10 Sony MISTAKES They Want You To Forget

[@chrisboone4039]

Remember when it was free to play online on PSN? Talk about disappointing.

[@shivalah]

but but but... the service is superior to everything else because you pay for it! And and and you get free games. (in case someone doesn't sarcasm: paying twice for online is stupid and the 2 games are only included in the membershit that sony "offers" because their service is de facto fraud)

[@JuanGarcia-ft7yd]

Shivalah I wouldn’t even mind paying if the 2 games you get were actually good. I haven’t looked at the free games and been like “oh shit, I can’t wait to download and play that game” in so long and it’s just so disappointing every month

[@fezzverbal]

For some games it still is.

[@darthwhiner]

Chris Boone Xbox started paying to play online first

[@F17A]

Shivalah so Xbox’s subscriptions are ok but when PS does it it’s fraud? At least Ps has only 1 subscription and it gives you everything unlike xbox where you have to pay more.

[@Volker_A4]

#1 That time when every single PSN account was compromised at the same time.

[@actionboy3221]

will adam I was just about to mention that. Also I remember a time PSN was down for like a month or something? It had to be at least a few weeks. It was a long long time.

[@sambrito2622]

Action Boy yeah the servers were hacked it was on ps3 right? I’m pretty sure the hacking group anonymous did it

[@luisruiz5045]

Vague lizard squad actually. Anonymous brought it back

[@articusramos808]

One was anonymous the other was lizard squad.

[@joshuachristofferson9227]

Yeah, kinda surprised the ONE that everyone will remember, didn't make the list of "Mistakes they want (us) to forget." Kinda dropped the ball on that one, gameranx LOL smh

[@NicTube777]

The fact that the PS4 can't play a normal audio CD still blows my damn mind.

[@ohno5593]

Really? Wtf no way!

[@NicTube777]

@@ohno5593 Found out the hard way 😅

[@O-o-Azazel-o-O]

Who in the fuck still uses audio cd's?

[@Dustin-hg9nc]

ecky-1984 I don't know but I'm gonna find an old CD & see for myself

[@NicTube777]

@@O-o-Azazel-o-O A lot of people 😂

[@Krs55]

The PSN Hack/Downed Servers issue should’ve been number one honestly.

[@supermandad9172]

That wasn't a mistake they did, that was a hack.

[@supermandad9172]

@@teres4_uwu it wasn't lack of security. Security is akwys as strong as you can get it. There is akwys a way to get around it. And once someone does you try to improve it. Top government and top companies have been hacked. They don't lack security it just means there are alot more clever people out there. Had to edit beginning, frased it wrong.

[@nevadadavoode83]

Marco Zorzin Sony did actually make a mistake which was they didn’t notify users a week before that their information could be stolen. They got a lot of criticism for that from a lot of people and even government officials.

[@supermandad9172]

@@nevadadavoode83 oh yeah please give me one example of any company telling their customer. "hello we just like to inform you all that your information could be stolen." Please one example. Do you realise the backlash they get from that aswell. You yourself would have said why you telling us this instead of reinforcing your security. Which is probably what they were doing instead of wasting time telling people they info could be stolen. No company would do that it'd be suicide. Yes every company gets criticism when info gets stolen. That's just how it goes. That wasn't a mistake it was sensible for a company to no say anything before it happens. You wudnt do that if you owned a business it'd be stupid to.

[@climber6420]

Didn't they know it was gonna happen ,sorry if I'm wrong I'm a PC gamer but that's what I heard.

[@Crossbar_Pain]

The time everyone’s account was at risk?! How was that not even on the list😂

[@frostbite1991]

man I remember when it was down for like 2 months. dark times.

[@Crossbar_Pain]

Zac Price exactly! I thought that would’ve been #1 for sure lol who cares about the price, we’re all gonna buy it anyways😅

[@Flamecreeper677]

Ya I’m surprised it’s not on the list especially after how Sony acted with telling users.

[@LucifersDog]

Which time lol

[@Alex_Logan22]

That was more of a reaction than a mistake. Maybe not the best reaction, but better than everyone's identity being stolen.

[@pyro3366films]

"famous battles which actually took place in ancient Japan." then "giant enemy crab." - E3 Sony 2006

[@sigurd6018]

Giant enemy spider father.

[@senhoruiver]

Giant enemy spider

[@roberto5red5rocky85]

As a long time Xbox owner. This video only pisses me off that i didnt move to PS sooner. If they did a list like this for Xbox nothing on this list would even crack the top 20. I will never buy another Xbox again

[@Shadowlizard48]

This is the one I remember lol

[@askmeificare5557]

@@roberto5red5rocky85 Good for you, nobody asked.

[@luciano_trivelli]

Motion sensitivity is not that important Nintendo: * laughs in wii *

[@fourwordsalluppercase_597]

The wii's success was purely because how good wii sports was. Outside that, it really was just a gimmick

[@filipe5226]

fourwordsalluppercase _ Mate the wii controller was great for much more than wii sports, just try playing resident evil 4 on a ps3 and compare it to the wii version.

[@ritterds3886]

but the switch has motion sensitivity AND rumble

[@Curlyheart]

Fun fact you can point your Wii mote at the sun it will work!

[@amirwhite1899]

Filipe i actually enjoyed DBZ TK3 on the wii.

[@Betermin]

You have to remember that when the PS3 was first released, Blu Ray players were just starting to become household items at about $300-$500 a pop alone. So the PS3 was kind of a bargain console/BRD player hybrid, and I guess that's how they justified the price.

[@Boris_V]

The PS2 was the same story when it came out. I remember a PS2 being €300 at release and a good DVD player was around €500. I tried to tempt my parents into buying one as they wanted a DVD player. Didn't work, they just bought a €500 DVD player.

[@bsully1215]

@@Boris_V That's how I convinced my mom. Although it did require her to first buy me a shitty DVD player (not kidding, especially for $100) for Christmas. LOL! We got to Sears to return it, and then I saw the PS2 in the glass case with all it's glory. I explained how much better it would be because it was both a DVD player and a video game system. She caved to the $300 price. Win win!

