Sony's 3 Biggest Mistakes

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  • @GamingHistorian
    @GamingHistorian  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1840

    Today is not only a new episode day, it's my first day of graduate school! I'll have more details soon, but for now, enjoy Sony's Three Biggest Mistakes! This was a fun episode to make, since it got me nostalgic for my college days, working at GameStop. Enjoy!

    • @ndep93
      @ndep93 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I still remember getting that email from Sony that my PSN account might have been compromised and strongly advising I change whatever information I had on it as soon as possible. I didn't have any money anyway, so it wasn't like I had anything to lose.

    • @RobertK1993
      @RobertK1993 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      $599 price for PS3 should charge 499 for 60GB charge for PSN membership.

    • @knifeteeth
      @knifeteeth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Blacklives>yours

    • @knifeteeth
      @knifeteeth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hands up, don't shoot!!!

    • @McCoy-00
      @McCoy-00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Congrats on graduate school!

  • @Humbird00
    @Humbird00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +758

    I remember people joking about getting a "Wii60" because they could buy both a Nintendo Wii AND an Xbox 360 for less than the price of the PS3... and still afford a game as well.

    • @dianaloayzat4975
      @dianaloayzat4975 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      It's not about your comment, although it's funny, but I find it weird how the PSP used its own memory card, even though the original PS3 could use original SD cards.

    • @pussydestroyer87
      @pussydestroyer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I made that joke at the time. Then 3 xbox 360s crapped out on me in 4 months and sony dropped the price of the ps3.

    • @philipkempbell7174
      @philipkempbell7174 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Or you can buy a digital PS5 for $360

    • @JessieJamesPlays
      @JessieJamesPlays 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@philipkempbell7174 or you can buy an xbox series s for $299

    • @devansh3700
      @devansh3700 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JessieJamesPlays and get same processing power as one x

  • @swerpee
    @swerpee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1671

    We've tackled Nintendo
    we've tackled Sega
    Heck we even looked at the Gaming Historian's mistakes

    • @GamingHistorian
      @GamingHistorian  4 ปีที่แล้ว +555

      It's true!

    • @swerpee
      @swerpee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      @@GamingHistorian Wasn't expecting a reply, especially not so fast haha! Love listening to your videos while I work (in game development no less!) so please keep up the good work and good luck in graduate school!
      PS, I also worked at EB Games during college so I feel your pain!

    • @jacklazzaro9820
      @jacklazzaro9820 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @Gaming Historian
      I would like to point out one mistake you made. It has nothing to with video games, though. In your Awesome Possum video, you kept calling Virginia opossums "(North American) possums". Opossums and possums are not the same animal. They're as different from each other as cats and dogs.

    • @Christopher-N
      @Christopher-N 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@jacklazzaro9820: This is true, but we in the U.S. usually shorten opossum to 'possum out of laziness, despite the inaccuracy. It's usually not a problem, until both animals are referred to, whether intentionally or not. Maybe schools should make this distinction in biology or geography class-not as a central topic, but just as a side note so children will learn.

    • @lahma69
      @lahma69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@jacklazzaro9820 Being that possum's native habitat is on the opposite side of the planet from the US, the fact that opossums are the only marsupial native to America, and the enormous population of opossums in the US, as well as it being commonplace to see opossums just about anywhere, I doubt many people in North America even know that "possums" are a different species that exists elsewhere, and furthermore, I doubt most people are even aware that "opossum" is spelled with an "o" at the beginning, being that it is extremely common for the "o" to be completely left out in its pronunciation amongst common folk. It appears that many places use the incorrect spelling "possum" simply because they think a lot of people wouldn't even recognize the word if it starts with the "o". Language.. a devilish thing at times..

  • @fratercontenduntocculta8161
    @fratercontenduntocculta8161 3 ปีที่แล้ว +300

    I'm so glad Sony lost the memory war. I totally forgot how much they used their own formats to extract more cash. Even worse, their proprietary formats were often underperformers compared to the standard SD's. I think this channel does the best documentaries I've seen so far on this platform. Norm is confident and speaks clearly, and all the videos have their intended content rather than apologizing for errors in the description. Great job!

