The PlayStation TV 

hearing scott has a modded ps vita filled me with an insane amount of joy. went from "owner of too stupid to hack a wii" to this.

Love how Scott always plays the Resetti music from Animal Crossing whenever he discusses utterly massive video game industry fails.

The fact that the PSTV locks you out of games that require vita exclusive features, but works perfectly with a PS4 controller after system updates BUT doesn’t let you use the PS4’s gyro & touchpad to replace the Vita’s ones, is the most baffling thing in the world to me. It’s literally the same features!!

The biggest design flaw about the PlayStation TV / Vita TV is that they didn´t design it with using a Vita as the Controller in mind. Like, use a PS3 Controller for very limited compatibility, a PS4 Controller for slightly better compatibility, and a Vita as the Contoller for full 100% compatibility with games.

The fact that the Playstation TV CANNOT be used to watch Television actively upsets me. Playstation as a brand is ruined for me now.

All of the Scott's Stash videos are just amazing to have in the background while I'm doing other things. But sometimes I just find myself realizing I missed big chunks of the video while I was distracted so I just go back so I can hear more about all these niche gaming ramblings I love

Not buying PlayStation TV's en masse before the resale value quadrupled is the gaming equivalent of not purchasing a house before the recession.

Scott plays Gex: Enter the Gecko in this video when explaining the few things the Playstation TV can do.

Here's a fun PlayStation TV fact! It is how I found your channel like 6 years ago! I'm a huge PS Vita fan and I was trying to find a bunch of different reviews and stuff on the PSTV to see if it was worth getting. And I found your micro consoles video like only maybe a week after it was uploaded? It was so enjoyable that I went and watched your whole backlog. And have been a fan ever since

Of course Tom Holland would love Uncharted.

The only thing that made the Vita horrible was the super expensive and proprietary storage they used. Sony let it die, if they had put even a fraction of attention into post launch of the Vita as Nintendo did any of their other handhelds, its possible it wouldve done so much better, it was a fantastic system. Especially the AMOLED model. Thankfully the modding community has kept it going over the years.

I literally bought a PlayStation TV Bundle for 30 dollars on clearance just for the PS3 Controller it came with back around 2016.

Persona 4 Golden was the only MUST HAVE and it was essentially a re-release, but damn I loved it

I love my Vitas. This video has inspired me to finish Persona 4 Golden

Justin did a great job editing this!

The ps vita is my baby so I'm always really sad that it was never given the full support it needed. A lot of the games it was ideal for (visual novels. jrpgs, the like) just weren't huge in America which made it not get the big blood it needed.

Scott :” this is my favorite piece of shit little failure “ The Wii U:”I THOUGHT WHAT WE HAD WAS SPECIAL “!!!!

Man this AVGN episode is great! A real return to form for James

The PS Vita TV was an even bigger missed opportunity than the handheld Vita! Because Sony tried to limit so many games that can be played on that device! They should’ve allowed majority support of Vita games, kind of like how the GameCube’s Game Boy player worked, but as a standalone device! Thanks to modding, that device is more playable than when it was originally released!

The Persona 4 Golden machine!

It warms my heart to know that despite the PS Vita TV being such a big wasted opportunity, Scott still bothered to install Gex: Enter the Gecko on that thing.

I picked up one of these for like $25 on ebay. Months later Walmart had like 6 of them in a box for $19.99 each. Had I known how much these would go for, I would have bought them all.

The Killzone Mercenaries multiplayer is still one of my favourite multiplayer experiences. I could rant forever about how fun addictive and balanced that thing was

i remember seeing this in walmart on a crazy cheap clearance price and i never bought it. till this day i regret not buying it.... until i watched this video. thank you! i dont feel bad anymore.

I speak for everyone when I say we’d love a full Scott the Woz episode on the PlayStation Vita

"I dont think the Vita had that MUST HAVE title." Persona 4 Golden: "Am I a joke to you?"

i actually picked this thing up a couple of days ago bc of the modding scene and i fell in LOVE. it is so pointless and so useless without modding though so props to sony for somehow creating a product that just. exists and barely works without a whitelister *shrug*

Man that sounded like genuine frustration about Tetris not being compatible for the PSTV. Have to agree - it doesn't make sense for that of all games to not work.

