn't competing with the ps4 or ps vita and secondly because microconsoles and digital media players(not all TVs were "smart" at the time) were a big thing at the time, especially a combination of the two. Essentially it was meant to compete with the likes of Ouya, Fire tv, apple TV and Nvidea shield. Looking back it might not make much sense if you don't remember the microconsole fad and prominence of digital media players at the time.
Haha. You know your stuff. 😊
the other thing with the PSTV is that it works as a perfect companion to the PS4.
The PS4 didnt have any proper way to play PS1 PSP or PSVita games. the PSTV could play PS1 games (which the PS3 could do but the PS4 cant) PSP games on your TV upscaled to 720P which was intresting cause with 2D sprite games they generally looked pretty solid played this way. Of course there is the limited selection of Vita games just on your TV in general. i remember one day sony had actually got rid of the white list restrictions (by mistake which they went back on) so a bunch of games that "weren't compatible" worked and i DLed a bunch of them.
it also could remote play your PS4 which i guess if you didnt want to move your PS4 to another TV in your house it was a choice although personally i never really touched this...
I even imported one from playasia. Still in good condition. Barely even used it. 🤷
It's so fun to see the editing effects and the tossing of stuff in and out of frame
I loved my PSP Slim, multiplayer and RPG games were amazing on it, back then we didn’t have smartphones so it was very advanced and limitless as a handheld, the only annoyance was its battery life
Overall it was so good 😢
As someone who keeps switching playstations and controllers to play everyday, it's an absolute win.
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When I was a kid I wanted a PSP so bad. I remember when it launched, and i was stunned. The thought of being able to play games like Jak and Daxter or Ratchet and Clank on the go was incredible. With my GBA SP, I really only played Mario and Pokemon. I just knew I would be able to play way more games. Sadly, I never got it. I had a buddy who had one, and it was great to be able to play his when I went over. I'd play it while waiting my turn for something like the DBZ Budokai games.
When I was little I got the first Gameboy 😂
@@williamardenjr116 ok
Than u shloud get one NOW, By me it was the opposite, i wanted a 3DS as kid but got insteed a PSP and had no idea it was from Playstaion lol... i had fun with it but it was a big dream to own a 3ds and guess what buddy :) ... i bought one when i grow up AND I DIDN'T REGNET IT... its like some of your biggest childhood dream just came ture... good luck!!!
Love how you change main consoles in the background as you progress through generations. Neat touch!
Every once in a while you hit me w a truly uncontrollable laugh when you do something like have a disembodied arm catch a jar of pickles. I'm never ever ready for it.
Wow the editing on this video is wild. I really liked where they tracked a Switch onto the Portal (24:57)
These are the kind of comments I'm looking for.
Instead of this copy/paste garbage.
"I liked my own comment" or "I edited my comment" , for fun, attention or God knows what.
@@NowLedgeOutpost Thanks :)
I still play Vita, I have three of them. Thanks for sharing your stories about buying your first consoles and opening them . Enjoyed it!
Y 3 ?
This was an amazing video! I always enjoy your “I bought every ___ ever!” series no matter how many times I watch it? Maybe the next video can be you using every windows version and doing tests like boot up test, gaming test, etc?
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Kudos to you arun for doing different yet relevant content 🔥💯💯 God bless you bro 🔥
Seeing the PSP brings a tear to my eye every time I see it. Brings back a lot of memories. I had that Bad boy for a long time.
The only thing is how this guy can afford all of this tech! Ive been a supporter for just over 4 years and i am not disappointed! Keep up the good work Arun! ❤
Um he has no job this is how he makes the money to buy all this nonsense and make content to sell ads 🤷 it's not rocket science
@@charlierose1708 the average youtube viewer take on how a youtuber makes money award goes to you
@@charlierose1708it is a job, unique , odd, limited privacy life, uncertain if you go viral, uncertain how long your fans will stay, uncertain if TH-cam will de-money your account.
