How the PlayStation Changed Everything

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Жыл бұрын

Sony’s PlayStation wasn’t just a console. It was the revolution that began the modern era of video games. This is the story of how its legacy began, told by two former Sony presidents; Andrew House, one of the original minds behind the PlayStation’s groundbreaking marketing who rose to CEO status; and Shawn Layden, who helped developers bring some of PlayStation's most beloved games to life for over 20 years. Here's how the PlayStation changed everything.
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@rus.t Жыл бұрын

IGN needs to make more of these retrospectives/documentaries

@ANM21985 Жыл бұрын

at least they won't have to worry about p1ssing people off when they're dropping spoilers

@ad_stayfly7 Жыл бұрын

SoftdrinkTv has some great videos like this already

@supizgamerpro101 11 ай бұрын

@rus.t Facts.

@Razear Жыл бұрын

The DualShock controller was just as ground-breaking as the console itself. Legendary design that is still widely used decades later.

@hxnslshhax9011 Жыл бұрын

even the normal ps1 controller shape was still used until ps3.

@karelpipa Жыл бұрын

The first one was called Dual Analog. It had some things done even better, Dunno why they discontinued it only a year after its release

@tougeruzbay Жыл бұрын

The Analog controller should've been the stable house with its concave thumbsticks and longer handles.

@zZiL341yRj736 Жыл бұрын

And the Dualsense redefined gaming once again, with haptic trigger, speaker, track pad, gyro.

@StreetsofATL_19 Жыл бұрын

@@karelpipaThey kept changing the PlayStation controller based on Nintendo’s analog stick and later the rumble pack.

@udemeebong3242 Жыл бұрын

Optical disc, 3D graphics, advertising, branding, $299 mic drop, the games, the Dualshock, etc. So many iconic moves. More videos like this please.

@Adamtendo_player_1 10 ай бұрын

The PlayStation killed Sega with that “299” then mic drop and that was just the beginning of PlayStation’s domination.

@Jum_jamb0 8 ай бұрын

However you view it, the "giant enemy crab" is another iconic moment

@iwanttocomplain 7 күн бұрын

@@Adamtendo_player_1 to think $100 could make so much difference...

@leeartlee915 Жыл бұрын

Wow, IGN putting out a great retrospective video with awesome interviews. Who knew they still had it in them.

@CardanoWEEDStakePool Жыл бұрын

They should keep going in this direction

@mattpuccinelli9478 Жыл бұрын

They're scared of noclip

@wesgrossAV Жыл бұрын

Big Facts

@william1760201 Жыл бұрын

IGN has really been stepping up their game lately !!!

@bakaneiro Жыл бұрын

IGN is legendary. Please keep that in mind, you are part of videogame history!

@beautepley8352 Жыл бұрын

Documentaries like this are always my favorite kind to watch. Well done.

@bueniwalker94 Ай бұрын

Sad they don't publish videos like this anymore.

@Drenn23 Жыл бұрын

one of the best parts of gaming around the ps1 era was watching tv and be surprised with a commercial for a video game, they were so unique, you have no idea it was a video game at the time

@victorhardin2186 Жыл бұрын

Underrated comment.

@MicklowFilms Жыл бұрын

Who cares! Hope they go out of business soon!

@Drenn23 Жыл бұрын

@MicklowFilms aww such a cute little hater....must be jealous of sony's dominance

@Lovex_Adawg 11 ай бұрын

@@MicklowFilmsJealous

@JonBlack413 11 ай бұрын

@@MicklowFilmschill dude

@KingKarimYT Жыл бұрын

The name they come up with, “PlayStation” also played a huge part. It was easy to understand what the machine was, also very catchy and so recognizable.

@mel-nm6oh Жыл бұрын

Thank you Sony and PlayStation for the countless hours of fun.. to more years of gaming..🎮

@adammurray365 Жыл бұрын

Im a huge Xbox guy… without PlayStation we all would be playing goofy children games… they brought maturity to gaming

@PulseOfMe Жыл бұрын

@adammurray365 and without nintendo and "goofy" children's game we wouldn't have video games at all.