[@koloth5139]

If I remember correctly Blu-ray players were a lot more than that when the PS3 launched. Closer to $1000. The PS3 was the cheapest and frankly best Blu-ray player on the market for a while. But it was a much harder sell than the PS2 since Blu-ray was new it could have lost the format war.

[@cambeswick]

@@koloth5139 Yeah that's right and at the time Sony had spent so much on marketing Blu Ray that people thought it was going to be the pinnacle of technology haha

[@wave._.hunter]

Sony sent you

[@atomsk86]

Honorable mention should include the following: PSN breach 2011, When they included spyware on their music CDs, Dropping PS3 and Vita from PS+, etc.

[@juanb201]

THANK YOU!! ☝️👆

[@taylorwatson5421]

I mean dropping the ps3 and vita ps+ titles was inevitable. I’m sure they’ll stop doing it for the PS4 come 2025

[@RichieLanderos]

Honorable mention? That should’ve been #1. Account and personal info was hacked. Not to mention it took them longer then a month to even fix it.

[@michaelmcclintick9541]

Got me 3 free games from that "mistake"

[@PerfectBurn101]

Michael McClintick the bad part it was three games that weren’t even that good. It was infamous, little big planet and I forgot the last one. It’s not even gonna cover the fact that everyone got hacked.

[@Styrophoamicus]

I was so hyped by the Playstation Phone. It was actually a pretty solid piece of kit for the time. It's real use came in through emulators, though, so you could play retro games with a proper controller. Felt pretty boss being able to make a phone call, then slide open the controller and play Yoshi's Island.

[@ROCKYPLAYA]

That's hot.

[@Shifty307]

@lalo38th Which phones have a built in controller now?

[@LAIRDO-]

I sill have mine!!

[@lonewanderer5515]

I had it and loved it the she screen gave up with opening and closing it a lot

[@fbi855]

Hmm interesting

[@enderisaacyourunlocalthigh459]

"It bombed in Japan" *Great choice of words* Geez. You guys gotta rub in my partial deafness? I was listening to this with my right ear, which is kinda deaf.

[@cyberspacedweller637]

in...

[@arcanum3882]

Gypsy Jake, the joke still works if you say”in” pretty sure it was just a typo pal.

[@radicallarry1006]

We sank a few boats, they dropped the sun in us twice

[@rebeccaoregan8036]

*oh no*

[@mrsantoro8306]

Gypsy Jake Stop the boomer meme. It’s stupid and annoying.

[@legoshisshibahusband]

This channel is like TheGamer but actually good

[@hi-br5vm]

I love this channel

[@noobytunes7289]

Yea

[@someperson998]

Yep, true

[@jochxyxn]

That's a lotta damage

[@legoshisshibahusband]

@@jochxyxn let's give it a little more

[@Marozi1]

Sony were actually selling the PS3 at a loss to start with, the reason it was so expensive at launch was because it had a Blu-Ray drive, these were very expensive at the time and a lot of standalone players cost more than the console, it was also considered one of the best Blu-Ray players you could buy (partly due to firmware updates by having an online connection) and for a while was the only one on the market capable of decoding both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD (Blu-Ray Profile 2.0). The Xbox 360 in comparison had a standard DVD drive, hence why some games had more than 1 disc.

[@beardedbaldingoldfartbutyo6985]

They did that to get dominance with THEIR blue-ray concept. You don't see much HD-DVD these days.

[@j800r_aswell]

Nah, it was a mix of things but mainly the special Cell processor and backwards compatibility with the PS2 on a hardware level. Hence why they later stripped out that backwards compatibility, to bring down the price and not make a loss. Blu-Ray was their format so I highly doubt that being much of a factor in driving the price up.

[@novarl5082]

J Ryan no it was the blu ray that made it cost more. blu ray players were expensive at the time

[@j800r_aswell]

@@novarl5082 Do you have evidence of this? Of course they were expensive. It was new technology and they would have to pay license fees to Sony, but Sony OWNS the technology so I'm not wholly convinced that was the case.

[@danielpassigmailcom]

@@j800r_aswell Blu ray drives were still expensive to manufacture back then, even though they had developed the technology themselves.

[@stevenkitchensphotography9319]

One of the biggest for me is getting rid of PlayStation Home. I literally played it more than anything else and made a lot of friends on there and played it until the day it was taken offline and it was a sad sad day. I hope they bring it back.

[@davidgallardoiii8079]

StevenKitchens Photography I miss PS Home. Such a great app. Good times. 😭😭😭😭

[@MrYK-]

I remember that island where people would get married lmao. Wtf were those times

[@LightningSe7en]

PS Home was mindblowing at the time. Like wtf. I was in a cinema in a game.

[@exiledpreest]

I do miss PS Home. Nevermind it looked like a ps1 game on the PS3. That's how I met all my current online psn friends.

[@a.ftp4207]

For real

[@JL-tp6zf]

gameranx is like that family member who brings up embarrassing moments from your childhood you’ve been trying to forget about for years

[@skilldry786]

“It bombed in Japan” you or your script writer chose a very poor choice of words

[@hillaryclinton1558]

He means that it Flopped. It's a common term used in the US

[@priyajohn9198]

@@hillaryclinton1558 issa joke

[@Aliboser]

@@hillaryclinton1558 Captain obvious to the rescue

[@thatssonathalie9408]

😂😂😂 "it bombed in japan." Its so stupid its kinda funny they'd say that

[@eg3605]

SOOOO FUNNY

[@MattyFurious]

It was hard to hear $599 USD without being followed by "Giant, enemy crabs"

[@michaelgoodwin80]

Hit the controllers weak spot for maximum damage

[@wtfchuck9552]

Such massive damage

[@ronaldsimon9718]

ps4 pro cost equivalent to $700 in my country at the moment. i bet ps5 will be like $800-$900. here if it cost $500 in the US.

[@volticnl]

@@ronaldsimon9718 just order oversea, you will spend like half the price.