@@cat6926set us straight then, if he's making nothing from this, how's he funding it?
Educate us instead of just saying someone is wrong. Give us the breakdown, just approximately is fine.
Hmmmm that surely is something to think about if someone wants to, maybe the sponsers pay alot to actually afford all of them? or maybe he has some good investments or secret side hustle, idk i am just speculating so dont pick a fight with me XD
6:06 nostalgia
Turning on the PSP at the time blew my mind. It was so ahead of its time. As was the PS Vita. While I respected the Switch, it wasn’t until the Steam Deck and ROG Ally I got back into mobile gaming. The latter is my current desktop pc as well. Let’s hope Sony comes back with a real portable!
Yea the switch had terrible hardware but the sales came from the fact that it's hybrid and the exclusives as not many people are buying consoles to play competitive games on it as you would then buy a pc
@@gamesforlife2670the reason for the switch being Better than any handheld is because of exclusive games
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I'd disagree about the hardware part
sure it's weaker but around the time it released it actually did what it set out to do play console quality games on the go and it did it well with maybe no graphical drop or a barely noticeable one and obviously lower res like maybe instead of 1080p on ps4 it was 720p instead (bare in mind I'm talking about during it's first years) nowadays yeah a good number of games either have bad resolutions or bad fps
honestly I just hope Nintendo's next console is powerful or atleast sony comes back because pc handhelds are just ridiculously overpriced
@@unilator4534 yea I agree, it was weaker, but it's also been around for a while and considering it takes around 5 years for a new Nintendo console to release, the switch is really old, thankfully the rumors claim that the next Nintendo console has PS4 or Xbox 1 performance which is a generation behind but is really good for a presumably hybrid console
lol imagine using a rog ally as your desktop, that thing has pitiful performance, even a gtx 1080 from 2017 is faster. handhelds and laptops are gimmicks. the only good power for pc gaming is a real desktop. RTX cards or nothing else works.
2:45 what a seamless catch damn!
The best rise of a tech youtuber ever
It’s like so well deserved because Arun isn’t a sellout and genuinely cares for the viewer experience
I Really Love How Arun Collects All Powerfull Smartphones.
bro didnt even watch the whole video yet lololol
Yep and no
no one promoting temu is clean..
bros channel is literately growing so fast.
Still hammer my Vita, my PSP is still on the shelf but the Vita once hacked/modded can play psp games, often with better graphics and controls. It's such an amazing machine
The PS Vita is still literally one of my favorite consoles of all time to this day
I can't believe how ahead of time that device was
So basically the PlayStation Portal is literally if the Wii U Gamepad was actually an accessory to the original Wii like some people thought back in the day.
yeah it is, and each to it's own, I'm not really interested in the portal, i have a steam deck OLED instead for recent portable gaming but he seems to like it
They also have a playstation portal subreddit. Cry about it Nintendo switch fanboys 😂😂😂
@@HUYI1cry about it British girl hahaha
@@NintendoSwitchIsATrashSystem bait used to be believable
@FranXiT Nintendo switch is garbage lmaooooooooooooo
Playstation portal is better Nintendrone hahaha
Crazy to see how handheld tech has evolved over the years!
Yeah
like beggar
@@haiiello bro how 💀
kind of devolved into cloud gaming for sony, a shame they should have made an actual handheld instead of remote play ps5 wannabe.
@@pansutenshi4966i like Arun but the things trash
2:49 That catch was so smooth!
Its been only 5 days and bros already making another high budget video in such a short time span
THE CONSISTENCY!!❤❤
Man what a trip down memory lane. I didn’t know a couple of these existed. I had like 8 different psps growing up. They kept releasing limited editions so I kept swapping lol. Psp, psp slim, god of war psp, madden psp, ratchet and clank,Star Wars psp. Ah man so many great limited edition consoles.
Also I love the background switching as you go through the generations. Definitely created the feel of when I was playing these consoles.
