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!
To this day, no game console has ever topped the almighty PS2 to me. It was a perfect storm of just... Everything coming together in just, the best way possible, a stunning library of games coupled with the hardware availability, controls and developers, it all came together in a once in a lifetime perfect storm that is extremely near and dear to me. Bless the PS2
Good coverage of the console overall, and the level of research is impressive, but I find it strange that there was no mention of the Dualshock 2's pressure-sensitive buttons, and the suggestion that it was just a repackage of the PS1's Dualshock controller. Pressure sensitivity was a big hype feature early on in the system's life, and was important for more technical interactions in games like Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3. It's also my understanding that the PS2 wasn't ever seriously considered a missile guidance device, but its specs classed it as a supercomputer, and laws regarding military technology in politically unstable countries had to be changed in order for it to go on sale there. Consequently, as a result of the headlines, the US Air Force would go on to utilise a cluster of over a thousand Linux-capable PS3s as a cost-effective replacement for their supercomputers. "The Third Place" was used to present the PS2's escapist appeal, giving customers a 'third place' to go in their lives, beyond home and work/school. The term is used commonly today to refer to social spaces, particularly given their decline in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
You're right, not sure how I managed to gloss over the Pressure Sensitivity. Most of the marketing materials I read through didn't seem to mention it. Sorry I missed it! Thank you for the well-written response!
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.
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.
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.
@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.
@@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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@VideoGameDocsit runs on a completely different engine, different models and everything, hence the small number of cars on release. Though the titles are similar implying the transition, GT3 was built from the ground up.
30:18 *Talks about how the DualShock 2 is identical to the original DualShock, with no real new features.* Not true. The new thing DualShock 2 added was pressure-sensitive buttons. Meaning that all face and shoulder buttons on the DualShock 2 are pressure-sensitive. DualShock 3 added a giro and rechargeable wireless, kept everything from DualShock 2 except the cable. It kept pressure-sensitive buttons for full PS2 backwards-compatibility. DualShock 4 ditched the pressure sensitive buttons. Check out the first-person controls on MGS2+3 for examples of these being used. The PS3 remaster collection is are the only ports of MGS2+3 to retain the original pressure-sensitive controls as a result. It wasn't an oft-used feature, but it was there.
Yeah, for example, in Silent Hill 2; when holding a melee weapon, if you press the attack (X) button softly you perform a standard sideway-swing and if you quickly press it down hard you perform a strong overhead attack.
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
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.
Fun fact PS2 used games still are being sold more than other modern day games (I would have shared a link but UA-cam takes down link comments most of the time)
@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ sometimes it's UA-cam, 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).
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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?
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".
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
Kutaragi stole my idea for the PlayStation 2…. Just after the PS1 came out I was playing wipeout with my mates and I said “Can you imagine if they made something like this but even more powerful with better graphics and called it the PlayStation two?!?” and then a few years later, bam, they released the PS2. How do you think they keep managing to steal people ideas like that?
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
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.
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!
Subbed. Just discovered your channel recently and I'm really loving the content. looking forward to your next video, but remember, quality over quantity.
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!!
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
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.
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
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.
my dream ps2 but when i buy 3 ps2 fat no video out put and all youtube videos to fix video out put and icant fix it so i slice the motherboard haf the 3 ps2 motherboard cause ive give up fixing it and throw it in the trash
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
I just discovered your channel today and have already watched all of your 6th generation console documentaries. This content is so thoughtful and well researched. It’s also shot very well. I sincerely hope your channel blows up because you deserve it! Keep up the good work : )
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!
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!
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!
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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
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!!!
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 👍🏾
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.
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.
A little better maybe but in the end it wouldn't have outshine Playstation because what made things harder for N64 was the limited data capacity of the cartridges, price and lack of extra features. This made a lot of third party developers jump on Playstation (especially Square Enix with Final fantasy). On top of that the original Playstation was very easy to develop for and that made it even more attractive. On top of that unlike Nintendo that is very strict on their policies Sony at the time was very friendly to shop owners giving them a bigger piece of the sale profits and that of course ment they wanted to sell you Playstation more than anything else therefore most shops had posters and Playstation stuff right frond and center. All that with the great price and other abilities like playing your music etc on top means that defeating Playstation at that generation was near impossible.
