The PlayStation 2: All About Emotion

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In 1994 Sony launched the first in a long lineup on Home Video Game Consoles titled the PlayStation to resounding success. Consumers, developers, publishers, media, and the world decided the PlayStation should be a household name.
Fast forward 5 years to 1999, with the next generation of consoles hitting homes with the Dreamcast, Sony was finally ready to unveil their brand new device, once that would hold Emotion in the center of it's DNA.
The PlayStation 2 is quite possibly the most influential console ever, and was the most culturally significant video game machine at the turn of the millennia.
Today on VideoGameDocs we go through the history of the PlayStation 2.
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Directed, Produced, Edited by:
Justin Schofield
Script Editor: Destinee Harper
Sections if you'd like to skip ahead:
Intro: 00:00 - 03:52
Part 1 - An Even Bigger Follow-up: 03:53 - 11:32
Part 2 - Introducing: The Emotion Engine: 11:33 - 21:35
Part 3 - It's More Powerful Than God - 21:36 - 50:15
Part 4 - Sales, Sales, Sales: 50:16 - 50:36
Finale - To Leave a Legacy: 53:37 - 57:11
Thanks for Watching: 57:12 - 58:47
Music used in order of appearance:
Intro: "Besaid Island" - Final Fantasy X
Part 1 - "Forest Labyrinth" - Tales of Rebirth
Part 2: "Prayer" - Shadow of the Colossus
Part 3: "Duel with Ares" - God of War and "Authentic Sky" - Tekken 4
Part 4: "Flaming Temple of Flame" - Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccooonus
Finale: "Last Wave" - Outrun 2006

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@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Thank you all so much for the support on this video! It's easily been my most successful by far, and with that I wanted to make a comment thanking everyone and for some notes/additions! First: Yes, I did miss the pressure sensitive buttons, I do apologize for that. It's odd that I never came across it in my research, but I promise I just overlooked it and didn't mean to! Along with that please forgive me for not cleaning my controller before recording, it was second hand and enough of you have dogged on me for it haha. Second: While I did state in the video that Sony formed a partnership with Toshiba to create the Emotion Engine, it should be stated that the Graphics Synthesizer was entirely in house, whereas the CPU of the Emotion Engine was where the Toshiba-Sony Partnership came in. Thank you to @BurritoKingdom for pointing this out! Third: As pointed out by @RWL2012 the original PS1 and PS2 had AC power whereas the PSOne and PS2 Slim had DC Connectors, along with that there are compatibility issues with certain PS1 games, so it's technically not 100% compatibility rate. Fourth: The PC Card slot mentioned in the video was on a different version of the PS2 and was replaced by the HDD Bay and connection slot, thank you to @Edvinas_channel for pointing this out. That's all for now! I will ensure to keep this comment updated as what's most important to me is that we all work together to further video game history! Thank you!

@BenMelluish Ай бұрын

At 15:48 you say the memory bandwidth is 3.2 gigabits p/s but I believe that's gigabytes.

@MiggerPlease Ай бұрын

@@BenMelluishI'm gay too buddy lol

@BenMelluish Ай бұрын

@@MiggerPlease lol! Proud of you, bud.

@earlusmcdivett Ай бұрын

An hour long, PS2 retrospective… UGH THANK YOU!

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

My pleasure! Truly!

@RemoWilliams1227 Ай бұрын

Count me in, I've been playing since Atari 2600 days and up to series and ps5. STILL the ps2 is my favorite system and gets more use than any other.

@Sinn0100 27 күн бұрын

I got my Playstation 2 on day one and wow....was it insane. I started gaming with the Nes and Master System getting most major new consoles that came out. Nothing was like the PS2 launch. People were fighting, robbing each other, selling them for triple the price, and so much more. I was working on the sale room floor at Walmart when we got our second shipment PS2's for black Friday. We were supposed to have over 50 for sale but Sony only sent 12. My stupid store manager stuck them all on a pallet in Action Alley." He actually believed that customers were going to be orderly and polite. It turned into a massive brawl. Guns were pulled, people got arrested, and some had to be taken out on a stretcher. Insane. People actually knocked doors down when it was announced there was only 12. We're talking broken glass, sliding doors on the ground, and other general mayhem. For reference -I got my PS2 from Toy's R' Us. I won a raffle in order to buy it on day one. Coincidentally, I have never missed a Playstation (or Xbox) launch since their entry into the console industry. This includes the Series X and PS5.

