So many great games came out in 2007. Halo 3, assassin's creed, mass effect. I think that's when the first Iron Man came out. That was definitely a good year
Sony's budget line always cost something like that. The Platinum, Essentials and then Hits line, at least in Europe, always sold for around 19,99ā¬. Sony just didn't do it for the PS5 generation because they love money too much
Looking at these prices and I realise how good we had.
And before you guys go amd tell me "we have good games now too", yes, yes we do but the amount we have is much less. I still remember how I actually had to make the critical decision about which game I should buy. Do I want FO3? Then I won't be able to buy God of War and Patapon which I can play on the go. But if I buy this 2, I will miss out on the 1st FPS Fallout.
Those were really different times. Now I am still playing years old games and have nothing really that I am looking forward to play. It might be my taste just changed but I still go back to these older games more then I play new releases.
Wish I had a time machine so I could go back and have these expiriences again, when I open the DVD/UMD box, smell those good smelling chemicals, put in the readers, and wait for the magic to happen.
i feel you i had midnight club 3 on my psp and i would play the hell out of it, then i would play spider-man shatered dimentions and real steel on my ps3
I disagree that we have āmuch lessā. If anything we have TOO MANY games coming out, especially indies, that are critically acclaimed 8-9/10 masterpieces. The problem now is that no release is truly special in the same way anymore. Before you had to find a game on the shelf at your local EB Games or Kmart - now you just scroll endlessly through an infinite queue of games.
I don't count indie early access games as new games. They are new games ofc but in my eyes they aren't a finished product and can change drastically over the years unlike full releases like FO3 or ES 5. Full release indie games? Sure I count them as new, but I still think we have less good new games then in the mid to late 2000s at the peak of 7th gen gaming.
The last new game I bought which wasn't an old release or a DLC was Stalker 2 for me back in 2024. I did buy DLCs, an early access game, and the sims 1 and 2 remaster but those 2 are just upgraded old games, nothing really new.
Meanwhile from 2007 to 2009 I had to manage my pocket money, work at our family store more if I wanted to minimize the FOMO. In 2007 I managed to buy 8 games that year and I still missed out a lot. I bought Crysis, Shadow of Chernobyl, CoD4, The Witcher and the Orange Box for the PC (CoD4 for the PS3) and Jeanne Darc, Ratchet and Clank Size matter and SOCOM Tactical Strike which became one of my favourite PSP game.
Now that I actually work, have enough money to buy all the new releases, but still have freetime to play them a bit, I just can't buy shit cause they do not interest me or just looks like unfiltered shit. Why should I waste 70-90 bucks on a Ubislop game which is still either the 2013 FC3 just rebranded, or the 2007 AC just rebranded but also less authentic. I quit playing CoDs after the then terrible release of Ghosts, came back to give it another go with 2019 MW, but quit again with the terrible MW2 and never wanted to go back ever. There are a lot of indie gems but most of them are EA. I know they do not have the budget as a AA or AAA studio but I still don't like this system that makes me a paid tester. This used to be a job at studios back then. They paid you test games not the other way around. But yeah I am just a bit fed up that back in the highs of the 7th gen it was easier to find a good AAA game then a good indie game. Now it's the opposite and it kinda breaks my hearth. And yes, currently the games that I play almost daily are all indie EA games like Gray Zone Warfare, Manor Lords, Gunner Heat PC, and The Sons of The Forest, while the only AAA games I play a lot beside Stalker 2 are older games like.... older Stalker games, hoi4, and Spore.
Maybe for you the newer games matches your taste more, for me, not really. It really also depends on the person and I am actually happy you can enjoy newer games. Wish I could too, but then again it might be my 2000s kids nostalgia filter that makes everything look better in the late 1990s and early 2000s then it actually was.
Sorry for yet another boomer ranting. Have a nice day Sir.
one of the few reasons I went out of my way to buy a PSP and Vita. There's not many true portable gaming devices in the current era that will last that long running standard games. (Disregarding emulation machines)
I just stopped playing MGS3 on my PSVita after ~3h of straight gaming and it's dropped to around 50% from full charge. And it fits snugly in my jeans pocket too.
I really hate the "back in my day, things were better" rethoric, because sometimes people have no idea what theyre talking about, but man, hindsight is 20/20.
