I bought EVERY PlayStation 2
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
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Chapter Titles:
0:00 History
1:37 Development
4:48 Launch
7:19 Competition
12:47 Gaming
15:05 Updates
18:08 Legacy - Наука та технологія
false, you guys didn't buy 160 million+ PlayStation 2s
They did its in the back
damn sorry
@@austinevansapology NOT accepted!!!!
once you buy all 160 million, then i'll forgive you...
yea, I'm still surprised that my PS2 is still in its place
real
Well....i was expecting a lot of PS2 console...not a PS history lesson and barely 5 minutes of actual PS consoles
same, i was expecting him to play on them and try them out, should be called ps2 history lesson
Same I was expecting something like the Playing 7th gen consoles in 2023 videos
😂😂lol same here I was like let’s see the playstion but 😂.nope just history lesson
Even I would have more to show 😂 and I'm a Xbox guy 🤣
I remember I worked at Sears in electronics at the PS2's launch.... we got SEVEN units, so naturally we did a lottery for a chance to buy one. There was a girl that worked at the Footlocker, she saw the crowds outside our entrance at the mall and jumped in line, got a ticket thinking we were giving away something. Lo and behold, her ticket was drawn and she got excited, until she found out it was for the opportunity to BUY one. This girl turned around and sold her ticket to some guy in line that offered her $600 for it.
Smart girl. She could then buy it later for 299 and pocket the rest. 😂
@@arvindrueben IIRC, she did end up getting one later for her bf
Funny how history repeats since that was the situation we found ourselves in with the PS5 / XSX ( minus the outrageous scalping since the internet was still in it's infancy lol).
I distinctly remember watching eBay throughout the day and for at least a few days after... they went for like 1200-1500 at peak, so not hugely off what the PS5/XSX went for during their time (and that's not adjusted for inflation, 1200-1500 at PS2 launch is roughly 2100-2700 now)
I also sold electronics at sears when the ps2 came out. We had a plain cardboard box that held six units. The day before ps2 was supposed to launch, I took that box onto the floor and sold all 6 to my friend in exchange for him giving me one. He then sold the others for around $1k each. My manager wasn't happy about it, but I didn't get fired. I proceeded to buy a sweet 36" jvc that had all the right connections. Last Playstation I've ever owned...because xbox is better. True story.
I remember i had a ps1 when i was little and it was my birthday. My 2nd to last present was a ps2 game and my mom apologized for buying the wrong game since i inly had a ps1. Next present was a brand new ps2. My parents tricked me but damn ill never forget the PS2. 007 agent under fire was my favorite game
I had the same thing happened to me but my parents were split and my dad got me a gba pokemon game and I only had Gameboy color, I went to my mom's later that day she had the Gameboy advanced SP, it was the best
man i can hear the CRT static in the background. that takes me back
I thought my headphones were going bad
hi denyah
@@vanss5019 hi
hi beat saber
@@ItsNoot3rch beat saber
Damn, clicked on the video thinking you're gonna show off every PS2 version released, didn't expect a history lesson for a time before I was born but I'll take it.
“A time before I was born” yikes😩
@BrenKo12 oof that hurt, I feel old now lol
@@Alpha-Daddy oof that hurt, I feel old now lol
Microsoft didn't include the licensing for DVDs with the console, so they sold the playback kit which gave a remote, and the license to play DVDs, so consumers that wanted that option could have it.
Don't forget they also later tried to push their own format ( HD-DVD) as well ( or was that the 360 era? I don't remember anymore lol).
@@TheCommanderTaco that was the 360 :)
My Mom and Dad, what I believe bribed a gamestop employee to save them a bundle that was overpriced at 650, just to be able to give me a ps2 that christmas...best Parents ever. 😢
The ps2 at the time was the Ultimate Dvd player that just happened to play games in a lot of homes
I remember my family pooled our income tax together to buy the PS2 and Smackdown. My sister's friend who owned a DVD player would occasionally bring over DVD's which would make me sad because it meant the family would be using the console as a player and I couldn't play games lol.
the DVD benefit was massive.
PS2 hack: when the optical drive begins to not work from aging, place the PS2 upside down in the horizontal orientation
feel like discs would just fall out of the tray if you did that
Not in the drive but when you hit eject they will. @@CrashFan03
What???? 😂
@@glennphil1942 something to do with the Lasers ability to "bob up and down" (I forgot the technical word for it)
And as it's constantly pointed down it has to work less go focus.
@@CrashFan03 how it literally snaps in lol
I don't even have nostalgia for the PS2 because I have consistently continued to play it since I was a kid.
