The Rise (and Fall) of PlayStation

[@austinevans]

After almost a full year, we’re finally done with our full look back on the PlayStation. Hopefully you enjoy, these kinds of videos are a LOT more work than normal stuff like Mystery Tech. Happy New Year!

[@StormDiper]

PlayStation 6: Got room for one more?

[@sollabe]

Is this just the “I bought every PS…” video smashed together? Legitimately can’t tell if this is the case.

[@Crypto_Kush1]

More of this. I love video game history. Brings back so many beloved memories. 🎮

[@Marvel_Polaris]

Oh shit 😳 sizzling ✔️ it, actually worked 😂 Happy New Year, kid 🥳🎊🪅 12/31/24

[@AdnanAliMaje]

Yeah, I love ❤ the videos. It's really good great job and Happy new year 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Spacething7474]

0:00 false, you didn't buy 102 million PlayStation 1s, 160 million PlayStation 2s, 80 million PlayStation Portables, 87 million PlayStation 3s, 15 million PlayStation Vitas, 117 million PlayStation 4s, and 65 million PlayStation 5s.

[@Matthew.20777]

😂

[@trab74]

Spoken like a true smart a__😂

[@gabrielreisinger8047]

It's you again. How's it been.

[@Spacething7474]

@gabrielreisinger8047 It's been good.

[@greenboots5823]

Makes me sad to see the Vita numbers.

[@keaondrayross633]

It’s crazy I’ve been watching this since 6th grade for reviews I’m about to graduate highschool this next semester so many of these KZbinrs still around love your vids man

[@MightyCookie405]

Yeah , and now u in 8th grade 😀 lol

[@Tox1ceNN]

@@MightyCookie405 LOL

[@saucey1840]

Im with you man.. i graduate may 29th. Sad stuff to see fr

[@Johnnyy713]

​​@@saucey1840 Why would it be sad that you're graduating? Isn't that a good thing... Also, wouldn't it be a good thing that these KZbinrs are still going strong? I don't get what's sad here... That you're getting older?

[@DaxtonAnderson]

Can confirm, my family got a PS2 because it costed $10 more than a DVD player and was being bundled with the optional DVD remote for free

[@diasiol1989]

So... those are 6 previous videos combined into one, correct?

[@randyRKO1995]

Correct

[@DeviceBAR]

The moment I complete watching this video, it'll be next year.

[@ayenul]

How is 2025? Im not done with the video yet

[@Awwad02]

Yeah for me now lol

[@shanobian]

Physical media is not being phased out. Digital is just equally available. It will not die anytime soon especially with the controversy arising out of not owning digital media.

[@GreyWardenArlethaVakarian]

I really hope you're right, I want to buy the PS6 if it'll offer a disc drive. I personally don't see any reason to buy a console without a disc drive.

[@StormDiper]

If you see this, you haven’t finished watching this video yet.

[@andrew21030]

Haven't even started, I'm waiting for ads

[@NAMLzz]

MANTIS! literally what I thought after u scared the shit out of me 😂 happy new year!

[@Ollie_skate500]

Correct.

[@TheCoolDave]

Yea, saw over 2 hours, I will watch bit by bit over a few days....

[@andrewimberly3951]

I'm not watching it due to the lies and slander

[@gtleshow]

Love how you can keep people captivated and watching throughout a 2+ hour KZbin video!

[@VishnuVHabib]

I honestly dont know how you're so good at talking. Keep it up man.

[@HotSizzleTV_]

I’m lost on the fall part of PlayStation! You mean it keeps rising.

[@DealerFor]

It’s more like a roller coaster. It goes up and goes down.

[@allanelias26]

Lately it’s just been going down big dog

[@HotSizzleTV_]

@@DealerFor that is true

[@HotSizzleTV_]

@@allanelias26 yah I can see kinda if they make it where it can play ps3 physical games were set

[@Puritythehedgehog]

Now PlayStation is going up because of astrobot becoming a game of the year

[@DARKZONE-ul2mx]

You should do the rise and fall of Xbox from the Original Xbox to the Xbox series s/x to going 3rd party

[@solo3dits]

Happy New Year to you, your family & the Overclock team Austin!

[@Remainszz]

I like these long videos from Austin him and his team does a great job making them

[@colonel_angus82]

Love this so much. I’m an elder Millennial and have made the journey from PS1 to PS5 in the span of these thirty years. It’s wild growing up with it. It’s a mainstay in my life. The thirty year anniversary boot screen with the PS1 opening sound hits me in the feels. Thanks so much for doing this :)

[@pluto124]

Great video!

[@PlayStationHDR]

It's midnight new year and i watch this.

[@xtrathicc]

Hey Guys, this is Austin!

[@Ollie_skate500]

Is it now?