@legendarynoobz Жыл бұрын

@@PulseOfMe the video game crash only happened in the US. And besides, arcades were still a thing back then. The video games industry would still have survived regardless.

@arisen456 Жыл бұрын

@@PulseOfMei think you mean atari

@worawatsr9803 Жыл бұрын

@@PulseOfMeNintendo didn’t create console gaming. There were many other consoles that were released before the first Nintendo system

@onemorechris 11 ай бұрын

the marketing for Playstation was wild, possibly the best that will ever exist. it’s hard to overstate how cool and cutting edge it was at the time. and the jump from 2D to 3D on CDs felt like the future.

@eugenb9017 Жыл бұрын

The CD was the key here. Not only games were cheaper to make, but you could have much more content, including high quality music. And you could use the console as a CD player, back then it was a HUGE advantage. A decent standalone CD Player was probably more expensive that the Playstation.

@skycloud4802 7 ай бұрын

It's a shame that Sony has forgotten about bringing value to customers today. They seem to be more concerned about nickel and diming playstation players now.

@iwanttocomplain 7 күн бұрын

The CD was a disaster for the game industry. Who cares about videos you watch once. Make an animatic. CD music? Who cares? When you have 24channels of adsr controlled pcm channels of music, you can make anything you want. The point is. The loading killed the buzz completely. Memory needed to be increased to fit the whole game at once. Ridge Racer fits inside 2MB. The whole game. Now the games are seriously gimped by slow loading times and the unavailability of rapid acces to rom or game data, gimping all the games immensely as a requirement to fit them all into the 2Megs or so of ram available. For cd music and videos.

@HollowRick Жыл бұрын

The ps1 intro still gives me chills castlevania symphony of the night is still one of my favourite games off all time a long with final fantasy 7 and resident evil 2

@marcheining5697 Жыл бұрын

3 of my top 5 ps1 games.

@HollowRick 8 ай бұрын

@@marcheining5697 hell yeah 😄 what are your others?

@MementoMori_2070 Жыл бұрын

One of my first PS1 games was Metal Gear solid. Which was attached to a Pizza Hut box during delivery.

@MrScarfacempl Жыл бұрын

Demo?

@FurryEwoks Жыл бұрын

Wow tool 😂

@vgjr300 Жыл бұрын

has to be@@MrScarfacempl

@RhythmGrizz Жыл бұрын

*Demo

@politepeppermint Жыл бұрын

SAME 🍕

@chriswinspear7965 Жыл бұрын

Ps2 was one of the cheapest Dvd players you could buy when it launched, once of the reasons it sold so much.

@PartyMarty321 Жыл бұрын

weren't some audiophiles buying ps1 units due to the cd audio?

@froggydarren Жыл бұрын

@@PartyMarty321the ps1 when it released was a excellent cd player the price outclassed standalone players easily

@Adamtendo_player_1 10 ай бұрын

Another reason is that the PS2 has the best library of games on any console.

@PogeyMane 10 ай бұрын

@@Adamtendo_player_1not originally though

@LyDLS2 9 ай бұрын

@@PogeyManehuh?

@ryutou-ki4dl Жыл бұрын

as great as the ps1 was, its wild to think they followed this groundbreaking system with the ps2 which can be measured as the greatest console of all time by almost every metric possible.

@Sinn0100 Жыл бұрын

Whoa...this was from IGN?! This is the kind of thing that brings gamers back into the fold. A decent documentary filled with thought provoking interviews from Playstation insiders giving us a behind the curtains peek at the 5th generation. Nice work.

@a-man2530 Жыл бұрын

The PlayStation 1 and MegaDrive will forever be my favourite consoles. The initial excitement of playing WipeOut, Tekken 2, MGS and FF7 cant be matched.

