Fifth Generation of Consoles (Zero Punctuation) 

It's space helmet is starting to crack.

Sometimes that can help. Breath of the wild was pretty much a completely different open world game from everything else and it was great

Nintendo is playing a different game from everyone else. It has its anti-consumer bullshit, but it's a different flavor of anti-consumer bullshit from the other companies (generally affecting content creators more than the typical gamer, though they seem to be getting worryingly fond of artificial scarcity).

@@jacks1368 Haha, yeah, this comment hasn't aged well hasn't it? Gone forever it seems are the fun days of Satoru Iwata and their quirkiness with IPs and Nintendo Direct... sadly.

@@abloogywoogywoo It has aged well in some sense. Sony and Microsoft out buying companies for billions of dollars and Nintendo’s just like “haha funny beaver game”

So many wonderful things were invented out of spite, weren't they?

CD was the entire reason, they couldn’t decide who would get CD control (money, games, license, etc). So Nintendo broke off and went with the CDi because they gave Nintendo all the control. Sony in the end was like well we already have an entire console and let’s make our own CDs and games.

@@mikedawolf95 so essentially- zelda CDi is indirectly responsible for my whole childhood?

The fact that the PlayStation exists pretty much out of spite is a beautiful hilarious thing

Also, Sony approached Sega for a deal and it was looking good until Sega of Japan stepped in and was like "That's a horrible idea! Sony doesn't know anything about games!" And thus the deal went through. Oh the irony.

Didn't he also just hate the Saturn & deliberately undermined it at every opportunity?

@@gingermcgingin1733 yes, he did. He gave a speech in 1996 in which he said Sega's future wasn't with the Saturn. Problem was the Dreamcast was still three years away, and since Sega supporting five other systems at the time it gave publishers the impression they might soon discontinue the Saturn.

And how authentic the rumble mechanics are

It’s for walking as man

Walkstation Playman Playwalk Stationman

The fuck was the idea behind the playstation portable then?

@@patrickhanlon2325 which is why ‘mobile games’ don’t make sense cause you don’t play on your phone while running. Unless you are supposed to?

Henrique Carvalho Ip

How do you know everyone's not secretly into dolphin sex, and it's you who are the odd one out? Speak for yourself, weirdo!

Henrique Carvalho You make it sound as if what he said is abnormal

Why horror?

Mitch L but they didn't HAVE to elect gummie bear guy

gummie bear guy is third parties that would never win in the election

PC is the "deep state"

Beedarswasd I would say Wall Street really

Eh, more a bloke biting the heads off gummy bears to try and look intimidating.

Germans didn’t really reach Siberia though..

@@noop9k and that's my friend.. is the whole point

@@muhwyndham @noop9k why tf yall repling to a 3years old comment?

@@arthur_mcjonhson1608 why are you committing? Lol.

@@arthur_mcjonhson1608 why not

Cough cough *nintendo switch* cough cough

No true gamer is satisfied by just owning a Nintendo console. At least on Xbox you get most 3rd party titles. Sony is the console choice for enthusiasts on a budget, PC for people who actually give a damn.

@@qty1315 Incidentally, the Switch does indeed have a RU-vid app, so I'd say Nintendo is going to be sitting pretty for a good while yet.

@@Harkness78 Or computer illiterates like me who just want to sit and play a game with out having to update to the latest hardware.

With Sony and Microsoft trying their best to impress PC gaming, Nintendo is pretty much just attempting to see how close they can get to making an iPhone.

Considering they sold like hotcakes at their peak and PlayStation and Xbox One have built in motion controls just in case. That episode will have to wait A LOT.

Maybe the gimmick would be more palatable in 2030, like VR.

The XB1 and PS4 do not have motion controls built in.

Unless you mean with the silly wands (ie Kinect), then no it does not.