[@colombianleone8663]

It seems the narrator willfully didn't include the price of Blue Ray players in 2006 which went for over $1000. PS3 was a game + Blue Ray bundle in one console so it was massively flying off shelves (I remember this detail since our family was looking to get one because of it's low cost to play Blue Ray).

[@wirlogx]

PS Vita TV: "Still uses our overly expensive memory cards." And that's folks, why no one bought that thing...

[@angeldiaz762]

Right? Even Nintendo was smart enough to choose MicroSD cards

[@futoijosei]

I bought one. And I have multiple memory cards.

[@itIsI988]

@@futoijosei I stuck with the 4GB one that came with mine. Those shits were way too overpriced.

[@fourwordsalluppercase_597]

Ironically, thats the future of the industries right now. Ps5 and the X X both are going to have overpriced memory cards to play it the way its supposed to be played

[@itIsI988]

@@fourwordsalluppercase_597 The PS5 is going to take regular M.2 drives. It's the Xbox that's going to use proprietary drives.

[@ELVISCAMILO1]

Big mistake Sony did so far was not backwards on ps4

[@lutetium1755]

Elvis Camilo they couldn’t because the architecture of the ps4 is a lot different than previous consoles, so it would’ve taken a lot more time and the price would’ve been higher

[@canonkingsley6569]

Ikr? That still hurts.

[@fourwordsalluppercase_597]

The ps4's biggest success was the X1 reveal.

[@luviawolfhound6078]

They did it to reduce cost,they did it once in the og ps3 and the price suddenly goes higher out of their prediction.still,it dissapointing that ps4 pro didnt haf backward compability and it even barely an upgrade from og ps4.

[@tcideh4929]

@@lutetium1755 the latest xbox still does.

[@jamesisace93]

When I first got my PS3 you could receive messages when playing a game, you'd get a notification but you had to quit the game to read or reply....

[@jovo116]

I legit looked at the thumbnail, and I thought Sony made a vape

[@Cyphule]

Bruh

[@jovo116]

@@Cyphule I would be playing TLOU 2 on a vape

[@coughman9833]

lmao

[@Meowblivion]

BRUH XDXDXD I nearly choked laughing at that omg!

[@pain4623]

Give yourself popcorn lung to aim your gun

[@nileydam2253]

Puting "Life of Black Tiger" on PS store

[@bert_gunda303]

😂

[@rainbot32]

What are you talking about? It's a great game, you clearly never finished the amazing main story, smh my head

[@viciousbane569]

Nil Eydam oh damn I forgot about that game

[@SirBlackReeds]

Putting Ruff Trigger on PS Store.

[@JargonMadjin]

Caddicarus mentioned terrible games seemingly exclusive to the US version of the PS Store and Life of Black Tiger was one of them

[@sebs0009]

What if you, Wanted to go heaven, But god said, PlayStation network name is not available.

[@papasalvo]

7:10 you guys forgot to mention that at one point due to an "error" in an update playstation and xbox players did play in the same lobbies on fortnite. No one knows how long exactly as it wasnt noticed until a player brought it up but it was turned of quickly after it made headlines so yea it was like flipping a switch

[@viciousbane569]

DREDNAWT HD oh yeah

[@davidmcguire6043]

I play fortnite with my son all the time I have a PS4 and he has an Xbox

[@papasalvo]

@@davidmcguire6043 yea you didnt use to be able to but round season 3 or 4 is when they update that "accidently" merged the two together but then someone blabbed and they had to turn it off. Then from there the community clamored for it so much sont caved and gave the green light and times were good. Unfortunately now all platforms play together it's something you can turn off but it makes finding a lobby a hassle and a half so people om console and mobile amd switch are usually dunked on by PC players due to the limitations of their hardware not because they are bad.

[@randybradley4151]

It's funny that everyone thinks that's what SONY said and that's not what they said. Shawn said "'enabling cross-play isn't just about flipping a switch and "there you go." So they're saying there is more to it than just flipping a switch. Shawn went on to explain what they meant from their statement 'So we had to look at it from a technical point of view, we have to work with our partners from a business point of view, we have to make sure that if we enable this, do we have the right customer service support, do we have the right messaging out there, do we have all these different things that you have to get in line,' Layden said. 'It's rather ordinal - they have to go in a certain order to get them all set up."

[@papasalvo]

@@randybradley4151 this doesnt change my statement the code for turning on crossplay is and was readily available literally at any point and fairly simple to implement especially for Fortnite becuase they already had it going at that time. His statements are nebulous and just a scape goat as to why they didnt want to have the two connected. In other statements it was said they didnt want it because they couldnt guarantee parents that people on the internet wouldnt be mean to their precious love childs failing to take into consideration that people on the PSN could be just as mean and have nothing happen if not repeatedly reported. If a game already allows for cross platform play between two platforms its not hard or out of the realm of imagination of bringing in a third.

[@VoltFall]

PlayStation/Sony: I would of gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling gameranx

[@Szbx]

Hmm yes really weird kids

[@jseay12487]

Hex smiter 😂😂😂

[@astrovisionmedia9677]

How do you not mention when all of the PSN accounts were hacked during the PS3 Era. I remember The network was down for months and in return they let us all pick 2 of 6 free games lol. That's how I first got into Little Big Planet.

[@polishhammer1992]

almost forgot about that haha. I grew up poor so I was always 1-2 generations behind in videogames so I wasn't affected. lol

[@viciousbane569]

Grzegorz Bielak at that time I had the Wii

[@astrovisionmedia9677]

@@polishhammer1992 lmao I feel that, I still play that PS3 bc that's all I got

[@danielmora5932]

@@astrovisionmedia9677 bro i dont use my ps4 and i kinda feel bad is kinda weird asking for you adress but i can mail it to you

[@MaximMicheal20]

PSN was down for 3 weeks dude not months.

[@ravn_blade]

Did you forget that the OG PS3 had PS2 hardware in it for its backwards compatibility and that is the reason it cost soo much

[@ibapreppie]

I mentioned that to lol. And the fact that it was also the cheapest blu-ray player on the market.