@sajlee Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful walk down memory lane. Great video guys. Thank you!

@themagicbeanbag Жыл бұрын

1. Maybe the best IGN thumbnail I've seen. 2. Great to see them branching out into these doc like videos

@23gt17 Жыл бұрын

8:25 and 17:30 - two sounds that will forever be indelible in my mind as a reminder of a wonderful time in my youth. I'll never forget the original PS1 boot-up sound and that intro to FF7 - the console and game that made me a dedicated gamer forever and after.

@benm3382 Жыл бұрын

It's hard to explain how it felt being a kid in the year 2000... Surely a feeling I'll never have again in this lifetime.

@SeeDaRipper... 11 ай бұрын

Maybe next time eh?🤭

@JonBlack413 11 ай бұрын

IKR, Between the PS2 and the OG XBOX Video Games to me have never been more magical than the 2000s.

@grantmccarthy9723 10 ай бұрын

Couldn’t have said this better man…

@davidmylchreest3306 Жыл бұрын

As an Amiga owner, that magazine page announcing the death of Commodore alongside the start of Playstation was a snapshot of my childhood.

@GodOfWarConnoisseur 2 ай бұрын

Gamers today are so disrespectful to Sony. What they have done with the PlayStation is legendary. Our lives would absolutely not be the same without them.

@MegaCloud05 Жыл бұрын

Crash 2, Spyro 2, Tekken 2 and 3, 3Xtreme, and Final Fantasy 7 were my favorites.

@Vagorim 7 ай бұрын

How could you forget legend of dragoon 😭

@twosnakse Жыл бұрын

Amazing work to get such high profile people to speak about this. Fascinating.

@johnmc3862 Жыл бұрын

It didn’t introduce the modern era of Videogames, it just brought it to a new level. The era was huge already with the Genesis and the Super Nintendo.

@dellzincht Жыл бұрын

The PlayStation firmly pushed videogames into the mainstream, though. In the UK especially, the console was constantly referenced in tv shows and "lads mags" like FHM, Loaded and GQ. Before the PlayStation gaming was largely seen as a kid's hobby.

@dsimpson530 Жыл бұрын

Don't forget that Sony imagesoft made SNES games (David jaffe was a tester for SIS) prior to PlayStation. Sony even collaborated with Sega on the Sega CD. Tom Kalinske (Sega America CEO) wanted to partner with Sony on a console but Sega Japan shot down the partnership.

@lewisclark1122 Жыл бұрын

Yes, and Sony's games were some of the worst on the SNES (like Last Action Hero). Some people even speculated that they were trying to sink the 16 bit deliberately with a flood of games that they knew were dreadful.

@RhythmGrizz Жыл бұрын

Jaffe's a tool

@todesziege Жыл бұрын

Imagesoft is clearly something Sony wants to sweep under the rug. There's a lot of convenient omissions and half-truths like that in this story.

@RDJ134 Жыл бұрын

08:00 WipEout was my reason to get a PlayStation, still my favorite Sony race game ever.

@lmcgregoruk Жыл бұрын

wipE′out″ came out on Sega Saturn and PC too, as did Tomb Raider.

@AaronAirstrike Жыл бұрын

Always owned and enjoyed every PlayStation and Nintendo console since PS1 and SNES.

@clivematthews95 Жыл бұрын

This story always makes me emotional 🥹 I just love PlayStation so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤

@Forcecaster Жыл бұрын

PlayStation defined generations. No matter what the future holds, PlayStation will never be fully forgotten.

@CS_1989 Жыл бұрын

What made the PS2 most successful was BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY!! Bcuz not everyone iz going to rush to get the latest & newest hardware. The fact that u could still enjoy titles u still have&havent played on AS well as u have time to get into the next Gen iz a Huge factor!

