First GTA 5 turned 10 years old, and now the PS4 console. I don't know how to explain it, but 2013 to me is the first year that still feels so modern that I simply can not comprehend it *actually* being a decade ago. I know a lot of people say that time flies and it's all just part of getting older, which I totally understand, but man I *really* was not ready for the PS4 to be 10 years old today.
The crazy thing about that time was we didn't even have an Xbox One launch over here (There never was a Kinect mandatory system here) like some territories did. They did use this country to ship them to other countries but meanwhile not launching it here. I didn't want an Xbox One with Kinect mandatory to begin with so I didn't really mind. (It did launch without like in Sept/Oct 2014) I don't think that ever happened here before with any other consoles. @@FlintG
Ah yes, the time that we had 3 Sony consoles on the market at the same time. I mean, we had Uncharted 3 on PS3, Uncharted Golden Abyss on Vita, and Uncharted 4 on PS4, all of which provided different experiences, just to name a few.
@GenerationZ313 Tearaway on Vita is superior to the PS4 version. I'm still wishing they didn't strand Soul Sacrifice on the Vita. Glad Gravity Rush at least got a shot (and even a sequel)
its 10 years old , and still a great system with a lot of games that i would love to play (or play again if i played them already) PS2 and PS4 are two of my favorite systems from Sony.
I got my first wii u at the age 9 now I am 20 years now with a ps4 just a year or two ago, and a switch. I Feel the same but weaker and in sightly more pain
When the PS4 was first teased back in February 2013 I remember how excited I was to see how Microsoft was going to compete with Sonys offering, being completely invested in the Xbox 360 generation. Then the biggest letdown of a reveal happened with the Xbox One and everything Xbox was doing pushed me towards the PS4. I preordered it the day it was available and went home happy with it on launch day. It was such a great console, super reliable, the games were fantastic, online multiplayer and service felt competitive with XBL, the controller was innovative. Fond memories with the PS4. I actually thank Microsoft for their screw up otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten to know Sonys exclusives even though I grew up owning a PS2 but didn’t play it much. It felt just right owning a PS4 that generation. The energy for the brand felt revived in a way I hadn’t felt since PS2. I eventually ended up buying an Xbox One a few years later but man, PS4 had me dedicated to it for the initial few years of that generation. Good times.
I remember picking up my PS4 slim back in 2018. Got it for 200, and it came with Spider-Man and 2 controllers. Ended up picking up God of War, Last of Us, uncharted collection, and Detroit all with the system for about 300 total. That was the best Black Friday for me of all time! Now my PS4 has a new life in my son’s room!
I got the PS4 pro on black friday 2018. I had to update my games which were over a total of 800gb and it took all day so I went out and socialised with my friends and I got drunk with them then I got home it just finished half of hour before I got home. That's was a good black friday for me.
I have my PS4 put up, but 10 years flown by. It's in my top 5 favorite consoles of all time. When u look at it as a whole, it's not bad. It was a whirlwind of things around it. Gave shenmue n final fantasy fans, the games they wanted in shenmue 3 n FFVIIR respectively. Started the Spider-Man games. Sony gave a platform for Kojima n his new game after Konami situation. There is probably a plethora of things I'm not naming or forgetting. It was, to me, a fantastic console that gave me everything I wanted. I'm just thankful that the PS5 is BC because the PS4 has a gr8 game selection. I'll remember the PS4 as a great console to have.
I’m still rocking with my PS4 Pro but I plan maybe getting the PS5 Slim at some point in future. I like that the disc drive is detachable cause you can get an replacement when it inevitably dies from age
Playstation got quite Americanised during the PS4 generation, huh. New 3DS did come out before the PS4 Pro but it was VEEEERY under-utilised officially. PS4 Pro could boost any game's framerate out of the box even if it didn't support higher resolutions but New 3DS only received a few games that took advantage of its enhanced guts. Good thing softmodding is an option.
Happy 10th Birthday to PS4 on Nov 15th 2013!!! My son moved onto Xbox, so I got the PS4 just a few years ago (as I take all his consoles he no longer plays as I'm a Retro Gamer.) As most people love Spider-Man on the PS4 my game was Godzilla. That game put a tear in my eye when I played it, felt like Godzilla something I've been wanting to do since childhood. Going to have to pick up Alien Isolation for the PS4, haven't played an Alien game since the original PS1, so I think it's about time to get a new Alien Game. Thanks for the Tip!
I remember a ex of mines bought me a PS4 as a late birthday gift back in 2015. Couple of years later I bought the PS4 Pro and had my fun with it then gave the pro to my little bro. Good times
If I recall correctly your PS4 unboxing was one of the first videos of yours I saw, so I guess this is also roughly the 10th anniversary of my viewership. Thanks for all the great videos and I hope the next 10 years are even better.
Great video as usual! It really is amazing how long it has been since the launch. Makes me feel old! Even with my PS5, I still pull out my PS4 to play sometimes. I just feel bad to neglect a system I made so many memories on.
When I started watching these recaps, I thought all the "time really flies" talk was mostly window dressing, but over the years it increased in significance to me. It really does get more bizarre the older I get and seeing you cover the PS4 in the same way I saw you recap the 7th gen when I first discovered your channel really hits different.
Great video. I grew up with Xbox but I picked up a PS4 just to play Spiderman & then experienced other amazing titles like Last of Us, God of war & Horizon Zero Dawn. I'll always remember my time with that console, the library of exclusive games is crazy.
The PS3 wasn't intentionally complicated. The Sony/Toshiba/IBM really believed cell architecture was the future of computing and invested a lot into the technology and it made sense for Sony to put the computer tech they were investing in into their current console. Turns out most game devs though the juice wasn't worth the squeeze to develop games for cell architecture.
