@@allinadadsdaystop being gay old things are still great i had 2 ps4s 1 broke and 1 is with my mom they were both great now i have a ps3 super slim its still really good and has awesome games
I didnt even get to grow up owning the ps1, but that startup sound is still one of the best pieces of my childhood, and i only got to play it at a relatives house once or twice a year
This is the old overclocked media mystery tech vibes I fell in love with < 3 This and mystery tech are when you guys actually seem like your having fun, I'm glad youve been stepping away from brand deals after that fire reflection video < 3 with so many tech youtubers selling out for things like the cybertruck that we all know sucks ass, its nice to see you, Ken, Matt, and the rest of overclocked only have more fun and get more and more honest and real with us < 3 I hope you make more gaming history videos like this, and I hope overclocked stays this way for a long time < 3
Lots of major mistakes in this video, like calling Battle Arena Toshinden "Tekken" and calling Ridge Racer Type 4 "Gran Turismo". These aren't obscure games, all four of those were major game releases at the time, so the fact that he can't even get the names correct is incredibly bad since this is suppose to be a look at the Playstation. It also doesn't help that the overall info in this video feels like it was taken from a poorly researched wiki and doesn't feel authentic at all.
Great vid man. Ah the days of stumbling home from the pub with your mates and booting up Wipeout. Good times. Great times. Woild love to see you do every PS in a series.
Just have to say that gamers today need to thank GenX for carrying gaming forward after the game crash in 1983. We not only kept buying games, we made a lot of those games too. GenX was the generation that decided to never stop having fun. We embraced "geek stuff" and refused to "grow up". Critically, the PS1 came out right when a lot of us were getting "real jobs" and we wanted games for actual adults. Sony delivered.
I remember getting a Playstation the year after it released for my birthday. The amount of hours, days, and months put into playing games on it still rings in my memories quite well. I stopped playing my SNES mostly, because of the PS and I also was still playing on my Sega Genesis as well. The PS was mind blowing to me, and my mom who would sit and play some of the 2 player games with me at the time. It was a very great time, and I still have some of my favorite games on a shelf today.
PlayStation currently has no games until 2025 Console not selling PSVR2 dead Jim fired for failing to stop Xbox PS Plus losing millions of subscribers PS portal flop PlayStation announced it is now third party and focusing of PC ports because you don’t buy games. 🤡
@@onetwo6039The Wii lost steam after 2009 to be honest. Motion controls got old and cumbersome really quickly it's a wonder why Microsoft lost focus and made the kinect which is the real reason why they've never come close to replicating Xbox 360s success
Great video Austin. Very interesting to hear the history of devices like this. Would you consider doing one about the OG Xbox - that would be another good story.
16:11 Weird bias, especially not even mentioning how the N64 controller, although a bit odd in design, revolutionized analog control in 3D console gaming, which playstation absolutely struggled with in every way, and the playstation didn't release a copy of it with rumble until far later even after the N64 revolutionized rumble feedback in consoles with the rumble pack.
The N64 came in 1996, PlayStation and Saturn got sticks added in 1997. It doesn't matter if the PlayStation came first, it got sticks last, with Saturn 3D pad coming just months before Sony released the Dualshock.
CeX sells them, I bought one there, and my mate in the Netherlands got one from them too. Any of the PS2 models are about as hard to come by as guns on a war zone.
Something that doesn't get talked about much because as far as I know this was only a thing in the UK, the PS1 was so instantly cool and part of pop culture that a lot of NIGHTCLUBS would start having them. Sony infiltrated the club scene thanks to games that fit the vibe pretty well like the Wipeout series and Ridge Racer, games legendary for their electronic music. Lara Croft in particular became such an icon of gaming that for a while she honestly sat up there with characters like Mario, Sonic and Pac-Man in terms of recognisability.
Something Austin misses with Nintendo's decision to not go with Sony's CD-ROMs was more directly because they wouldn't have made as much money. On the NES and SNES consoles, third parties had to buy the cartridges from Nintendo, meaning Nintendo made money on the carts directly. With Sony producing the CD-ROMs instead, Nintendo would miss out on this (rather large) revenue stream. This decision was also kept in place for the Nintendo 64 which is why it also used cartridges. It wasn't until Nintendo was able to partner with Matsushita to produce Gamecube discs that had to be licensed through Nintendo--i.e. if you were a third party who wanted to make games on the Gamecube, you had to buy the discs through Nintendo who then had Matsushita produce them. This was all Yamauchi's business decisions.