@headindacloudz567 21 күн бұрын

I miss those days. When there weren't entire screens dedicated to selling you shit on your console's menu, and when stumbling upon a hidden gem actually meant something. I'm glad I experienced the best console generation in my childhood, because man did we luck out.

@galacticwarlock2271 16 күн бұрын

Same here.

@DavidBeattty 9 күн бұрын

What games where you playing at launch that blew your mind? That's odd, as far as I remember the Dreamcast had a far better game library at that point in time.

@Sinn0100 9 күн бұрын

@DavidBeattty I didn't say the PS2 blew my mind. I said how people reacted during its launch did. I was at the Dreamcast launch as well getting my DC, and no one was losing their marbles like they did with the PS2. The rioting and fighting happening all over the country over the PS2 is very well documented. People just lost their minds over it. There was one PS2 launch window game that blew my mind... Time Splitters 2. It was the very first FPS that I played with the twin sticks, and it was just so damn smooth. It played like no other first-person shooter had before it. Also, having the ability to build your own levels while having tons of bot choices like Perfect Dark was i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-e. Dynasty Warriors 2 was another game that absolutely floored everyone as there were so many characters on screen at once in a 3d space. For the first time ever, it really was like fighting a huge battle against insurmountable odds. Kessen 2 was, at the time, the deepest strategy game I ever played on a console. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 was definitely on par with Soul Caliber for the Dreamcast, but that's Namco for you. Ridge Racer V was the best-looking racing game out at the time, and that music was on-point as always. So... yeah, I had a great time with my PS2 at launch. Just as I did with the Sega Doom a year before it. The Dreamcast stood as the biggest leap in graphical fidelity we had ever witnessed before (for the time). The biggest we're seeing now is what is happening today. As Microsoft and Sony finally slam the door shut on the 8th generation, we are finally starting to see graphical feats that boggles the mind.

@DavidBeattty 9 күн бұрын

@@Sinn0100 great that you got your fill with the ps2, I beg to defer, at the time for a game in the Ps library there was a SEGA equivalent, and without a doubt better done. But playstation had the brains, the money and a terrible amount of luck. I'm getting out of subject here... If you want to, I could debate you about this but well, the state of gaming ain't changing until someone really tries to compete with Nintendo again, and there I go on a tangent again, what ever, you tell me if you want to debate with a total stranger, lol

@jacobwhitt4335 Ай бұрын

This popped up for me to watch as I prepared to cook dinner at 2am. What a great video to watch and listen as I move about my kitchen.

@YURIARMY69 Ай бұрын

Dinner….at 2am?

@AWISECROW Ай бұрын

2am? May as well have a little snack, go to bed, and have a good breakfast instead.

@SteveMacSticky Ай бұрын

Maybe he works the night shift

@Karlach_ 23 күн бұрын

It's called 3rd shift guys. Not everyone wakes up at 5 or 6 am

@AVEXentSUCKS Ай бұрын

This machine was when Sony was at the top of their game. No nonsense sensitivities. They brought out a product that the consumer wants, plain and simple. Banger after banger after banger. We will never see a console that was this impactful ever again. Not even the Switch can match what a powerhouse the PS2 was.

@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ Ай бұрын

Fun fact PS2 used games still are being sold more than other modern day games (I would have shared a link but KZfaq takes down link comments most of the time)

@3v068 Ай бұрын

@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZput the title and the creator name down below at least. They deserve the recognition!

@PS2GAMER100 Ай бұрын

@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZIs the video still on here?

@ross3695_basedhax Ай бұрын

Switch not bad but it's extremely overrated. PS2 was literally perfect

@madmax2069 Ай бұрын

@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ sometimes it's KZfaq, but most of the time it's the channel owner not allowing links in comments on their channel for a very good reason (scammers and pron bots).

@Skrenja Ай бұрын

SSX was definatley a "must have" during the PS2's launch.

@RivalGT Ай бұрын

Was thinking this while watching, I remember playing SSX in a PS2 kiosk, and I was blown away from what I was seeing.