@CS_1989 Жыл бұрын

Companies need to embrace Backwards Compatibility especially now with development times taking YRS now, letting gamers have options to play older titles gives consumers the confidence in having content to explore while developers perfect the nxt platform

@ThomastheDankEngine8900 Жыл бұрын

Actually it was huge third party support, a year headstart, and DVD playback as the biggest advantages of the PlayStation 2.

@skycloud4802 Жыл бұрын

PS2 had a lot going for it. Backwards compatibility, dvd playback, and huge command of third party exclusives.

@MrVariant Жыл бұрын

@@skycloud4802$20 greatest hits reprints was great. Shame that died with 3ds Nintendo selects for the $70 game that needs dlc for the complete experience. Sony did drive the price of gaming down for a while with discs (even if ps1 final fantasy 1-9 and chrono trigger may have had bad load times for some, it was ahead of its time) compared to $70+ games back then that are at least double if you adjust for inflation today.

@lazarushernandez5827 Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the huge amounts of hype, Sony was showing demos of the PS2 running characters from the 2001 Final Fantasy movie.

@pauljakeman 11 ай бұрын

IGN need to do more videos like this. This was awesome. It goes to show that one of the main things that made the PS1 a hit, was them taking risks. Its what we need again these days. No one is taking many risks any more. In the wider world its the same with the music and movie industries. No ones taking risks. That's why sometimes it doesn't feel as much fun anymore.

@I_AM_N_evitablE Жыл бұрын

This was a great way to bridge the gap between those who were too young to remember Sony creating a lane for themselves with those that grew up in that era! Well done! Great quality too

@M.sami12 Жыл бұрын

People don't realize how revolutionary PS1 was. Gaming would never be the same without it.

@fionnmaccuill415 Жыл бұрын

They do it was a massive success.

@jack8162 Жыл бұрын

They realize, but people remember Nintendo single handedly saving the gaming industry as a whole also.

@mikeberg6407 Жыл бұрын

Cause it wasnt at all? Theres a reason despite having 4 x the library of the N64 that there is no fan base for the system outside of a few franchises that cant even carry a video alone without referring to future installments. Literally 30 N64 games in Twitch's top watched, and 3 PS1 games lmfao.

@khaimk4r4su Жыл бұрын

@@jack8162 ONLY in USA.

@KokoroKatsura Жыл бұрын

@@khaimk4r4su south america can't afford videogames, uk made great nintendo games too

@Rossesh101 Жыл бұрын

Amazing console!. Sooo many childhood memories playing all time classics like Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid and FF7 etc. The console boot up jingle alone gets me all sentimental haha

@edz Жыл бұрын

Loved every single second of this video. Fantastic work. Thank you!

@SZeall Жыл бұрын

This could have been double or triple the size and you’d still have my undivided attention - amazing work boys!

@3Storms 8 ай бұрын

The PS1 was also a movie player, and played a format called "VCD," which was movies on CD. The format didn't last long and Japan got tons more VCD movies than the US did, so Sony just didn't mention it as a movie player outside of Japan.

@brianlevesque8742 Жыл бұрын

That Classic Startup

@owenpotter1638 Жыл бұрын

Simpler times.

@randez626 Жыл бұрын

Better times

@alanprather8399 10 ай бұрын

Tomb raider, metal gear solid, tenchu, resident evil 2, twisted metal, oddworld, final fantasy, Tony hawk... the list continues. they made the best games. they were more adult oriented which is why we loved it.

@AmirZaimMohdZaini Жыл бұрын

PlayStation today is a lot of different than what is going around in 90's, from being marketed to everyone into marketed mainly for adults. PS4 era was the peak era until PS5 era where number of exclusives still can be counted with fingers and even some of these titles were ported to PC. Old times where 1st party PS titles were best selling ones. Now Sony admitted that their 1st party title isn't best selling enough, it just a freaking COD franchise that they felt it as "life support" after all.

@DDT-lr3zz Жыл бұрын

It was third party exclusives that sold the most on PS2 or well developed for PS2 in mind. Besides a bunch of PS4 players are casuals that play COD at all.