Awesome to see you cover the Vita! It never gets enough love. Killzone with a few friends on the couch and a few online players was some fantastic times back in 2016. Gather some mates, a few Vitas and try out some multiplayer fun on the couch, fantastic fun.

It was soooo close… imagine for example a screenless switch and pro controller bundle with support for 4K (on the video streaming, not the games obviously) for like $200. It just needed -PS3 GUI -support for all viable vita games -option to stream full fat ps3/4 games through Sony paid service -cross buy and cross save with main consoles for relevant titles

I wasn't prepared for the gallor of scott content. I really appreciate it.

The Playstation TV was bizarrely good for Koei Tecmo games released during that period, like the Dynasty Warriors 8 and Samurai Warriors 4 series of titles. The Vita versions of those and a few others would actually map the L2/R2 buttons on the PS3/4 controllers to do the same things as they do in their console counterparts, offloading what was pushed to the touchscreen ot back pad make up for the lack of buttons on the PS Vita.

"This is my favourite piece of sh*t, little failure." Why is Scott imitating my parents?

They should have bundled a TV remote with it as well along with streaming apps. The would have been a USP.

FINALLY SCOTT TALKS ABOUT THE PS VITA!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

My “must have game” for the PSVita was Soul Sacrifice. I loved that game!

Scott, you can only truly experience the ps vita ecosystem in it's entirely if you beat Persona 4 Golden. That game is literally in the Vita's DNA man, do it.

Multiplayer was what made Killzone the bees knees on Vita at the time. Love it when Scott covers Vita!

I really like this channel, don’t get me wrong I love the regular Scott channel but there’s something intimate about this one makes me feel like I’m in a friends bedroom

Funnily enough, there actually *was* a Playstation-branded TV box. It was named the PlayStation Vue, and would let you watch linear TV channels. Got launched back in 2015 but was shut down in early 2020 likely for costly reasons. I knew of its existence because my family used to own a Vue.

Went through middle school and high school with this console. Great console (I mean the vita I didn’t have a pstv💀)

I still have mine, it's great for couch coop multiplayer if you have 2 controllers for a few games, and a good library of fighter and shooters if you have another Vita.

I got the Vita day 1 for WipEout and played it fervently. I love everything about it's aesthetic. Aqua Blue Vita 3000 with that gorgeous UI and lovely home music? That is peak late 2000's/early 2010's. Lovely device. The main issue with the Vita from a hardware angle is the proprietary bullshit. The memory stick fiasco was unbelievable. Something like $60 for 16gb *Sony* memory card and that awful charging port.

My greatest regret was not getting a PSTV at Best Buy when they were going for $20 new. I decided it was redundant because I already had a Vita, but the controller alone was worth more than that and I fumbled hard not doing it. They go for insane prices used now.

When you had your PS TV and your PS4 hardwired to your router. The PS TV was a surprisingly good remote play experience. I remember remote playing Destiny 1 all the time from the bedroom. Both had to be hard wired tho.

Really enjoying these stash videos

If it was called Playstation Sees Ghosts, you would've given it a 10. Wait wrong channel

god i will watch any scott video the second it drops

As a fan of the vita, I was a shocked that we did not get a Gran Turismo game for the system.

I absolutely love the vita! The japanese physical library is amazing. The 1000/2000/tv moding communities are also amazing, and are still extremely active.

Gravity Rush was pretty cool on the vita. I hear that background music...

that thing you said about uncharted golden abyss being a cool thing to just say "hey im playing uncharted on the go" is SO real. i feel like nowadays more than ever actual portable games dont exist anymore, like the pick up and play short 5-10 minute level games arent present anymore. 2 of my classmates have steam decks and they load big open world AAA games on them and whenever we have like 2 hours to ourselves at school they play for like 40m, get bored of the game due to a roadblock or something else, and stop playing. meanwhile i pull out my 3ds and play donkey kong country returns and beat a level in 3 minutes

Funnily enough, the PS Vita prototype/dev unit actually has a mini HDMI output, which mirrors the screen to an external display.