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.
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.
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.
I’m a lifelong Nintendo fan (though I play many consoles an handhelds) and to me the PS2 was the most flawless console in history. It is what comes to mind when I think of a game console and I think Sony nailed the design on all variants. I wish they would go back to the simple and functional console shape and form of the PS2 and PS2 slim.
I often wonder what games we would have seen had Nintendo gone through with the Sony made CD system, what would OOT & MM looked like with 90s FMV cutscenes and CD audio, that is to say would they then have gone on to use a Sony based disc module for the N64, making it a hybrid cartridge ROM & CD-ROM system, imagine the best of both worlds, the perfect low latency gameplay and zero load times of N64 cartridges, with the higher capacity of CDs for sound and video files, could they have then loaded assets from the CD to RDRAM using a larger 16MB, 32MB or even 64MB expansion, perhaps the CD module would have had large pools of SRAM, FRAM, FCRAM, SDRAM and RDRAM et cetera, for seamless digital audio and assets loading in real-time, what would OOT with FMV even have looked liked back then. One big upgrade, a Sony CD module would have brought to the N64, audio, if it had come with a full-fat Sony DSP with real-time MIDI audio, that could have been incredible, it would have give back GPU resources to the N64 as it was the RSP that had to do audio processing duties, thus meaning higher fidelity visuals and audio in N64 games, we may have gotten URA Zelda too, as well as Conkers Other Bad Fur Day, including CD releases with expansions for N64 games, something Nintendo wanted to do with the 64DD add-on, PC style full-fat game expansions, like whole new sets of racetracks for MK64, new campaigns for Pilot Wings, 1080, Waverace and so on, given Sony made the SNES DSP, it wouldn't have been too far-fetched, mad to think one of the most iconic things about the SNES, the audio, a big part of why the system has aged so well, was made by Sony, so the SNES is already a Nintendo/Sony console, Sony also makes the Raspberry Pi 4 & 5, so if you have an RGB-Pi console, technically it a Sony system, the more you know.
Heh, know all this but waxes my ears nice hearing. Back when came down to this and xbox. The former's power wasn't enough for me so gues what i still have today. A time when most people went Siny and two of my neighbors game cube.
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!!
We see the consequences of treating games as "art" and all that now, it technically is but it's the wrong mindset in general and got the wrong kinds of developers involved, like Niel Cuc...er, Druckman, who opposes the notion of making "fun" games. And based on TLOU2, I believe it.
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
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.
At 39:50. Wrong, there were games who supported dts when playing them and not only in cut scenes, such as SSX tricky, Gta: Vice city to name a few. I own SSX tricky and use optical cable to enable the dts sound in 4.0 surround sound; u can hear for instance cleary other boarders coming from behind left and right, when u have a receiver w/ dts capability.
LOL DVD player? We don't even do DVD's anymore. Like they don't even sell DVD's and now its Blue Ray. Funny how technology keeps making itself obsolete.
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.
I liked the video. The several seconds to minutes of out of focus footage is annoying and makes my head hurt. It's fine for backgrounds or quick transitions, but minutes of the expansion door out of focus is painful.
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!
At 15:48 you say the memory bandwidth is 3.2 gigabits p/s but I believe that's gigabytes.
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@@IamNiggler lol! Proud of you, bud.
To this day, no game console has ever topped the almighty PS2 to me. It was a perfect storm of just... Everything coming together in just, the best way possible, a stunning library of games coupled with the hardware availability, controls and developers, it all came together in a once in a lifetime perfect storm that is extremely near and dear to me.
Bless the PS2
Ps2 Powahh
Couldn’t have said it better. Absolutely spot on.
Good coverage of the console overall, and the level of research is impressive, but I find it strange that there was no mention of the Dualshock 2's pressure-sensitive buttons, and the suggestion that it was just a repackage of the PS1's Dualshock controller. Pressure sensitivity was a big hype feature early on in the system's life, and was important for more technical interactions in games like Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3.