@rasmuswellejus 29 күн бұрын

SSX Trickie

@SIPEROTH 21 күн бұрын

I bought my PS2 November 2001. My first games were SSX Tricky, GT3, Devil May Cry, Kessen, Silent Hill 2 and Grant Theft Auto 3. Every single one of them was amazing. I immediately loved PS2 because of that. At that time MetaGear Solid 2 Sons of LIberty was also coming out( A big reason I bought the console at the time since I loved Metal Gear Solid on PS1) but it was still not in the shops in my country and whatever copies appeared quickly disappeared during the holidays. I managed to get a copy early 2002 after being stunned how good the original games I bought with the console were and how amazing they were. After playing even that I was sure I was the proud owner of the best console ever. Following that with Final Fantasy X only made my conviction bigger.

@PomPomMeowMeow Ай бұрын

That FFX song at the beginning hit me with a wave of nostalgia.

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

That was the idea :)

@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ Ай бұрын

Same here, it hit me like a brick falling from 6th on my ball 😭😭

@ej2099 Ай бұрын

Great touch!

@PomPomMeowMeow Ай бұрын

@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ haha I'm tellin' ya.

@oz5150 Ай бұрын

The music track for the island of Besaid is one of my favorite songs from Final Fantasy X. Such an awesome song.

@MacCanma Ай бұрын

I loved my original PS2. I was such a idiot I sold it as a kid.

@terryb0i Ай бұрын

Got a ps2 for my 10th birthday. Amazing times. FFX was such a fun experience for me

@hustla818 Ай бұрын

Im only about 25% into the video but i just had to pause and comment. You got great presentation and production for someone with only 7k subs. You content and topics are also about gaming which is very popular (obviously). I wanted to say great job, and you got yourself a new sub! Keep at it and you'll get your sub numbers up in no time

@oz5150 Ай бұрын

Besaid for the intro song on this video is pure nostalgia from the PS2 era. FFX is one of my favorite games of that generation.

@SIPEROTH 21 күн бұрын

I remember the cinematics of FFX making my jaw drop when I played it on my PS2. I was thinking "Wow imagine if games one day actually looked in game like that".

@MrSamPhoenix Ай бұрын

Great documentary, but I’m surprised at how often I see these videos get the memory configurations mixed up. @15:41 it’s important that people don’t get “Megabit” & “MegaByte” confused. 32-Megabits is 4-Megabytes, and 32-Megabytes is 256-Megabits. Megabits is much smaller.

@scarrface28 Ай бұрын

Great video, love when small channels make such amazing passion projects. Keep it up.

@LuigiMario-ni3rj Күн бұрын

Now, if only he would stop using that annoying scratchy voice while narrating.

@crestofhonor2349 Ай бұрын

Fantastic video on the technical side of the PS2. I always love hearing about the hardware of any console and how it works. I would love to see something similar on the Gamecube or Xbox too

@KarasuTheClumsy 22 күн бұрын

Crazy quality, keep it up! Highly appreciate spending time on tech specs and industry happenings instead of just going "here's how many it sold and here's what games were on it" like other channels do

@Kaceydotme Ай бұрын

Gran Turismo 2000 was not renamed to 3, it was simply a tech demo created for the trade shows. It was a high resolution and frame rate version of Gran Turismo 2 with only a couple cars and the Seattle track.

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

I believe Gran Turismo 2000 was a project that transitioned into Gran Turismo 3. It was even titled Gran Turismo 2000: A-Spec during a TGS showing before fully releasing as Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, due to it missing its 2000 release date.

@KrGsMrNKusinagi0 Ай бұрын

Yea i remembere gt1 had a high resolution mode 1080I single player only with no other cars on the track

@scilab4618 Ай бұрын

Thank you for giving a new view, knowledge, also a nostalgia driven into the past, best of luck with everything in life

@chasersHub 21 күн бұрын

Love this video! Detailed specs and information! Keep up the good work!

@RewindArcade Ай бұрын

Finally got around to watching this! Excellent work my friend!

@jonathanwagner9279 Ай бұрын

Damn, this video rocks! Well researched, well presented, great detail. Thank you!

@harperlee8387 7 күн бұрын

This is an awesome production Justin!!!

@lilcubbiechuck7747 Ай бұрын

Man I already subscribed how do you not have more subscribers?? You’ve got amazing production and detail. I hope you get the attention and recognition you deserve

@Caisuno Ай бұрын

I had to do something but I continued the video as soon as I could because it was captivating. Subbed because I don't wanna lose your channel now!!