Found a Lego Movie bundle at my local Goodwill a few years ago for MAYBE $30? Can't remember... know it was pretty dirt cheap. Still sitting in my closet. 😅😅😅

I didn't realize the PSP and PSVita were two different things until he said "The PSP' seven minutes in and he may as well have said "The World" because time fucking stopped.

Scott is the type of guy that gets blood all over his face when trying to mod a Wii that takes 2 minutes but has a perfectly clean face when trying to mod a Vita.

Loved my Vita, have some great memories with it.

15:14 WAS THAT SCOTT THE WOZ, THE NOT AN RPG GUY PLAYING PERSONA 4 ONE OF THE MOST WELL KNOWN RPGS OF ALL TIME

I mostly played mortal kombat, black ops, and my first time playing assassins creed. It was amazing how they had a massive open world game like that on a small system. I don’t remember too much more I was really into. Maybe ridge racer.

im so proud of you scott for modding your vita. congrats on your graduation to "modded psvita owner"

The way Scott introduced this video is the same way my parents introduce me to

I have so many fond memories of playing the Vita. My dad got me mine for Christmas & it came with Call Of Duty: Black Ops Declassified. Uncharted was my second game, just incredible! Once I completed that I got Assassins Creed 3: Liberation, was not a fan as I didn’t understand it. And lastly I got Ninja Gaiden Sigma, I never completed it because it’s so hard, but it was so much fun!

I got this for Christmas in 2014 (I saw 7) with The Lego Movie game bundled in, but I never used it because I didn't know how to plug it in, It's definitely somewhere inside my couch right now I also remember bragging to my family that it was a PS4 lmao

From my childhood games, the only MUST PLAY for me is Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. That's the only game that I would recommend to someone who doesn't own a Vita

Man, I love that console you can mod it and it works with all the games

Playing MGS 2&3 was fun when I first got it years ago especially as my first metal gear game

Never had a Vita or PSTV but I did have a PSP and I have a heap of nostalgia for the thing especially with Star Wars Battlefront II and my weird guilty pleasure NHL 07 lol

the steam deck shows that cool dedicated things are still big, you just have to do them right

I bought the Lego bundle on clearance at Walmart for like $50 bucks. I had never heard of it before, but I was extremely excited to try it out. I was incredibly upset that it wasn't compatible with 90% of my Vita library, but I did use it a TON for PS4 remote play. Of course, back then PS4's were expensive. Now a days you can just pickup a used PS4 to use in another room. But I did get some good use out of it. You could connect PS4 controllers to it as well. Which was strange to be able to connect PS3 and PS4 controllers. But I used a PS4 controller on it because it was mainly a remote play device for me. Wifi was trash, but that ethernet port made for a near perfect remote play device.

Paid $30 for a PSTV years ago. I played through a few Vita games on it, but it ended up being mostly used for PS1 and PSP games. I have three Vita handhelds for Vita games. In order of purchase, a White OLED [$160 👍], an Aqua Blue Slim [$380 😅], and a Black OLED [$99 🤯]. The Black OLED was fairly scratched up, so that's how it was so cheap. The screen wasn't too bad, and I bought an adhesive screen cover that covers the entire glossy front of the OLED Vita. The screen looks almost perfect with the cover. I had the two other Vita's for a while, but didn't want to hack them, so I figured a cheap, scuffed up Vita was a great test unit in case I messed up.

I got addicted to drugs and pawned my playstation vita. I’m better now but I still don’t have a Vita. Don’t do drugs kids.

Got one of these for $50 JUST to play Sly 4. Was worth it.

