Retro and current gen gaming chat, with Trev and Stu, its the Console Shockcast! The Sony PSP was a groundbreaking handheld console that set a new standard for portable gaming devices. Compared to its contemporaries, such as the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, it featured powerful processing capabilities, allowing it to handle 3D graphics that were comparable to the PlayStation 2, a remarkable feat for a portable device at the time.

Al joins us as we discuss how impressed we were upon first encountering it, and how its home console level experience inspired current era handhelds like the Switch and Steam Deck.

– Stu has started game streaming on our YouTube channel!

– Utter Nintendo dominance of the handheld landscape in the early 00s.

– A hint at the future of handheld gaming in pre-PSP consoles such as the Nokia N-Gage and Game Park GP32

– Stu recounts his Regent Street Gizmondo experience!

– Trev getting his mind blown playing Wipeout Pure on an import PSP in 2004.

– The revelation of the PSP providing close to a PS2 gaming experience in the palm of your hand.

– UMDs, the PSPs achilles heel?

– Legendary PSP games like Ridge Racer, God of War, Tekken, GTA, MGS Portable Ops, and more….

– Was the PSP useful as a music or movie player? Check out Trev and Al’s other podcast where they reminisce about a different episode of Star Trek every month! : https://longrangesensors.com/episodes Intro/Outro Music – Attack The Barbarian (Boss battle theme) – Streets of Rage (1991) – Sega Mega Drive – Composer(s): Yuzo Koshiro