    • @RobertK1993
      @RobertK1993 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thier memory cards had faster read write speeds.

    • @robhova
      @robhova 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I was one of those launch PSP owners brought tons of UMD movies and over like 20 games. Rumors of the Vita come out and I get hit with remembering how overpriced the memory sticks for PSP were and avoided the Vita till about 6 months ago. Back then making like 7 bucks an hour you'd have work 5 hours to get the lowest storage possible which basically was nothing considering how big Vita games were. Got a 3ds and did not regret it one bit.

    • @Saber_Nico
      @Saber_Nico 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      but then now we have apple with their stuff because, well, apple users are stupid.

    • @miguelelgueta5830
      @miguelelgueta5830 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      pretty sure that their Memory Sticks were faster than SD and MicroSD, I remember clearly loading some isos from both and always had some stuttering in pre renderized videos loading from the SD Card, while the Memory Stick.never gave me.any trouble

    • @OmegaCoolsterDX
      @OmegaCoolsterDX ปีที่แล้ว

      @@miguelelgueta5830 yeah people often forget how terrible read and write speeds we're back in the days before SD HC/XC variants. Memory Sticks sure we're pain in the ass and expensive but they we're superior in terms of speed.

  • @GeddyRC
    @GeddyRC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +713

    I'll never not get annoyed by the topic of the Vita. They should have had a banger of a console on their hands (particularly in the west), with one of the best launch line-ups _ever_ and an incredibly powerful system with dual-joysticks, but nope - the executives won, the memory issue killed it, and then they had the nerve to blame smartphones and claim that portable game consoles just no longer had a market.
    Uhm, Sony, did you see how the Nintendo DS and 3DS sales went? The Switch launched in 2017 and was basically a giant Vita and uh, did you see how well the Switch did? Doesn't seem like Nintendo fans are clinging to their SMARTPHONES now, does it?
    Classic case of suits making the rules, then blaming the consumer for their own failures. I'm not bitter or anything. Still love my Vita.

    • @Jaxv3r
      @Jaxv3r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Love my VITA too, but salty how it go because of the executives...

    • @cayden6057
      @cayden6057 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      And then look at the Switch, a part-portable that is doing _amazing_ right now. It's literally on its way to dethrone the Wii if this pace keeps up.

    • @DoswarePictures
      @DoswarePictures 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I watched this video on my Switch, but I typed this comment on my iPhone.

    • @Lxx00Jxx00
      @Lxx00Jxx00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I remember when Sony was all about handheld is not a good business and then boom the switch came
      I wouldn't doubt that Sony is probably developing a new handheld.

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      They also focused too much on specs over a more reasonable price point, plus Nintendo handhelds have always had more quality exclusive games.

  • @kodemasterx
    @kodemasterx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +451

    Phil Harrison's resume is a roller coaster... Works for SONY during the PS3 launch, turns out to be a disaster. Works for Microsoft during the XBOX ONE launch, another disaster... Works for GOOGLE during STADIA launch... we all know how that turned out LOL...
    Phil Harrison is the curse of the industry. DO NOT I repeat DO NOT hire that guy if you want to succeed.

    • @sonikku956
      @sonikku956 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      He's the equivalent of Sweaty Pete from Animaniacs.

    • @DavidDumbedDown
      @DavidDumbedDown 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@sonikku956 or the madden curse

    • @jdhathrisen
      @jdhathrisen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      So it's a roller coaster that only goes downhill?

    • @ergheiz83
      @ergheiz83 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      If by roller coaster you mean a complete and total failure, I agree.

    • @thesenate1209
      @thesenate1209 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes definitely

  • @CyberDragon10K
    @CyberDragon10K 4 ปีที่แล้ว +402

    This stuff feels like a PBS Show but dealing with topics I'm really _interested_ in. Always a treat when Gaming Historian uploads!

    • @Quackensteinmonster
      @Quackensteinmonster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You got that same feeling huh. Either way, take it easy and stay safe.