It's also my understanding that the PS2 wasn't ever seriously considered a missile guidance device, but its specs classed it as a supercomputer, and laws regarding military technology in politically unstable countries had to be changed in order for it to go on sale there. Consequently, as a result of the headlines, the US Air Force would go on to utilise a cluster of over a thousand Linux-capable PS3s as a cost-effective replacement for their supercomputers.
"The Third Place" was used to present the PS2's escapist appeal, giving customers a 'third place' to go in their lives, beyond home and work/school. The term is used commonly today to refer to social spaces, particularly given their decline in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
You're right, not sure how I managed to gloss over the Pressure Sensitivity. Most of the marketing materials I read through didn't seem to mention it. Sorry I missed it! Thank you for the well-written response!
Great for consumers, Hell for developers..........
Sega MD had Sonic 1 and Sonic 2
An hour long, PS2 retrospective… UGH THANK YOU!
My pleasure! Truly!
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.
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.
Dinner….at 2am?
2am? May as well have a little snack, go to bed, and have a good breakfast instead.
Maybe he works the night shift
It's called 3rd shift guys. Not everyone wakes up at 5 or 6 am
What'd you have?
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.
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.
Same here.
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.
@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.
@@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
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.
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
That FFX song at the beginning hit me with a wave of nostalgia.
That was the idea :)
Same here, it hit me like a brick falling from 6th on my ball 😭😭
Great touch!
@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ haha I'm tellin' ya.
The music track for the island of Besaid is one of my favorite songs from Final Fantasy X. Such an awesome song.
I loved my original PS2. I was such a idiot I sold it as a kid.
same, my dad got it for me at a garage sale, i sold it for some dumb shit, it's more that my dad got it for me what makes me regret it.
SSX was definatley a "must have" during the PS2's launch.
Was thinking this while watching, I remember playing SSX in a PS2 kiosk, and I was blown away from what I was seeing.
SSX Trickie
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.
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.
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.
Yea i remembere gt1 had a high resolution mode 1080I single player only with no other cars on the track
@@VideoGameDocsit runs on a completely different engine, different models and everything, hence the small number of cars on release. Though the titles are similar implying the transition, GT3 was built from the ground up.
Got a ps2 for my 10th birthday. Amazing times. FFX was such a fun experience for me
30:18 *Talks about how the DualShock 2 is identical to the original DualShock, with no real new features.*
Not true. The new thing DualShock 2 added was pressure-sensitive buttons. Meaning that all face and shoulder buttons on the DualShock 2 are pressure-sensitive.
DualShock 3 added a giro and rechargeable wireless, kept everything from DualShock 2 except the cable. It kept pressure-sensitive buttons for full PS2 backwards-compatibility.
DualShock 4 ditched the pressure sensitive buttons. Check out the first-person controls on MGS2+3 for examples of these being used.
The PS3 remaster collection is are the only ports of MGS2+3 to retain the original pressure-sensitive controls as a result.
It wasn't an oft-used feature, but it was there.
You're correct! I have a pinned comment about how I somehow missed this feature, and I do apologize!
Yeah, for example, in Silent Hill 2; when holding a melee weapon, if you press the attack (X) button softly you perform a standard sideway-swing and if you quickly press it down hard you perform a strong overhead attack.
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
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.
Fun fact PS2 used games still are being sold more than other modern day games
(I would have shared a link but UA-cam takes down link comments most of the time)
@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZput the title and the creator name down below at least. They deserve the recognition!
@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZIs the video still on here?
Switch not bad but it's extremely overrated. PS2 was literally perfect
@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ sometimes it's UA-cam, 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).
Great video, love when small channels make such amazing passion projects. Keep it up.
Now, if only he would stop using that annoying scratchy voice while narrating.
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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".
this is great, but you are very confused about the nature of the dualshock 2!
Love the documentary! One small suggestion though: Maybe wipe down your console/accessories before doing the close up shots. Otherwise, great video!
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!!
hahahaha I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing that.
Crusty and gacky
@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
Don't be too hard on yourself. The rest of the video is quality stuff!
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.
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.
The BEST console ever made and my absolute favorite!
Ff10 ost - besaid island.
I don't know a single person who told me they bought a PS2 bc of the DVD player.
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.
Then you didn’t talk to many people who bought the system at launch.