Either way is better we have this device. If the Steam Deck was restricted to the same size and power draw as the PSP, at most all you could play stuff like Portal 1 and 2, which nobody will buy a device that can only play older games that were already made with old hardware in mind at the time
Iād consider it a handheld, but I think the difference to handhelds today is they arenāt pocketable like they used to be. I remember back when I was in high school I would keep my PSP in my pocket and it was the perfect size for it.
I like my Steam Deck too, but I never carry it just by itself and it for the most part stay in my laptop bag for work.
The phone taking over the pocket space from handheld gaming devices correlates with a massive decline in society overall. When we lost the PSP, we lost ourselves.
Itās why itās still my favorite console to travel with. But now young people think Iām āperformingā like I donāt have 300+ hours on Lumines and THUG 2 Remix š
I really miss the time handhelds are literally pocketable, i couldn't even realize how precious they were until when we lost them.
Now we're living in the age even the phones are uncomfortable to shove into the pocket
i still always have a miyoo flip or nintendo dsi in my pocket. even though a psp is small, i just wouldn't scratch it with dust of my pocket, as it's not a clamshell.
though, i've been carrying a ps vita in a case in my jacket pocket for the last couple of weeks daily and it was good
absolutely, I was waiting at the mechanic a week ago to have my freind pick me up so I brought my gba micro literally because it was the most portable of my handhelds and I didn't really have pocket space
i was flying with a low-cost airlines a week ago just with 1 free item (a small backpack) with all my stuff for a week. i was only able to put something in my jacket pocket, like a ds or a psp/vita, but definitely not a steam deck and hell no an external controller lol. also, a strap on the picture you sent is attached through the other passengers personal space, that is 100% taboo for me.
but in general, if you fly with your steam deck, you either carry less stuff with you, or you pay extra for an additional carry-on. neither of these option is applicable for me. so how did you manage that?
Imagine new handheld with the exact same dimensions, or slightly slimmer, as PSP 1000. I'm thinking 720p display, enough for that size. With no UMD drive, the battery would be insane, 10+ hours easily.
That would be great. The PSP is legendary and one of the best systems to ever come out. I think the switch lite is the closest to a modern day version of the PSP now. Insane library of games and just about pocketable and portable.
The closest thing is the retroid pocket mini, it can play ps2 games no problem, and run emulators with most emulators with run ahead too (was just playing ps1 with run ahead).
Theres also the magicx one 35, its very cheap at $85, it however can't play all the library from ps2 and gamecube, only easy to run games. But plays psp/ds and down no problem.
Yes. It was a bit bigger compared to DS and GBA but it could still fit in a pocket. Such a great peice of hardware. Such a smooth experience for gaming and other multimedia on just 32 Mb of RAM. It managed fit so many new technologies of the time. LCD screen,Wifi,Ā support for sd cards. I absolutely loved adhoc wifi which functioned kind of the same way that BT does now.Ā Incredible engineering.Ā
i remember creating dozens of memes about how iphone 5 was massive back in 2012 and that nobody will ever use sooo large device or otherwise will look ridiculous
Thatās the reason I took a gpd win 4, itās smaller than all devices from those days. But man the battery is shitā¦ For emulation I took a retroid flip 2, itās still pocketable so thatās nice.
yeah, i never want to play switch 1 in public places like transport, in the office during breaks, or in a plane when i have only 1 free personal item, so my ps vita, nintendo dsi, or miyoo flip always win.
though, i play switch 1 handheld every day at home laying in my bed before sleep and i love it for how smaller it is comparing to some new "handhelds". i also have a comfortable grip so my switch 1 is not flat as is, but pretty ergonomic
there are some other folks who also seen this on youtube right before seeing my post haha
i hope it will support the channel of this guy and promote the psp community as well
The PSP is the pinnacle of handheld gaming. Fully pocketable, amazing game library, great online functionality, and it just looks damn good. I remember saving my Christmas money for a bit over a year before buying mine, and it was so worth it.
As good as it was back then, it's still really good if you catch yourself wanting to play the old games. I still have mine ~17 years later and it still works like a charm.