@bizandtate Ай бұрын

that was probably the best possible line to end the video with

@Lownamebrand Ай бұрын

Just stumbled on your channel and now I'm a subscriber this was some grade A great content gonna go watch some more

@AmirmahdyHashemy Ай бұрын

I've watched a lot of documentaries about the Ps2 cause it's one of my favorite consoles of all time, but this video is the best of them all. Well edited, narrated, and executed. Amazing work sir.

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the kind words :)

@saywhatagain5999 Ай бұрын

Sheesh another casual banger from the one. The only. Video game docs. Good job buddy, another slammer-jammer video

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Thanks for the love and support beast.

@traftonstakes1553 Ай бұрын

So many great memories playing the PlayStation 2 :) beautiful video friend

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Thank you friend :) Happy to have your support :)

@dawidpiatek4298 Ай бұрын

what a great video, thank you!

@Clodd1 Ай бұрын

It's insane how underrated this channel is. Great doc, again!

@sketchtylerdurden Ай бұрын

Loved every gosh darn minute of this video. I'm also happy to see how receptive you are to some very minor things you missed and pinned in the comments. Overall I just thought it was a great retrospect. Well done 👍🏾

@vuillaumeXBR Ай бұрын

Thanks for the great content. Your channel is not enough promoted yet Keep it up and cheers!

@user-ed6ui7ph9s Ай бұрын

Another great doc - thanks VGD!

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Always a pleasure! Thank you for the support :)

@dextersherman6659 Ай бұрын

I cannot believe you don’t have more subscribers. Exceptional quality.

@LuigiMario-ni3rj Күн бұрын

It's his voice, many people find it to be like nails on a chalkboard. I, for one, agree. That scratchy voice is the number one killer of videos like this. He needs to find a better narrator.

@theexpert758 Ай бұрын

What a great video dude

@jimbeewalley4132 Ай бұрын

Thank you for this amazing work you had me hanging onto every word! Can not stress how much being able to play DVD's helped consumers to purchase this console before video games and movies did not co exist!!!

@godsoneus Ай бұрын

Agree with many comments here...great channel. I'm subbed. Shout out from the UK🤘

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Thanks for joining from across the lake! Glad you're here and I'm glad you enjoy my content!

@J.Wick. Ай бұрын

Excellent work.

@chawa623 Ай бұрын

god damm I fuckin love your videos!! u go far far deeper in depth when it comes to a consoles complete history n I fuckin love that u do that compared to other videos I've seen over tha years keep it at man!!

@orosztamas Ай бұрын

Fantastic documentary! Huge kudos to you. Can we hope to see this kind of in depth content on the PS3 as well? Given that it similarly had a very interesting initial story. I would love to see you cover that as well. Is that something you would want to do?

@Scarflix Ай бұрын

Damn you snapped on this video

@mbe102 Ай бұрын

That story with Bobby is heart-breaking but beautiful. I know, as a kid, getting games and systems is such a formative part of my youth. Moments in time that mark memories in my mind that I'll never forget. I hope his daughter went on to live a long and happy life, and that she still goes back to the PS2 from to time. And if not, I hope Bobby knows that that smile was genuine, from the heart, the day she opened that gift, and that, at least in my eyes, is something worthy of profound respect. This is a beautiful work @VideoGameDocs , you should be VERY proud of this!

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! I thought it was important to memorialize Bobby's story since I found it heartbreaking but beautiful as well.

@soggypretzels4227 Ай бұрын

My favorite KZfaqr dropped a new video on my childhood console 😭😭

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@garystinten9339 Ай бұрын

Could you make a video for all PlayStation consoles?? This was very informative and i imagine each subsequent video will be as informative too 😊😊

@MKDYeah Ай бұрын

Your videos are great

@felman87 Ай бұрын

Congrats on 8k!

@lloyd011721 Ай бұрын

thank you for listing the songs in the description

@VideoGameGoonie Ай бұрын

I was 13 yrs old when PS2 launched and can remember how big of a deal it was to have one and try to get my young hands on one. Having grown up and witnessed its progression and effect firsthand, I can honestly say that this retrospective is pretty darn accurate. It really did strike a chord emotionally and i never really thought of the emotion engine in that light. I loved the summary at the end of the video. Very nice retrospective.

@patchouli3422 Ай бұрын

Minor correction at 30:45 DualShock was the name of the analog controller with rumble. The only addition to the DS2 from that was pressure sensitive buttons. The "Analog" button near the sticks carried over from the DS1 and DualAnalog controllers before it.