@agent_mc Жыл бұрын

The playstation one was freaking awesome to grow up with!! So many great games and lots of RPGs when squaresoft used to make great games 😊

@Punisher2all 11 ай бұрын

That PS startup sound. *chef's kiss*

@atranimecs Жыл бұрын

The fact that Naughty Dog developers programmed games BETTER than Sony itself speaks to the ingenuity and innovation developers craved with the new hardware. People need to see the interview about how Crash Bandicoot was even created on the limited hardware on PS1. New developers are spoiled, optimization was a huge focus back then to squeeze every ounce of processing power. If that focus existed today who know what we would see.

@mohammedganai9636 Жыл бұрын

Optimization is just a hurdle. It's not like PS4/PS5 lacked any magic potential that could be unlocked that they would have had if they were complex a la the PS3.

@akarohit9290 Жыл бұрын

Provided a comprehensive overview of the evolution of video games, including the entry of third-party developers into the industry and the subsequent shift in the dominance previously held by Nintendo and Sega. It's fascinating to witness how the landscape of the gaming industry has transformed over time.

@mayamousavi Жыл бұрын

MORE OF THIS PLEASE Very well made

@m4l1c33 Жыл бұрын

Great timing of this video. Just started replaying silent hill on my ps1 a few days ago

@andrewdoug8084 Жыл бұрын

Love my first playstation with tekken .

@ot9523 Жыл бұрын

Tekken 2 and 3 was my most played games

@leelana985 Жыл бұрын

08:24 There arent many things in the world that give me goosebumps like the sound of the PS1 intro :D

@ghostofthefuture Жыл бұрын

Grew up through the early console wars. It's crazy that Nintendo and Sega were battling it out for years and then Sony swooped in and just took over.

@worawatsr9803 Жыл бұрын

They destroyed the competition with much higher quality games and graphics.

@emmanuelibus 10 ай бұрын

When the Playstation boot music played, it was so nostalgic, all that was in my head was "gotta time the disc swap just right..."

@doomslayerdave Жыл бұрын

If you really want a great retrospective go watch Bedrooms to Billions: The PlayStation Years. Yes that film series always had more of a British slant because the first 2 films were mainly about the ZX Spectrum, C64 and Amiga but the PlayStation iteration is absolutely amazing.

@theoutlawking9123 Жыл бұрын

Sony taught us, if you want to succeed don't just play the game, CHANGE THE GAME TO YOUR PLAYSTYLE!

@zigbingham6086 10 ай бұрын

Sonys advertising was out of this world. From the crazy ads to perforated roachable PlayStation magazine inserts.

@Ptolemy336VV Жыл бұрын

My best console together with Playstation 2 and 4. The games have been beyond any other console which is what a console is about for me. The amount of games is like 6,7,8x above their competitore in some eras. And with it many unique games. Also. Anyone loving MGS or JRPGs where especially in ps1 and 2 in ultimate heaven. Never has this glory come back in the amounts as in these 2 era's

@JD-xz1mx Жыл бұрын

"My best console together with Playstation 2 and 4. The games have been beyond any other console which is what a console is about for me" You're putting the PS4 above the SNES?

@Chiefrocka. Жыл бұрын

@@JD-xz1mxyes

@Largentina. Жыл бұрын

@@JD-xz1mx"Your opinion of this console is different than mine? I'm confused...."

@jameslyddall 10 ай бұрын

Wipeout 2097 and Dino crisis were my favourite games of this era. Such fond memories of being 11 years old and being scared shitless playing Dino crisis. So much nostalgia.

@Adamtendo_player_1 10 ай бұрын

The PlayStation changed gaming forever, it not only disrupted the old guard it literally crushed both Nintendo and Sega especially.

