hey Roger 😁

the psp 3000 had that terrible interlaced screen though

It was a pretty good little device, especially when soft mods for it were released and allowed homebrew, emulators, etc

@@SebHighDef Wish I knew that at the time, lol

@@SebHighDef 2000 is better

yeh I believe that came out late 2011 primarily in europe

I had this one when I was in high school. Sucks that it was stolen.

Wasn't the PSP Street really bad. Like they cut most of it's features and didn't even have wifi?

@@fattiger6957 i mean now wifi is kinda useless and also the disk tray sucks it's all cheap plastic

@@ombrenoirdekiri7274 Wifi is useless??

They probably won’t make any. They believe it’s hard to compete with mobile gaming.

I get the feeling they are done with handheld consoles even after seeing the Switch's success. Sony felt burned by the Vita (even though it was their fault it failed) and don't think they can compete with mobile gaming. I think Sony's answer to on-the-go gaming is remote play and a possible mobile version of PSNow.

Its a sad thing to think about. There have even been polls on reddit r/psp that were full of hundreds of people who would happily pledge $350 for a new handheld companion console for the ps5. Sadly though, I do believe they are done with this venture. The PS Vita came out just a few years too early if you ask me. What would the handheld gaming market look like in a world where Sony still had a champion in that arena?

So how do you like the playstation portal?

Yeah mate they botched it.

Golf? But im trying to REDUCE my boredome. Haha jk. Thank u for ur service

@@xCoffeeNWeedx hotshot/everybody's tennis is also a great game for the psp

Can we just give a moment of silence for his service 🇺🇸 respects to you sir

I paid 70 bucks for mines the white Boxed.

The thing is Sony put out an official cable that did the same exact thing as the cradle. I have the cable (I believe it's still sealed in the original package) it was a cool thing and a feature well ahead of its time.

That's the dock. The switch copied it. You can.dock it and play on tv with dualshock 3

@@nonyabizz3533 No, there is literally just a cable that goes directly from the PSP into a TV. There is a dock but this is just a cable.

Sell me that cradle 🙏

I just got a new battery for mine yesterday it’s a 3430 mah battery it’s really good so far

Same. Mind you, the connector for the battery is very delicate

Can i ask which battery precisely you used? Refound my old one and might need a new battery.

I remembered getting one of those cards for my phone, even at 1GB it felt pretty expensive. The Go was a luxury product though, so it was probably not much a concern in the design.

I guess PSP go used M2 format of Sony? If yes, then yeah they were quiet expensive and even more now at least the original ones.

@@antiquefuturistic I was so happy when adapters and stuff started showing up for PSP memory. The memory was just ridiculous price wise even for the time. I loved how they seem to learn nothing from the PSP and double down with the Vita. And as we know it turned out exactly like you would have thought it would.

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu The Memory Stick on PSP was expensive but now it has become quite affordable , at least the used ones. The M2 format is still expensive because it was least used and now thus is rare . The PS vita cards are on another level. But sony always was into proprietorship on Memory modules

Back when "MemorySticks" were first introduced there was still the race to become THE (proprietary) standard. And "SD" cards did not yet exist. The market leader at the time was ironically Toshiba (which Sony cooperated with for the PS3 CPU) :) and their "SmartMedia" cards. The largerl MemorySticks had fairly good prices as far as I remember, because they were licenced out to many other brands. M2 just never gained enough interest for that. But had it become THE standard, then it would probably be another situation.

As I remember one of the benefits of modding a PSP is that you can use a memory stick to SD adapter, although I think the PSP Go uses the micro memory stick, so might also be harder to find. If you can get one, that would definitely be the way to, err.. Go. At least Memory Stick was a standard used in a range of devices, unlike the ridiculously expensive and impossible to buy Vita memory cards.

I think the micro memory sticks are actually a marginal bit physically smaller than micro SD cards, so an adapter seem an unlikely design to find at all. Unless maybe it is possible to cut off the excess design parts of the SD card. Like trimming a SIM. ;)

Use YACC to compress your games and fit them in the entire 16 gigs bud. I've managed to fit 27 games in those 16 gigs, although Games like GTA LCS & VCS and God of War dont handle compression really well, being accompanied by lag spikes and stuttering.

@@yurisv7315 There are adapters available that allow for placement of a Micro SD card (inside an SD card adapter) inside the PS Go, mine is now rocking 128GB which is all the space you ever need. Needs some advanced level soldering skills though as essentially you are soldering the contacts on the SD card adapter via wires to the contacts of a M2 card.

Same! Yesterday I went to my friend's house and his brother grabbed his PSP Go and wanted to sell it so today the entirety of the time I was thinking about the system

Even though the vita would become notorious due to Sony cutting it loose so early officially it is still such a phenomenal device. I hope it will live on for decades with collectors and in the modding community. It was the true pinnacle of Sony portable gaming goodness.

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu It is the Pinnacle of portables - hacked or straight - I have four!

Man the deals some people find...

GameStop was the place to get PSPs when they were practically giving them away. Now the only thing more valuable than a PSP is a Vita. And both are quite expensive at this point.