@@yeetkunedo and you did, sure. I've seen the videos at launch people lining up for hours, saying they want to play the games.
@@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.
Same here. People we're always surprised when I told them it played DVDs.
Finally got around to watching this! Excellent work my friend!
Kutaragi stole my idea for the PlayStation 2…. Just after the PS1 came out I was playing wipeout with my mates and I said “Can you imagine if they made something like this but even more powerful with better graphics and called it the PlayStation two?!?” and then a few years later, bam, they released the PS2. How do you think they keep managing to steal people ideas like that?
nice I was 17/18 in 2000/2001 and I can tell they really targeted us it was our generation's console
Ur like the video game version of defunct land how don’t u have more subs
Sheesh another casual banger from the one. The only. Video game docs. Good job buddy, another slammer-jammer video
Thanks for the love and support beast.
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
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.
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!
It's very close to 100%. Maybe 99.5%. Call it rounding up.
Subbed. Just discovered your channel recently and I'm really loving the content. looking forward to your next video, but remember, quality over quantity.
Bro, you couldn't be bothered to clean the box and the controller?! That's one nasty looking controller lol!
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!!
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
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.
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
Renderware saved western games development for the PS2.
Thank you for giving a new view, knowledge, also a nostalgia driven into the past, best of luck with everything in life
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.
my dream ps2 but when i buy 3 ps2 fat no video out put and all youtube videos to fix video out put and icant fix it so i slice the motherboard haf the 3 ps2 motherboard cause ive give up fixing it and throw it in the trash
Damn, this video rocks! Well researched, well presented, great detail. Thank you!
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
Your videos are pristine-ly presented. With Gaming Historian semi-retiring, this is the type of quality content we're gonna need. Subbed!
I just discovered your channel today and have already watched all of your 6th generation console documentaries. This content is so thoughtful and well researched. It’s also shot very well. I sincerely hope your channel blows up because you deserve it! Keep up the good work : )
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!
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.
My favorite UA-camr dropped a new video on my childhood console 😭😭
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Just stumbled on your channel and now I'm a subscriber this was some grade A great content gonna go watch some more
The Playstation 2: Electric boogaloo
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!
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!
@@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.
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.
@@VideoGameDocs new consoles are just PCs with joypads...
Love this video! Detailed specs and information! Keep up the good work!
have my subscription sir..
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.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the kind words :)
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
Could you make a video for all PlayStation consoles??
This was very informative and i imagine each subsequent video will be as informative too 😊😊
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
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.
56:30 well sort of
A lot of people do still look down on gaming even today
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!
that was probably the best possible line to end the video with
The song at the beginning, I associate that with LittleBigPlanet, that’s where I heard that song like 12 years ago
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
Great documentary thank for the hard work
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!!!
Congrats on 8k!
I really like reading Rodrigo Copetti's articles on console hardwares
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 👍🏾
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.
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.
It's insane how underrated this channel is. Great doc, again!
If Nintendo didn’t delay the n64 would it have done better or was its fate predetermined
A little better maybe but in the end it wouldn't have outshine Playstation because what made things harder for N64 was the limited data capacity of the cartridges, price and lack of extra features.
This made a lot of third party developers jump on Playstation (especially Square Enix with Final fantasy). On top of that the original Playstation was very easy to develop for and that made it even more attractive.
On top of that unlike Nintendo that is very strict on their policies Sony at the time was very friendly to shop owners giving them a bigger piece of the sale profits and that of course ment they wanted to sell you Playstation more than anything else therefore most shops had posters and Playstation stuff right frond and center.
All that with the great price and other abilities like playing your music etc on top means that defeating Playstation at that generation was near impossible.
Thanks for the great content. Your channel is not enough promoted yet Keep it up and cheers!
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.
What a badass system in so many ways 👏
Great video! Keep up the good work
Now we NEED you to make a PS3 docu 🙏
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!
Can’t wait to watch this with my husband later! Love your videos!!
Aw thank you!! Hope it's enjoyable!
Great videos! Need a wii u and switch one in the near future
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.
I cannot believe you don’t have more subscribers. Exceptional quality.
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.
The "Revolutionaries at Sony" is a great book!!