Same here, still play it because it is the best co-op console to this day. Nowadays almost everything is online only subscription live service rubbish.
from what I recall, 75 million polygons/sec was unlit straight poly's. When textured, lit, and a animated, I think it came down to 5-10million? I don't know which game has the most polys in a single frame... But looking into a lot of the older forums, everybody was guessing FPS and even people diving into refresh rate (60Hz). But nobody talked about frame-time producing a byproduct of framerate!
If memory serves, it's referring to tri-vertices (ie triangles), no lighting, textures, etc. Like t-flops, it's a pretty impractical metric.
@@Boss_Fight_Wiki_muki_twitch Yeah, it was mostly marketing fluff. All the companies do it prior to a console release. Just like how companies now brag about teraflops or how Sony made a huge stink about it's SSD.
The ps2 being the cheapest DVD player on the market at the time was a huge win for them, i knew ppl who bought it just to watch DVDs, which, as a gamer, was wild to me!
I remember getting the PS2 on Christmas and I was so excited. My dad, who wasn't much of a gift giver, had no clue about anything to do with video games but he knew how excited I was to get the PS2. He found a copy one of those Game Informer / walkthrough guides at a store and gave it to me alongside the PS2, which was clearly sourced by my mom. He was so proud of his purchase and getting me something he knew I'd love, I still remember his excitement to this day.
Oh that's really sweet, love this story 😊
this is just a clickbanit name whole video is if you talk about story about PlayStation not you bought them
I didn’t know I needed a video on the PS2, but after watching to the end I realized I did
My fondest memory was driving for about 4 hours in Seattle to find a store that had one.
I would say the biggest graphics leap was from the ps2 to the ps3
I got my PS2 the very day it came out on October 26, 2000. My dad went to Electronics Boutique for me and when he picked it up for me, it was the very last one that they had left in stock for the pre-orders. I had it until it was stolen in 2006 along with a lot of other items from my bedroom. My disc drive ended up needing to be replaced and Sony did a warranty replacement of the drive and it worked great after.
I just got PlayStation 3.
I remember skipping school on Friday to spend all night at the mall being first in line and playing games until like 3am Monday before i finally went to bed 🤣
The PS2 was not my favorite system of the generation, but I would go back in time to the year 2000 if the only system I was allowed to play was the PS2. That entire generation was phenomenal.
I only have one thing to say about the PS2. "Carry on my wayward son,
There'll be peace when you are done" (8)
For online gaming, PS3 was awesome. It was free!
that dreamcast fish really predicted the future
8:15 that fish has more rizz than me. Lol
Playing Killzone on split screen with friends was some of the best times ever.
You need to recreate ultimate ps2 video. Most of the accessories failed in that video
I remember when my dad brought home a PS2 for me and my sister. He got Nascar for himself and Dragonball Budokai for me. We played both games together and is a memory I hold close.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, and Austin kept the annoyances to a minimum only letting it out when he tried to play on the console, that was a major win lol
Hey Austin this video was a good breath of fresh air with a very good history lesson, while I’m not a worker at overclocked media I think this type of video is very important to put in rotation like a info video then a mystery tech and another info video. Hope that you continue this content
I like these informing videos Austin. Thanks for making it :)
I love this series! Please keep going.
Love this series definitely love the in depth look on these consoles, would love to see this type with the other consoles.
20:39 u are right i bought my PS2 literally before PS4 launch thinking nothing about production still active LOL
Love the history! Thank you! ❤
what a coincidence upload, i just finished my 3 day project of modding my old ps2 from the depths of the attic
Colleges bought PS2s for physics work. Another nifty fact.
I love this kind of videogames history video
ps2 is the best console because :
1- huge library of games
2- it plays ps1 games
3- it's a dvd player
Just a tip, it might be smart to filter out the high frequency of the CRT TV in the background. Im not sure if that was the hi frequency sound i heard in all the talking clips but there is a really loud «CRT like» noise😂
Any suggestions where I could purchase a definitely functioning used PS2? I own a slim and a normal, but recently the optical disc readers on both seem to have died within days of each other.
I loved my PS2. I had a couple of them. One couldn't read white discs, one couldn't read purple discs and the last one was perfect.
The fact that this is best selling console ever and it's the one generation I went Nintendo over PS, and that I still haven't gotten one, is what keeps me up at night. Feel free to send me any spare consoles you have.
When the PS2 came out I was actually grounded and not allowed to play video games. My stepdad actually got one launch day because the one we ordered hadn't arrived so he went to Best Buy and waited in line to get it. When he got home and plugged it in he sent me out of the room and i sat on the steps and listened to him play Midnight Club for what felt like hours to my 8 year old self before i was finally allowed to come into the room.
Ur production is really good, it's a shame u don't get the same views as u used to get. Bring back "Hey guys, Austin here"!
There even was a Slim model with PSU integrated into it, eliminating the external brick, no one talks about it?
