It's so odd to not include a second nub thing. It wouldn't have cos that much more to the price, and would have helped so much with the controls, especially when so many PS2 ports were brought over.
@@skycloud4802 I agree, there are so many other features worth cutting to make "cost room" for a second joystick. Maybe it was due to the internal layout of the components that made it difficult
Sold all my psp gear 10 yrs ago,fast forward to now I have just built a collection of games I had and just picked up an original 1000 yesterday.Also have a switch but for me nothing has come close for me since PSP. Long live the PSP!!!!!!!!
When I bought my PSP, I mostly bought it for the portable arcade, RPGs, fighting games, puzzlers, platformers, and racing titles. It was a great experience to had play games like Power Stone Collection, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max, Tekken 5 & 6, GTA Liberty City and Vice City Stories, BlazBlue and Guilty Gear games, the Monster Hunter Freedom games, Tales of Eternia, Ys VI, the Metal Slug Anthology, Samurai Shodown Anthology, Capcom Arcade Collections, Midway Arcade Treasures Collection, Sega Genesis Collection, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny, Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X, Lunar Harmony, Star Ocean 1 & 2 remake, Persona 3 Portable, Silent Hill games, Ridge Racer Portable, Gran Turismo Portable, the WipEout games, Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core and FFIV Complete Edition, Phantasy Star Portable, Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions, Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, LittleBigPlanet, God of War games, Lumines, and Patapons on the go at the time.
I swear CryWolf it's almost like you know what I like. A friend gave me my PSP, it was my first portable console. The design is just beautiful, isn't it? It's hard to describe to someone who hasn't held it before. I can't believe they were able to put in such a good screen on a 2004 device. I also can't believe you captured from a real PSP. Do you not need a PS3 to output on TV? Just the cables? You choose some very good picks for games but I'll just throw a couple more out there: NFS Carbon Own the City - You did touch on Need for Speed but the first two PSP games were pretty rushed, Carbon OTC actually has a full-open world on the PSP. Test Drive Unlimited on PSP is also open world apparently. Motorstorm Arctic Edge: One of the most fun games on the PSP, with a cool winter festival theme and fast loading times for the PSP. It also got a PS2 port (in 2009!) Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix: A port of the home console versions with essentially all of the content retained, quite impressive for a launch title. The fps is halved to 30 but it's still very good. LittleBigPlanet PSP: I mean, you're almost playing a PS3 game on portable hardware with this one. You can even make your own stages still. Tbh my only problems with the PSP are some of the eccentric hardware choices, like the Memory Stick Duo, the screen being prone to ghosting in retro games (SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis Collection is pretty egregious for this.) Oh yeah, can we also talk about Game Sharing? It's like download play on the DS, it's really cool. Although only a few games like Namco Museum, Burnout Legends, and Sonic Rivals 2 used it. Great job CryWolf. I might need to fire up my PSP now. If it's not out of battery😂
Thanks for sharing! It really is a beautiful system, even today but for 2004 it was crazy. I did capture this off a real PSP without a PS3 - as long as you buy that component cable from Sony shown in the video, you just need an adapter to convert the component signal to HDMI, and then you can feed that into a capture card. It's really kind of amazing. There were so many great games for this system it was difficult to try and cram a lot of them into a reasonable amount of time, but your suggestions are great ones too. I remember having a lot of fun with underground.
@@crywolfplaysOh..I already said too many but I have to mention Gran Turismo on PSP as well. Having essentialy GT4 on the go is wild. What's weird about that game is, in the options menu, they have a setting that optimises the game for TV playback? I haven't tried it but it interrsts me..
@@IntrestingYTObserver I mention GT in the video but I couldn't find my copy for capture....I remember being impressed that yeah its basically a full GT experience on handheld lol
Just watched your GC video, now I'm on to this one. Really like your content so far and I appreciate the commitment to recording the original PSP output. Subbed and will definitly continue watching.
I was one of the 80 million. I wasn't an early adopter tho. I got mine in '07 and it was glorious! It replaced my MP3 player, it was also how I'd show people digital photos while I was away from my PC, it was how I watched anime and movies on the go, and even after my phone replaced all those roles, it still had amazing games like DBZ Shin Budokai 2, MegaMan: Maverick Hunter X, Crisis Core: FFVII, Kingdom Hearts: BBS, Duodecim Dissidia, GTA: VCS/LCS/CTW, Tenchu 3, MGS: Portable Ops & Peace Walker, Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles (basically Requiem before Requiem) and that's just a few off the top of my head, there are a tonne that I didn't even mention. The games on here were so high tier that when I got a 3DS with my friends and they were gushing over the graphics, I pulled out my PSP and showed them that I'd been playing games of that calibur for literal years
I still have mine! The first edition, still working, but I have to have it plugged into a power source to play. I recently seen a mod, pretty cool mod I may add where the mod increased the capacity of battery life and storage, and also a new screen.