    • @CitBox
      @CitBox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      One day, we will get this on PBS. Norman Caruso will be the next Bill Nye.

    • @Quackensteinmonster
      @Quackensteinmonster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@CitBox this would have been great on g4tv when it still was video game based.

    • @Quackensteinmonster
      @Quackensteinmonster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CitBox this would have been great on g4tv when it still was video game based.

    • @erickmarquez506
      @erickmarquez506 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't follow on that... I like both stuff, but, the fact that you claim that only gaming documentary, "really interested in"... speak bad for your character and shame the whole gaming community... Your comments remove credits from our people... because we are hard working Women and Men... not a disposable Gaming Jonkies...

  • @muticere
    @muticere 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Yeah, the Vita was a huge bummer. It could have been a serious contender, especially since Nintendo would prove a few years later with the Switch how much people value a powerful portable handheld. If Sony hadn't been so headass with the Vita, it could have continued the PSP product line into the Switch era and served as a decent competition.

    • @Robertybob_
      @Robertybob_ ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I believe they could make a comeback, what with Valve breaking into the portable market and PROVING it’s possible to go against Nintendo

  • @MiddleSpoon3461
    @MiddleSpoon3461 4 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    I was getting my start in Network Security when this happened, it was a really big deal. Not just due to the outage incurred, but it caused alot of major financial institutes and enterprise level companies to rethink their Cyber-security standards and begin actively looking for vulnerabilities. It was actually really good wakeup call for all industries.

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Unfortunately, many cases of proper standards have required a tragedy first. We have proper nuclear standards only due to Chernobyl and the near disaster at 3-Mile Island, proper space travel safety measures only due to the sacrifices of many astronauts and cosmonauts, proper counter-terrorism protocols only due to 9/11, etc.

    • @DFX2KX
      @DFX2KX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I imagine many a very solemn and tense boardroom meeting during and immediately following this. And Sony's other divisions have gotten hacked as well....

    • @nickwallette6201
      @nickwallette6201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      They stored user passwords in clear-text. They were running outdated software (with known vulnerabilities) on their perimeter. They basically put their user database on the curb with a sign that read “free”.
      That’s not a wake up call. If you need that kind of call, you don’t need to be woken up, you need to be pulled off life support. ;-)

    • @reefchiefer
      @reefchiefer 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just like covid! 👍😁

  • @IWillScoop
    @IWillScoop 4 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    The memory cards definitely killed the Vita. Some of my friends would not pick it up simply because the cost of entry was way too high.

    • @Jaxv3r
      @Jaxv3r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @Nathan-DTS yeah, today VITA is used for homebrew and get free games, just like mine turn out to be.

    • @digipimp75
      @digipimp75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yeah I remember saving up to buy a measly 32gb card, and filled it in less than a day. Such a joke! Thank God for SD2Vita! :)

    • @KaitouKaiju
      @KaitouKaiju 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The main reason I bought the 3DS over the Vita was SD support

    • @identityzeroce
      @identityzeroce 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That's exactly why I didn't get one.

    • @DawnLynnCat
      @DawnLynnCat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And rarity was also a reason.

  • @TheSektorz
    @TheSektorz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    I remember buying a PSP with God of War, and replaying the same first levels countless times because I couldn't save my game. Not even a few megabytes were available to save my game! What a dick move. I barely had enough money to buy the PSP back then, now I had to spend a significant amount of more money for a proprietary sd card. It's still frustrating to remember, because otherwise the PSP was legendarily good for its time, I loved it. Still have my original one and it still (kinda) works.

    • @GamingHistorian
      @GamingHistorian  4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      I got a PSP as a graduation present in 2005 with Ape Escape. Really enjoyed it, but I did remember being annoyed by the memory format.

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      DS games could save without internal storage because it used cards. Sony went with the stupid UMD format which was impossible to write to. Still doesn't explain why we couldn't save to Vita game cards.

    • @ordoveritas
      @ordoveritas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Still have mine as well and today I use it as a retro-hand held with some nifty software upgrades.

