Just found Your Channel and I am already loving these Retrospectives. Truly an amazing job on this! I know what I'm going to be binge watching. Perhaps We will see a Retrospective on SEGA's Consoles? :P
This generation and the next are so fascinating to me. who wouldve thought nintendo would go from dominating the industry to being beaten back to back generations in the home console market. Sucks that it lead to the blue ocean strategy though
Really enjoyed the video! I’ll be sure to check out the rest of the PlayStation family videos in the future! Also the PS1 E3 presentation clip always makes me laugh.
I think it's interesting how Sony sold 100 million units by becoming the most third-party friendly system ever, then intentionally made the PlayStation 2 harder to develop for and less third-party friendly yet managed to sell even more units.
Yeah, given how they started with the aim of making development 'easy' and where they went with the PS2 and even more so the PS3, with it being increasingly more difficult to get a handle on the hardware it's amazing they've continued to perform as well as they have.
I believe that SN Systems were already owned by Phychnosis when Sony acquired them and may well have been considered by Sony equally as important as the publishing and development business. SN made an expansion card for PC’s that cost like £500 as opposed to the big tower case Saturn dev machine that cost like £4000 and took a long time to get made. Then the other thing was that Sony charged much less for license fees than Nintendo. The process of getting your games approved was also a lot more streamlined. So putting games in PS was an easy sell for devs and publishers. Along with the extensive libraries of code to get devs started that took a year for Sega to get out with the Saturn graphic library. So SN Systems were invaluable.
Psygnosis didn't own SN Systems at the time, they were a publisher for them though. But yeah, that acquisition and the licensing fees that they charged were all integral in helping Sony dominate that generation.
Fantastic documentary on the history of probably the best console ever PlayStation 1! That bit about N64 carts being around 28-42MB, I did the maths on an average cart size, had FF7 been for the N64 you'd need a box of roughly 21 N64 carts to play the PS1 game. LoL, thanks for the great doc, gladly subbed, keep it up!
Thanks! They probably could have got it down to less carts than that, RE2 got shrunk down and fit into one, with some compromises to FMV quality. But yeah, I don't think it would have been a good version of FFVII!
I played it for the first time while getting footage for the video. I knew what to do, having looked it up before hand and it was still an unplayable mess. Landfill material for sure.
@@BocalokaTV Probably. I went back and checked, in case I had made a mistake, and it's as clear as day that I didn't. Even UA-cam's terrible auto subtitle tool picked it up correctly.
What was your favourite PS1 game? Or did you prefer the N64 or Saturn?
I had both an N64 and a PS1 and I prefered the N64s blurry tectures over the janky wobbly 3d of the PS1.
The PlayStation era was the golden age for Square, capcom and konami imo
Square and Konami for sure. I think Capcom are in a new golden age at the moment though, they've been killing it with releases the last few years.
You deserve a million subscribers bro
Just found Your Channel and I am already loving these Retrospectives. Truly an amazing job on this! I know what I'm going to be binge watching. Perhaps We will see a Retrospective on SEGA's Consoles? :P
Thanks! There will definitely be a set of Sega and Nintendo episodes!
This generation and the next are so fascinating to me.
who wouldve thought nintendo would go from dominating the industry to being beaten back to back generations in the home console market.
Sucks that it lead to the blue ocean strategy though
Really enjoyed the video! I’ll be sure to check out the rest of the PlayStation family videos in the future! Also the PS1 E3 presentation clip always makes me laugh.
Thanks, I appreciate it! Yeah the PS1 E3 clip is legit still one of the best things to happen at E3.
Good video mate👍
I think it's interesting how Sony sold 100 million units by becoming the most third-party friendly system ever, then intentionally made the PlayStation 2 harder to develop for and less third-party friendly yet managed to sell even more units.
Yeah, given how they started with the aim of making development 'easy' and where they went with the PS2 and even more so the PS3, with it being increasingly more difficult to get a handle on the hardware it's amazing they've continued to perform as well as they have.
I'm on a bender catching up because these are so well made.
Awesome, thank you so much!
I believe that SN Systems were already owned by Phychnosis when Sony acquired them and may well have been considered by Sony equally as important as the publishing and development business.
SN made an expansion card for PC’s that cost like £500 as opposed to the big tower case Saturn dev machine that cost like £4000 and took a long time to get made.
Then the other thing was that Sony charged much less for license fees than Nintendo. The process of getting your games approved was also a lot more streamlined. So putting games in PS was an easy sell for devs and publishers.
Along with the extensive libraries of code to get devs started that took a year for Sega to get out with the Saturn graphic library.
So SN Systems were invaluable.
Psygnosis didn't own SN Systems at the time, they were a publisher for them though. But yeah, that acquisition and the licensing fees that they charged were all integral in helping Sony dominate that generation.
Fantastic documentary on the history of probably the best console ever PlayStation 1!
That bit about N64 carts being around 28-42MB, I did the maths on an average cart size, had FF7 been for the N64 you'd need a box of roughly 21 N64 carts to play the PS1 game.
LoL, thanks for the great doc, gladly subbed, keep it up!
Thanks! They probably could have got it down to less carts than that, RE2 got shrunk down and fit into one, with some compromises to FMV quality. But yeah, I don't think it would have been a good version of FFVII!
The Nes is called "Family computer" in Japan
Yup, and is generally abbreviated as Famicom.
great content man
Cheers!
The Playstation is the best series of gaming consoles of ALL TIME!
#Kidatheart. #OLDAGESOLDSEPARATELY
It's worth noting that this "video game recession" only occurred in the USA (and maybe Canada?) The rest of the world was completely oblivious to it.
Yeah we kind of just did our own thing over here.
@@VGArchives_ Micro Computers were our blessing. I loved the sheer variety of platforms that we enjoyed. The Americans for once had far less than us 😆
@@TheRealRetroBeard Yeah, that swiftly stopped once consoles took ahold. I should get a C64 now I think about it.
As someone who had, and played -(tried to play) E. T. for the 2600, it definitely deserves the hate.
I played it for the first time while getting footage for the video. I knew what to do, having looked it up before hand and it was still an unplayable mess. Landfill material for sure.
Thps2 all the way!!
NES launch 1995?
he said 1985
@@BocalokaTV dude, clean up your esrs. He said ninty-five, not eighty five
I very clearly say 1985.
@@VGArchives_ i'm gonna assume he's trolling
@@BocalokaTV Probably. I went back and checked, in case I had made a mistake, and it's as clear as day that I didn't. Even UA-cam's terrible auto subtitle tool picked it up correctly.
Defeated? Try again!