@@crywolfplaysDon't worry, Burnout Dominator is probably the most forgotten Burnout game tbh. There was also Need for Speed Shift on PSP which runs on the same engine and was made by the same dev team.
While the games often hold up really well the PSP itself isn't the best way to play most of those titles. Emulation offers upscaling, HD texture replacement, easy access to cheats and save states. If you use a controller you can even map the camera controls, if a game had them via face or shoulder buttons, to the right analogue stick. If not for the UMD movies I own my PSP would have been retired long ago. If the PPSSPP emulator ever gains that functionality my PSP gets put in a safe place for me to enjoy the memories I made with it.
personally I'm of the opposite opinion. I love how portable the psp is, for me playing it on an emulator on my computer defeats the purpose. some turn-based rpgs maybe I can see being as good of an experience on a smartphone emulator, but any game that requires quick reflexes becomes annoying on the touch buttons of those emulators. also in general I like playing games in the consoles for which they were designed. my biggest problem is that my old psp's analog stick is getting drift problems
@@ramdomgunner97 Phones have controllers too. You can also buy retro gaming handhelds like the Retroid Pocket 3+ that are pretty much perfect for PSP games. You really aren't just limited to touch controls. The RP3+ isn't even that much larger than a PSP, 1000 at least, so you aren't even sacrificing portability. Another element for me is that my PSP isn't getting any younger and I'd rather keep it in working order for as long as possible. I've been able to transfer my saves from my PSP to PPSSPP and carry on from where I left off.
The PSP is my Favorite Sony Handheld. It is still good to this day and if i'm not more on the Sony side nowadays I can say, that the PSP was for the time really good :) I still have one. Also for me Underrated are the OG Xbox and the 360. Some of their Games look really fantastic and it is cool what MS did at those Generations :) Also i can agree that the Gamecube is underrated too :) Especially if u look at F-Zero GX.
This portable console was such a powerhouse! I really loved mine and the only reason I put mine away was because the Vita came along. I still have my PSP around, though. I guess I now keep it out of nostalgia. :-)
It is still crazy android still doesnt have better gaming gallery than psp , like what they have trilogy , hitman , a few total war games , alien isolation that is it other are just free to play trashes even ios resident evil that need you to buy controller to play , or assasins creed , i forget one game to add and that is it
iPod Video 5th gen and 5.5 also had the same Wolfson Brand Audio DAC as the PSP 1000 but PSP had a better video experience than the iPod Video. All my favorite PSP OST’s are on my iPod for better battery life, but very nice watching my movies on PSP (compared to iPod Video)
Great console, but the choice of the UMD cd, the loading times were too long and not efficient for the battery, if it was a cartridge + micro sd format, it would be a huge success
Some of the games did have long load times, especially for a handheld. Large memory cards of equivalent 2gb size or so were still pretty expensive in 2004 though I'm not sure how that would have played out. Micro SD was only barely introduced in 2004, they would have probably had to use regular SD cards.
I never liked the playstation but GOD I LOVE THE PSP and I will never understand why it was not more popular and why the DS "won". To this day I find no fun games on the DS. The PSP is so underrated that it makes me question humanity in general like you can have such an amazing product yet people do not care and it is sad.
Yeah the PSP was incredible, I think people are so desensitized to modern tech that they either forget or aren't old enough to realize how crazy this was back in the day. And even back then I felt like people "didn't get it".
@@crywolfplays back in the day people clearly did not get it. i hear about the amazing DS library. the PSP has an amazing library. ds is mostly kiddy games and while i am not ashamed to enjoy kiddy games i do not like the games on the ds while the psp has games in all genres for literally everyone. it is amazing.
I disagree. Touch screens sucks. Vita has one (or even two) and I never used them and just find them to be annoying. In fact games that FORCE you to use that new gimmick are really annoying and you wish the game would not use a touch screen. I think most people prefer buttons and hate touch screens unless you are 10 years old and grew up with smart phones where you only touch a screen. I WANT BUTTONS!