[@jasontevepaugh]

@@jsullivan2112 No people were not dumb they just wanted a video game console not an entertainment system. It doesn't help it cost more than the 360 and games at the time looked worse than the 360 especially considering the 360 was cheaper to.

[@ravn_blade]

@Stephen A. Smith please tell me i wanna know, what kinda PC build you could have made when the PS3 first dropped in 2006 for $600

[@nigel0o0o]

@@ravn_blade Not something more powerful. PC's that day were not as fast as similarly priced consoles.

[@robertt9342]

Nigel van Kersen , atleast not for $600. For more than $1000, it was easy.

[@jediprotector216]

"Here's this Giant, Enemy Crab and attack it's weak point for massive damage." Remember this quote from the PS3 reveal?

[@ROCKYPLAYA]

Genji?

[@pedroferreira8033]

"this game is historical accurated." sorry if bad english

[@Scr4ppy]

Real Time Weapon Change!

[@Aries73]

FFXIV took a dig at this with one of their FATEs, aptly named “Giant Enemy Crab”.

[@newphilmz3605]

Based on battles that actually took place

[@Bbreezy3900]

The thing that was cool about the ps3 was if you had internet you could play multiplayer and thats how consoles should be.If they were theyd have 100x more adoption then they do today.

[@DJBV]

My biggest gripe with ps4

[@speedplays6710]

Use pc

[@GrubKiller436]

I was about to buy a PS4 Pro, but then yeah I remember that Sony is not necessarily my friend. Now I have a PC.

[@randybradley4151]

They'd have 100x more adoption? So you researched this? Please post a video of your findings and your sources. It should be easy to put a legit video of your findings and post the video link once it's done on this comment section because true professionals have research logs that they can streamline into an easy synopsis for us to understand the concept of why they should have or could have had pretty much the entire planet playing on the PlayStation 4 if online play was free. Like I commented the video should be easy and take about a week to post. I'll be eagerly waiting.

[@randybradley4151]

@@GrubKiller436 Sure you were. Why would you purchase a PS4 PRO when the PS5 is coming soon?

[@jokersinurface]

HAHAHA! The Killzone 2 footage from E3 was my favorite moment Sony wants people to forget. Off that footage many fans got hyped and pre-ordered. When the screens and new footage for the game started releasing there was backlash.

[@DoomFinger511]

There was a reason why the PS3 initially cost so much. They tried that same tactic as they did with the PS2 by including a bluray player (with bluray just being released). However it didn't pan out the same (as with the PS2 and the DVD player) since very few people could afford flat screen TV's that could show the increase in quality. The PS3 also was backwards compatible with PS2 games. A feature that got removed when they reduced the price because they had to cut out the extra red laser and hardware to read PS2 games. Those early PS3's are actually worth more then the later models.

[@ElNeroDiablo]

They didn't cut out the red laser for the PS3 to cheapen it - if they did then the later models wouldn't be able to play regular DVD movies, or audio CD's (though that needs an infrared laser itself). CD players only have the IR laser, DVD players have both a CD's IR laser and the DVD-specific red laser, Blu-Ray players have the CD IR laser, DVD red laser and the new Violet ("Blue") laser of the eponymous Blu-Ray. It costs them nearly nothing to add the lasers in for previous 5.25" optical disc technology in the newer versions, plus it lets them tout "backwards compatibility with your old media" when advertising the new hardware. PS3 Phat launched with both PS2 CPU & PS2 GPU alongside the PS3 CPU & PS3 GPU. Sony only cut out the PS2's CPU with the move from the Phat to Slim (though later Phat's without the CompactFlash card port and such under that front flap were missing it too) and then cut out the PS2's GPU with the launch of the SuperSlim. With the cut of the PS2 CPU, that caused early PS3 games that relied on it along with the disc and digital PS2 games to partially emulate said chip, then with the removal of the PS2 GPU meant the system had to fully emulate within the Cell Broadband Engine (PS3's CPU) the CPU & GPU functions of the PS2 for both disc and digital games. The only reason the PS4 won't play audio CD's isn't because of some "missing laser" but rather Sony decided "screw it" and refused to pay the licensing fees for the codecs to allow audio CD's and MP3 files to be played.

[@DoomFinger511]

@@ElNeroDiablo yeah you're right, it was PS2 chips they took out in the later models of the PS3

[@Power5]

Still have my PS3 60gb. Purchased for GT to launch with it. Well that fell through and they released some BS GT HD which was just a joke. 1 track 10 cars, yeah fuck off. When they finally did release GranTurismo 5 it was again just a fucking tease with 6 damn tracks. Finally after 4 years of waiting I did finally get a real Gran Turismo game with my PS3. I went with XboxOne on the next console just to show my disapproval to Sony. I know they cared greatly. :)

[@chrisollefers7853]

@@ElNeroDiablo and the laser kept breaking to a point that they'd refuse to repair it and instead gave you a newer model with a game for free

[@DracolegacyOfficial]

and lets not forget, at the time of launch the cheapest stand alone blu ray player was $1000

[@ThatOneMotherfucker]

Honorable mention: When Sony hired the notorious animator who traced heavily to animate the sequence for the Sony Awards last year. That was a real shit show.

[@guestc142]

Source? Is it Sony Photography awards?

[@animalblundetto5673]

@@guestc142 Guest C Sony Japan hired a Canadian director named Kevin Bao to do some animations for a promo video called "PS4 Lineup Music Video Winter Mix" or something. He ripped off the animations from Steven Universe and a bunch of other places. I'm guessing they slapped the animation company with a hefty lawsuit after that one.

[@timmydirtyrat6015]

Pretty sure Ape Escape wasn't on the PS1 classic because it is one of the few games that require analog joysticks, but the controller that came with the console had no analog sticks.

[@RBN406]

When Ape Escape didnt make it to the playstation classic, it made me think it was some niche game I played as a kid that nobody else liked. Glad to know that's not true

[@NormanLyon]

The PS TV was/is a great system. The problem was that Sony didn't support it. I STILL use my PS TV on a regular basis.