Sega developed the first console to really rival Nintendo with the Mega Drive (Genesis). Sega had over a 50% market share during the 16-bit era and absolutely dominated here in Europe. Sure, the occasional person here and there had a Super Nintendo, but the big N didn't become a household name in the UK until the Nintendo 64. Likewise, our market didn't crash due to ET on the Atari. We were all happily playing Spectrums, Commodores and the Mega Drive's predecessor, the Master System. No-one here had really heard of the NES until UA-cam and the AVGN.
One of the big reasons playstation got a lot of developers on board was the production time of games, cartridges took a while to make and you had to make a big bet on launch, which often lead to companies having to sit on dead stock, where as with cds you can burn them easily, sony was able to offer companies new stock in 3 days, when Nintendo could take months
Recently I wanted to get a ds console couldn’t figure out which console I wanted. Found a vintage Austin evans 2ds review!!! Least to say made my mind for me lol
They beat Nintendo in every home console generation they partook in except the Wii. Also you have to take note of the fact that that the switch came out in 2017 and doesn’t compete directly with the PS5. Just wanted to mention that. So out of the big 3 PlayStation is the most consistently successful as they’ve had no failures
@@dammyoyesanya4656well the Switch is a handheld so it definitely does not compare to the PS5 which is a home console. The Wifi U was the last Nintendo home console and the Vita was the last Sony handheld.
THAT'S ANOTHER THING I NEVER SEEN ANYBODY DO IS HAVE THE STARTUP OF THE NUMBER ONE GAME CONSOLE.. AND I MUST SAY THE PLAYSTATION ONE HAVE THAT NUMBER ONE STARTUP
YES thank you Austin! PS1 played such a big part of my gaming childhood as well and that bootup sound is iconic. I'll never forget my excitement to play games like Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2, Jet Moto, Medal of Honor, Klonoa, Croc, The Lost World, and so many more! I played on PS1 and later PC until the Playstation 3 came out upon which I got a PS2 😂
15:20 no floating point processor, textures and geometry were all handled with whole numbers. I'd go into specifics on handling floating points within whole numbers, but that's beyond the scope of this comment.
Buying my first PS1 is a memory I remember fondly. It was my birthday on a Easter Sunday and my dad wanted to buy me the PS1 but all the stores were closed. I was so eager to get the console we went to a swamp meet and bought a used one. I didn't care, it was awesome. I still remember turning that bad boy on and playing my first game, Wipeout. Ah, good memories.
I can still hear in my head, Resident..Evil..The biggest seller for Playstation was the huge amount of games, good games. That lack of games helped kill the Sega genesis
When I was a kid, my dad worked in Dubai. He sent me a PS1 for Christmas in 2004. But he didn't send any games. Being in a remote village in Kenya, I stayed with it for 2 years without any games until he brought me a PC. PC games were more accessible because of piracy. I donated the PS1 in 2008 without ever using it.
It makes sense from a business standpoint to being games there too. SEGA did it before it was cool (pretend to be shocked)with games like Daytona and Sonic R. Why? Because more players means more profits. It helps business boom. Though day and date releases may affect hardware adoption, consoles are either sold at a loss, or made by former EA employees. (RIP 3DO, You did nothing wrong). So it's not a huge deal for them.
That start up sound is still sick to this day. I was a Sony kid. had ever ps1 game from us/ca and uk and Japan games. And the same for the ps2. my dad would go to work for a few months and come back with a box off all regions. And same for DVDs. had a uk tv and a Japanese one to. To go with both consoles. Ps1 and 2
I played the heck out of that demo CD that came with the Playstation when I bought it, cause I couldn't afford a game along with it until the next birthday around. That Crash, Wipeout and Ridgeracer demo, along with that Diehard trilogy demo. That game was something else. We lived at the peak of all ages, nothing like the 90's.
Xbox's main issue is that they take games that cater SOLELY to the states and assume it will be jist as popular elsewhere. Japan doesn't care for FPS games like the states, or big battle royales, so naturally they won't sell as good elsewhere in comparison. Sony, SEGA and Nintendo knew that and tried/try to cater to each domain with more genres like RPGs, platformers, racers, etc. I love Xbox, but they're incredibly dense.