@jc4446 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff . Going from nes and sega to psx (what we used to call it) was freaking mind boggling , the 3D gaming and polygon graphics were something we could only find in arcades …

@Riknos Жыл бұрын

Well done for correctly using PSX moniker, which was the term used for years until they changed it to PS1 later /geekmodeoff

@alexcoupe. Жыл бұрын

It was never called PSX. PSX was a Japan only PS2 with a dvr built in and was the first Sony machine to us the XMB interface that the PS3 and PSP built upon.

@jc4446 Жыл бұрын

@@Riknos yea right on!

@RinaldoJonathan Жыл бұрын

@@alexcoupe. yes, but original PS also called PSX by codename.

@kodemasterx Жыл бұрын

PlayStation became what it is today because of Nintendo’s mistakes: 1-They cancelled the OG PS cd drive for the SNES 2-The N64 was not CD-ROM based, reason why many publishers quit Nintendo and went with Sony.

@ttt22295 Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy Nintendo made those mistakes

@ThomastheDankEngine8900 Жыл бұрын

Funny enough, Nintendo’s mistakes didn’t cost them, they costed Sega lol

@Neo_X90X Жыл бұрын

@@ThomastheDankEngine8900 Facts, then comes in knocking is xbox.

@kodemasterx Жыл бұрын

@@ThomastheDankEngine8900 My dude, Nintendo struggled for two generations, N64 and GC sold like 3 units... What do you mean it only costed Sega? Nintendo made their money with the Wii and the Switch.

@lazarushernandez5827 Жыл бұрын

@@kodemasterx Nintendo always had their handheld market. Besides obliterating any and all portable competition, each Nintendo handheld out performed its contemporary Nintendo home console. Even the might Wii was out sold by the DS. Sega on the other hand had a shot at a partnership with Sony, and they were offered what became the N64 hardware, and they likely would have paired that with a CD Rom.

@Remix26 Жыл бұрын

Loved this video! So awesome seeing the history of PS.

@toxicavenger7073 Жыл бұрын

The "$299" was the ultimate mic drop of all time 🫳🎤

@mickael486 Жыл бұрын

and no one would have known besides 2 dozen people if it wasn't for that one dude that decided to record it.

@jameschou7342 Жыл бұрын

Sega did an entire presentation about their features benefits to justify the price. Sony knew it was similar and just dropped their presentation to just say the price. That was it

@FurryEwoks Жыл бұрын

Calm tf down. Ain’t that serious buddy

@JaeliusFairmout Жыл бұрын

no built-in memory storage, no game included. somehow it costs less. *shocked pikachu face*

@hugoboss917 Жыл бұрын

@furryewoks don't ever underestimate the power of PlayStation

@andrewdenzov3303 Жыл бұрын

Been there. My first gaming system. 1997-98

@ReeseLightning Жыл бұрын

This is fantastic! Very well done 👏👏

@eyokfla 11 ай бұрын

8:24 a great step in the video game history

@Louielulus Жыл бұрын

Diggin’ this video. Reminds me of an episode of G4’s Icons

@mohammedganai9636 Жыл бұрын

That episode had errors.

@ultimate_president Жыл бұрын

Playstation became the synonym for gaming 💙

@StreetsofATL_19 Жыл бұрын

No it didn’t. Only Atari and Nintendo did that sir! The video game market was thriving in 94-95. If anything. Sony helped normalized Gaming in the CD format, normalize 3D polygon graphics and normalize the usage of CGI cut scenes. The PlayStation was the system that forced the industry to ADAPT!😮

@Chiefrocka. Жыл бұрын

@@StreetsofATL_19cope

@andreasrutledge93 Жыл бұрын

This is my number 1 game console ever right next to the SNES and Xbox 360,I have so many memories playing it's games like crash bandicoot and ape escape,awesome retrospective on this legendary game changing console.

@Gamesta100 Жыл бұрын

Minus the 360 being 3rd I'm the same. PS1, SNES, PS2 for me.