[@kennethdebie]

Same!

[@causerDAguv]

It was a good device to play all my PS1 games on but yeah sucks they didn't support it and lower their god damn memory cards

[@jameswatsonatheistgamer]

I use it to play my PS Vita games.

[@IfeelKindaSick]

It's really nice for modding

[@lamario]

I feel like he talked about it totally wrong. He pretty much talked about it like it was a plug & play tv console, which isn't what is was, or how it was marketed.

[@vigi1antvort3x41]

"It bombed in Japan." People: Have World War II flashbacks.

[@MultiYogibear]

I'll gladly take people's sixaxis controllers

[@bobsterapper]

I had two of those but after some time the analog sticks got really sticky, till some sort of liquid came out of it which ruined the controllers.

[@MultiYogibear]

@@bobsterapper fair enough, I just hate rumble

[@jak3w]

I thought you meant because how expensive they are now

[@dwider]

@@MultiYogibear Me too, i always turn it off.

[@Ordlnary_Gamer]

MultiYogibear i’ll take ps3 dualshock

[@GoBuckeyes554]

I remember none of my friends getting a PS3 because of the pricing (I was in middle school mind you) shit was ridiculous.

[@ejgeldart4820]

Um the infamous psn hack that compromised everyone on psn also even though skyrim was a bad port I still played the hell out of it

[@enigmalfidelity]

Now, to be the devils advocate: One thing EVERYONE FORGETS is that Sony DID NOT charge you for online play UNTIL the ps4. Even in the ps3, it was an option with benefits. Sooo, to be fair, i saved money noy buying an xbox live pass, plus batteries, plus a specific xbox headset... i bought a bluetooth headpiece for $50, that i used for ALL media. On top of that, i swear those ps3 controllers could last a month on a single charge. "Controller battery Low".. good for atleast another 3 days of full use. When i purchased ymy ps3 in 2008, i was debating on an xbox as well. 2 google searches told me everything i needed to know. "Broken ps3: 350,000 results" "Broken Xbox360: 1.5 million search results"

[@matthewnoybn6656]

Agreed ps3 was simply more cost effective and less prone to breaking.

[@Kennymxc]

AuDiO_JacK yeah but there were constant hacking going on and people’s CC info was stolen due to the faulty firewalls of PSN

[@matthewnoybn6656]

@@Kennymxc I hadn't heard that, I was to broke for a cc.

[@doesntexistanymore978]

*laughs in nintendo*

[@TdogEN]

4:26 dont hate on the PSTV that thing is awesome! first off you can mod it with henkaku and run all of your favorite vita games on the big screen INCLUDING Persona 4 Golden. And the homebrew for it just keeps expanding

[@tazerturtle6572]

The fact that they explicitly cancelled Infamous for the Vita, claiming it wouldn't be popular, shortly before Golden Abyss launched and was met with general praise.

[@polygon311]

Bruh I had an Xperia Play when I was in high school as my first smart phone and it was amazing! I loved playing emulators on it and it was LOUD! It might not look good nowadays but it was fantastic for the time!

[@CmlDexter]

6:10 Not entirely true. It took years for them to make the micro SD to vita memory adapter. It wasn't immediate.

[@davidmcguire6043]

You don't need a memory adapter to hack the card to you hooked up the Vita with the card inserted to your PC.

[@CmlDexter]

@@davidmcguire6043 But even that hack TOOK YEARS as well (check google if you want, don't really care...) . It took years in general to hack the vita, let alone a "vita emulator". BUT, In the video: "The next day Sony put the vita out it was hacked". They first managed to get PSP homebrew to launch, but the actual security layer to launch unsigned Vita code was a long journey that was only FULLY finished ~2 years ago (search for "35C3 - Viva la Vita Vida" on youtube if you wish to educate yourself on the ACTUAL hackers that did the job)... The vita was even dubbed "the most secure handheld" for a looong time, clearly the guy did not do full research..

[@RhinoHand]

Pretty sure they were exaggerating

[@thearmyofiron]

@@CmlDexter yup, and I have gone back to my ps tv because it's finally hackable

[@bloodredcommanderigris3469]

I remember that killzone trailer, was so excited to play it, bought it day 1, and while somewhat disappointed, I played to completion and enjoyed it. Imagine if they brought that trailer out again and announced it as a PS5 title? I would likely get it day 1 again. Killzone was underrated.

[@3xeplodng_3agle_studios]

So was resistance imo

[@ActNasty5]

3xeplod!ng_3agle_studios dude hell yeah resistance was legit. I remember being so hyped for that and motorstorm when ps3 first came out!! Good times

[@shivalah]

@@3xeplodng_3agle_studios Resistance: Yes. Killzone? "Halo-jealousy"

[@bloodredcommanderigris3469]

@@shivalah I played and enjoyed both Halo and Killzone, I wouldn't say they were similar in any way, aside from being futuristic first person shooters.

[@VX3800]

Lemmar Campbell I couldn’t beat killzone 2 for the life of me pls help

[@theraptorus]

“Ape Escape isn’t there....” That’s because Ape Escape relied heavily on the analog controller and would totally be unplayable with the included digital controllers.

[@icecoldchilipreppers]

I remeber giving my thumbs blisters and literally wearing the rubber down on the sticks trying to 100% that game. Oooof.

[@willhuey4891]

yeah i remember playing it as a kid growing up in the 90s and early 00s

[@BogusLettuce]

You know what sony could've done??? You ready? This is a big one. Included dualshock controllers except the digital controllers! WOW!!! WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT!

[@theraptorus]

PyroFierceDeity My thoughts exactly.

[@cyberspacedweller637]

Another blunder highlighted in this comment. Should have come with analogue pads.

[@N68dodgeboy]

8:40 It looks like a mobile strike ad.

[@westonweber3535]

PlayStation tv Isn’t a mistake it’s one of the best things they released that I go back and play all the time

[@lostbutfreesoul]

A story which repeats time and time again: Anti-piracy methods harming the legitimate product, while doing nothing to stop the pirates. Whenever will they learn?