@@TempoLOOKING PowerISA was also used on the xbox 360 and wii but idk if they use the exact same variation. There's lots of interesting stories I think from Phill Harrison or someone about working with IBM when their chip fabs were manufacturing the CPUs for the 7th gen home consoles and how the microsoft/Sony/Nintendo had to keep secrets from the rivial video game companies while working with their different IBM teams. I would have also presumed that IBM made a lot of money off that contracts but they shutdown or sold off some of their chip fabs in 2014 , no idea if that influenced the decision by sony/microsoft to switch to x86 for the ps4/xbox one.🤔
the 8th gen marked the end of my geeking out and getting excited over consoles, since they're now just PCs in a box :( I miss the esoteric hardware in previous generation consoles instead of the homogenized PC/Xbox/PS environment we have today
The way I remember the PS4 is really just a huge disappointing drought. I bought it early 2014 and by 2016 I was done with it so I sold it and bought a gaming PC. Most if not all of the games from that system that I was interested in ended up coming late in its life at a point where I didn't own it anymore. I think that's why I love my PS5 so much because it has a pretty steady stream of games I'm interested in coming out and then there's the backlog of later PS4 games I never played that make it feel like there's always something to play on it.
When the console was relevent I remember thinking it was kinda plain, but honestly, looking back it was pretty decent. Two things I really enjoyed was that it was the first console to embrace physical indies. A lot of the same games made it to other consoles but having them physically makes the system stick out more. I also liked how on the Pro, you can turn off Super Sampling when playing at 1080p. This usually resulted in much smoother framerates, making them the best playing version of the game on consoles, even if they didn't look as nice compared to Xbox One X, and really made me consider which game I got for which console since I had both. Big dissapointment for me that the PS5 doesn't have that ability.
Once the Switch 2 comes out you should do a proper 8th gen retrospective on the generation as a whole as well as the Wii U, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch individually. That would be epic.
I remember when they revealed that they were discontinuing the PS2 shortly before a big announcement (which, of course, ended up being the PS4). At the time, I was actually hoping the PS2 was going to last until the PS4 was released. While we ultimately got games that came out for the PS2 during the launch of the PS4 (e.g. Fifa 14) it would've been cool to be able to plug & play a PS4 game, knowing we were still getting able to just buy a brand new PS2 at the same time if we wanted to.
Hearing that alien isolation story really wants me to try it in VR. I can’t understand getting so scared you have to take the headset off it’s just a game. The jump scares sometimes get me but that’s it. You just carry on afterwards
In addition to the NEC SuperGrafx, the Game Boy Color, the New 3DS, the PS4 Pro, and the Xbox One X, there’s also the Nintendo DSi. The DSi has more RAM and a faster CPU than the original DS (and DS Lite). And yes, there were some DSi-specific physical games, and many DSi-specific games through digital distribution.
I have a ps4 and never used it to actually play games yet so I have lots of gaming to catch up on that system. I hate waiting for a hour for spiderman to install 😑 when on any console pre ps4/xbox one you just put the cartridge/disc in and it plays 😄(I guess xbox 360/ps3 did sometimes download updates before starting a game).
Thanks Adam. Wow, I didn't get a PS4 til the Pro was on sale for $299.99 on a BF Sale at GameStop so I was unaware of this Prosumer approach Sony was doing. I remember the news of Shenmue 3 prompted me to look to getting one. The PS4 was the first time I bought games for a system I didn't even have. Snatching up games like Ys VIII & Assault Suit Leynos about a yr before I even got the system itself. Good Times & still more to come! Happy 10th 🎈 🎂 Birthday PS4!
I just got my PS4 Slim in September 2023, and I'm so happy with it. Ive wanted a PS4 since like 2014, but at the time I opted for a Wii U instead (definitely the right choice), and ever since I've focused on the Switch and building a PC. The system was finally at a point where I thought it was worth it due to the price and number of games, so I jumped on it for the 10th anniversary. I love Kingdom Hearts and wanted to be able to play the third game, and Yakuza has always interested me. Those two franchises alone have every game in the series on PS4, and then I get bonuses like the Gravity Rush games and Final Fantasy 14 on console for more casual play vs PC. It's such a great system, and I am happy to finally have one after all these years of wanting one. And yes, I know I could have got a PS5 instead, but I got the console with like 15+ games for less than I would have paid for a PS5 console alone, so it was totally worth it.
I'd like to personal volunteer as a moderator to glean your comments section for the so-called 'riff raff', Adam, haha. I love these birthday videos, and I'm late viewing so I get all of them at once!
i stood in line with my buddy to pick one up on the midnight release. its actually his birthday too, happy bday brian!🎉 my ps4 is still my main console ftw
Can't believe it's really been 10 years. Glad to know someone else that sees the Switch as 8th Gen, was wondering why there wasn't a 8th Gen recap video lol now it makes sense! Been loving watching your videos! Am also a huge Sega fan, the Saturn is my favorite console of all time. I could probably talk your ears off about Sega and video games in general but that'd make this comment a book, anyways love the content and looking forward to more!
Hi guys, I am a year late to the party. Better than never, right? Anyway I bought the shenmue collection 1-3 even though I am not at a stage in my life that I can actively play video games (way too much going on to carve out hours to game). But I play Adam's videos in the background while working on other things and his support for the series inspired me to support the series now, hoping that in a few years time when I do have time to game again I can play all 3 with perhaps a fourth on the horizon. Time will tell.
Man this generation was a blast. I remember doing the early morning opening for the PS4 and selling copies of Alien Iso. Am already chuckling away to myself to the train wreck cluster ****! That was the Xbox launch and sony absolutely owning Microsoft at E3 especially with that "this is how you share a game with a friend video" that was just so much fun to watch. Thank you Sony!