@RadicalDreamer9000 Жыл бұрын

@@Gamesta100 Same. SNES and PS1 are both legendary to me. PS2 extremely close behind them. Such amazing libraries and so many awesome memories.

@jonathancreasman535 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see IGN make more content like this

@Riknos Жыл бұрын

Awesome doco - well done Matt & Cardy! Clear, concise, but with some meat to it. PSX will always be my favourite console due to everything you've highlighted in this vid - it really was a game changer!

@ItachiUchiha-md4ti 10 ай бұрын

Since PlayStation 1 sony has gave me the greatest experiences in gaming. They have always deliverd. iv never been disappointed in any generation. Ty Sony

@bringdapain8462 Жыл бұрын

Excellent documentary. Well done Matt!

@fizzyfuzz5878 Жыл бұрын

Only thing I'd really say was missing here is more about why the saturn failed outside of Japan. The premature launch and internal fighting. Also how once final fantasy 7 released the PlayStation outsold the Saturn in japan. Then truly being the global number one.

@Spo8 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this format. Please please produce more stuff like this.

@bmabs35 Жыл бұрын

Got a PS2 somehwere around 2005 or so. That was my first ever gaming console and it was a glorious time.

@KamenRiderBlackSun Жыл бұрын

from $299 badass mic drop to $599 PS3 ball drop….

@eatcarpet 6 ай бұрын

599 US dollars.

@dareh87 Жыл бұрын

This reminded me of the old Gametrailers Retrospective-shows which were great. More of these please!

@samirshah5411 Жыл бұрын

This was a Phenomenal trip down memory lane, thank you!

@theyearwas1473 Жыл бұрын

When this came out my buddy got doom and we sat at his house and blew off school for an entire week and his mom was so blown away by the graphic she said it was cool cuz she liked watching

@benwasserman8223 Жыл бұрын

All this is thanks to Nintendo getting cold feet and pulling out if a business deal. Karma works in mysterious ways.

@keonideinhardt Жыл бұрын

Uhhh Nintendo is doing just fine LMAO.

@Manic_Panic Жыл бұрын

@@keonideinhardt Now they are yes. But between 1994 to 2006, they were doing terribly since Sony was eating all their market, Nintendo escaped alive because of their portables until the Wii where they could relax again a bit more since Sony was running out juice for a while. SEGA wasn't as lucky and was sent to the grave by 2001... as a console maker at least.

@StreetsofATL_19 Жыл бұрын

The only thing Nintendo regretted was sticking with the cartridge format when all of their publishers begged them to switch over to the CD format due to cost and quality of gaming.

@StreetsofATL_19 Жыл бұрын

Sony and Phillips are credited for creating the CD format and Nintendo wanted to be in control of their destiny by keeping their games on their own proprietary software when they could maximize profits unfortunately at the expense of the publishers and game developers. Plus the N64 full potential simply could not be maximized using a cartridge based system. You should see a wider jump in quality from 32 bit to 64 bit.

@martincoviella5468 Жыл бұрын

8:25 Insert chills here..

@pauldeasy1665 9 ай бұрын

Remember getting a playstation 1 for christmas at the time it was mind blowing

@MrDevilwing 10 ай бұрын

8:25 goosebumps...

@mojo-eq4ln 9 ай бұрын

As soon as PlayStation dude said ‘299’, it was a wrap for Nintendo & Sega

@Post-Apocalyptic-Response 10 ай бұрын

1st version is also a brilliant CD player

@DarkMerchant2222 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Miss Shawn and Andrew.

@itsdeonlol Жыл бұрын

Imagine if Sony PlayStation & Nintendo would have merged! Today would be very different.

@cwolph Жыл бұрын

The original mockup for the PS1 was the Nintendo Playstation, but Nintendo bailed on Sony. Playstation is the greatest underdog story of gaming.

@artvandelay4485 Жыл бұрын

8:25 now that some nostalgia for ya!

@soldierofgod7412 7 ай бұрын

1:18 crash bandicoot pulling up to Nintendo to flex was funny 😂..