As a long time Xbox user who moved over to PS recently, the answer is they offered more innovation and beneficial options. This doesnt mean they or the other 2 are flawless, but PS still offered many important factors that Xbox was axing like offline-use and complete 1st party games on disc, plus some unique games like Deep Rock Galactic only had PS5 physicals so no brainer. Xbox really poked their own wheel spoke and dont even know what to blame.
Playstation fans shouldn’t be happy about the current state of Xbox and they won’t realise this until they’re gone. A monopoly on the entire home console market would screw over both publishers and consumers and they could charge Apple prices for their consoles and games with no competition to stop them. They already tried this with the PS3 after the massive success of the PS2 when they tried to charge $599 for cheapest model which was alot back then and it made them lose market share to Xbox because a 360 at the time was like $299 and forced them to lower their prices eventually.
Austin, please make this a regular series
This is one of the best videos I can remember from you keep it up please
real
I thought you were buying PS1s, not giving a history lesson.
womp womp
I appreciated and loved the history lesson
0:19 Perfect Scooby-Doo impression.
W PFP
brother I was hooked on this video start to finish! would love all 5 part of this series!
Got a PS1 for my ninth birthday and it’s still my favorite gift ever.
you poor soul
@@allinadadsdaystill a good console stop being a gaybox like enjoy what console you have so what if it’s old?
@@mrkubzozcan4878that’s kind of rough for Xbox man I mean me and most of my friends play Xbox and we’re all straight dudes with girlfriends
@@allinadadsdaystop being gay old things are still great i had 2 ps4s 1 broke and 1 is with my mom they were both great now i have a ps3 super slim its still really good and has awesome games
I truly give a fuck
I didnt even get to grow up owning the ps1, but that startup sound is still one of the best pieces of my childhood, and i only got to play it at a relatives house once or twice a year
Excellent work on this video. Love hearing about the history of how things we love came to be.
This is the old overclocked media mystery tech vibes I fell in love with < 3
This and mystery tech are when you guys actually seem like your having fun, I'm glad youve been stepping away from brand deals after that fire reflection video < 3
with so many tech youtubers selling out for things like the cybertruck that we all know sucks ass, its nice to see you, Ken, Matt, and the rest of overclocked only have more fun and get more and more honest and real with us < 3
I hope you make more gaming history videos like this, and I hope overclocked stays this way for a long time < 3
At 12:10, that's not Tekken. It's Battle Arena Toshinden.
Mixed up Gran Turismo and Ridge Racer @ 00:10 as well
Someone beat me to the punch.
Beat me to it
Lots of major mistakes in this video, like calling Battle Arena Toshinden "Tekken" and calling Ridge Racer Type 4 "Gran Turismo". These aren't obscure games, all four of those were major game releases at the time, so the fact that he can't even get the names correct is incredibly bad since this is suppose to be a look at the Playstation. It also doesn't help that the overall info in this video feels like it was taken from a poorly researched wiki and doesn't feel authentic at all.
@@johnpenguinthe3rd13 womp womp
0:10 that’s a clip of Ridge Racer dawg 😭😭
No? That's clearly gran turismo. Ridge Racer map was on the top left not bottom left.
@@renofumi28 that's ridge racer as u can see the car clearly say namco the creator of ridge racer and plus the car is the classic ridge racer car
@@renofumi28 just use google lens, its Ridge Racer
“Clearly”?
I will never understand how proud people are to be wrong on the Internet.
What@@renofumi28
I have watched you and your videos for many years. Your knowledagbleness and your quirkiness, always appeals to me, keep being you.
This video just made me realize that I'm ready for a new Video game historian video.
0:09 says gran turismo but shows ridge racer
I love these type of console recap videos
Yoooo that Hollywood Video imprint at 16:54 that's a huge amount of nostalgia
great video, would love to see more like this
Please do a part 2 talking about the PlayStation 2!
Great vid man. Ah the days of stumbling home from the pub with your mates and booting up Wipeout. Good times. Great times.
Woild love to see you do every PS in a series.
Love these types of videos please more please!!!❤
Just have to say that gamers today need to thank GenX for carrying gaming forward after the game crash in 1983. We not only kept buying games, we made a lot of those games too. GenX was the generation that decided to never stop having fun. We embraced "geek stuff" and refused to "grow up". Critically, the PS1 came out right when a lot of us were getting "real jobs" and we wanted games for actual adults. Sony delivered.
great video bro!!!