I'm still playing my PS4! When I finally upgraded my TV from a CRT to a modern 4k I also upgraded the PS4 to a PS4 Pro. The Pro is actually a very adequate console which is why I have not jumped on board with the PS5. My all time favorite PS4 game is Monster Hunter World. Now I am playing Eldenring. It's amazing in its open world and exploration, but has really demanding combat.
You got something wrong I believe and thats that the PS4 is actually still being made, at least for US markets. I regularly see the ps4 getting restocked in retail stores again. They upped the ps4 production last year and were bundling the system with the new Call of Duty from last year. I just saw the PS4 get restocked at my local walmart here in the USA just this past month
I feel real old,my most advanced system is my PS3 slim that I bought brand new, also my favorite more modern system...I have gen 2's and 3's in my collection, and Isolation came out on the PS3..I have it, I think it came out as the PS4 came out. I do love these videos, they bring me back.
PS3 17 years later is coming up soon too. I can believe the PS4 is 10 years old and the funny part is DualShock 4’s are still being sold new at Target and Walmart.
I upgraded the HDD on one of these pretty early on to store multiple TBs of data. Had a couple haters claim it was "excessive" even as I cited ~100 GB games w/50+ GB updates (stock HDD was only 500 GB). It was an internal mod, super sleek; looked stock. Few years later, seemed like _everyone_ was upgrading their HDDs. Games weren't getting any smaller. 😅 Still got PT archived away for preservation.
Cousin of mine gave me his launch system back in 2015 to play with him. Spent countless hours in parties and games. I may find the exclusives to be a step down from the PS3, but the PS4 is a solid system that I still use alongside my PC. Thank you, PS Quadruple.
Coincidentally the PS Portal came out on the PS4’s 10th birthday. I think that the PS4 will probably be discontinued by the end of the year if not then probably in 2024 or 2025. Sony has said they will continue to support the PS4 until 2025 and I think it will still have 3rd party games coming out for it until 2027-2031.
I remember being so excited for the ps4 when it launched, shame it took a few years for it to really get going. I hadn’t even started high school then, but now I’m almost done with my masters degree. How time flies!
(Disclaimer: that oh you possibly/probably knew Adam that I had to put in my two cents along with this video of yours, mostly because that I've mainly been about collecting more and possibly recent PS4 games for its "video game library", that yes I appreciate you releasing this video around this time and it's ironic for my case, since that I was wondering of where that I could post this one comment around, and yeah since that it's more about recent happenings with both me and a little bit about my LRG stuff lately, and that also, for 8:43 to 9:14 in this, that yes there's other companies like with EastAsiaSoft who had come out with other titles, like with both that Crisis Wing game that I had told you about before, and with that Blue Rider game that I had also found out about, and had gotten, of another overhead view game with you in a blue hovercraft vehicle in a shoot-em-up game, which I had thought, "Well, that's very interesting.", yep.) Well, that otherwise here's my definite list of my most "recent pickups" for the video game console, and that this time that there's little to do with LRG releases: 1. Trine 5 - A Clockwork Conspiracy 2. Huntdown 3. Dead Cells, the original version, and since that I had already gotten that Return To Castlevania Edition. 4. Ender Lilies: Quietus Of The Knights, which that I see does have great visuals and I hear it said that it also has beautiful music. 5. After Image: Deluxe Edition, which apparently that I'm far from the only person who's after that great game in through Amazon, around this time. 6. Anno Mutationem, which does both look and seem interesting enough so. 7. Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, which is apparently the prologue game, before that Hundred Heroes comes out during April 24th of next year. 8. Shadow Complex Remastered, which that yeah it was with both The Completionist and in his "Top 10 Metroidvanias" video that I had found out about this great and interesting game. Also, that I can definitely also go a bit more in-depth with those first two in that list of them all, and by the end of the second one, that you'll find out of why that so many of them are Metroidvania games: that first, I was trying so much at first to get that Trine Ultimate Collection DVD like case with them in it, but at the time that all I could get was the PC version from the stores and it barely had that much at all in its case, so that I had to get the PS4 version, with all of it in tow, and I was all set, until that I had sort of at last recently found out about its recent sequel game, with its interesting looking trailer as well; and that second, I was forgetting for a while about that it was both YourFriendJacob and in his "Upcoming Action Platformer Games" video and him letting me know about Erra Exordium, that after that I was instead thinking that it was about "upcoming Metroidvania games" and I was searching through a couple or a few of those videos, and it was through them that both I had seen one of the commenters mention about his/her few Metroidvanias list and I had found out about both Huntdown and its somewhat goofy trailer through there, and I had found out about these other great and interesting Metroidvania games released around this time through those videos, and I do hope to find out about more of them, in the future. Lastly, and real quick about it, that even in the stores I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one hoping that we all will eventually get to get ahold of a PS4 version of Ratchet And Clank: Rift Apart; and I know that the others would have to sadly insist that it's otherwise a PS5 video game console exclusive game, but I know that I had recently heard online that it has/it's getting a PC version release of it as well, so that I guess that it's not a total impossibility of it coming out eventually for the PS4 after all, huh 8^). >Danny
Digital Foundry did a video where they took a stock PS4 hard drive and tried to run Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart on it and it didn't really work well at all. It's not impossible but by this point I think that ship has sailed, thoughI would certainly be interested in selling a PS4 version myself.
I can’t help but feel like the PS5 is kind of middle ground vibes between “We need you” and “We’re so cool we write the rules”, almost like they’re confident but humbled by their experiences in the past which are certainly written in stone by this point.