@eatcarpet 6 ай бұрын

My favorite story is when Ken Kutaragi told the guy at Sony Europe, "You have to change the EU law in 1 month" because the law didn’t allow them to bundle the earphones with the PSP.

@wizzgamer Жыл бұрын

We will never see a jump like PS1 again it was revolutionary and thanks to Sega and Nintendo screwing up their consoles 3rd parties flocked to it to create some incredible games.

@Lord_Deimos 10 ай бұрын

The Playstation is my favourite console ever released and that's coming from someone who worshiped the Mega Drive as a kid. Nintendo's chronic tone-deafness and Sega's terrible decisions provided with Sony the perfect storm, you just had to be there and witness the Playstation's meteoric ascent.

@paulrivers564 Жыл бұрын

Can you do a retrospective of the N64?

@vikashv1 Жыл бұрын

Damm, when console gaming was the wild west, so much personality instead of boring, corporate mini PC's we have today.

@homiej8163 Жыл бұрын

Really loved this. Would really love to see a deep dive into Xbox or the history of Nintendo and Sega rivalry

@nng1979 Жыл бұрын

PSX brought fast, affordable hardware accelerated 3D graphics to the masses. Had hardware T&L geometry in 1994...PC's didn't get this until GeForce 256 and Radeon came out in maybe 2000. Up until that point 3D graphic cards had a triangle setup engine (if you were lucky) that still needed the CPU to do the bulk of the heavy lifting if yiu weren't named Voodoo and TNT2....the rest were SLOOOOWWWW. Thank You Sony Computer Entertainment.

@gllmll7227 10 ай бұрын

no,3dfx cards like diamond voodoo,virge had already outclassed ps1's technical capabilities in 97-98,look at half life 1 released back in 98 there is no way ps1 can run it or compare Need for speed 2-3,Quake 2's ps1 and pc versions

@KingAgniKai Жыл бұрын

Andrew and Shawn PLS COME BACK

@ThomastheDankEngine8900 Жыл бұрын

Shawn Layden is the worst PlayStation CEO by a landslide, can’t stand CEO’s that care more about winning worthless brownie points among gamers than just shutting up and doing their job.

@KingAgniKai Жыл бұрын

@ThomastheDankEngine-dm6zc he also allows PSVR2 to be made but not PSP3 even though PS Vita sold more than PSVR1+2

@ThomastheDankEngine8900 Жыл бұрын

@@KingAgniKaiNintendo has handhelds on lockdown, making a handheld PlayStation is a nonstarter.

@umaryusha5792 Жыл бұрын

Shawn layden was never the ceo of playstation

@linkvagar2336 Жыл бұрын

@@ThomastheDankEngine8900Doing their job? Like allowing the development of the "Q", the most pointless device in Playstation history?

@mrbrandon6 10 ай бұрын

This is the best video I’ve ever seen from IGN. Please make more deep dive videos like this!

@D3m1G0DZ Жыл бұрын

PSX : game + cd-rom PS2 : game + dvd-rom PS3 : game + pricey blu-ray PS4 : game + subscription PS5 : multiplatform without improvement

@MementoMori_2070 Жыл бұрын

PS5 is Digital. No CD-ROM req.

@MementoMori_2070 Жыл бұрын

@@jvue7297 😂 X denotes 1. I think he meant 1 or 1.0

@maroon9273 Жыл бұрын

Ps3 and ps4 was part Blu ray and digital

@MementoMori_2070 Жыл бұрын

@@maroon9273 but now fully digital. Maybe spec improvements and tech upgrades with each gen console. Wouldn’t doubt if AI, next gen graphics and social media is somehow implemented into the ps6. And not just the experimental kind but a full commitment into new and beautiful technology.

@StreetsofATL_19 Жыл бұрын

@D3m1G0DZ. PS4: game + affordable blu-ray. PS5: game + digital or affordable Ultra blu-ray