PS2 was my big dive into gaming. I had systems like the SNES and 64, and my cousin had a PS1, but when I finally got a PS2 it felt like the future.
Good thing about that phat PS2 is you don't need the disc drive in 2024. 30 dollars on aliexpress for a free mcboot memory card and gamestar sata network adapter will let you load anything you want off any ol' sata HDD/SSD.
Going from component video cables with the PS1, to composite video for the PS2 to HDMI for PS3, things changed pretty regularly over those 3 generations, even though the generations before followed the RF/component route for years before, and we've pretty much stuck with HDMI since.
You finally got the actual ultimate ps3. You shafted us before by not even showing this backwards compatible model.
hot tip: you don't need the fuzzy bit on your mic. that's to block wind noise outside.
Very good man, educational, engageding, awesome episode.
I still have my original PS2 and it’s still completely functional. I love breaking it out on occasion for the memories.
I think the PS2 is unquestionably the console I've played the most games on. Sooooo many games from GTA, Gran Turismo, Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter, METAL GEAR SOLID 2 AND 3 (these were my favorites for yeeeeeeeears), Kingdom Hearts, THPS 3 and 4, Ratchet and Clank, Final Fantasy X, SSX Tricky and 3, and these are just some of the games I have nostalgia for! There's countless other games I either got to play later in life or STILL haven't played because the PS2 library is a seemingly bottomless cavern of great games.
Didn’t realize this was a retrospective
I thought there were gonna be random boxes thrown on a table
When I was younger, I always thought the PS2 wasn't really selling well as it took years before I knew someone that owned one.
This seems expensive
I miss the 3 disc Final Fantasy games.😭 There was no better feeling than when the screen popped up “Insert Disc 2” and you feel that feeling of accomplishment and joy, like you’re really going far. Games are so short these days, they prioritize graphics over everything else.
Yip same. Shenmue on dreamcast & resident evil 4 on gamecube are my favourite disc swaps.
Really great video, enjoyed it a lot.
Is that the PSX that ken destroyed in the denki vid?😅
21:02 - it's the thought that counts, your dad tried his best :)
i got a ps2 from Best Buy on launch day and the salesperson forced me to buy a "protection plan" with it. 2 years later the rumble feature stopped (it wasn't the controller, multiples were tried), and that Best Buy attempted to weasel their way out of honoring the "protection plan" i was forced to buy, or they wouldn't sell me the ps2
The good ole days where 256 mb storage cards was a huge amount of storage 😂 and had to plug um in the front of the console lol
I had a GameCube and didn’t know what a PlayStation was back then
This is feeling like Icons the mini series.
Man I miss Icons.
the problem with the PS2 Slim was that it didnt have the fans so it was easily prone to overheating and the disc/lens drives would fail on these all the time.
A lot of higher ups at Sony at the time didn't like that Kutaragi was going behind their backs with the development of the PlayStation but the CEO of Sony at the time, Norio Ohga was actually in support of Kutaragi and the PlayStation.
Hey Austin or anyone else reading this. I just this morning ordered a ps2 on eBay and I currently only have a monitor to work with. I was wondering if you could offer any suggestions on a good hdmi converter as I want to play my childhood game grand turismo 4 with the best possible display. Thank you
This video was unique and enjoyable. I never had this console, but I always experience its games on the computer with the emulator.
I def was sold on PS2 being a gaming console and my main dvd player.They knocked it out with PS3 also being the cheapest BlueRay Player also.
I remember DVDs first coming (Sorry, a back in my day moment) out and getting a bunch of VHS for 99 cents as stores shifted them out.
I remember similar happenings here in Europe. Only blanks kept on selling at original prices, because there weren't any DVD recorders yet and HDD recorders were overpriced. A friend of mine had a HDD recorder, which was if i remember right 1000€ and it was just a PC with a tuner card, special GUI and remote in a specialised housing. It even ran Windows.
DVD launched as a format in 1996.
The PS2 was the first console I ever owned, it's what got me into gaming and I remember one of the first games I ever played on it was Sonic and Knuckles
I remember when I got the PS1 and then my dad won a PS2 through his work. Even the PS2 design was cool.
GTA San Andreas was one of my most played games on my ps2, I also had dragon ball budokai 2, budokai 3 and budokai tenkaichi 3. Bakugan battle brawlers. And a handful of other games. But one of the first games I remember getting for ps2 was ATV off-road fury, 4x4 evolution and Maximo. (Maximo used to really scare me so I never made it pass the first two levels)
I forgot about that Dreamcast fish, I'm gonna have nightmares tonight lol
There were shortages? Not everywhere then as where I live they were pretty damn easy to get. Without needing to queue outside a shop lol. Every one of my friends and me had one. Our parents had no issues buying one.