This thing was kind of an afterthought when launched and of course that’s why it didn’t do well but now days it’s a very versatile machine if you mod it and that’s the reason it’s a little expensive today, especially if you want to go for the official memory cards but a mod one can use microSDs with an adapter.

bro makes absolutely random videos and i watch them while i eat

I bought a Vita solely for the Sly Collection and Thieves in Time. I eventually traded it in. ...I want one again now. X3

I still have one of these and I never knew why

7:40 who's video is this?

the thing with the metal gear solid hd collection on vita is that, for some reason, changing weapons is done using the touch screen. you have to touch the weapon icons and slide, its awful.

I bought a few of these PSTVs when they were clearanced out for like $25 for the bundle with the PS3 controller. Still handy for the few Vita games that I want to play from time to time.

I didn't know you could put psp games along with memory. I didn't know it was that tiny. I thought it was going to be big and bulky. I think you're better at promoting it than Sony.

I remember seeing these things all over stores in like 2015 or so (I assume they were just trying to get rid of them by then) and as someone who has never been a PlayStation guy I genuinely always thought these were just little streaming boxes.

Amazing!! 0:09

I desperately need one of these…

That thing came out and pretty much was discontinued the next day

It did have the nice feature of basically putting your PS4 in another room via remote play. Kinda like the PS4 does now with PS5s

Wallstreet dedicated devices may have a niche something like Polaroids is more about the novelty of having the analog photo as well as it has been long enough that it is considered vintage or antique

I wanted one of these so bad for project diva

Playing through Gravity Rush hooked up to my PC through OBS atm. You run into a few sticky situations where you can't see where you need touch the touch pad but other than that, it solves most of problems the the VitaTV has.

In these videos, I like to image there are other people in the room with Scott and he's just ranting for 22 minutes over the PlayStation TV while everyone just sits there like "Jesus, Scott is passionate about this".

i remember seeing a ton of ads for this, i thought it was some kind of streaming service

Imagine if NintendoTVii was just a 3DS for your TV (that’s basically the Wii U) BUT that can’t play MarioKart.

I think the streaming services didn't work because of security and TV resolution. The Vita worked at a lower resolution, and so the chipset didn't need to be that powerful. Also, with the built in screen, there was less worry about pirating content since it was "locked" to the vita screen. The Playstation TV would have been a larger security hole.

There’s about a 100% chance of hearing the Gravity Rush OST when clicking on a Scott the Woz video about the Vita :D

🤔...I wish I would've known all this back then, because I totally would've gotten one...🤘🏼💯✔️ I just didn't know much about it, and didn't know what it was...👌🏼

I love the vita so much and I remember when I found out about the ps tv from your micro consoles video. I instantly went online to try and find one for sale and they were all like $200 lmao

The psvita was ahead of its time. I had one and was really excited for it. I truly was expecting another psp and it sucks that it fell short or we might have a ps4 equivalent handheld at this point.

I grew up with the Original model 3ds Flame Red one. Never heard of the PSP nor the PSVITA at all. Just seen more of PS3 and Xbox 360. Then again, I got my games from GameStop. My 3DS is now unfortunately broken right now, kinda wanna pay a repair youtuber as a challenge to fix it. Besides the point, I first borrowed one of my brother's PSP 3000 around when Covid happened. And oh my god I loved it. Since then I have purchased maybe over 5 psp. Currently the PSP 1000 is my favorite. Fast forward to 2023, When I imported a VITA 1000 from Japan with everything in the box, I love it. Still have it and use it daily. God both the PSP and Vita are amazing.

The modding community is keeping this thing alive

I still have my ps tv and use it all the time! got it at a pawn shop for like 2 bucks about 5 years ago

I genuinely loved my PSTV a lot. I think the name was stupid, and the controller support and features could have been fixed. I used it mostly for playing old jRPGs, and a couple more recent games. I love handheld games, but I wasn't traveling at the time. I bought like fourteen games and I have beaten like 12 of them. The main reason I stopped buying games for it was entirely because they made it so I couldn't anymore. Now that I am traveling more again, and playing handhelds it wouldn't be as helpful. I could see something like the vita helping me now, but at the time it was just perfect for me. It's pretty pointless for most people but I wanted to play in my office or room and I've never owned a vita. It was a great solution for like me and three other people.