@supersmashmaster43 24 күн бұрын

PS2, Xbox, Gamecube was the console generation I was born into. I had a Gamecube only during that time, but every persons house I went to had a PS2, and I played so many different games during those visits. I am glad I kind of got to experience that generation in its heyday, what a time to be a kid growing up with many classic gems of that era.

@SIPEROTH 21 күн бұрын

That is great. I had the experience of playing a system threw friends and family with the Super Nintendo (my cousin probably got sick of me living in his house 😅) and Genesis since I was stuck with my NES and had no ability to buy next generation (got that PS1 and my own TV later on though by doing jobs here and there as a teen). For me PS2 was the console I became an adult with. It was the first system I got after having an actual job and money(after having and loving PS1 games buying anything else than Playstation that generation didn't even cross my mind) . It was the system I took all my young frustration out of not being able to get much games as a child. I actually own more than 500 games on it because of it. I was so happy I had my own money and could actually buy games that I was buying like crazy. Because of that I had so much fun with so many different games that despite not having that childhood kind of rose tinted glasses age it still became my favourite system. Actually I had so much to play on it and burned my self out that I basically ignored the 360 and Playstation 3. I only bought those systems a year before PS4 etc came out despite their huge time frame on the market.

@ShanGamer1981 Ай бұрын

Great videos! Need a wii u and switch one in the near future

@OfficialRaveBlitz Ай бұрын

The BEST console ever made and my absolute favorite!

@crosserpg4708 Ай бұрын

Love the documentary! One small suggestion though: Maybe wipe down your console/accessories before doing the close up shots. Otherwise, great video!

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Yeahhh I noticed how crusty the controller looked after I got the footage😅 everything else I made sure to wipe down before use! But thank you!!

@RetrOrigin Ай бұрын

hahahaha I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing that.

@phoenixzappa7366 Ай бұрын

Crusty and gacky

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

@RetrOrigin Yeahh sorry guys, I'll make sure to properly wipe/replace any hardware in all upcoming videos. Didn't mean to give anyone the ick haha

@crosserpg4708 Ай бұрын

Don't be too hard on yourself. The rest of the video is quality stuff!

@03chrisv 15 күн бұрын

No wonder the PS2 punched above its weight despite having a 300mhz CPU. It was a RISC CPU. Very efficient versus x86. Though you needed to be on your A game to code effectively. The Xbox was overall more powerful and supported hardware features like shaders and stencil shadows, but some of the best looking games of the generation were in fact on PS2. It just came down to the talent of the devs and budget to unlock all that power of the PS2.

@Bigpaa Ай бұрын

Dang, growing up I was a little too young to appreciate the PS2 hardware architecture and mostly fell in love with the PS3, which is still my favorite console now. I only wish Sony would have learned from their PS2 mistakes and made the PS3 easier to develop for , along with a tad more memory, and the PS3 would have been exponentially better and more popular in my opinion.

@SIPEROTH 21 күн бұрын

Considering PS2 was a massive success it was hard to learn from any mistake since it all worked well for them. PS3 though made them finally learn which is why they made PS4 easy to develop for and at a good price that allowed them to crush Xbox One along with the Microsoft mistakes.

@charlieb308 Ай бұрын

I remember watching rented movies on my PS2, gaming with my girlfriend(silent Hill 2), those were the days.

@breadtoucher Ай бұрын

What's the song that starts around 25min and is looped almost until the end? Btw just found your channel, it is amazing!!! Please keep up the amazing work!

@SPG8989 26 күн бұрын

So I just stumbled upon this as it was recommended to me after about my 7th video from someone I am subbed to. I always think when people say "this channel is underrated and under viewed" is silly.......that being said this channel is super underrated lol. Easy sub from me. Kind of insane to think if your other vids are just as good as this and only having under 10k subs. Cannot wait to watch your other docs. I was born in 89 so these machines were my later childhood before switching to PC because to me these were the last true consoles. Ever since the 360 Era consoles just started becoming stagnant PCs.

@vibri_ Ай бұрын

The PS2 was such an alien piece of hardware that not even Sony themselves know how to make a truly accurate PS2 emulator for their later consoles, and most PS2 emulators rely on brute forcing through the Emotion Engine architecture using far more powerful hardware.