Sony needs to revisit handhelds. This time focus on support, instead of power. We don't need a portable ps4, we need games. And stop with the proprietary crap. Just use what is already available.
they wont make consoles as cool as the psp again. i might be a ds kid but ill nvr forget hw cool the older kids looked w their psp. esspeically seeing the games they were playing on it. my ds looked so lame compared to theirs 💀
I actually spent a lot more time with my DS than my psp because Nintendo games are my favorite, but the PSP was always just mind blowing to me in terms of tech and had some great games
Id love this, but I hope Sony eventually makes a series S type handheld that can play downscaled PS5 or cross gen games, I don't think they'd have the resources for another whole system. Maybe that's becoming less relevant as they port to PC, but I'm not a huge fan of current handheld PCs
More like please be 2005 again. I think consoles are a dying category. There's incresingly less games for them that aren't also for pc, they keep getting more expensive, etc. It's not such a bad thing, since now almost any gamer can get by just owning a pc, but we'll never get back back that feeling of being excited for a new console with soon to be hundreds of future classics and gems that can only be experienced on that console.
@crywolfplays actually ive discovered that if you have the psp go, you could use the dock to show on tv and use a ps3 controller. but the other psp's you need to use the psp itself as a controller on the tv or you could mod it.
I just broke my PSP last monday Edit: Dejó de funcionar la pantalla lcd y abrí la PSP y se le rompió una cosa plastica negra pequeña que asujeta en su lugar los cables "seriales" mini que conecta la pantalla lcd a la placa base. Chatgpt me dijo que le pusiera cinta
Thank you for feeding my PSP video essay addiction
That's what this channel is all about :D
Completely agree that a second joystick would’ve been a game changer. Still play my PSP a lot, great video man.
It really would have, but still an amazing system. Thanks for watching!
What games do you play still?
@@stevenrosscarpenter I’ve been playing a lot of the SNK arcade classics collection volume 1 for psp and some older sports games
It's so odd to not include a second nub thing. It wouldn't have cos that much more to the price, and would have helped so much with the controls, especially when so many PS2 ports were brought over.
@@skycloud4802 I agree, there are so many other features worth cutting to make "cost room" for a second joystick. Maybe it was due to the internal layout of the components that made it difficult
The lack of second analog forced Capcom to come up with decent controls for Monster Hunter which is a great thing.
lol nice take
It was a pretty crazy device to own back then, smart phones weren't a thing. Used mine as an mp3 player and streamed radio often too
The psp graphics were amazing for a handheld in 2004... but they still are!
Sold all my psp gear 10 yrs ago,fast forward to now I have just built a collection of games I had and just picked up an original 1000 yesterday.Also have a switch but for me nothing has come close for me since PSP. Long live the PSP!!!!!!!!
A lot of hidden gems on PSP. If you are a fan of combat sports games, Boxers Road 2 is the best out there and it is exclusively on PSP
When I bought my PSP, I mostly bought it for the portable arcade, RPGs, fighting games, puzzlers, platformers, and racing titles. It was a great experience to had play games like Power Stone Collection, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max, Tekken 5 & 6, GTA Liberty City and Vice City Stories, BlazBlue and Guilty Gear games, the Monster Hunter Freedom games, Tales of Eternia, Ys VI, the Metal Slug Anthology, Samurai Shodown Anthology, Capcom Arcade Collections, Midway Arcade Treasures Collection, Sega Genesis Collection, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny, Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X, Lunar Harmony, Star Ocean 1 & 2 remake, Persona 3 Portable, Silent Hill games, Ridge Racer Portable, Gran Turismo Portable, the WipEout games, Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core and FFIV Complete Edition, Phantasy Star Portable, Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions, Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, LittleBigPlanet, God of War games, Lumines, and Patapons on the go at the time.
the pzp was the first handheld I saw to use a 16mp camera sensors
I swear CryWolf it's almost like you know what I like.
A friend gave me my PSP, it was my first portable console. The design is just beautiful, isn't it? It's hard to describe to someone who hasn't held it before. I can't believe they were able to put in such a good screen on a 2004 device.
I also can't believe you captured from a real PSP. Do you not need a PS3 to output on TV? Just the cables?
You choose some very good picks for games but I'll just throw a couple more out there:
NFS Carbon Own the City - You did touch on Need for Speed but the first two PSP games were pretty rushed, Carbon OTC actually has a full-open world on the PSP. Test Drive Unlimited on PSP is also open world apparently.
Motorstorm Arctic Edge: One of the most fun games on the PSP, with a cool winter festival theme and fast loading times for the PSP. It also got a PS2 port (in 2009!)
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix: A port of the home console versions with essentially all of the content retained, quite impressive for a launch title. The fps is halved to 30 but it's still very good.
LittleBigPlanet PSP: I mean, you're almost playing a PS3 game on portable hardware with this one. You can even make your own stages still.
Tbh my only problems with the PSP are some of the eccentric hardware choices, like the Memory Stick Duo, the screen being prone to ghosting in retro games (SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis Collection is pretty egregious for this.)