Fantastic documentary man!!
Thank you for all your hard work!!
Absolutely loved the book! Was a huge inspiration for this video (if you couldn't tell by the beginning haha) Thank you!
Another great doc - thanks VGD!
Always a pleasure! Thank you for the support :)
WELL DONE.
This is an awesome production Justin!!!
and now... im subscribed.
I’m a lifelong Nintendo fan (though I play many consoles an handhelds) and to me the PS2 was the most flawless console in history. It is what comes to mind when I think of a game console and I think Sony nailed the design on all variants. I wish they would go back to the simple and functional console shape and form of the PS2 and PS2 slim.
I often wonder what games we would have seen had Nintendo gone through with the Sony made CD system, what would OOT & MM looked like with 90s FMV cutscenes and CD audio, that is to say would they then have gone on to use a Sony based disc module for the N64, making it a hybrid cartridge ROM & CD-ROM system, imagine the best of both worlds, the perfect low latency gameplay and zero load times of N64 cartridges, with the higher capacity of CDs for sound and video files, could they have then loaded assets from the CD to RDRAM using a larger 16MB, 32MB or even 64MB expansion, perhaps the CD module would have had large pools of SRAM, FRAM, FCRAM, SDRAM and RDRAM et cetera, for seamless digital audio and assets loading in real-time, what would OOT with FMV even have looked liked back then.
One big upgrade, a Sony CD module would have brought to the N64, audio, if it had come with a full-fat Sony DSP with real-time MIDI audio, that could have been incredible, it would have give back GPU resources to the N64 as it was the RSP that had to do audio processing duties, thus meaning higher fidelity visuals and audio in N64 games, we may have gotten URA Zelda too, as well as Conkers Other Bad Fur Day, including CD releases with expansions for N64 games, something Nintendo wanted to do with the 64DD add-on, PC style full-fat game expansions, like whole new sets of racetracks for MK64, new campaigns for Pilot Wings, 1080, Waverace and so on, given Sony made the SNES DSP, it wouldn't have been too far-fetched, mad to think one of the most iconic things about the SNES, the audio, a big part of why the system has aged so well, was made by Sony, so the SNES is already a Nintendo/Sony console, Sony also makes the Raspberry Pi 4 & 5, so if you have an RGB-Pi console, technically it a Sony system, the more you know.
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!!
Heh, know all this but waxes my ears nice hearing. Back when came down to this and xbox. The former's power wasn't enough for me so gues what i still have today. A time when most people went Siny and two of my neighbors game cube.
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!!
*8 megaBYTE memory card
We see the consequences of treating games as "art" and all that now, it technically is but it's the wrong mindset in general and got the wrong kinds of developers involved, like Niel Cuc...er, Druckman, who opposes the notion of making "fun" games.
And based on TLOU2, I believe it.
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
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.
At 39:50. Wrong, there were games who supported dts when playing them and not only in cut scenes, such as SSX tricky, Gta: Vice city to name a few. I own SSX tricky and use optical cable to enable the dts sound in 4.0 surround sound; u can hear for instance cleary other boarders coming from behind left and right, when u have a receiver w/ dts capability.
Agree with many comments here...great channel. I'm subbed. Shout out from the UK🤘
Thanks for joining from across the lake! Glad you're here and I'm glad you enjoy my content!
LOL DVD player? We don't even do DVD's anymore. Like they don't even sell DVD's and now its Blue Ray. Funny how technology keeps making itself obsolete.
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.
Damn you snapped on this video
I wonder how much did cost PS2's R&D vs DC's R&D. Apart from DVD seems Sega was doomed since the beginning (hardware wise)
Thank you for such an amazing video! Are there any plans for Xbox 360? Or you have not purchased that console back in the days?
No plans currently, but since I covered all of the 6th Gen consoles I do plan on covering the 7th Gen eventually.
@@VideoGameDocs cool, cannot wait for upcoming videos)
I liked the video. The several seconds to minutes of out of focus footage is annoying and makes my head hurt. It's fine for backgrounds or quick transitions, but minutes of the expansion door out of focus is painful.
Why does the wireless internet pave the way for Nintendo specifically and not all of gaming?