Same but the ones I do know were so good
How spoiled were you. Jesus
Rich kids be like
great video like usual but i really love the attention to detail by changing the background to suit the year the playstation handheld was from. bravo!
Watching old psp gives me chill 😎 i also had one at that time 😌memories , it was my first smart gadget , I watched movie with that used as mp3 player wow nostalgic 😅
The PSP is my favourite console of all time. So many great memories, it was defo ahead of its time. I wish Sony makes a proper handheld again. The PlayStation Portal is halfway there.
Half way there?
It's not even there
Let's be honest, Arun is too underrated from the production quality to the content execution. Always top tier🙌
Appreciate you!
@@Mrwhosethebosseveryone, he fell for it 💀💀💀
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I think it’s bcs he isn’t white 😂
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Still playing with my modded psvita slim..its a great choice for portable gaming..and i really like the touch of different movie posters per console, and the subtle equivalent of the console to its portable counterpart..great vid as always Arun..
I owned a PSP Street and while it gave me an amazing experience the lack of Internet access was something I was unsatisfied with. I wanted the Vita badly but being from a middle class family I couldn’t buy it during its time. I asked my father to buy the Vita, he did not straight up said “No” but he was like “Its a bit expensive don’t you think” so I had to drop my plans for it. It was around ₹20000 at that time Iirc. What impressed me about the Vita is how the UI was so different from my PSP Street. It had a touch screen, a touch pad and the Internet access too like way more than the PSP, It also had the GoW titles which I wanted to play badly. I had played Chain of Olympus and Ghost of Spart on my Street but still I wanted to play the GoW2 on it. I had completed GoW2 on my laptop multiple times but my laptop had extremely low specs and I could not see the cutscenes either so I wanted a full-fledged experience on the Vita with cutscenes and a smooth gameplay experience. It also had TASM game which I wanted to try out as well
I can probably buy it now but I don’t think I’ll have the same fun I could have had back then
I found my PSP Street yesterday, but honestly I was looking for my DS Lite..😂
The first Vita, the Vita 1000 had an OLED screen which was COMPLETELY unheard of at the time. Very cool.
The attention to detail you guys do is awesome, every video is eye candy
Loved the posters and consoles thru the years 💙
The movie posters changing every time Arun sits down on the couch to match the time period was a great detail you guys added!
it is amazing how good the old playstations are
I wish psp would come back in this generation, just imagine the innovation.
Oh my god, I love this series so much. Please continue it! 🙏🏽
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我们的生活也是如此的丰富多彩啊哈哈！
Hey Arun, Veeresh here..
This video really reminds me of my time playing PSP Slim, and the time spent with changing theme colours and cookie theme.
Thanks much for reminding my beautiful experience.❤
I went from my GBA SP straight to a PSP and never got a Nintendo handheld again. Now I have a liberated PS Vita and playing all the PSP titles from my teenage years and it's the best thing I've done in years
Yes vita game drought and updates was crazy. 2012 was many weeks or months barely squat. 2013 was a bit the same aside from the major titles that would release but fall flat right after. Pretty sad. 199 price, microSDs(long as a certain speed rating, a micro usb cable, and quicker updates and making sure mobile games were ported a bit more and often to help.... would have made it sell insanely well
23:55 my favorite part about reviews with streaming devices is how youtubers try to make the latency sound like it's decent.
THey never want to admit it's crap LOL because it is.
It depends on the quality of your WiFi connection a lot
@@damian_11_ Yea that's what I keep hearing but even then, there's definitely a delay.
@@MeepMeep88 The delay can be very low if you're on the same network as your PS5. If you're on the train or in a hotel somewhere, the delay is going to be high
I've never owned a game console, but I watched the presentation all the way through. Great delivery style.