@SpiKSpaN-ei6zq 24 күн бұрын

What a badass system in so many ways 👏

@joellandry2406 Ай бұрын

Well done sir 👍🏻

@steelcurtain187 Ай бұрын

Great job 👏

@RetrOrigin Ай бұрын

Besides the lack of development tools, the official documentation for the development kits was badly translated from Japanese, so it took a while for non Japanese developers to understand the hardware. For example, many developers were not properly using system RAM to store graphics and only relied on the 4MB embedded on the Graphics Synthesizer which is why many early games looked like something in-between N64 and Dreamcast. With time many studios ended up creating their own tools, which kind of indirectly helped each studio have a more pronounced identity.

@optchurch1402 Ай бұрын

I was blown away when timesplitters released, I was around 9-10 and playing that game at 50fps (pal tvs were 50hz) blew my mind, and I was a fan ever since. Diddnt realise that free radical were an hour away from where I live and rare the studio where they came from is only 20 minutes away

@cookieface80 Ай бұрын

Renderware saved western games development for the PS2.

@gamedad7336 Ай бұрын

Bro, you couldn't be bothered to clean the box and the controller?! That's one nasty looking controller lol!

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Hey man I did clean the box! The controller well... no excuses lmao I was in a rush to film and just didn't notice how crusty it was. My bad! Won't happen again I promise!!

@JosephLuppens Ай бұрын

Excellent documentary and you have a great voice for narration. Question: Wasn't the Graphics Synthesizer attached to eDRAM with a bus width of 2,560-bit? If I recall correctly, this is how Kutaragi obtained higher bandwidth with a more cost-effective memory solution. Thanks!

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

That's correct! I failed to mention the specifics of that, but it was in fact 4MB of eDRAM with a 2560-bit bus. I believe the bus width was split between 3 independent busses, Read, Write, and a single Read/Write bus. Like you mentioned that did of course help achieve a really high bandwidth!

@JosephLuppens Ай бұрын

@@VideoGameDocs No worries, I forgot about the other 2 buses. I miss the Kutaragi-driven designs, these current x86 machines are pretty but seem max out too quickly. Maybe it's the over-reliance on engines? Looking forward to seeing your other videos.

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

The thing I miss most is the real performance driven designs. Newer consoles are just the same CPU/GPU design in a different case. The way the PS1, PS2, GameCube, N64, all of the pre-eighth generation consoles were so different and had to be so specifically designed for that the newer machines are just bland to look into haha.

@Trikipum 23 күн бұрын

@@VideoGameDocs new consoles are just PCs with joypads...

@enoyna1001 Ай бұрын

Title: All About Emotion Video: All About gigaflops, decoder, polygons, floating point multiply accumulator

@SIPEROTH 21 күн бұрын

Well it seems he meant the emotion engine😅.

@manani6721 Ай бұрын

Ff10 ost - besaid island.

@RWL2012 Ай бұрын

The original PlayStation and PlayStation 2 models have AC power input connectors; it's the PS one and the PlayStation 2 slimline that have DC power input connectors. Also, no mention of the pressure-sensitive buttons on the DualShock 2 controller? Finally, the PlayStation 2 does *not* have *100%* backwards compatibility with PlayStation games.

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Others have pointed it out but I'll be honest in stating I'm not sure how I missed the pressure-sensitive buttons, it wasn't something I came across unfortunately. Good catch on the AC-DC Power connectors and the compatibility, I think the idea was that it was 100% but there are compatibility issues so I apologize for that one!

@ArcadianGenesis Ай бұрын

It's very close to 100%. Maybe 99.5%. Call it rounding up.

@CGPatsFan305 Ай бұрын

U earned a sub

@johnbrooks6243 13 күн бұрын

Hey ik your channel is small which kinda gives me hope that you'll see this comment, your breakdown of hardware and performances of old consoles was a fkin gem of content for me, Please do this again this time for PS3 and Xbox 36, I'll inhale given how U might breakdown the performance of beast of cpu the cell in ps3 was

@KunaX3 Ай бұрын

Now we NEED you to make a PS3 docu 🙏

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

I'll work on it! Have a few things that I'd like to get through first, but the Seventh Gen consoles will be covered!