Oh yeah, can we also talk about Game Sharing? It's like download play on the DS, it's really cool. Although only a few games like Namco Museum, Burnout Legends, and Sonic Rivals 2 used it.
Great job CryWolf. I might need to fire up my PSP now. If it's not out of battery😂
Thanks for sharing! It really is a beautiful system, even today but for 2004 it was crazy. I did capture this off a real PSP without a PS3 - as long as you buy that component cable from Sony shown in the video, you just need an adapter to convert the component signal to HDMI, and then you can feed that into a capture card. It's really kind of amazing. There were so many great games for this system it was difficult to try and cram a lot of them into a reasonable amount of time, but your suggestions are great ones too. I remember having a lot of fun with underground.
@@crywolfplaysOh..I already said too many but I have to mention Gran Turismo on PSP as well. Having essentialy GT4 on the go is wild.
What's weird about that game is, in the options menu, they have a setting that optimises the game for TV playback? I haven't tried it but it interrsts me..
@@IntrestingYTObserver I mention GT in the video but I couldn't find my copy for capture....I remember being impressed that yeah its basically a full GT experience on handheld lol
Just watched your GC video, now I'm on to this one. Really like your content so far and I appreciate the commitment to recording the original PSP output. Subbed and will definitly continue watching.
Thanks for the support! I capture on all original equipment on my channel, I think it's important. Glad some other people value that too
I was one of the 80 million. I wasn't an early adopter tho. I got mine in '07 and it was glorious! It replaced my MP3 player, it was also how I'd show people digital photos while I was away from my PC, it was how I watched anime and movies on the go, and even after my phone replaced all those roles, it still had amazing games like DBZ Shin Budokai 2, MegaMan: Maverick Hunter X, Crisis Core: FFVII, Kingdom Hearts: BBS, Duodecim Dissidia, GTA: VCS/LCS/CTW, Tenchu 3, MGS: Portable Ops & Peace Walker, Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles (basically Requiem before Requiem) and that's just a few off the top of my head, there are a tonne that I didn't even mention. The games on here were so high tier that when I got a 3DS with my friends and they were gushing over the graphics, I pulled out my PSP and showed them that I'd been playing games of that calibur for literal years
I still have mine! The first edition, still working, but I have to have it plugged into a power source to play. I recently seen a mod, pretty cool mod I may add where the mod increased the capacity of battery life and storage, and also a new screen.
That's awesome
just got one a couple weeks ago💪🏽 super excited to mod it
There were actually 2 full size burnout games on psp
I didn't realize that, thanks for noting
@@crywolfplaysDon't worry, Burnout Dominator is probably the most forgotten Burnout game tbh.
There was also Need for Speed Shift on PSP which runs on the same engine and was made by the same dev team.
While the games often hold up really well the PSP itself isn't the best way to play most of those titles. Emulation offers upscaling, HD texture replacement, easy access to cheats and save states. If you use a controller you can even map the camera controls, if a game had them via face or shoulder buttons, to the right analogue stick.
If not for the UMD movies I own my PSP would have been retired long ago. If the PPSSPP emulator ever gains that functionality my PSP gets put in a safe place for me to enjoy the memories I made with it.
personally I'm of the opposite opinion. I love how portable the psp is, for me playing it on an emulator on my computer defeats the purpose. some turn-based rpgs maybe I can see being as good of an experience on a smartphone emulator, but any game that requires quick reflexes becomes annoying on the touch buttons of those emulators. also in general I like playing games in the consoles for which they were designed. my biggest problem is that my old psp's analog stick is getting drift problems
@@ramdomgunner97 Phones have controllers too. You can also buy retro gaming handhelds like the Retroid Pocket 3+ that are pretty much perfect for PSP games. You really aren't just limited to touch controls.
The RP3+ isn't even that much larger than a PSP, 1000 at least, so you aren't even sacrificing portability.
Another element for me is that my PSP isn't getting any younger and I'd rather keep it in working order for as long as possible. I've been able to transfer my saves from my PSP to PPSSPP and carry on from where I left off.
The PSP is my Favorite Sony Handheld. It is still good to this day and if i'm not more on the Sony side nowadays I can say, that the PSP was for the time really good :) I still have one. Also for me Underrated are the OG Xbox and the 360. Some of their Games look really fantastic and it is cool what MS did at those Generations :) Also i can agree that the Gamecube is underrated too :) Especially if u look at F-Zero GX.