I just love the sheer size difference between the original PlayStation and the first PS2. 😂
Has anyone else noticed? Playstation 1,3,and 5 are rounded and bubbly, and 2 and 4 are very angular in design.
So your telling me that the ps2 had the same early life cycle as the ps5. You know what they say history always repeats itself
I managed to get two PS2 systems at release and was able to sell one of them for around $900 on eBay. No it wasn't to scalp, it was for me and my brother to have our own systems, but when we saw people paying that much, why not? We just bought another new one later when they were back in stock.
As a kid i didnt even know the Gamecube and Xbox existed untill i met other kids who had one. I just thought everyone had a PS2 because most did.
Legit everyone i knew had a PS2 and my cousins would all bring their memeory cards when visiting so we could play together.
I switched over to the xbox 360 in the next generation but PS2 will always be a huge part of my childhood. I can still remember the day i got it for christmas.
The SNES handily won against the genesis. Out sold it by nearly 20 million units in a console gen where neither home console sold over 50 million. That's not Nintendo "barely coming out on top", that's Sega being definitively 2nd place by large margin. Heck, the Genesis came out in 1988/89 and was out sold by the NES during the 2 years those products overlapped in relevancy.
Same shirt as ps1 video but not dame lights in the back, did he do it on purpose or did them back to back 😂
My fondest moment of the PS2 was where I had Suikoden 2 that had scratches on the outside of the disc. I was up to the last boss battle and the PS1 couldn't load it because of how many scratches were on it (it was a second hand copy). When we got out PS2, the first game I put in was Suikoden 2, and ohhhh myyy friggin lord, I could finally finish the game!
My best friend had a PS1 while I was still playing N64. I didn’t get my first PS until PS3 was around and by that time it was already 2yrs old. It’s still my most nostalgic PS console even tho I have PS4 & PS5 as well.
How many ps2 history videos are you going to make
Remember having nintendo systems to then getting a ps2 it was big leap, i still have and have a huge catalog of games
At 13 minutes, I realized he was wearing a PS shirt lol
Mine's still hooked up and running strong.
I miss my ps2 getting it and vice city was a great Christmas back then!
Still have my launch day console, it introduced my daughter to gaming.
that was a giant ps2 Ad
The playstation 2 is my favourite video game console of all time. There's a reason why it's the best selling video gaming console of all time, the DVD media playback was amazing and There's soo many different genres of videos games you can play and this was back when Triple A develops could get take risks and come up with unique video games unlike this modern day.
I miss the era of the ps2 and older game consoles with there classic games, no subscription fees to play games, no internet connection to play multiplayer games and no unnecessary micro transactions to unlock stuff since unlocking stuff that can be done just by playing the games. Literally just plug and play, no need to download patches and owning games that was paid once instead of continuously paying to access games like how it is now with video games, music and video games. The modern consoles and pc games have a bunch of unknown games from unknown developers instead of games that were developed with classic games from the older generation of consoles and pc games with well known game developers that made games like turok, n64 golden eye 007, ninja gaiden, perfect dark etc. There is no twisted metal or tom clancy splinter cell games for the modern consoles as well as the games that I have already mentioned. The old classic games that are being made for the modern era has a very small selection compared to the 90s and the early 2000's. The new and upcoming games for the modern consoles and pc ended up being overhyped temporary, possibility of bugs and patches that needs to be downloaded and installed in order for the games to be run decent and become playable and than stopped being talking about once a new game comes out. The newer games makes it seem like the consumers are just the beta testers for the games when they come out just because they need to reach a deadline instead of releasing a quality and reliable game instead of delaying the games to fix the bugs and issues with the games before they are released and become ready for the mainstream.
I don't think that is the proper name of the video but I loved it. It's always good to remember the PS2 history :D and the revolution of the gaming at the time
I miss the Ps1 ps2 hype. Games these days don't excite me as much. Yes I'm older, yes I don't play and converse with friends about games as much. Yes I have other things go do but man, the joy of those consoles have me for life
I still have my PS2 slim sitting on a shelf
just bought a fat ps2 SCPH-5001 like 2 weeks ago off ebay and modded it and been having a blast.. so I'm all for PS2 content right now lol
I had a Gamecube and Xbox before a PS2 but once I got the PS2, I loved me some KH and Final Fantasy.
Before that though, the biggest memory I have is my friend at the time getting a Ps2 with no memory card. He also got Shinobi and Lord of the Rings Two Towers with it.
We spent the entire night playing through Two Towers because we couldn't save it.
And we spent a good chunk of time replaying the first like 3 or 4 levels of shinobi because that game was hard and without being able to save, everytime we died we had to start from the beginning. We got really good at those first couple levels.