@Kylefassbinderful Ай бұрын

As someone who was in middle school when the PS2 came out, I can assure you that almost every friend I had who had a PS2 at home had it because it was their families first DVD player. My brother bought an Xbox when that first came out and I bought the DVD adapter secondhand at a flea market. That was our first decent DVD player. Before that we had a really crappy KLH player. I remember my parents were pretty upset that they had to get a new TV so that we could watch DVDs because our old TV didn’t have a composite input and running it through a VCR would just initiate some sort of copy protection or DRM. We ended up buying a hand me down 24 inch Trinitron. Which was pretty dope.

@KunaX3 Ай бұрын

I don't know a single person who told me they bought a PS2 bc of the DVD player.

@jsr734 Ай бұрын

Only initially, as the Ps2 was the cheapest way to get a dvd player. But soon after the Ps2 release, dvd manufacturers took the clue and dedicated dvd players droped in price from around 1000$ - 3000$ to 100$ ! 🤣So the Ps2 was not the cheapest way to get dvd anymore.

@yeetkunedo Ай бұрын

Then you didn’t talk to many people who bought the system at launch.

@KunaX3 Ай бұрын

@@yeetkunedo and you did, sure. I've seen the videos at launch people lining up for hours, saying they want to play the games.

@yeetkunedo Ай бұрын

@@KunaX3 Yeah, actually. I got mine on 10/26/00. Had it preordered at Babbage’s. Half the people I knew got it for games, whether that be PS2 launch titles like Tekken Tag and / or the backwards compatibility that preserved the value of their prior peripherals and library. The other half got it for games and the fact that it was a $300 DVD player with both component and optical output at a time when standalone players of that caliber cost at least $900. As someone that worked in a high-end home theater store at the time, it was fairly seismic. DVD player prices dropped sharply just before Christmas to compensate.

@SpiKSpaN-ei6zq 24 күн бұрын

Same here. People we're always surprised when I told them it played DVDs.

@k4l0nkvlogs40 19 күн бұрын

playing FFX and GT 3 for the first time after previous games on ps1 was magical

@lapean111 Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

For what?! Goodness! Thank you for the support!

@chelsona2574 Ай бұрын

Subbed 😎

@lilpigg8324 Ай бұрын

Subbed

@ross3695_basedhax Ай бұрын

Back when consoles are actually consoles and not a terrible PC that you dont own Completely custom designs made specifically for that console and the games and very power efficient. A ton of extra slots for new stuff they might bring out later, free online original controllers that are just right, And no setup at all it all just works And all the games were finished which you bought once and didn't have to buy DLC or mtx. free to do whatever you wanted with it from cheat discs and to copying your 100% save files to your friends Literally the best time to be a gamer.

@christianf.4833 Ай бұрын

and now... im subscribed.

@chestertonic Ай бұрын

The analog button was introduced with the Dual Analog controller and then with the original Dual Shock for the PS1. The biggest difference for the Dual Shock 2 that I can think of is the pressure sensitivity of the X, Circle, Square and Triangle buttons.

@devseb Ай бұрын

Top tier content

@mutalix Ай бұрын

The "Revolutionaries at Sony" is a great book!! Fantastic documentary man!! Thank you for all your hard work!!

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Absolutely loved the book! Was a huge inspiration for this video (if you couldn't tell by the beginning haha) Thank you!

@rasmuswellejus 29 күн бұрын

I loved my ps2 I had the original and later I got the slim in silver that was a slick looking thing - one of the greatest consoles ever! 🙌

@wafflesyem Ай бұрын

Thanks Reggie

@OwtDaftUK Ай бұрын

For revisionist out there who claim the PS2 was only successful because of the DVD player the PS2 despite been the best selling console had a higher attach ratio then the Game Cube Dreamcast and much higher than Xbox. So people who bought the PS2 were buying more games for it than people who bought the DC, GC and Xbox.

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

That's something that's definitely worth mentioning. I hope that's not how the video comes across, I just thought it was interesting how prevalent the DVD player was when it released!

@BlueEyedVibeChecker Ай бұрын

The PS2 sold 10:1 against its games for years after launch, especially in Japan where they only had a single launch game for it. DVDs were a huge selling point for it.

@retractingblinds Ай бұрын

@@BlueEyedVibeChecker Worth noting the gap between the gamecube and the PS2 only came to after 2003, meaning Americans only discovered the PS2 had DVD playback support 2 years after launch, or it was simply a better console.

@seanmckelvey6618 Ай бұрын

Yes, but a huge number of people purchased the thing FOR the DVD player, and just bought games for it because they already had it. It wasn't only because of the DVD player sure, but to pretend it wasn't a huge part of what drove sales is naive, and just as revisionist.