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu i see psp's going for $150 which is literally the cost if not less than when they originally launched but this is from a dude who mods them with a cfw and sells them

@@andrewsmith7115 6.61 infinity.

well i mean there is the Steam Deck which could compete well against Nintendo......well if they don't mess it up with dumb ideas anyway LoL

@@dovic2293I do hope their first one sells well enough for future and more polished versions to come out. I really think they have something going with it but I just wish it was smaller

N-Gage, damn. I remember that, I have one layin around somewhere gonna search for it right now hahaha

@@yogigbear Yeah it's not good. The DS and original PSP are still pretty pretty fun to revisit but the N-gage is basically the worst parts of a cell phone and a portable gaming device. I had forgotten just how bad it was until I saw a video of somebody revisiting it, it was real bad. Worse now than back then but it wasn't much better back then either.

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu basically if they could make a real Switch pro before Nintendo would minus the Nintendo games that would be awesome. Think of the the Steam Deck as the 'Surface pro 1' cause man, look at Surface pro 8 now 🔥

It's too late for them

@@AJ-dx6bn Its never too late.

same, i used to fidget by lifting up the screen all the time 😁😁

Well you were forced to use the 16GB as downloads was mandatory on the PSP Go and had no alternative option as there's no UMD drive; sure the Switch isn't much better but at least you can still buy the games physically and not eat into the storage as much.

16GB was actually quite generous for the time. UMDs have a max capacity of 1.8GB, but most of the system's biggest blockbuster titles only top out at 1.5GB. The majority of games are under a gig.

@@MmntechCa Oh yeah that's fair enough, just awkward when I already had a lot of games and couldn't play ANY of them on this unless I rebought everything all over again. Just a shame the PSP Go came out just too late into the lifecycle, but maybe it wasn't possible to make it at the time in 2005. The PSP family of handhelds were really neat pieces of kit with the odd quirk here and there; though the rather expensive memory cards really burned.

You speak like this is the only handheld in the world

@@AJ-dx6bn some people know nothing but psp

@@AJ-dx6bn yes because handhelds in general means Sony handhelds only 🙄, are you a bit dense?

Is the Switch a first party handheld?

@@bretthake7713 the last of its kind, pretty chunky unless you got the lite but even that is a chunky monster too compared to the PSP and 3ds. Pocket systems are something I wish could make a return into the market.

I'd rather have a Vita for that.

@The tricky tick if you are playing psone classics then these are native ports.

@@SidNightWalker vita’s are also good options. I am not familiar with soft modding them. I believe it is as easy as modding a psp. Back when I got my psp go the vita was still relatively new so psp go was cheaper.

@@Bo_Knows_Tecmo The irony is I would say they've gone up to if not surpassed original prices. The secondary market for Vita has literally exploded in the last couple years. Once the PS store (Vita) goes down for good it's going to be even more significant considering modding and the ROM scene and stuff are going to be the only place in town to get games onto this thing.

@@SidNightWalker my only problem with vita is how expensive they're memory stick is

It was more the poor awkward timing of the PSP Go, cos it came out four years after the original PSP released, where during that time we already bought a lot of the games physically via the UMDs, which couldn't be used for this Go model as it didn't have the UMD drive. So it gated out everyone who had the previous models and a large collection of physical PSP games, unless they decided to rebuy everything digitally again.

How did your tighten the top part? 👀

@@gamerrap23 There was one Reddit post that mentioned that it’s only one maybe two (like on mine) screws that are loose. I then watched a full tear down of a psp go on KZfaq. You’ll have to lift and remove the mother board from the rest of the body to access the screws, but be careful because one of my screws were so loose that I ended up finding it where the R button is. Lmk if you need more help after you watch a tear down video. Although I didn’t record the entire process I took pictures of the tear down and video of the screws that caused the issue.

Lmao that’s stupid why tf would they care 😂

I wish I could say I'm surprised but of course Sony doubled down on proprietary memory formats. In fact if you consider the fact that the original PSP and the GO had different formats than they actually tripled down with the Vita. Either way I would say it was one of the two or three huge contributing factors of the decline of the Vita itself. The other two being the extreme success of the PS4/sony not wanting to waste time on two consoles when they could just focus on the most successful one. And of course them not really giving any compelling software for the console and dropping first party support so fast.

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu true. All of Sony’s handhelds had different formats. I don’t know what they were thinking with that. Well, aside from the sales of the games, the memory card was probably their way to turn profit for the Vita since it was sold as a loss. Not a very good strategy though, considering the PSP Go had 16 GB of internal storage, while the 2nd revision of the Vita only had 1 GB. Plus the fact that even though the Vita went down in price, I never saw it’s memory card being in sale.

@@CaptVitaGamer Yeah memory never went on sale unless it was used at like a GameStop and even then it was minimally less. Meanwhile both the DS and 3DS lines completely supported SD/micro SD cards. I mean now that the two divisions of Nintendo are a one (that being portable and home console) I'd say it was probably the right call it was a losing battle and unfortunately Sony got out of getting was good now it would be near impossible to reenter the portable market. Between them abandoning the Vita and the absolute domination of Nintendo in the handheld market I can't imagine anyone (with the possible exception of the steam deck) making any inroads at all.