[@SteadyAscension]

I’m disappointed this video is not 3 hours long

[@Donttreadmypicture]

Fun facts - Double tap on this comment and it will automatically like it. Triple tap to opens up replies.

[@altf4notdc]

Nice try diddy. No likes for u

[@speedysnail4914]

Nice try diddy

[@blind87us]

Diddy. Effing sicko

[@vadocamora]

How can i delete

[@zenvio]

nobody cares.

[@EvenMoreEvan]

Great video! Got into your channel when I started building my first pc and find myself here a lot now lol.

[@ChowCaffe]

I fell asleep like three times, probably because I was tired of gaming prior to being here. But boy oh boy, what a video it is. Very informative and loooooooooonnng looooong video and I enjoyed it. BUTT, I own Xbox OneX 😅 so be waiting for Xbox series. Happy new year Austin, this was a nice start of the year. Thanks

[@tinashemunjoma2079]

Watched the entire 2 hours, you did your research. Thank you Austin!

[@NickCornell-v7y]

This was awesome, thank you for the very high quality research/knowledge and execution.

[@TheZoenGaming]

21:00 "They knew that consumers were right at the start of a major shift from analog media like VHS tapes to digital DVDs." In the west, especially in the US, yeah, but in Asia and Eastern Europe people were already using VCD. 24:30 Nah, the PS2's real threat was it's failure rate. By the time I was able to buy a PS2 in 2001, GameStop refused to sell it without a $100 5-year extended warranty that they would exchange your non-functional PS2 with a new one. I made use of that warranty twice in five years, once when the console overheated to death and once again when the disc tray refused to open. These were the original models of the PS2, not the slim! The tendency for Play Station consoles to overheat started in the original PS2. 28:50 The Xbox could also rip music CDs to the hard drive and let you play the tracks during _any game_ you were playing.

[@Randomninja47]

I didn't realise this was going to be 2 hours long. I will most likely have to watch in chunks

[@treedoor]

The original Xbox is so underrated

[@rhine2005]

Love it, probably your best vid ever 👍

[@gtleshow]

Man, this video hit me right in the nostalgia.

[@DrMuFFinMan]

12:45 Thank you for the Feels Austin, just love hearing it.

[@Krypton_Risen]

I just want a new Infamous game honestly..

[@MrRoundthetwist]

Concord and Fairgamedollarsign will have to do 😂

[@branberrycakes]

I literally re-bought a PS3 just so I can play Infamous 1&2, Resistance 1-3, and Killzone 2-3.

[@gal3sz]

@@branberrycakes Same here, mainly to replay some games that did not get the remaster treatment, and also play those gems I missed during back then like Killzone,Resistance etc.

[@kevo300]

1 was fun 2 was so good in every aspect. Infamous is the reason why I cant enjoy any new superhero game.

[@frenindeed8713]

Great vid Austin! You should do one on Sega Saturn if you haven't already, would love to see it some day!

[@NinjAsylum]

I would really love to know what the viewer retention is for a 2+ hour video. I'm guessing around 1%. There's no way anyone is actually watching the whole thing.

[@bob101nano2]

Most people, or at least me, just use it as background noise. Some videos I do sit and listen to it all

[@AndroidDigest]

I did. It was good

[@aikiwaki]

i mean, the video is a compilation of all the previous Playstation videos he's made, so viewers don't need to watch the whole thing. maybe the vid's good for when you're working?

[@colonel_angus82]

I’m watching it while playing The Division 2.

[@vishalkalicharan7710]

Is this a compilation of all your PS videos?!

[@Dusty_B]

5:24 Lucky Star? I see you Ken 😂

[@makingstatements812]

0:00 youre missing the psx ( japanese ps2 with dvr), the playstation tv (the actual sony tv that had a built in ps2), and the pstv (the vita with no screen)

[@danboy12342]

Which is bizarre because they have a psx

[@dimitriosrasko9684]

The psx is featured in 33:42 and the pstv in 34:57

[@makingstatements812]

@dimitriosrasko9684 i was just talking about the intro lineup. They werent there.

[@dimitriosrasko9684]

Oh mb

[@CobortGD]

The glaze is crazy

[@observedot7490]

PLAYSTTION IS SUPERIOR, do you like xbox or nintendo!?!???!!!??

[@Micke240]

Happy new year!

[@jdmahle]

Ive owned every console in this video. Wish I still had them all. Back then it was very common to trade your old system in for the new one

[@batifish2281]

great vid amazing quality 😁

[@kratos3500]

Honestly it’s should be the rise and fall of video game companies in general

[@sgame165]

Im glad somebody said it

[@PolnocneGranie]

So PSP GO did show that Sony was able to put bigger price tags on hardware with cut features. We never learned.