I feel so old bro. I remember standing in line launch day to pick one up. I am currently trying to sell that same model I bought then to get enough money for a ps5 💀 Everyone and their mothers still remembers the lead up to that generation, MS shot themselves in the foot so bad. It took Sony until 2017 imo to hit their stride but man when they did it was great. Hopefully PS5 can have a great second half as well
The thing I’ll remember most about the PS4 is the E3 2013 presentation and how they destroyed Microsoft. Talk about a mic drop moment, it was the living embodiment of the Simpsons “He’s already dead” meme.
Looking back i always thought RDR2 was going to be my favourite ps4 game, but I think that ended up being Kingdom Come Deliverance, despite its bugs. But the Ps4 itself introduced me to watching UA-cam on my TV and watching it more than actual television
Great video I'm playstation gang all day sorry Nintendo sorry Sega sorry Dreamcast Game Cube and any other system out their however the PS2 is my Absolute favorite game Console of all-time because of it's library of games I Currently own 86 PS2 games
Could also add the Nintendo DSi to the list of systems that got upgrades. It increased the resolution, and had like a handful of games that were exclusive to it. I think some of them even had a physical release, but a bunch were through the DSi Ware online store.
Also when you were describing them being friendly to devs, that reminded me of what they did during PS1 and they were successful. Sony welcomed all the devs big or small and stole them all from the N64 like Square.
it’s still my main console while I barely touch my switch & play on pc once in a blue. the pro upgrade really breathed life back into it. I look at ps5 games and don’t see too far of a jump especially if you’re not gaming on an hdr tv
You’re very wrong about the PS2 following the PS1 in terms of it “being easy to develop for.” The PS2 was a nightmare for developers… but it was also the most successful home console ever. That’s why Sony went with the weird cell tech for PS3.
LOL thanks Adam I feel old. LOL probably cause I am old. Oh man the PS4, I was really late to the PS4, I went from PS3 to PC gaming. I finally got a Christmas of 2018, my wife bought me a Black Friday bundle that game with GOW 2018, Horizon Zero Dawn and the Last of Us. Loved GOW 2018, but I didn’t love my PS4 the way I loved my other PlayStations. I had my PS4 till Jan of 23, traded it in bought a PS5. Love the heck outta my PS5, easily has more play time than my PS4 had. Maybe my love of PS4 would have been greater had I owned the PRO. Who knows, but thank you for making these videos. I’m off to find more caffeine. Have a great day.
Pff, wow. 10 years. Poptoons Skaff recently dusted off our PS4 with q tips and I re-pasted the APU with Thermal Grizzly. Taking it apart felt like taking apart an Xbox 360, for those with a familiar experience you red ring of death witnesses.
Actually Adam I think they’re still making these at least Slim models because I just seen 2 brand new ones at Walmart today that include Modern Warfare. Great vid and happy 10 years to this great system.
First GTA 5 turned 10 years old, and now the PS4 console. I don't know how to explain it, but 2013 to me is the first year that still feels so modern that I simply can not comprehend it *actually* being a decade ago. I know a lot of people say that time flies and it's all just part of getting older, which I totally understand, but man I *really* was not ready for the PS4 to be 10 years old today.
Hard to believe that it’s already been 10 years. Wow time flies
Yup I still remember when the ps4 came out with the xbox one. I still have my ps4 slim but barely use it since I got a ps5 now.
@@FlintG yeah I never use my ps4 anymore, I just play my collection on ps5
Crazy fast
The crazy thing about that time was we didn't even have an Xbox One launch over here (There never was a Kinect mandatory system here)
like some territories did. They did use this country to ship them to other countries but meanwhile not launching it here. I didn't want an Xbox One with Kinect mandatory to begin with so I didn't really mind. (It did launch without like in Sept/Oct 2014)
I don't think that ever happened here before with any other consoles.
@@FlintG
Thanks for stating the obvious.
Miss the late PS3/PS4/Vita-era, possibly peak Sony imo. Insane to think that was now a decade ago 🥲
Ah yes, the time that we had 3 Sony consoles on the market at the same time. I mean, we had Uncharted 3 on PS3, Uncharted Golden Abyss on Vita, and Uncharted 4 on PS4, all of which provided different experiences, just to name a few.
@GenerationZ313 Tearaway on Vita is superior to the PS4 version. I'm still wishing they didn't strand Soul Sacrifice on the Vita. Glad Gravity Rush at least got a shot (and even a sequel)
@aiodensghost8645 Freedom Wars is another one stuck on the Vita, it was a neat ARPG for what it is
@@aiodensghost8645 Soul Sacrifice Delta on the vita is lit , so underrated 😍😍😍
Yeah there was something special about the interplay between the Vita and PS4 and the games that you could buy for both...
its 10 years old , and still a great system with a lot of games that i would love to play (or play again if i played them already)
PS2 and PS4 are two of my favorite systems from Sony.
I got my first wii u at the age 9 now I am 20 years now with a ps4 just a year or two ago, and a switch. I Feel the same but weaker and in sightly more pain
I’ve been hit hard with PS4 nostalgia over the past month. I didn’t even realize it has been 10 years. Makes sense!
When the PS4 was first teased back in February 2013 I remember how excited I was to see how Microsoft was going to compete with Sonys offering, being completely invested in the Xbox 360 generation. Then the biggest letdown of a reveal happened with the Xbox One and everything Xbox was doing pushed me towards the PS4. I preordered it the day it was available and went home happy with it on launch day. It was such a great console, super reliable, the games were fantastic, online multiplayer and service felt competitive with XBL, the controller was innovative. Fond memories with the PS4. I actually thank Microsoft for their screw up otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten to know Sonys exclusives even though I grew up owning a PS2 but didn’t play it much. It felt just right owning a PS4 that generation. The energy for the brand felt revived in a way I hadn’t felt since PS2. I eventually ended up buying an Xbox One a few years later but man, PS4 had me dedicated to it for the initial few years of that generation. Good times.