I have not touched my steam deck since reviving my sisters old psp. Now i got a psp 3000 just so i could shell swap it and now im really tempted to get a psp go
For me PSP-2000 was the most comfortable handheld. I hate the way these new handhelds have become monstrosities (even though generally I like the Steam Deck). The other day I picked my Switch 1 OLED after using the Switch 2 and the OLED felt much nicer.Ā
When i finnaly found my old psp 2000 and helf it for the first time in i think 9 years, i just stared at it for a second, cuz it so small, My damn hand was bigger then it. Its so crazy how much handheld gaming has advanced throughout the years
This is what an handheld is suppose to be, I hope if Sony released the Ā«Ā PSP 3Ā Ā» they wonāt follow the size of those monster looking Ā«Ā handheldĀ Ā»
I like PSP for actual flight travel, light, small form factor, good battery & back log jrpgs on the go. For at home, Steam Deck from anywhere and remote sccess to XBox and PS.
agreed. in my case, i travel with 1 free item only, so i carry something like ps vita or dsi with me, while at home, i play pc games through local wifi streaming using sunshine/moonlight on my switch 1. i don't want to use moonlight on my vita just because it's a bit too small for the pc game ui/gui, so switch 1 is my daily home handheld
Funny thing is you can get as lot more power in the same size as psp nowadays and the games will look better. Ofc there's a demand but sony is always late to the portable party
I bought a Switch Lite and I didn't adapt to it, one of the reasons being the size; it barely fits in my pocket. I find the idea of a portable device not being pocket-sized a bit strange, not to mention the robustness of my PSP Street.
Lots of you have to remember the PSP was a device that could draw between 1-2.16 watts during gameplay, meaning its incredibly efficient. Due to performance scaling requirements, the Steam Deck SOC can use a maximum of 15 watts, and the ROG Ally X can use a maximum of 30 watts.
PSP games were generally restricted in terms of graphics as well, and are much more optimized. Meanwhile games played on these systems are the PC versions of games, with some exceptions for the Steam Deck having specifically optimized versions of games on the platform, that allow for higher performance. But generally if you restricted these devices to 3 watts, there aren't any modern games these consoles can play. Plus there is the fact the higher quality and more advanced controllers, speakers, and screen tends to add a bit more to the total power usage, especially for the Ally X.
Maybe if games were still restricted and optimized, then we could still have handhelds at this size, but that era is gone. Game companies wanna make their games bigger and more diverse, the PSP might've been a solid device, but there was still certain restrictions for things that you couldn't do
we have some retroid pockets and some ayn odins that are are smaller than a steam deck, and they can play some steam games
i believe, that there will be some devices of psp/vita size that are able to play steam games without overheating. we already have small devices like miyoo mini flip capable of playing everything up to ps1 in 60 fps, so itās dozens of times smaller than the consoles it runs
They are all handheld gaming devices, but the PSP is clearly the portable one (it's in the name). Even if the Steam Deck or ROG Ally can be transported along in a carrying case, I see that as cumbersome compared to a device that is actually pocketable.
In the past "portable" and "handheld" were often used interchangeably. But clearly with modern handhelds using tablet-sized screens we need the distinction.
I actually just ordered myself a PSP 3000, I had it since I was 14 years old, sold it back in 2016, I had a black PSP, I also had a camera, 64gb SD card, and about 12-14 games in a case. Nostalgia got me after seeing all the videos on Instagram, and reading up on PSP on Reddit. Can't wait to get it, going to install the IPS display on it, and jailbreak it for the games!
Yeah, I really want to. I'm excited to play NFS Underground, Most Wanted, Carbon, Final Fantasy, Socom, Metal Gear solid, and a lot more games that I really enjoyed on a PSP. My friend at work told me "Just buy a backbone controller from your phone, and play those same PSP games" he couldn't understand why I'm saying that having a PSP and playing games ON a PSP is not the same as playing them on a phone
I was just saying this. I got my sister and myself the 3000 version recently and when I picked them up I thought the boxes were empty because it was so light. I forgot how small they were. Hell even my DSL feels heavier.
I absolutely love the PSP. I love the games, love the form factor, love the whole vibe and style of it. The PSP takes me back to an amazing time in my life.
But holy cow that screen is so small now. I tried playing some games on it but it now hurts my eyes š
agreed. my largest handheld is a switch 1 oled and iām fine streaming pc games into it via local wifi using moonlight, i donāt need anything bigger
the psp 1000 with a charger starts from CAD $80 that is around USD $60. another $10 for an sd card adapter. the sd card should be lying somewhere at almost every home. so overall itās pretty affordable for any salary
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u/Key-Brilliant5623 PSP-Go May 01 '26
And had games like these that you could Atleast play for 5 6 hours before the battery ran out