I like this style of video from Austin. Gives me a techlinked kinds of vibe in his own way and it hits 🔥
These type of videos are really good!
Hope they produce more of those.
Really good video. Nice Austin 👍
I remember getting a Playstation the year after it released for my birthday. The amount of hours, days, and months put into playing games on it still rings in my memories quite well. I stopped playing my SNES mostly, because of the PS and I also was still playing on my Sega Genesis as well. The PS was mind blowing to me, and my mom who would sit and play some of the 2 player games with me at the time. It was a very great time, and I still have some of my favorite games on a shelf today.
Playstation survived the "Console Wars" in the late 90s and early 2000s.......and has dominated the market over the last decade or so
PlayStation currently has no games until 2025
Console not selling
PSVR2 dead
Jim fired for failing to stop Xbox
PS Plus losing millions of subscribers
PS portal flop
PlayStation announced it is now third party and focusing of PC ports because you don’t buy games.
🤡
Bahaha
Nintendo Wii:
Am I a joke to you?
@@onetwo6039The Wii lost steam after 2009 to be honest. Motion controls got old and cumbersome really quickly it's a wonder why Microsoft lost focus and made the kinect which is the real reason why they've never come close to replicating Xbox 360s success
@JayTechZM Mario Galaxy 2 and Skyward Sword both released near the end of the Wii's lifetime, and they were pretty big
i got gossebumps from that impression
16:52 seeing the Hollywood Video logo on the Spyro game just took me back 20 years ❤
Please do more of these retrospectives.
I sometimes wonder how ahead his uploads are considering how fast he uploads such high quality content weeks? months? YEARS?
Damn such nostalgia that sound gives (i love it)
This video really gave me nostalgia for video games seeing as how I was born in 85 and really grew up with all this
I love the factor that you start with a game that originally came out for the PS3!
I was hoping to see your PlayStation collection, not a history lesson
0:10 That's Ridge Racer Type 4 100%. I grew up with that game 🎮. That confusion almost breaks my heart 😢
Great video Austin. Very interesting to hear the history of devices like this. Would you consider doing one about the OG Xbox - that would be another good story.
Who's editing the video here? They are accidentally putting the wrong videogames in the videoclips.
We really were the luckiest kids on earth growing up in that era ❤
Amen brotha 🙏
Can't wait for the next video
16:11 Weird bias, especially not even mentioning how the N64 controller, although a bit odd in design, revolutionized analog control in 3D console gaming, which playstation absolutely struggled with in every way, and the playstation didn't release a copy of it with rumble until far later even after the N64 revolutionized rumble feedback in consoles with the rumble pack.
the n64 came out 2 years after playstation and was better in every way except storing full slow loading CD full of videos and data.
The N64 came in 1996, PlayStation and Saturn got sticks added in 1997.
It doesn't matter if the PlayStation came first, it got sticks last, with Saturn 3D pad coming just months before Sony released the Dualshock.
Scrolling for the ridge racer and Tekken corrections. Ah, there they are.
Says "gran turismo", shows ridge racer type 4
I think the real winner was the friends we made along the way
0:09 thats ridge racer my dude
What game is playing at 4:03 ? Or was that just a demo?
Reminds me of playing my first console the sega master system going to the loft right now to dig it out
Really enjoyed this video, would love more like it
More videos like this would be sick!
You know i was waiting for the ps2 part and the video ended🥹
Idea: broke vs broke or pro vs pro
I wouldn’t say that’s true since here in the United States they’re basically tied in sales.
Nope. Not tied in the US. Ps still beating Xbox in and out of US
In the United States the difference is under 1 million units. That’s as I said basically the same.
It’s actually 4.22 million in the US as of now my guy.
when is the vidoe about ps2 comeing out
Fun fact: today, it’s impossible to find a PAL PS2 slim 700XX.
fun fact it hast been sold for like 15 years. and by the way i have one not for sale just in my collection of console gahtering dust
I have like seven in my kitchen right now so it’s possible I’m part of that problem 😊
I dare you to find one on ebay
CeX sells them, I bought one there, and my mate in the Netherlands got one from them too.
Any of the PS2 models are about as hard to come by as guns on a war zone.