[@goat5815]

Every console/game had that problem

[@BreezTheArtist]

Yes, whenever will pirates learn to pay for there entertainment. I agree.

[@BreezTheArtist]

Yes, whenever will pirates learn to pay for their entertainment. I agree.

[@PsychoSavage]

Sony: Pls forget the mistakes we made Gameranx: Nope..That ain't gonna happen

[@gaming1zanagi-1999]

Heh that is why they must never underestimate people's memory XD tho one problems that I had with them now is that they released PS5 way too soon without any exclusive games at all.

[@thestupidpenguin]

The time when they used the Anthem Xbox footage and forgot to change the UI. Major mistake.

[@lilcrumpet297]

Are we not gonna talk about the time they had a decapitated goat for god of war fans to stick their hands in

[@anunderestimate]

But this video is about mistakes 😈

[@dark14life]

I bet that was a tasty goat.

[@MookaMG]

Please give me a link to that

[@jorovalle]

I'm sorry, the Xperia Play to me was f*ing awesome...it was definitely wasn't a PSP/Phone. But at the time it was the best way to emulate games on your phone or to play many of the Android games from the time on your phone.

[@deathslifeforce]

Entirely agree, amazing phone, played so much crash bandicoot and the like on it, was badass, sad to not have it anymore

[@TheMucusMan]

I still have it and it's amazing.

[@3DMVR]

Great first smartphone for me.

[@ocg-overwatchconsolegamepl2809]

Just get a PSP

[@budal15]

Of course :D Falcon is an idiot who never owned it if he calls it bad

[@JohnDoe-jm6oj]

"If you wanted to buy other games, you had to buy other games.... on your playstation 4." Should have been more clear about this. I don't know what you mean.

[@dumbdog2924]

I think what he meant was, if you bought a game on your PS4, you'd then have to repurchase the game to play it on the little tiny system lol

[@user-ke1st9uo4y]

John Doe i think he means you can’t buy games from the tiny system but you needed a ps4 to buy them

[@aryangupta8150]

John Doe....

[@JohnDoe-jm6oj]

@@aryangupta8150 ....... GET OUT OF ME

[@FarmYardGaming]

@@JohnDoe-jm6oj Boi

[@scarffoxandfriends9401]

The PS3 Cell processor just showed that Sony was still relying on the console technics they picked up when working with Nintendo. The ps1 is built like a 32-bit SNES and the PS2 was built like an overclocked PS1. The whole idea of splitting certain functions across different ram comes from the SNES or general consoles of old in general. They didn't really understand this technic has more diminishing return than actually benefit.

[@davidpinto5087]

6:12 , "people aren't dumb and figured out how to pirate games on the Vita almost immediately" AHA HAHAHAHGAHHAHAHHAA no. I followed the Vita hacking scene pretty closely for a few years after it's release, that sunuvabitch was locked down HARD. They got into the PSP emulator pretty quick, but it was sandboxed. The Vita itself took years to blow wide open for piracy and Homebrew. And the Micro SD card adapter took just as long, requiring special Homebrew software to get it to work.

[@zbeshears6945]

David Pinto right lol I was thinning the same thing. People are still having a hard time permanently hacking the vita

[@wmv8996]

Yeah, Sony is still patching the vita.

[@jaythedjentleman2571]

Must’ve not been good hackers

[@davidpinto5087]

@@jaythedjentleman2571 AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA. No. There were many experienced hackers that tried and failed. Sony locked that b!tch down hard, everything was custom made, so there was little to no documentation on just about everything, including custom made security chips that obfuscated all data. It all had to be reverse engineered from scratch.

[@jaythedjentleman2571]

David Pinto not really my guy, there were a lot of ways around it

[@bradenalexander2477]

Killzone 2 the finished product looks better than the CG trailer shown at that E3.

[@randybradley4151]

I agree and there are actual videos comparing the 2 side by side. Besides the original trailer looked to cartoonish in my opinion and the release was all about the grit of a true war setting.

[@DubHead69420]

I love that you just uploaded this video, to your FB page. 🤣

[@ASA2015mx]

What about the failed PS TV? Remember when they announced the whole "You can wear glasses and you'll have the whole tv to yourself even when playing split screen"? Like a 3D TV but for games that allowed you to play split screen and have, I think it was, a 30-35in-ish tv? Only one game I ever saw that played on it was some racing game for the PS3 then I never saw it again!

[@viper13178]

Remember seeing a tv in an electronics store that had that feature, of allowing you to have full screen in a split screen game, was also showing a racing game being played

[@SevenPr1me]

he talked about ps tv in the video dude

[@overlyattachedbean1050]

I got one on Craigslist years ago for dirt cheap and still use it as a PC monitor to this day. The built in speakers and screen quality is still great

[@anoobis117]

Let's not forget that time PSN got hacked by North Korea for selling digital copies of The Interview while Xbox remained unscathed.

[@jayrae17]

Anoobis 117 still ain’t got no games

[@DeadPhoenix86DP]

@@jayrae17 It got plenty of games. It just lacks exclusives.

[@edwirichuuhdr8885]

6:02 fell off the couch because I was choking of laughter🤣

[@AdamAve93]

The phone itself was modeled after the pspgo which is why it played digital psp and psone classic games very well. I myself loved almost everything Sony had put out except the psvita memory cards and the six-axis motion. Other than those I love all things PlayStation that comes out even if it’s not successful.

[@BaZzZaa]

Backwards compatibility was only on the 60GB model

[@Moon_Presence]

It was on a few of the 80GB models as well. But that was software, not hardware.

[@wadekincaid4724]

The Pocketstation, Sony's answer to the Tamagotchi, a "mini-game handheld" only your little sister was interested in.

[@nearmxgic9954]

"it pretty much bombed in Japan" ooooooof

[@oliver-qinkriegler907]

F

[@ZERO_42069]

Funny thing about rumble is you don’t notice it until it’s gone

[@tarantinoish]

The PS3 was expensive because it had a built in blu-ray player, not because of the Cell architecture. And it was the cheapest blu-ray player by half thr price at the time. The PS3’s inclusion of the BD drive helped blu-ray win the format war, which was very profitable for Sony, so I seriously doubt they consider it a mistake or would do anything differently. This whole video is full of misinformation. I used to like your channel, now you guys need to get your facts straight. Or is that a mistake you’re making that you want us to forget/overlook??