Those new thumbnails are great dude!
How did you not talk about "I'm in love with your dead grandmother" and "Potato Sack Racing Simulator 2024" 😩
Just kidding, love your videos! 🤣
Man I hadn't even thought if you'd ever do an 8th Gen recap... Time really does fly.
You're a great storyteller man. Love your videos
I remember picking up my PS4 slim back in 2018. Got it for 200, and it came with Spider-Man and 2 controllers. Ended up picking up God of War, Last of Us, uncharted collection, and Detroit all with the system for about 300 total. That was the best Black Friday for me of all time! Now my PS4 has a new life in my son’s room!
Mine in 2019 😮
I got the PS4 pro on black friday 2018. I had to update my games which were over a total of 800gb and it took all day so I went out and socialised with my friends and I got drunk with them then I got home it just finished half of hour before I got home. That's was a good black friday for me.
I have my PS4 put up, but 10 years flown by. It's in my top 5 favorite consoles of all time. When u look at it as a whole, it's not bad. It was a whirlwind of things around it. Gave shenmue n final fantasy fans, the games they wanted in shenmue 3 n FFVIIR respectively. Started the Spider-Man games. Sony gave a platform for Kojima n his new game after Konami situation. There is probably a plethora of things I'm not naming or forgetting. It was, to me, a fantastic console that gave me everything I wanted. I'm just thankful that the PS5 is BC because the PS4 has a gr8 game selection. I'll remember the PS4 as a great console to have.
I’m still rocking with my PS4 Pro but I plan maybe getting the PS5 Slim at some point in future. I like that the disc drive is detachable cause you can get an replacement when it inevitably dies from age
Playstation got quite Americanised during the PS4 generation, huh.
New 3DS did come out before the PS4 Pro but it was VEEEERY under-utilised officially. PS4 Pro could boost any game's framerate out of the box even if it didn't support higher resolutions but New 3DS only received a few games that took advantage of its enhanced guts. Good thing softmodding is an option.
Fun Fact: In Top Gun Maverick all the Engine sounds are made with Ps4 Systems.
My god, i had totally forgotten about this channel. I'm surprised you still have that intro from 7 or 8 years ago!
Welcome back.
@@AdamKoralik :)
10 years is crazy to me. I remember getting mine august 2014 right before my freshman year of college. Great times.
wow I learned soo much in this video thank you dude
Happy 10th Birthday to PS4 on Nov 15th 2013!!! My son moved onto Xbox, so I got the PS4 just a few years ago (as I take all his consoles he no longer plays as I'm a Retro Gamer.)
As most people love Spider-Man on the PS4 my game was Godzilla. That game put a tear in my eye when I played it, felt like Godzilla something I've been wanting to do since childhood.
Going to have to pick up Alien Isolation for the PS4, haven't played an Alien game since the original PS1, so I think it's about time to get a new Alien Game. Thanks for the Tip!
Put the PlayStation camera on your PS4 if you want a harder time.
Wow 10 years. Doesn't even really feel like it's been a decade. I remember being excited about it coming out. And now the PS3 is 17. Time sure flies
The PS2 is 23.
I remember a ex of mines bought me a PS4 as a late birthday gift back in 2015. Couple of years later I bought the PS4 Pro and had my fun with it then gave the pro to my little bro. Good times
If I recall correctly your PS4 unboxing was one of the first videos of yours I saw, so I guess this is also roughly the 10th anniversary of my viewership. Thanks for all the great videos and I hope the next 10 years are even better.
Appreciated!
Great video as usual! It really is amazing how long it has been since the launch. Makes me feel old! Even with my PS5, I still pull out my PS4 to play sometimes. I just feel bad to neglect a system I made so many memories on.
When I started watching these recaps, I thought all the "time really flies" talk was mostly window dressing, but over the years it increased in significance to me. It really does get more bizarre the older I get and seeing you cover the PS4 in the same way I saw you recap the 7th gen when I first discovered your channel really hits different.
Who here still plays there Ps3? 😅 I do.
If the console came out 10 years ago, that means I have been subscribed for 10 years. Oh my goodness time flies!
10 years since the xbox one really hits hard
10 years! Wow! I remember when it came out and close to I think The Last Of Us launch on ps3! Great video Adam! 😎
Great video. I grew up with Xbox but I picked up a PS4 just to play Spiderman & then experienced other amazing titles like Last of Us, God of war & Horizon Zero Dawn. I'll always remember my time with that console, the library of exclusive games is crazy.
Did you move onto the Xbox Series S/X or PS5?
@@pluvsenot OP but similar experience. I currently own both a PS5 and XSX (and a Switch). Each platform has something interesting for me.
The PS3 wasn't intentionally complicated. The Sony/Toshiba/IBM really believed cell architecture was the future of computing and invested a lot into the technology and it made sense for Sony to put the computer tech they were investing in into their current console. Turns out most game devs though the juice wasn't worth the squeeze to develop games for cell architecture.
Power 7 was out. What a waste
@@TempoLOOKING PowerISA was also used on the xbox 360 and wii but idk if they use the exact same variation. There's lots of interesting stories I think from Phill Harrison or someone about working with IBM when their chip fabs were manufacturing the CPUs for the 7th gen home consoles and how the microsoft/Sony/Nintendo had to keep secrets from the rivial video game companies while working with their different IBM teams. I would have also presumed that IBM made a lot of money off that contracts but they shutdown or sold off some of their chip fabs in 2014 , no idea if that influenced the decision by sony/microsoft to switch to x86 for the ps4/xbox one.🤔
Was not expecting Alien Isolation. Would deffo be in my top 5.