Joe Smith Silly wands? I thought that was Playstation Move? From what I remember about X-Box Kinect, it actually tracked an entire person's body. When it wasn't misreading everything and thinking you've fallen prey to a terrible accident

Grinning Goat ill take the bathtub of gummy worms instead. Gummy worms are the best for the skin :3

Nintend-orks?

At least Nintendo makes games with color and fun, not defecate on the screen and smear it around for the sake of “realism.”

Yeah but it’s a thin type of business practice to make them out of touch with the online market and they are fan modding community I mean if Nintendo was a little better at dealing with fan and the fan games maybe babysit and perch pretty on the best place for old games and the switch would bring Nintendo 90 %. Market share

Well, Nintendo have been around for 130 years, so it's not like they can't adapt to changes in the games market.

No, sadly only one paint can accessory exists, and we all know who owns it

@@akisa7865 who?

@@boothbyaw THE NEEEEERD!

And even now almost 15 year in

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Well, considering I read the words in the announcer's voice, I'm going to say it was a reference to Altered Beast, where I never got past the Were Dragon level.

Same. Never beat it, but I got that one sega genesis comp. for the 360 which an unlockable arcade/infinite lives mode. still never beat it legit tho

I downloaded that game to my phone (one of the first old games SEGA is releasing for mobile) and I, too, was unable to beat the were-dragon level (level 2). Seriously screw that many-eyed boss!

Edison Trent That eyeball boss was the fucking worst

kappa demonn Zeus; Zeus would be the "old dude" in question here.

@@qty1315 Yeah, Sony shot themselves in the foot several times with the PSP and Vita. PSPs CDs from what I remember broke easily and that was back when nobody accepted long loading times on a portable console and the Vita could have competed well with the 3ds if they didn't tell conventional SD cards to shove it. Though to be honest, Sony probably would have pulled out anyways even if the Vita was a success considering the Switch blended console and portability so well they even killed their own 3DS.

@@nintendoentersoft tbh the 3DS kinda had it's other leg in have already before switch was revealed

If it's portable my mam calls it a gameboy, if it's a console my mam calls it a playstation. This is where I would like to point out I have never in my life owned a gameboy or a playstation.

High Luxlord That's the 8th generation of consoles. Plus the X B O X isn't out yet. So you can't really get an opinion on it yet.

Look its the internet high horse squadron.

counting has nothing to do with it, very few people Including "hardcore gamers" (under any version of that term) Actually know the total number of game generations there have been. Specially with teh line being blurred with some systems spanning multiple generations and some generations spanning multiple systems.

That would require numbers. Which none of the consoles have.

You're not the only one... ;-;

One of the first games I ever saw on my Dad's original PlayStation was an M&Ms game. He also had Final Fantasy 4-9 to counter it I guess.

Nova Storm And then the parents are like: "Honey, please go outside. You've been on that computer all day"

More like, "Let's sell GPU cards at 500 dollars a pop so perma-virgins can brag about how superior their rig is to consoles."

And requiring ever more piles of monopoly money to get into...

TBH, PC gaming didn’t hit it big until the last generation. Before it was a lot more niche/smaller

Yeah no. Like what you've done here, I have never seen a single console video on youtube without some sad lonely neckbeard telling everyone in the comments about how superior PC and PC gamers are

It was in my opinion the best era for platformers, on PS2 ( J&D, R&C, Sly Cooper), and Gamecube (Mario Sunshine is still one of my fav platformers). It had the best racing game (Burnout 3, dont at me), started multiplayer gaming (the original Xbox had some decent multiplayer even for current standards).

Yeah but the whole point of this series is to remind us all the retarded moments in gaming history. Wouldn't work so well with things the gaming industry got right.

+SkyRip And it made some of the greatest open-world crime games ever made.

Geeky comlicated Warcraft?