I like these vids but you forgot both the Playstation 1 Net Yaroze and talking about the pallet port being removed and how fast Modchips came for it
Something that doesn't get talked about much because as far as I know this was only a thing in the UK, the PS1 was so instantly cool and part of pop culture that a lot of NIGHTCLUBS would start having them. Sony infiltrated the club scene thanks to games that fit the vibe pretty well like the Wipeout series and Ridge Racer, games legendary for their electronic music. Lara Croft in particular became such an icon of gaming that for a while she honestly sat up there with characters like Mario, Sonic and Pac-Man in terms of recognisability.
Something Austin misses with Nintendo's decision to not go with Sony's CD-ROMs was more directly because they wouldn't have made as much money. On the NES and SNES consoles, third parties had to buy the cartridges from Nintendo, meaning Nintendo made money on the carts directly. With Sony producing the CD-ROMs instead, Nintendo would miss out on this (rather large) revenue stream. This decision was also kept in place for the Nintendo 64 which is why it also used cartridges. It wasn't until Nintendo was able to partner with Matsushita to produce Gamecube discs that had to be licensed through Nintendo--i.e. if you were a third party who wanted to make games on the Gamecube, you had to buy the discs through Nintendo who then had Matsushita produce them. This was all Yamauchi's business decisions.
why was the PlayStation one disc that weird purple color?
It was a form of copyright protection and was the only colour discs you could use in an original PS that wasn’t modded.
The fact as you say they kept making new consoles until 2006 almost seems impossible.
The reason for that weird artifact is the lack of z buffer that handle the depth of objects.
Sega developed the first console to really rival Nintendo with the Mega Drive (Genesis). Sega had over a 50% market share during the 16-bit era and absolutely dominated here in Europe.
Sure, the occasional person here and there had a Super Nintendo, but the big N didn't become a household name in the UK until the Nintendo 64.
Likewise, our market didn't crash due to ET on the Atari. We were all happily playing Spectrums, Commodores and the Mega Drive's predecessor, the Master System. No-one here had really heard of the NES until UA-cam and the AVGN.
One of the big reasons playstation got a lot of developers on board was the production time of games, cartridges took a while to make and you had to make a big bet on launch, which often lead to companies having to sit on dead stock, where as with cds you can burn them easily, sony was able to offer companies new stock in 3 days, when Nintendo could take months
Recently I wanted to get a ds console couldn’t figure out which console I wanted. Found a vintage Austin evans 2ds review!!! Least to say made my mind for me lol
Wow did Microsoft stop Sponsoring This channel, First time I ever heard praise for Playstation from Austin!
I was a 100% PlayStation kid when I was young and I really want to see this series continue
Austin: How Playstation won-
Nintendo: Da hell you say?!
They beat Nintendo in every home console generation they partook in except the Wii. Also you have to take note of the fact that that the switch came out in 2017 and doesn’t compete directly with the PS5. Just wanted to mention that. So out of the big 3 PlayStation is the most consistently successful as they’ve had no failures
playstation won
You cant compare an overpriced android tablet like the switch to a proper console
@@Ignacio.Romero it is a handheld. Gameboy, GBA, Game Gear, PSP, DS, 3ds, Vita and Switch are handhelds.
@@dammyoyesanya4656well the Switch is a handheld so it definitely does not compare to the PS5 which is a home console. The Wifi U was the last Nintendo home console and the Vita was the last Sony handheld.
THAT'S ANOTHER THING I NEVER SEEN ANYBODY DO IS HAVE THE STARTUP OF THE NUMBER ONE GAME CONSOLE.. AND I MUST SAY THE PLAYSTATION ONE HAVE THAT NUMBER ONE STARTUP
17:21 sounded more like a bad impression of the GBA startup than a bad impression of the PS1 startup lol
At 15:00 what's the music?
Still got my 1999 ps1 somewhere, thing still works.
Nice watch, Austin, what is it?
Love this video!
YES thank you Austin! PS1 played such a big part of my gaming childhood as well and that bootup sound is iconic. I'll never forget my excitement to play games like Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2, Jet Moto, Medal of Honor, Klonoa, Croc, The Lost World, and so many more! I played on PS1 and later PC until the Playstation 3 came out upon which I got a PS2 😂
Wow I'm getting old 😅 this all legit feels like stuff that happened yesterday
15:20 no floating point processor, textures and geometry were all handled with whole numbers. I'd go into specifics on handling floating points within whole numbers, but that's beyond the scope of this comment.
