Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no announcement of the truly portable Sony handheld we used to hope for (sorry, Portal). Instead, through something far less predictable, considering it's 2026, people are
  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    Look at it!

    PSP body

    It just oozes cool. Ugh, I need to find mine in storage.

    Funny how, in the PSP’s hayday, staring at a little glowing rectangle in public felt so awkward. And now it’s digital detox.

    So I’ve started carrying this little guy around in public, as my “phone detox”:

    And strangers approach me and ask “ohhh, what is that, a camera?" Like it’s alien technology they didn’t even know was an option. Same thing happens with my relative’s iPod, and I imagine a PSP would evoke a similar response.

    I posit that people want dumb electronics. They want to be liberated from addictive smartphone slop. They just don’t realize it until they see it exists.

    • vogi@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Funny how, in the PSP’s hayday, staring at a little glowing rectangle in public felt so awkward. And now it’s digital detox.

      I have exactly the same feeling. I always have my DSi around and occasional break it out for a round of Picross in the subway. It would be so weird doing that in 2009. At least where I live.