[@817Bizzy]

Don't forget the built in WiFi and bluetooth connectivity. Two things Xbox 360 didn't have out the box. The bluetooth connectivity was dope since you could literally use any bluetooth headset you wanted. Actually the 360 never bluetooth capabilities, and you had to pay an extra $250 just to get HD dvd playback capabilities and WiFi. Oh and the 60 and 80gb models were backwards capable. The 1st generation models also allowed the more tech savvy crowd to setup a dual boot with various linux distros. Basically at the price all 4 models cost at the time, the ps3 was worth the asking price. I also agree with everyone else, it's funny the one true thing Sony would want ppl to forget about wasn't mentioned. The various D DOS attacks that overwhelmed the servers causing the network to be down for almost a whole week.

[@ajtemp2000]

Hands down the ps3 has the best Playback capabilities and User Interface for any console, is very User-friendly with many Customizable Settings and Multimedia applications. It just oozes class, like classical jazz.

[@juanca2807]

Nope, they obtained a really bitter result, they skipped the dual layer DVD's and later had disagreements with their partners (Blu-ray technology wasn't a single company development). They ended within the nowhere today, you know what else disappeared along DVD players in computers, yes, everything else but USB ports, that is even true for laptops. Competitors from the same era that succeeded are the SSD's or the portable Hard Drives. Before anyone says, yes I am aware that the movies sector supports this format, yet it struggles against other common options, meanwhile it had an astronomical inversion behind.

[@cyberspacedweller637]

@@817Bizzy DDOS attacks weren't exactly their failure though. There is literally no way to defend against DDOS if it is targeted and done on a mass scale.

[@817Bizzy]

@@cyberspacedweller637 Yeah, I'm aware, but it was still something Sony would love for people to forget about. Especially since most people don't now what a DDOS attack is or that that's what the issue was during that time. They just know that the PSN was "hacked".

[@sandgaijin]

"April 2019. Ah, that was...." "Last year." "Wait no, it's still 201-.... shit."

[@kennypog1022]

Mc Donald's

[@RS_Redbaron]

Sometimes yes and sla

[@BLAZINGwaffle56]

Idk why I'm not feeling as much passion from you in this vid. It just seems like you may need a break, then you can come back fresh.

[@CooKieFigHt11]

PlayStation is just a whole disappointment. Xbox or PC gaming is the best

[@kennethwilliams6916]

I love that I remember all of these.

[@legoshisshibahusband]

"It pretty much bombed in Japan" 1945 USA: yes.

[@WhackingJam]

Sony want us to forget the early days of PS Now when every game had restricted content and caused extra charges on peoples internet bill✌🏻

[@CheapestGamer]

Two words: PSP Go An all digital version of the PSP with Sony's proprietary memory stick storage. What could possibly be bad about that?

[@angeldiaz762]

"A lot of those games you're only ever going to play on an emulator." You know there's no fully functional Vita emulator yet right?

[@BLKBRDSR71]

I can't forget about the PlayStation TV cause I'm looking at it sitting on my desk. Playing PS Vita games on TV without a hack is cool enough!

[@scottmccready8529]

Yeah the time psn was down for what felt like a year due to lovely people hacking lol

[@Dokusha_]

I remember I had social life back then and I just went playing w my friends as usual, and I had the Wii and the DSi so I was good

[@jared3868]

Sony's Playstation+ removing the free PS3 and Vita games.

[@squilliamfancyson6628]

For real. And the free games for PS4 last year were garbage.

[@taylorwatson5421]

I mean it was bound to happen. I’m sure they’ll stop giving the PS4 free games by 2025

[@randybradley4151]

@@squilliamfancyson6628 Now if you said in my opinion last years PlayStation plus games were garbage it would be a different story and I'm sure you'll retort with another troll answer but if you think Titanfall 2, Nioh, The Last of Us Remastered, MLB 19 The Show, Batman Arkham Knight, Darksiders 3, Sniper Elite 4, Wipeout The Omega Collection, Detroit Become Human, Borderlands: The Handsome Jack Collection, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - Remastered, The Surge, The Witness, Hitman: The Complete First Seaso and STEEP are garbage I guess you're correct it was garbage last year.

[@MattyIcecubes]

In all the years I owned and played a PS3 I never noticed the lack of a rumble feature until today.

[@soup_fetcher_boi]

7:06 same with external asset mods, everybody (including me) was pissed when you couldn't get them

[@chaset5877]

Dude same i had a ps4 pro and I found out I couldn't have good mods I was pissed so I switched to my xbox1x

[@soup_fetcher_boi]

@BrokeHomieQuan how?

[@chaset5877]

@@soup_fetcher_boi ps dont allow external assets in fo4 and skyrim xbox cam because of windows is pc

[@dawsonpoe]

Remember when backwards compatibility was on PS3? Then they updated the system software to remove it.😑 Ouch.

[@randybradley4151]

All PS3 consoles were backwards compatible.

[@rickyyoung]

@@randybradley4151 Not with PS2 they weren't. It was only the early PS3s that could play PS2 discs and it only stopped because Sony removed the PS2 hardware from later consoles to reduce costs

[@randybradley4151]

@@rickyyoung When did I ever comment that it was backwards compatible with the PS2?

[@mystikgaming2k]

Randy Bradley just the fat original one

[@randybradley4151]

@@mystikgaming2k Like I commented before. All PS3 consoles were backwards compatible. If you want to continue being ignorant about this I am more than happy to prove you wrong with a video like I did with Flappyturd and some other idiot that didn't believe me how much I paid for my LG C9.

[@burner716]

1:00 the first time I've seen someone talk about ape escape when talking about PlayStation edit: i loved that game no one talks about it

[@Boris_V]

Probably the reason it wasn't on the PS classic.