[@Alex-tb3pc]

Happy New Year!!!!!🎆

[@nelsonpun]

I can’t believe it took them four generations to realize that developers are important and to listen to them

[@readycheddar]

With Vice City Stories as well as Liberty City Stories, we had plenty of GTAness for our PSPness.

[@marksapollo]

I remember seeing my friends PS1 whilst visiting him and that intro video for Teken. I was SOLD! I came back home and went and got my own one. Only PS I haven’t had is the PS2 as I was into PC and PSP during that time.

[@hudsydhay]

In a similar vein, I thought a co-worker was giving me a PS2 for my sin for Christmas and he ended up charging me retail prices for a used unit but I had already told my son so I was stuck

[@dexietyy7922]

PS2 is the greatest console ever

[@michaelcervantes4865]

You gonna do a series for all the companies?

[@AMIR85ABBASI]

Excuse me, how long did it take you to reach this amount of subscribers? And if I work in video work without face and voice and the content of my video is about ASMR or introduction of popular videos, will I be able to grow quickly? And in general, what do you think I should do to grow very quickly, because I just started this work and I really need other people's experiences. Thank you for your guidance

[@Don.Lamaack]

Blades dashboard on xbox 360 bring back some real memories.

[@anTkUbExx]

Austin spread the word about this, maybe once all youtubers call them out it'll hit them were it hurts . I will never buy another ea game ever. Worst customer service ( if you can get in touch with someone ) , paying for a game to go online just to never be able to , games glitch like crazy and no patches to fix it, etc . The company can care less about the people that buy there games. I hope every gamer on KZbin and beyond call them out for what a garbage of a company it is.

[@nafiza77]

love your videos man , make more videos with Temu tech .

[@SuperGourmetguy]

i hated the PS2 at the time because I was a PC gamer and Sony bought many exclusives such as GTA3 stopping them from coming out on PC for years, and in some cases never

[@dcmodderful]

@17:40 Who wrote this? The Genesis was above Nintendo sales in the SNES days.

[@macaronibones105]

24:02 for Christmas 2000, I got an IOU from my parents for a PS2 because they were sold out everywhere 😂

[@youravgcomment]

"I dislike PS3 Super Slim because it's so cutdown and cheap" Man, it is a love letter for us in South East Asia because we didn't have a powerful currency like you (except Singapore)

[@canthearu4876]

The PS3 yellow light of death was caused by a design fault of the TMSC packaging process at the time, which affected the graphics chip in the original PS3. This same fault caused rampant problems with both Geforce 7X00 and 8X00 series Nvidia cards, along with ATI graphics failures in Apple macbooks at the time, as well as, most famously of all, the Xbox 360 red ring of death. From what I understand, when the silicon dies are being assembled into chips that can be soldered onto the device motherboard, TMSC used a kind of underfill to fill the space between the bumps where the solder points bond to the actual silicon chip to the chip substrate. Unfortunately, the underfill was not thermally compatible with the solder they used (they expanded and contracted at different rates) so repeated thermal cycles would actually physically break the connections between the silicone chip and the substrate. This is why extreme thermal cycles (wrapping your xbox360 in a towel, or baking your GPU) sometimes fixes this issue, as that can cause temporary contact between the chip and substrate again. But these were never permanant. To properly fix this, you need to replace the entire affected chip with something that wasn't affected by this issue. For the PS3, it was generally when they revamped it and started selling the slim models. This problem is so common, it is crazy that TMSC has gotten off scott free, while all the manufacturers using their chips paid a heavy heavy price ... as well as the countless end users who had hardware fail with no, or expensive, recourse available.

[@mikem2253]

Owed every Playstation. Still have a PS3 fat and now have a 7900xt PC and a Ps5 Pro. Will always have current gen PS consoles- my childhood needs it.

[@Spendishy]

I remember playing gran turosimo for like 2 hours before I finally got a first place finish. Good times

[@OwiggumX]

The xbox 360 was so good, no one needed an xbox one until the one x came out.

[@Flyingkneekickfx]

Didn't he do this history of Playstation 3 times already? 😮

[@makingstatements812]

2:10:25 the nintendo switch and DS has massively outsold the ps4. they are both ~ 146 million units sold each

[@marksapollo]

It neither has outsold the PS2 fact.

[@luisconcepcion723]

Great video on some the Playstation history....👏👏

[@Costco_chickenbake]

Happy new year

[@BaddboyJC]

Austin! Been a fan your content since 2017. Hope your content gets better within the next year

[@SlimJim_x]

The big bang theory guys

[@shawnstack4384]

I paid nothing for my OG PSP, well I had to pay for the food. I won mine through a McDonald’s promotion. Love that little thing.

[@makingstatements812]

this video just told me my pstv is actually worth something now. I guess imma hold on to it.