    • @Corrderio
      @Corrderio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And then the same thing was repeated for the Vita. Both systems were good and had some good games on them but JFC Sony botched needing a memory card so badly it's no wonder they barely made a dent in the handheld market.

    • @HeroDM77
      @HeroDM77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fattiger6957 that has its pros and cons
      As nintendo has shown by not doing it with their switch cards

  • @bennbutters2578
    @bennbutters2578 3 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    “Based on Japanese history” “So here’s this giant crab” 😂😂

    • @sammuelcruz4169
      @sammuelcruz4169 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Still don’t know where the crab is supposed to be from.

    • @kuzadupa185
      @kuzadupa185 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That stood out to me to! Lol

    • @frankmarano1118
      @frankmarano1118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@kuzadupa185 That was the joke & the point of how he edited it lmao

    • @mikevaljus6771
      @mikevaljus6771 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lost it on that one haha

    • @zippofcy
      @zippofcy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The very 1st shogun has emerged by killing that giant crap in the eleventh century. This is known.

  • @MrMegaManFan
    @MrMegaManFan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +510

    “It’s funny how a proprietary format to prevent piracy and hacking ... caused piracy and hacking.” ZING!!

    • @abbacuspotter9232
      @abbacuspotter9232 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      its like the war on drugs

    • @reefchiefer
      @reefchiefer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yahtzeee!

    • @plapin3538
      @plapin3538 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      abbacus potter - like the war on... everything!

    • @iammaxhailme
      @iammaxhailme 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      it's happening again. like 7 or 8 years ago everything was on netflix and piracy was down. now you need netflix, hulu, amazon, disney plus, peacock, whatever else there is... all those costs add up to a lot, so people are pirating again

    • @auroraparadox5235
      @auroraparadox5235 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So true.

  • @rib_rob_personal
    @rib_rob_personal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +382

    I’d like to see one on Atari. From a giant to a company I barely hear about. I do like to know how that happened.

    • @KGB240
      @KGB240 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      The video game crash of 1983 happened. This was known as the Atari Shock in Japan.

    • @hayato8452
      @hayato8452 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Pacman and ET for Atari 2600. Atari 5200. Atari Jaguar. There you go

    • @BlaBla-pf8mf
      @BlaBla-pf8mf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      It's surprising that you hear about Atari at all given that they went bankrupt in 1996.

    • @Lostmymind1
      @Lostmymind1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@BlaBla-pf8mf Yeah, but they got purchased, and are still around in a different form. They're even set to release a new console soon........which is ABSOLUTELY going to flop.

    • @amirpourghoureiyan1637
      @amirpourghoureiyan1637 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not much to say, but it's frustrating nonetheless. Incompetent management compounded with aggressive competition led them to fail as an entertainment company, a computer company and as a game publisher.

  • @henfjo
    @henfjo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +591

    Sony’s biggest mistake was removing the colors from the PlayStation logo

    • @IceBreak23
      @IceBreak23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      PS1 logo is still one of the best logo and has one of the best intro of all time (for me)

    • @TheMansionWorld
      @TheMansionWorld 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @George W You'd think with them using white in the color scheme they'd reintroduce the colors.

    • @pokepress
      @pokepress 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Was that before or after Apple did the same?

    • @DoswarePictures
      @DoswarePictures 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      pokepress after. Apple removed the colors during the “Think Different” era while Sony removed the colors halfway through the PS3 era.

    • @Dark_Jaguar
      @Dark_Jaguar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@pokepress After, and I agree I miss the rainbow logo they used to have. I also miss Nintendo's red colored logo and Sega's blue.

  • @colosussofbaine
    @colosussofbaine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    I worked for Sony Online during this time; there used to be a cage in the same datacenter we used for our services. For weeks if not months, we would see many people in their cage with a table and a box full of hard drives labeled "Evidence". Those were wild times.