I think yahtzee did an extra punctuation article at some point on why he thinks the ps2 era is probably the closest thing there is to a clear golden age in video games due to it being in just that right sweet spot on the ratio of technology to dev costs. Like the further back we go, the cheaper things generally get, but the worse the technology get, and vice versa for further ahead. The ps2/gamecube era being in *just* the right spot on this scale where you have the technology to realize most visions of gameplay, just so long as you don't go completely crazy with it, but the dev costs are still low enough that you could afford being creative. I really kind of agree with this. I cant quite imagine something like pikmin, katmari damacy or super monkey ball as being something that could possibly come out during the ps3 era or later unless they were highly experimental indie games you would get of off steam or something.

Almost all of his videos have a Switch or 2DS ad for some reason, even though he shits on pretty much everything, and the content isn't exactly kid freindly

I never said that Nintendo didn't have to be kid friendly did I? But neither does fisherprice, but that doesn't stop them from making kids toys. Not that adults can't enjoy them either, It's all perspective

Well do you still eat children's breakfast cereal ?

I think I prefer the dull as dishwater PS (insert numeric value+1) to Microsofts "pick a random series of letters and numbers and see if it sounds edgy enough" approach.

@@iank472 now we’re getting PSVR 2

Of course something today will be better than something from many years ago. That's not a new revelation.

This F*cking Doofus NOT TODAY!

and someday you might come up with an original comment but not today.

Dank Nanamemes You do realise the irony your reply, right? Also, I'd say his comment _is_ original. At least it isn't him saying "FIRST!! :O" or some copy pasted bs.

I think this post is the definition of 1st world problem

This was uploaded a week ago on the escapist website

It's funny, because I never thought about the prices of these early consoles, but when I was growing up, we had a SEGA Mega Drive in the house, yet it was barely ever used. Never considered my parents the types to splash out on a machine like that if they weren't going to use it much...

The Elephant of Doom and lest we not forget the 64 doubleD, to which all n64 games were basically sacrificed to because expansions we're planned and the only thing we got out of it was Majora's mask (good as it is but not what was promised)

The worst part is the extremely limited storage on cartridges compared to discs. Even Resident Evil 2, the biggest game on the N64 by far, was only 64 MB whereas the PS1 version had 2 700 MB discs and it really shows.

William Proto Yeah, I'm still amazed that they managed to cut enough corners to make Resident Evil 2 work on the N64. Some major technological wizardry. The FMVs look shockingly bad on the N64 though.

I do wonder what the industry would be like if the n64 was a cd based system the PlayStation wouldn't have nearly as big of a 3rd party line up because the only reasons most jumped ship was costly development and memory limits PlayStation probably would've faded out of existence and it might only be Nintendo and pc gaming maybe xbox

N64 devs really shit the bed with their texture buffer. I don’t really understand what were they thinking.

I don't have a gaming PC. I hate using desk top computers for anything outside of work.

Super Adamska 64 oh yeah, forgot about that game That'd be pretty cool!

Gotta have my Pops

Not quite sure why you'd take offense, as going by your orthography you still are a toddler.

Get high+Fruit loops

The Jaguar _did_ have a 64-bit bus and graphics chip-set with a 64-bit word length in RAM. The British company that developed the hardware were making two consoles code-named Cheetah and Jaguar, Jaguar having the 64-bit graphics tech and Cheetah having the 32-bit tech. Sadly, because Atari were desperate and poorly managed, they cancelled the Cheetah and released the Jaguar before it was complete, so the hardware is buggy and missing features, thus games were hard to make and looked like shit.

Organism...

Well organisms make many different sounds. Dogs bark, cats meow, cows go moo. You're going to need to be more specific

HOW DO I HOLD YOU!?

He bashed the N64 controller in his Ocarina of Time 3D video, joking that it "seemed to have been designed for a hypothetical race of mutant spider-people".

I wish PS Home had a modern successor on the PS5 and according to rumours it might happen even if after a while PS Home just became a advertising hub sadly and just wanted to sell you stuff like the saddest metaverse.