[@hilmalumay]

wow i thought this was a new video.. it was just a compilation

[@LeesReviews69]

I love this video! I love the length. I love PlayStation, but my first systems were the OG Gameboy, the GBA, GameCube, Xbox, the OG PSP, the 360, then PS4, PS5 now this Pro. The PSP was great and I had a PS3 just to play MGS4 then sold it

[@TheITonyO]

Have to watch this later

[@thewickedtim]

I think you meant to say Final Fantasy 8 for the PocketStation not Final Fantasy 7.

[@8bitnation419]

Backwards Compatible PS3 is the ultimate console. 3 consoles in one package.

[@OwiggumX]

As someone who had both N64 and PS, at the same time, N64 was the one I played the most, by far. It was the one most of my friends wanted to play. It had the best games. And while PS did have success, I didn't buy another one until PS4 Pro, because PS controllers were garbage until the PS4. Yeah, I said it, garbage. Fight me. LOL jk jk. But seriously, garbage. I'm glad they finally made a couple good ones.

[@MrCrucifer]

I remember my original PS was won by my parents via a local radio station. Then when Christmas time 2001, they were originally going to get me a PS2 but they only had Xbox's and I'm so glad PS2s were still non existent

[@devvvinparker1203]

I worked at a GameCrazy in the suburbs of Chicago during the PS3 and Wii launches.... We had over 70 PS3 preorders, only received 5 of them. My dickbag manager took one for himself and we didn't get more for 3-4 weeks. God people were pissed. Then when they got them, they were desperately trying to convince themselves they were the best ever. So many people cancelled and bought 360s it was nuts

[@nizarelfennani7477]

I really love you PS history series even though the PSP and PS2 were the only ever consoles I had and touched

[@nicholasnajibi3082]

My ps5 collects dust

[@annakopyl269]

Why

[@michaelangeloabarreto4588]

Lol I love how Sony did use to have this grudge, however, they have just been announced as the makers of The Legend of Zelda movie so it has come around.

[@Eragonfrost]

In your “I bought every PSP” video you didn’t buy anything but gave a history lesson but now in this video you bought all PlayStations? 🤓

[@andriibond4500]

Can you make more videos like this?

[@stevenschnurlein1240]

Your missing the PlayStation that’s a car

[@stevefisher8424]

Did I miss the PSPGo in this list of handhelds?? Maybe it was covered while I was grabbing a drink.

[@DarnellMckenzieDr3stunna]

Lmfaoooooo@55:23 I bet it was a special lil device hahaha nah all.of us who grew up with the psp did that iykyk 😂

[@fr0styyproductionsmc]

The company hasn’t fallen at all

[@TheBigChoomah]

Literally last one standing with nintendo which isn't in the same market as far as target audience is concerned.

[@NeoTokioo]

There is 2 Sony's, the pre 2012 and the post 2012. PS1 PS2 PSP PS3 until the 2nd revision (Ultra Slim) is the colossus tech company Sony, every release is a hit and quality products. Post 2012 with PS3 Super Slim, PS Vita, PS4, PS VR, PS4 Slim, PS4 Pro, PS Mini, PS VR 2, PS5, PS Portal, PS5 Slim and PS5 Pro is the decay of the brand, too many tech for almost no games.

[@itsdeonlol]

W video!

[@turtlefeet7722]

PS5 Pro is a better console, that’s a bit expensive. What do you want? Future is digital only like PC. I don’t remember seeing PCs with a disc drive. It’s an option to buy a disc drive. What if graphics become all realistic? What’s the next step? I wish games wouldn’t be released broken. Sony, at least in my experience, I never had problems with any games ion my PS5. On PC it’s a whole different story.

[@doodlydooyt]

new year’s eve is a bit better now 😊

[@SnowBallMellon]

how much is Sony paying this guy. feel like 1in 5 vids is about PlayStation and it the same info each time. love all your other vids Austin

[@akarvelas]

Is this re-upload?

[@AndriiIlkiv]

Now you gotta make the same video but with Xbox!

[@lronl10]

My dad had 3 original ps3's and all of them failed 😢

[@musclespy575]

I know more about the history of PlayStation than I should

[@EZETechnRC]

Because you're a big tech guy... You should check out the Lenovo LEGION Y700 either 2023 or 25 version... I just grabbed the 23 edition cause it still has expandable memory.. It a Bad Ass 8.8" tablet..

[@Account1746]

The psp was phenomenal

[@lord_ishamael]

Wow, this vid really seems to be underperforming for some reason. Just wanna say, this is legitimately a great video with a lot of effor put into it. Thank you for taking the time to really run through step by step their whole history

[@davidtharp2125]

I’m not opposed, but didn’t you already do this?

[@MrMustard14]

Well technically Atari and Cleco vision was the first game console war even if it was short it did happen