We're not getting any younger guys.... 10 years already... F**** Great video Adam. Love this console ❤
the 8th gen marked the end of my geeking out and getting excited over consoles, since they're now just PCs in a box :(
I miss the esoteric hardware in previous generation consoles instead of the homogenized PC/Xbox/PS environment we have today
The way I remember the PS4 is really just a huge disappointing drought. I bought it early 2014 and by 2016 I was done with it so I sold it and bought a gaming PC. Most if not all of the games from that system that I was interested in ended up coming late in its life at a point where I didn't own it anymore. I think that's why I love my PS5 so much because it has a pretty steady stream of games I'm interested in coming out and then there's the backlog of later PS4 games I never played that make it feel like there's always something to play on it.
Every year I wait for all of these retrospectives to come out and watch them in a single sitting.
Great analysis as always!
When the console was relevent I remember thinking it was kinda plain, but honestly, looking back it was pretty decent. Two things I really enjoyed was that it was the first console to embrace physical indies. A lot of the same games made it to other consoles but having them physically makes the system stick out more. I also liked how on the Pro, you can turn off Super Sampling when playing at 1080p. This usually resulted in much smoother framerates, making them the best playing version of the game on consoles, even if they didn't look as nice compared to Xbox One X, and really made me consider which game I got for which console since I had both. Big dissapointment for me that the PS5 doesn't have that ability.
Once the Switch 2 comes out you should do a proper 8th gen retrospective on the generation as a whole as well as the Wii U, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch individually. That would be epic.
Good vid! I was 12 when the PS4 came out in 2013 im 22 now in 2023 time flies!
Video should be “dinosaurs watch fellow dinosaur discuss relic from Jurassic era”
Its so crazy that its already been 10 years...The PS4 is almost as old as the PS2 was when the PS4 came out...
I remember when they revealed that they were discontinuing the PS2 shortly before a big announcement (which, of course, ended up being the PS4). At the time, I was actually hoping the PS2 was going to last until the PS4 was released. While we ultimately got games that came out for the PS2 during the launch of the PS4 (e.g. Fifa 14) it would've been cool to be able to plug & play a PS4 game, knowing we were still getting able to just buy a brand new PS2 at the same time if we wanted to.
Hearing that alien isolation story really wants me to try it in VR. I can’t understand getting so scared you have to take the headset off it’s just a game.
The jump scares sometimes get me but that’s it. You just carry on afterwards
In addition to the NEC SuperGrafx, the Game Boy Color, the New 3DS, the PS4 Pro, and the Xbox One X, there’s also the Nintendo DSi. The DSi has more RAM and a faster CPU than the original DS (and DS Lite). And yes, there were some DSi-specific physical games, and many DSi-specific games through digital distribution.
I have a ps4 and never used it to actually play games yet so I have lots of gaming to catch up on that system. I hate waiting for a hour for spiderman to install 😑 when on any console pre ps4/xbox one you just put the cartridge/disc in and it plays 😄(I guess xbox 360/ps3 did sometimes download updates before starting a game).
Thanks Adam. Wow, I didn't get a PS4 til the Pro was on sale for $299.99 on a BF Sale at GameStop so I was unaware of this Prosumer approach Sony was doing.
I remember the news of Shenmue 3 prompted me to look to getting one.
The PS4 was the first time I bought games for a system I didn't even have. Snatching up games like Ys VIII & Assault Suit Leynos about a yr before I even got the system itself.
Good Times & still more to come! Happy 10th 🎈 🎂 Birthday PS4!
Another great video Adam, cant believe its been 10 years.
I just got my PS4 Slim in September 2023, and I'm so happy with it. Ive wanted a PS4 since like 2014, but at the time I opted for a Wii U instead (definitely the right choice), and ever since I've focused on the Switch and building a PC. The system was finally at a point where I thought it was worth it due to the price and number of games, so I jumped on it for the 10th anniversary. I love Kingdom Hearts and wanted to be able to play the third game, and Yakuza has always interested me. Those two franchises alone have every game in the series on PS4, and then I get bonuses like the Gravity Rush games and Final Fantasy 14 on console for more casual play vs PC. It's such a great system, and I am happy to finally have one after all these years of wanting one.
And yes, I know I could have got a PS5 instead, but I got the console with like 15+ games for less than I would have paid for a PS5 console alone, so it was totally worth it.
I got two PS4 consoles back in 2021 myself. I had to get them both repaired but even after doing so I still paid less than the cost of a PS5 console.
I'd like to personal volunteer as a moderator to glean your comments section for the so-called 'riff raff', Adam, haha. I love these birthday videos, and I'm late viewing so I get all of them at once!
Speaking of 10 years, who else misses "The following video is part of our quick shoot series-" in the intro?
Thank you for releasint this on the day I have a commute
Thanks for sharing your love of gaming, Adam 🙂.
i stood in line with my buddy to pick one up on the midnight release. its actually his birthday too, happy bday brian!🎉 my ps4 is still my main console ftw
I Was 7, 10 years ago playing 3ds and Xbox 360
Awesome stuff, man! These lifespan retrospectives are great coffee watching.
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Wow that has flown by 😮
Can't believe it's really been 10 years. Glad to know someone else that sees the Switch as 8th Gen, was wondering why there wasn't a 8th Gen recap video lol now it makes sense! Been loving watching your videos! Am also a huge Sega fan, the Saturn is my favorite console of all time. I could probably talk your ears off about Sega and video games in general but that'd make this comment a book, anyways love the content and looking forward to more!
Im guessing if you were a little kid in 2017 and your first memory of a console launch was the Switch, I do wonder.