@Toadws85 Ай бұрын

As someone who was 16 at the time of its release and the first console I bought with my own money, the DVD player being built in, was a huge reason for it selling the way it did. The releases for the system after it's launch were nothing blockbuster, that was a system seller to anyone out there besides die hard gamers that will buy whatever the next new console was. I saw people with PS2's in their homes who never played games because it was significantly cheaper than most DVD players at the time. Yes, as the system grew and we started to see hit after hit release, the attach rate continued to climb, but there is no doubt that the very early struggles of the PS2 were helped by the DVD player being so economical at the time.

@DaoistYeashikAli Ай бұрын

I really like reading Rodrigo Copetti's articles on console hardwares

@destineeharper2889 Ай бұрын

Can’t wait to watch this with my husband later! Love your videos!!

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Aw thank you!! Hope it's enjoyable!

@SuperHns Ай бұрын

nice I was 17/18 in 2000/2001 and I can tell they really targeted us it was our generation's console

@lukegamer5328 Ай бұрын

To me the best games released in 2001 are: Klonoa 2 metal gear solid 2 Atv offroad fury Rayman 2 revolution Ssx tricky baldur's gate Splashdown Jak and daxter the precursor legacy Nba street

@cateatingchezburger4267 Ай бұрын

Besaid island theme is probably my second favorite song in ffx. I used to go to the hall of records and play the music clips.

@AutoAndChill Ай бұрын

Great doc. I think the takeaway is, this is the point where hardware became more powerful than the human imagination could code for; it's the point at which games become (mostly) designed by committee and the human element begins to become secondary... and that's a pity

@VideoGameDocs Ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. And it's odd isn't it? The PlayStation 2 was all about the Emotion Engine and how it's CPU/GPU SOC was powerful enough to create Emotion, and there are games that achieve that, but it was also a turning point where, like you stated, games have sort of become a "product" rather than an art, or entertainment.

@Kniffel101 Ай бұрын

Still not quite through the video, but I'm really enjoying it thus far! =) Though I'm a little bit annoyed about how you pronounce Mr. Idei's name. It's not "eye dey", it's more like "E deh" ('E' like the letter in English). In the future, if you're unsure about foreigners' name pronunciation, set Google Translate to their native language and listen to how it is pronounced. =D

@TechnicallyRude 2 күн бұрын

Brilliant deep dive into the PS3 😊

@firerock277 Ай бұрын

The song at the beginning, I associate that with LittleBigPlanet, that’s where I heard that song like 12 years ago

@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ Ай бұрын

The song at the beginning is from final fantasy x of ps2 and PS3/PS4/PC HD remastered, not little big planet. It's name is wandering flame if I recall correctly (could be wrong about the name but it's definitely from FFX

@brucegusler5208 Ай бұрын

As someone who absolutely loves the PS2, I knew so many people who got it only for the reason it was different than Nintendo. Not the games 😂😂 I was still playing my Dreamcast and n64. I didn’t actually get a ps2 until a year or so later.

@madnessarcade7447 Ай бұрын

Why does the wireless internet pave the way for Nintendo specifically and not all of gaming?

@robzo87 Ай бұрын

Although I come from an Era of NES, Genesis with and introduction to Atari 2600 because my dad loved the one he kept…1996 was my introduction to the SONY PlayStation. I never had Super NES or N64, but in 1999 SEGA captured my attention with arguable one of the Greatest systems of all time…but then in 2001 SONY took my focus off of SEGA for quite sometime with PlayStation 2. So I was fortunate enough to own the XBOX and GameCube as well (amazing console), but PS2 was the winner 🥇 overall. I own 4 of them (1 Japanese, 1 EURO) and I still have a rare collection of games that are original to the time I got them. PlayStation 2 was more than just a DVD player…it was a variety of emotions through entertainment altogether. I think every emotion was captured from this station through gaming and movies, and along with music. You simply cannot get the same experience from this generation of consoles like it was crossing over into the Y2K era of gaming. 10/10 retrospective.

@JGrove303 Ай бұрын

Mostly great doc. The Dual Shock controller (that the Dual Shock 2 is named after) was released with the later revisions of the PlayStation. It had both analog sticks, with the analog switching button as well. The functional difference with the DS 2 was that all action buttons were pressure sensitive