Seriously? Never 😮
Nope, never. The last game a played was probably space invaders, or something similar.@@sylvainster30
well now it time to buy odin 2 and play all of them or be like me and buy N3ds + ps vita 2000
How do you get the catch so bang on without looking at where stuff is being thrown from!? 😂 Love the content and edits man!!!
14:57 really appreciate that love to detail with your ps lava lamp thing
About a month ago i bought a psp 3000 and i have been absolutely HOOKED its just so convenient and underrated. Also the amount of top tier high quality games you can play on it is actually impressive for the time.
I wasn't ready for the UWU 😂😂😂😂 1:35
uwu :3
uwu :3
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Whoever is editing his videos, they need a pay raise, because his videos are great!
That psp box brings so much nostalgia. I still remember picking mine up on launch date morning from GameStop 😢
That pickle jar catch was clutch af
Let’s not ignore the pickle toss, immaculate. 19:55
Respect for this channel
The psp was so extremely good that even it's take copies were big. I could never have a psp, didn't even know it existed but I did get a copy of it and so did my brother on my birthday and it made my childhood. I cannot explain how much fun I've had with it. I really only played the true psp games when I learnt to emulate. Tho, I still really want one in hand.
Great video! I loved it so much! A great hit of complex nostalgia for me :D
I was in love with my PSP. It was one machine to do absolutely everything. It was so good. I’m so nostalgic right now. That what good tech does to you
The PSPgo was a sad thing. Back in the day you could buy stuff in the PSN Store ONLY with credit card, which is a death sentence in germany where a debit card is common and a credit card is rare. My family never had a credit card and I personally didn't own one until last year. These PSN cards you can buy nowadays in stores weren't a thing either here in germany until a few years later. I remember them coming in actual PS3 game cases, which was nice because you could replace the broken ones from your actual games. :D
What’s nice is that there is a community of modders who keeps the vita alive. I plan on modding my vita to play the old gen consoles and some GBA titles I missed out on
This is an amazing overview of all the Sony Handheld consoles but I think you could have added the Sony Xperia Play in to the list as well, considering it's a PSP Go 2 (sort of)
OG PSVita was my favorite thanks to that OLED screen that you seemed to overlook. The revisions that followed the OG changed from OLED to LCD which was objectively worse.
he did mention that when talking about the slim model
the battery was better tho 1-2h more it kinda big deal tbh
Oh boy I remember being blown away by the screen on the PSP when it came out!
The PSP was my childhood. I had 2 a 2000 and a 3000 and boy did I play the shit out of them! Good times, great video, nostalgia trip!
📌 Time stamp
00:00 - pocket station
02:33 - 2005 PSP
08:06 - PSP slim
09:32 - PSP lite
10:17 - PSP GO
11:41 - PSP Street
12:55 - PSP Vita
18:50 - PS vita slim
20:50 - PS TV
22:24 - playstation portal
Cheers
He did forget to Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. So missing !
@@alihssn1994i dont see PlayStation in that name
Thx
I just found my old ps vita abiut a week ago and I completely forgot how awesome it was. Great to see plenty of other people also enjoying the ps handhelds
5:53 the voice crack tho 💀
"EEEeee"
😄😅😅😅
Arun's one of the best tech reviewer in the world. Personally, my favorite. There's just something unique about his own work that keeps me intrigued. ❤
I remember when I saw the first PSP I was amazed by the quality and the way it felt
I love this channel, always such interesting content and he makes a constant effort to make his content fun. Keep up the good work Arun!
8:49 - Sega beat both Sony and Nintendo to the draw, they made this possible way back in 1996 with the Sega Nomad. Not only could you play Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) games portably, but you could also output to a TV and it even had a controller port for easy two player gaming.
Neither any console nor any modern games can give us the pleasure that we had by using PSPs back then
The biggest mistake I felt from the PlayStation handhelds is that they seemed to spend the majority of their development time for the software updates on squashing the homebrew community, which compared to Nintendo handhelds was *very* active, but most of that activity was wasted trying to get around their patches.