I was born in 1983, so I can't speak for someone like that. @@gars129
Got my ps4 10 years ago when I was 11. My mom bought one for me off her friend that had a bunch of them because he was a reseller.
Interesting……
Hi guys, I am a year late to the party. Better than never, right?
Anyway I bought the shenmue collection 1-3 even though I am not at a stage in my life that I can actively play video games (way too much going on to carve out hours to game). But I play Adam's videos in the background while working on other things and his support for the series inspired me to support the series now, hoping that in a few years time when I do have time to game again I can play all 3 with perhaps a fourth on the horizon.
Time will tell.
Hey sick video!
Man this generation was a blast. I remember doing the early morning opening for the PS4 and selling copies of Alien Iso.
Am already chuckling away to myself to the train wreck cluster ****! That was the Xbox launch and sony absolutely owning Microsoft at E3 especially with that "this is how you share a game with a friend video" that was just so much fun to watch. Thank you Sony!
I remember when I first got my PS4. I don't feel like gaming has evolved much since. Just more bells and whistles.
I'm still playing my PS4! When I finally upgraded my TV from a CRT to a modern 4k I also upgraded the PS4 to a PS4 Pro. The Pro is actually a very adequate console which is why I have not jumped on board with the PS5.
My all time favorite PS4 game is Monster Hunter World. Now I am playing Eldenring. It's amazing in its open world and exploration, but has really demanding combat.
Good to hear from you dude.
Hey Adam! Next time you are in Seattle and need a ride around hitting up the game stores, give a shout out, and we'll do it.
Yes sir!
Remember watching your day one video when I was 14, I’m 24 now
10 friggin years. I remember watching the live stream of PS4 launching in the US on my Galaxy S4😅
You got something wrong I believe and thats that the PS4 is actually still being made, at least for US markets. I regularly see the ps4 getting restocked in retail stores again. They upped the ps4 production last year and were bundling the system with the new Call of Duty from last year. I just saw the PS4 get restocked at my local walmart here in the USA just this past month
I feel real old,my most advanced system is my PS3 slim that I bought brand new, also my favorite more modern system...I have gen 2's and 3's in my collection, and Isolation came out on the PS3..I have it, I think it came out as the PS4 came out. I do love these videos, they bring me back.
Crazy it's been 10 years!
I was at the night release November 29th (European release).
Forever grateful for this console.
PS3 17 years later is coming up soon too. I can believe the PS4 is 10 years old and the funny part is DualShock 4’s are still being sold new at Target and Walmart.
I upgraded the HDD on one of these pretty early on to store multiple TBs of data. Had a couple haters claim it was "excessive" even as I cited ~100 GB games w/50+ GB updates (stock HDD was only 500 GB). It was an internal mod, super sleek; looked stock. Few years later, seemed like _everyone_ was upgrading their HDDs. Games weren't getting any smaller. 😅
Still got PT archived away for preservation.
Cousin of mine gave me his launch system back in 2015 to play with him. Spent countless hours in parties and games. I may find the exclusives to be a step down from the PS3, but the PS4 is a solid system that I still use alongside my PC.
Thank you, PS Quadruple.
Coincidentally the PS Portal came out on the PS4’s 10th birthday. I think that the PS4 will probably be discontinued by the end of the year if not then probably in 2024 or 2025. Sony has said they will continue to support the PS4 until 2025 and I think it will still have 3rd party games coming out for it until 2027-2031.
I remember being so excited for the ps4 when it launched, shame it took a few years for it to really get going. I hadn’t even started high school then, but now I’m almost done with my masters degree. How time flies!
21:49 The Mandela Effect: Dumb Fun sounds like a good idea for a genre of videogames
(Disclaimer: that oh you possibly/probably knew Adam that I had to put in my two cents along with this video of yours, mostly because that I've mainly been about collecting more and possibly recent PS4 games for its "video game library", that yes I appreciate you releasing this video around this time and it's ironic for my case, since that I was wondering of where that I could post this one comment around, and yeah since that it's more about recent happenings with both me and a little bit about my LRG stuff lately, and that also, for 8:43 to 9:14 in this, that yes there's other companies like with EastAsiaSoft who had come out with other titles, like with both that Crisis Wing game that I had told you about before, and with that Blue Rider game that I had also found out about, and had gotten, of another overhead view game with you in a blue hovercraft vehicle in a shoot-em-up game, which I had thought, "Well, that's very interesting.", yep.)
Well, that otherwise here's my definite list of my most "recent pickups" for the video game console, and that this time that there's little to do with LRG releases:
1. Trine 5 - A Clockwork Conspiracy
2. Huntdown
3. Dead Cells, the original version, and since that I had already gotten that Return To Castlevania Edition.
4. Ender Lilies: Quietus Of The Knights, which that I see does have great visuals and I hear it said that it also has beautiful music.
5. After Image: Deluxe Edition, which apparently that I'm far from the only person who's after that great game in through Amazon, around this time.
6. Anno Mutationem, which does both look and seem interesting enough so.
7. Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, which is apparently the prologue game, before that Hundred Heroes comes out during April 24th of next year.
8. Shadow Complex Remastered, which that yeah it was with both The Completionist and in his "Top 10 Metroidvanias" video that I had found out about this great and interesting game.