Thanks for watching, I think the 360 is a great console and Microsoft's best consumer hardware product probably. Fzero is amazing :D
This portable console was such a powerhouse! I really loved mine and the only reason I put mine away was because the Vita came along. I still have my PSP around, though. I guess I now keep it out of nostalgia. :-)
It is still crazy android still doesnt have better gaming gallery than psp , like what they have trilogy , hitman , a few total war games , alien isolation that is it other are just free to play trashes even ios resident evil that need you to buy controller to play , or assasins creed , i forget one game to add and that is it
Yeah Android/iOS game libraries are quantity over quality, people nowadays don't understand the quality and gems of old dedicated handheld libraries
iPod Video 5th gen and 5.5 also had the same Wolfson Brand Audio DAC as the PSP 1000 but PSP had a better video experience than the iPod Video. All my favorite PSP OST’s are on my iPod for better battery life, but very nice watching my movies on PSP (compared to iPod Video)
What is coming out of the pixel phone USB jack? Looks like a piece of shredded cheese.
Great console, but the choice of the UMD cd, the loading times were too long and not efficient for the battery, if it was a cartridge + micro sd format, it would be a huge success
Some of the games did have long load times, especially for a handheld. Large memory cards of equivalent 2gb size or so were still pretty expensive in 2004 though I'm not sure how that would have played out. Micro SD was only barely introduced in 2004, they would have probably had to use regular SD cards.
the only problem with the PSP is the PSvita is a psp but better and has a way bigger game library.
I never liked the playstation but GOD I LOVE THE PSP and I will never understand why it was not more popular and why the DS "won". To this day I find no fun games on the DS. The PSP is so underrated that it makes me question humanity in general like you can have such an amazing product yet people do not care and it is sad.
Yeah the PSP was incredible, I think people are so desensitized to modern tech that they either forget or aren't old enough to realize how crazy this was back in the day. And even back then I felt like people "didn't get it".
@@crywolfplays back in the day people clearly did not get it. i hear about the amazing DS library. the PSP has an amazing library. ds is mostly kiddy games and while i am not ashamed to enjoy kiddy games i do not like the games on the ds while the psp has games in all genres for literally everyone. it is amazing.
Psvita should have been PSP 2 and kept PS3 or PS4 user interface. Shame that we only got 1 psp series.
I agree I always thought Vita was a weird name when the home consoles were numbered
@crywolfplays yeah and the whole bubble icon interface felt like a leapster. I still have mine with about 30 games. Games were great though
I disagree. Touch screens sucks. Vita has one (or even two) and I never used them and just find them to be annoying. In fact games that FORCE you to use that new gimmick are really annoying and you wish the game would not use a touch screen. I think most people prefer buttons and hate touch screens unless you are 10 years old and grew up with smart phones where you only touch a screen. I WANT BUTTONS!
Sony needs to revisit handhelds. This time focus on support, instead of power. We don't need a portable ps4, we need games.
And stop with the proprietary crap. Just use what is already available.
they wont make consoles as cool as the psp again. i might be a ds kid but ill nvr forget hw cool the older kids looked w their psp. esspeically seeing the games they were playing on it. my ds looked so lame compared to theirs 💀
I actually spent a lot more time with my DS than my psp because Nintendo games are my favorite, but the PSP was always just mind blowing to me in terms of tech and had some great games
I liked my psp but I hated it's buttons and dpad.
please new psp in 2025
Id love this, but I hope Sony eventually makes a series S type handheld that can play downscaled PS5 or cross gen games, I don't think they'd have the resources for another whole system. Maybe that's becoming less relevant as they port to PC, but I'm not a huge fan of current handheld PCs
More like please be 2005 again. I think consoles are a dying category. There's incresingly less games for them that aren't also for pc, they keep getting more expensive, etc. It's not such a bad thing, since now almost any gamer can get by just owning a pc, but we'll never get back back that feeling of being excited for a new console with soon to be hundreds of future classics and gems that can only be experienced on that console.
Errr....no it isn't
The thumb stick was awful, and too low down.
It was too low
also, no Zelda
Also you could use a ps3 controller when playing on TV, even further comparing it to a switch
I forgot about this feature, I'll have to try it out, that's awesome
@crywolfplays actually ive discovered that if you have the psp go, you could use the dock to show on tv and use a ps3 controller. but the other psp's you need to use the psp itself as a controller on the tv or you could mod it.
Maximum 128 gb micro sd card sony psp can support after jailbreak used micro sd card adpter.256gb micro sd card cant suport.
Using inflation to compare prices is dumb
I just broke my PSP last monday
Edit: Dejó de funcionar la pantalla lcd y abrí la PSP y se le rompió una cosa plastica negra pequeña que asujeta en su lugar los cables "seriales" mini que conecta la pantalla lcd a la placa base. Chatgpt me dijo que le pusiera cinta