The Astronomic Rise of the PlayStation | VideoGameDocs 

Nice work on this man! The PlayStation's story is probably one of the most interesting stories in the history of gaming.

Outstanding job! I have thoroughly enjoyed this video and the Sega Saturn/Dreamcast one's. Keep up the great work, subbed

Anyone else rewatching old videos waiting for Video Game Docs to release a new history? ; ) Jk!! Take your time, but excited to see what you come up with next!

SONY had actually 2 games development teams before the Playstation and were part of Sony Music, and later 3, one was Sony Imagesoft which made mostly license games for the Nes, Snes, Genesis and Sega CD, the second was Digital Pictures the creators of the FMV games which failed in the late 80s, but Sony bought them and were one of the strongest makers of FMV games released on the Sega CD., the third team came later, when the Playstation was full on in development, it was the British studio Psygnosis, which was one of the biggest PC gaming developers of the 80s

The thing about Sony with the Playstation is that they learned from the failures of the 32bit consoles, they saw the "backstage" sorta speaking of the gaming industry, Shuhei Yoshida said on a podcast that they looked and learned from the mistakes of the 3DO for example, after all Trip Hawkins wanted Sony to be one of the several brands making it´s own Sony 3DO, just like panasonic, Goldstar and others did, Sony also learned from the mistakes of Atari with the Jaguar, the issues of Nintendo with licensing and their partners, and the mistakes of Sega, finally, Sony reframed how to run a videogames console, they didn´t sell it as a videogame system but as an entertainment system, but with the "cool" feeling of sega and the great games of Nintendo, in contrast to the boring too serious apporach of 3DO and the lack of quality games of the jaguar, is more than clear that nobody, not even Nintendo and Sega knew how to develop a good 32 bit system, and how to make games for it, Sega were the ones that made 3D games good with their arcades, but they might have wanted to make the Saturn a downgraded version to keep the similarity with the arcade originals at home, just like they did with the Megadrive, the games looked like arcades but not replaced the arcades, but when Sony came with a system that had games that looked like the arcades with Tekken and Ridge Racer was too late for Sega, i don´t buy the story they made a 2D system cause Sega were the leaders of 3D gaming, and Kutaragi was inspired by the 3D arcades of Sega, they just didn´t know how to make a proper system for the next gen, the same problem happened to nintendo

The Atari VCS (2600) from 1977 till 1992 and GO!

Superb job on putting this together!!

Thank you for your uploads

incredible how they were able to pull this off and outclass the two giants with years of success under their belt. the other thing was the immense number of games and variety, something we don't really have anymore on console. now ppl fight over a couple of "exclusives" to see who has a few more lol

Lets get informed gamers.

You shouldn't put a red line at the bottom of your thumbnails, because it looks like a video that I just watched even when I did not.

Great video 😊

Really great quality videos!

Very good quality!

Floating Point Integers? Don't you mean floating point "numbers"?

So Sony is the reason destruction derby was killed That’s a damn shame that was the game i would always play on n64 so underrated

While the playstation was sony’s first game console, but if we count the australian version of the playstation wich could also play video CD’s, we could consider it sony’s next hybrid system,and while the msx was NOT sony’s exclusive system,but it was clearly a hybrid computer and game console in 1, sony did heavily focussed on gaming back in the 80’s withe their msx with accessoires such as controllers wich clearly imitated those nes controllers, It’s sad that the sony msx faded into obscurity, Am stunned that sony could do it all alone with their ps1 with no help from sega or nintendo or atari, neither of their games appeared on the ps1 Well sony only needed to learn from their mistakes, am sure if sony came first with their 32bit system, am sure they would,ve make those same mistakes like those compatitors did.

Back when Sony was great and innovative not the censorship lords they have become today. I miss that Sony who made games for gamers not for activists who don’t even buy their games

The PS1 had half a meg of RAM? Wow

Ps1 was good. Sega Saturn in Japan was good. Sega Saturn in Usa sucked. 😂

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Sony won three gens (PS1, PS2, & PS4), Nintendo won three gens (NES, Super NES, & Wii), if you only count the handheld side Nintendo hasn't lost at all.

This is such an underrated channel, it deserves so much more love.

The best PS1 model is the PS1 Slim (aka PS one). The PS1 Slim was and is the true Sony PSP.

Crazy how Sega shut down the very same Playstation that put their Saturn and later Dreamcast out of production.

What's the game called at 12:40?

Nice video as always!!

Good stuff, the SNES and the PS1 were my favorite consoles, and the Saturn in retrospect was the one I feel like I missed out on the most even to this day getting to experience it's games is not easy. But at the time this was all happening I didn't realize just how dominant PS1 had become. Not much competition from sega and a 2 year lead on N64 phew.

PlayStation 2 is still my favorite in this line of consoles but damn the PS1 was awesome. Resident Evil 1 and 2 and Metal Gear Solid were the heavy hitters for me. And Tekken was definitely the king of the 3D fighter, at least on home consoles.

You are such a N fan boy. Sony got FF beyond just storage. Accessibility and cost made it possible. However Sony had access to CGI tech that was shared with Soft and that was dynamic in the shift. Graphics became way bigger in FMV and that was a massive share of tech that destroyed N. As to speak on Sony had more money. Ha. They may have but didn't then. Sony has continued to punch out of their weight continuing to destroy Microsoft who has way more money. Microsoft is shifting in a benign way less dramatic than Sega. They've done that by not dollar bills but destroying their competitors over and over again. Until someone can do it better and have more accessibility to both developers and reach to an audience, get over it.

Europe got more games than the USA wtf? I'm English so I'm not complaining 😅

I got the Nintendo 64 in 1996, then the Playstation in 1998. It fit more with my "party mind" toward the end of my teenage years 😂

Long live Sony. Long live the Playstation.

It went like this 299dollar = WIN 😂😂😂

Can't see the power of the N64. Except a few "rare" cases.

So the sample rate was 44.1. Interesting

damn, this needs way more likes

glad to find this vid

Your videos are quality, ty for covering retro gaming.

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New sub dude really enjoying these types of videos i was born in 88 and played on many system generations

How do these videos not have millions of views

Fun fact I learned while working at a game store in the 90's. You could fix a slow playstation by turning it upside down. Our theory at the store was that it put less stress on an aging motor and thus could spin faster. This also worked for the hdd on an old pc that crashed years back. Turning the drive upside down worked, but just long enough to copy the contents to a new one.