[@kenball1980]

The Dualshock 4 has built in accelerometers/gyroscope and the LED for motion controllers. Thankfully they included the rumble as well.

[@rob-ron4231]

My favorite mistake is the time when they showed uncharted 4 The controller was mist up And the guy was stuck there for a good minute And you gotta love that in the official game they put a achievement

[@grayaj23]

Betamax licensing. It cost them the whole "being the standard everyone used" because porn companies didn't need to license VHS.

[@kurtislawler]

When it came out, so did Blu-ray players. Those were a $1,000 for one. I could get people to buy a PS3 just on the price alone. They get a DVD/Blu-ray player and a gaming consol for half the price. Talk about more for less!

[@staomruel]

And it was one of the better blu-ray players on the market for a long time.

[@ghvxgaming]

Except they probably exaggerated the cost to produce Blu-ray players. I mean, think. Just how difficult is it to upgrade from DVD laser to Blu-ray laser? Was probably much easier than changing your Playstation ID without screwing up your games n shit.

[@b1k1n1man]

Dont forget that launch PS3s, at least 60Gb versions could play PS2 games which I think is quite a big deal not to mention. Once they dropped that feature, price dropped as well. Also all PS3s can play PS1 CDs.

[@revwroth3698]

Hey! I loved my Xperia Play so much I bought it twice! It was perfect for emulators but the slider mechanism kept messing up. Now I have a moto z4 and the moto mod gamepad for the emulators. The expression on my five year old daughter's face as she played Kirby's Adventure on my phone was absolutely priceless. Maybe I'll get her an Xperia play...

[@johneriksson9356]

Hope that you have a great day where ever you are in the world

[@briguy6138]

Banning my account and charging me $50 to reactivate it because my money was STOLEN

[@jeremyspiess5653]

Gran Turismo 1 and 2 was awesome for the ps1 ...best racing games ever ...

[@siglerjorge9867]

The worst thing with PS I have experienced was the fact that you cannot change the country on your PS account. I have lived in 5 different countries in the span of 15 years.... Loosing all my trophies is ANNOYING!!! especially when you are a completionist.

[@benjaminshepherd610]

Remember sony saying its not as simple as flipping a switch and then someone accidentally flipped a switch and made fortnite cross plat for a bit

[@jutlan854]

That isn't how that happened

[@tabinb.6984]

@@jutlan854 i heard you the first time

[@neontime8507]

Stilletto X I don’t think he’ll hear you till you say it again

[@alphabetaomegainvestments3444]

@@jutlan854 I heard you the second time.

[@jutlan854]

@@alphabetaomegainvestments3444 oops lol

[@DantheGif]

That wasn't an SNES Classic, you showed an NES Classic

[@homerthompson416]

They're still the same internals. Which is nice since that meant I could dual boot my SNES Classic into the NES Classic OS.

[@DantheGif]

@@homerthompson416 that's all well and good. But to say SNES and show an NES is still sloppy editing and QC from a large channel

[@Lobo0011]

I see why I didn’t get a PS3 until like 3 years after it’s launch and it was a used one and supposedly it still costed like $300

[@bennimarru]

Sony's very first product was a defective rice cooker in 1945. They have a lot of things they want people to forget.

[@SevenPr1me]

Did you know every single large business that ever existed has a list of failures and mistakes? Like seriously. we could do videos like this about every single fuckin company. all this does is frame a picture that Sony is a shitty company when it absolutely is not. If this channel did a video titled "Top Ten things sony did right" youd be jizzing your pants over it

[@blazingsonic]

Sony wants you to forget Playstation Home Atom Universe: Allow me to introduce myself. Sony wants you to forget that allow mature rated games that feature anime girls. Remember Dragon's Crown? Good luck with that getting a sequel. Remember when Playstation was a Japanese gaming branch. Sony wants you to forget Ratchet and Clank and Gravity Rush.

[@tylerfindlay5585]

one of the best channels ever

[@kanealkoraghooli1682]

Honestly, the PS3 launch price shouldn't really be up there at all (let alone be the first). First of all, the 20/60GB HDD was standard for its time! if you want to download 2013 games, upgrades were available then. Besides, Sony had HDD support on the PS2 before anyone thought about it. As for the price, the launch PS3 was actually 3 consoles mashed into one, IT WAS 3 FULLY SEPARATE HARDWARE (meaning it supports PS/PS2 in FHD) not to mention it was a home video player for CD/DVD/BR, and supports reading media from USB and a card reader. in addition to the standard network/internet access of its generation (which Sony also was ahead of its time in PS2) All these features made it (and could still be) the ultimate home entertainment system, and probably the father of Smart TVs/TV Boxes. later versions reduced the price and in return made away with the extra features, no more retro-compatible hardware, less portable media connections....etc. They also had bigger HDDs. I don't think it was a mistake more than a marketing strategy (That I am glad they did, if they hadn't released the full capability version first, it wouldn't sell later, and therefore Sony could have never released such a version, ie we could have never seen a PS/PS2 console with factory HDMI)

[@petarJK]

The PS3 and the cell architecture came out to be really successful in the end. Some high end exclusive games were released. And in modern days everyone uses asymmetrical architecture.

[@rodrigogooo]

About crossplay, when xbox 360 was selleng 3x1 on US, Sony try to implement crossplay and MICROSOFT DENY, i thin sony should leave crossplay off just to laugh on MICROSOFT,

[@leokrupp4442]

Xbox owners only want it because all of their friends are on PS4.

[@power2daaplayer304]

yep they sure did, its obv now that they lost this gen they wanted to do it and made sony look like the bad ones.

[@calvin1228]

Finally, someone else who knows that Sony tried to do this way back when and got laughed at due to them being in the last place for most of the last gen and now they've won this gen, they're getting shit for not allowing it this time around

[@rodrigogooo]

@@leokrupp4442 It did not work that way, you cant Join a party with a Xbox owner on PS4 or vice versa, you cant Voice chat too, crossplay only work in favor of the developer icreasing the player pool.