Buying my first PS1 is a memory I remember fondly. It was my birthday on a Easter Sunday and my dad wanted to buy me the PS1 but all the stores were closed. I was so eager to get the console we went to a swamp meet and bought a used one. I didn't care, it was awesome. I still remember turning that bad boy on and playing my first game, Wipeout. Ah, good memories.
Amazing video Austin can't wait for the PS2 history video!
Yes. Please continue the series. I’ve enjoyed learning the history behind the consoles.
I can still hear in my head, Resident..Evil..The biggest seller for Playstation was the huge amount of games, good games. That lack of games helped kill the Sega genesis
Why does my phone vibrate every transition effect?
These are great love the history do more company's 😁
Please
A video that isn’t just Austin unboxing “tech” from wish or temu? Am I in an alternate universe?
Nintendo really shot in the foot by ditching Sony and going to Philips and now has created a massive competitor
When I was a kid, my dad worked in Dubai. He sent me a PS1 for Christmas in 2004. But he didn't send any games. Being in a remote village in Kenya, I stayed with it for 2 years without any games until he brought me a PC. PC games were more accessible because of piracy.
I donated the PS1 in 2008 without ever using it.
This was actually an interesting story. I’m happy you shared it.
Im absolutely loving how Sony rolls out the red carpet for PC.
It makes sense from a business standpoint to being games there too.
SEGA did it before it was cool (pretend to be shocked)with games like Daytona and Sonic R.
Why? Because more players means more profits. It helps business boom.
Though day and date releases may affect hardware adoption, consoles are either sold at a loss, or made by former EA employees. (RIP 3DO, You did nothing wrong). So it's not a huge deal for them.
This feels a lot more like Old Austin and I’m all for it
Suprised he didn't bring up the whole Final Fantasy VII situation.
Any way you can share where you got your shirt?
No mention of the sega deal?
Can you do this for the rest of the PlayStation consoles?
😂😂😂😂😂 Austin never stops uploading blud is literally a machine 😂
That start up sound is still sick to this day. I was a Sony kid. had ever ps1 game from us/ca and uk and Japan games. And the same for the ps2. my dad would go to work for a few months and come back with a box off all regions. And same for DVDs. had a uk tv and a Japanese one to. To go with both consoles. Ps1 and 2
Where can i get that shirt
Aaaah Gran Turismo... It may have had only 5 songs in the soundtrack, but they were real bangers :)
are we at 2:46 completely ignoring the Master System?
Austin looking like Billy The Quiz Boy as per usual
I played the heck out of that demo CD that came with the Playstation when I bought it, cause I couldn't afford a game along with it until the next birthday around.
That Crash, Wipeout and Ridgeracer demo, along with that Diehard trilogy demo. That game was something else.
We lived at the peak of all ages, nothing like the 90's.
The first edition PS3 40/60GB machines was the best PS as it was the only one to be truly compatible with PS2 & PS1 games
They won because the Xbox brand under Spender doesn’t appeal to anyone outside of Burger King employees and PC gamers with anger issues.
Xbox's main issue is that they take games that cater SOLELY to the states and assume it will be jist as popular elsewhere.
Japan doesn't care for FPS games like the states, or big battle royales, so naturally they won't sell as good elsewhere in comparison.
Sony, SEGA and Nintendo knew that and tried/try to cater to each domain with more genres like RPGs, platformers, racers, etc.
I love Xbox, but they're incredibly dense.
As a long time Xbox user who moved over to PS recently, the answer is they offered more innovation and beneficial options. This doesnt mean they or the other 2 are flawless, but PS still offered many important factors that Xbox was axing like offline-use and complete 1st party games on disc, plus some unique games like Deep Rock Galactic only had PS5 physicals so no brainer. Xbox really poked their own wheel spoke and dont even know what to blame.
Playstation fans shouldn’t be happy about the current state of Xbox and they won’t realise this until they’re gone. A monopoly on the entire home console market would screw over both publishers and consumers and they could charge Apple prices for their consoles and games with no competition to stop them.
They already tried this with the PS3 after the massive success of the PS2 when they tried to charge $599 for cheapest model which was alot back then and it made them lose market share to Xbox because a 360 at the time was like $299 and forced them to lower their prices eventually.