Also, that I can definitely also go a bit more in-depth with those first two in that list of them all, and by the end of the second one, that you'll find out of why that so many of them are Metroidvania games: that first, I was trying so much at first to get that Trine Ultimate Collection DVD like case with them in it, but at the time that all I could get was the PC version from the stores and it barely had that much at all in its case, so that I had to get the PS4 version, with all of it in tow, and I was all set, until that I had sort of at last recently found out about its recent sequel game, with its interesting looking trailer as well; and that second, I was forgetting for a while about that it was both YourFriendJacob and in his "Upcoming Action Platformer Games" video and him letting me know about Erra Exordium, that after that I was instead thinking that it was about "upcoming Metroidvania games" and I was searching through a couple or a few of those videos, and it was through them that both I had seen one of the commenters mention about his/her few Metroidvanias list and I had found out about both Huntdown and its somewhat goofy trailer through there, and I had found out about these other great and interesting Metroidvania games released around this time through those videos, and I do hope to find out about more of them, in the future.
Lastly, and real quick about it, that even in the stores I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one hoping that we all will eventually get to get ahold of a PS4 version of Ratchet And Clank: Rift Apart; and I know that the others would have to sadly insist that it's otherwise a PS5 video game console exclusive game, but I know that I had recently heard online that it has/it's getting a PC version release of it as well, so that I guess that it's not a total impossibility of it coming out eventually for the PS4 after all, huh 8^). >Danny
Digital Foundry did a video where they took a stock PS4 hard drive and tried to run Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart on it and it didn't really work well at all. It's not impossible but by this point I think that ship has sailed, thoughI would certainly be interested in selling a PS4 version myself.
I can’t help but feel like the PS5 is kind of middle ground vibes between “We need you” and “We’re so cool we write the rules”, almost like they’re confident but humbled by their experiences in the past which are certainly written in stone by this point.
I feel so old bro. I remember standing in line launch day to pick one up. I am currently trying to sell that same model I bought then to get enough money for a ps5 💀
Everyone and their mothers still remembers the lead up to that generation, MS shot themselves in the foot so bad. It took Sony until 2017 imo to hit their stride but man when they did it was great. Hopefully PS5 can have a great second half as well
The thing I’ll remember most about the PS4 is the E3 2013 presentation and how they destroyed Microsoft. Talk about a mic drop moment, it was the living embodiment of the Simpsons “He’s already dead” meme.
Looking back i always thought RDR2 was going to be my favourite ps4 game, but I think that ended up being Kingdom Come Deliverance, despite its bugs. But the Ps4 itself introduced me to watching UA-cam on my TV and watching it more than actual television
Definitely had to do a double check on this one. 10 YEARS?! That can't be right.
Great video I'm playstation gang all day sorry Nintendo sorry Sega sorry Dreamcast Game Cube and any other system out their however the PS2 is my Absolute favorite game Console of all-time because of it's library of games I Currently own 86 PS2 games
Could also add the Nintendo DSi to the list of systems that got upgrades.
It increased the resolution, and had like a handful of games that were exclusive to it. I think some of them even had a physical release, but a bunch were through the DSi Ware online store.
10 years… holy cow
I still remember wanting one for my life in 2014... I never got it, and it's still magnificent to me.
I remember my base ps4 started to sound like a jet engine taking off before I upgraded to the pro
i still remember when it came out, i was 12 back then, now i'm 22 (OrkyBorkyofEcuador)
Also when you were describing them being friendly to devs, that reminded me of what they did during PS1 and they were successful. Sony welcomed all the devs big or small and stole them all from the N64 like Square.
Would be happy to see a fourth shenmue
it’s still my main console while I barely touch my switch & play on pc once in a blue. the pro upgrade really breathed life back into it. I look at ps5 games and don’t see too far of a jump especially if you’re not gaming on an hdr tv
You’re very wrong about the PS2 following the PS1 in terms of it “being easy to develop for.” The PS2 was a nightmare for developers… but it was also the most successful home console ever. That’s why Sony went with the weird cell tech for PS3.
You'll have to timestamp what you're referring to. I'm very well aware the PS2 was a nightmare to program for, the PS1 was the easy one.
LOL thanks Adam I feel old. LOL probably cause I am old. Oh man the PS4, I was really late to the PS4, I went from PS3 to PC gaming. I finally got a Christmas of 2018, my wife bought me a Black Friday bundle that game with GOW 2018, Horizon Zero Dawn and the Last of Us. Loved GOW 2018, but I didn’t love my PS4 the way I loved my other PlayStations. I had my PS4 till Jan of 23, traded it in bought a PS5. Love the heck outta my PS5, easily has more play time than my PS4 had. Maybe my love of PS4 would have been greater had I owned the PRO. Who knows, but thank you for making these videos. I’m off to find more caffeine. Have a great day.
I can't believe I was starting middle school when the PS4 came out. Now I'm almost done my undergrad degree. That's pretty hard to accept.
I remember watching your first impressions video during the launch week. 😮
Welcome to being old son!
I was there on launch day standing in line it’s was -25 and I got one. It was my first time getting a system on launch day
Pff, wow. 10 years. Poptoons Skaff recently dusted off our PS4 with q tips and I re-pasted the APU with Thermal Grizzly. Taking it apart felt like taking apart an Xbox 360, for those with a familiar experience you red ring of death witnesses.
A few years ago I had the blue limited edition model given to me, almost new but haven’t really used it, what are some good games to pickup?
Actually probably the console I most recently bought a new game for ( Shin Chan summer vacation, Japanese PS4 release has a English language option ).
I've never had any PS system, would you recommend me getting a PS4 or a PS5 to play PS4 games through backwards compatibility?
I'd just get a PS5 if you plan to play both PS4 and PS5 games. Unless you only want to play PS4 games, then PS4. Can get one used.
If you just want PS4 games, I'd recommend a PS5 if the budget doesn't matter.
Legend in the house!
I was starting high school when the PS4 came out, now I'm one semester away from getting my master's degree.
Actually Adam I think they’re still making these at least Slim models because I just seen 2 brand new ones at Walmart today that include Modern Warfare.
Great vid and happy 10 years to this great system.