    • @BrianLTanner
      @BrianLTanner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Perhaps this hacking event was not a “mistake”? I believe it seems fishy that a company this huge and based in electronics/computers could just be hacked so easily by an outside source. The server security had to have been disabled or built with a back door. With the way things went down it seems that somebody from Sony themselves stood to make a lot of money, offsetting the 167 million dollar loss. Add in that this company just settled a lawsuit paying out 150 million and it seems even less a coincidence. Did it feel like there was foul play in the office environment back then? Did you see any evidence that Sony themselves would have set this up to sell user information? That’s what I think happened and is still happening today with a lot of companies.

    • @colosussofbaine
      @colosussofbaine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@BrianLTanner I can tell you from personal experience Cyber Security is usual an afterthought when building a platform or a service. As such, standard industry wide practices are not practiced nor preached. Security is never an issue until it becomes one; then all of a sudden the budget opens up like never before (see Sony Pictures). I highly doubt this was done on purpose; likely lack of awareness, shitty management (i.e. promoting from within and usually to those that fail often) and not adhering to frameworks like the software development lifecycle (which include fuzzing). In the end, it cost them a ton of money and they lost reputation, for a time at least.

    • @christianloubardias6375
      @christianloubardias6375 ปีที่แล้ว

      Will the f***heads that hacked PSN ever be caught?

  • @NikiTopgaard
    @NikiTopgaard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    Your videos are great! I love how thorough and detailed they are.

    • @Stylez-13
      @Stylez-13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes look at sony smartphones Goin for over 1k now

    • @Yusufyusuf-hl1rq
      @Yusufyusuf-hl1rq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You are amazing

    • @klaushammer8687
      @klaushammer8687 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great voice as well. Easy to listen

  • @Charles020
    @Charles020 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I remember the hack like it was yesterday. I was young, so I didn’t have any credit cards or anything. But the hack made time go by way so slow. The PSN shutdown lasted for nearly a month, and it was hard communicating with the people online. When I got the money, I ended up buying an Xbox 360, and basically was history from there for me.

    • @kenosabi
      @kenosabi ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sadly I feel like Sony has gotten progressively more anti consumer. When your making moves that paint MS (a company actually taken to court for said behavior) start to look pro consumer ..you are doing something wrong.

  • @ItsPublicEnemy
    @ItsPublicEnemy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I honestly don’t believe you get enough credit for the quantity and quality of the work you put forward. Your video in regard to the lawsuits with Nintendo and the ESRB drove me to look toward Intellectual Property and Patent Law. Thank you so much!

  • @awesomeferret
    @awesomeferret 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The irony with the whole memory stick thing is that in the later years, once the MicroSD to memory stick adapters were cheap, it was almost PREFERABLE since you could use two older smaller cheaper cards (EG 32GB+32GB).

  • @Fox4251
    @Fox4251 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    First Nintendo, then SEGA, and now Sony. Now we need one from Microsoft and maybe if it's possible Atari

    • @waltersobchak7275
      @waltersobchak7275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Want to get a 7800 I don’t know why something I’ve always wanted

    • @hiiamchristopher7396
      @hiiamchristopher7396 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@waltersobchak7275 Huh. Well, you do you! I suggest getting a European controller so you don't have to deal with the shitfest that is the North American 7800 controller.

    • @tjlnintendo
      @tjlnintendo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Valve too.

    • @amirpourghoureiyan1637
      @amirpourghoureiyan1637 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tjlnintendo that would be pretty interesting, Valve have a decent track record as they've always been cautious about their PR. Most of their failings that I know of are down to human error and being a frequent target by hackers, can't say it's unexpected as they're in the spotlight as the de facto PC game storefront.

    • @JCtechwizard
      @JCtechwizard 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Apple. Oh wait-there's only one: the pippin.

  • @Xenodyne
    @Xenodyne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Not so much a missed mistake as something I feel always gets glossed over regarding this hack. It COMPLETELY killed the partnership between Valve and Sony. You mentioned it briefly, but it affected way more than just the launch of Portal 2. Valve was preparing to bring Steamworks to Playstation with Portal 2, and we may have ended up with a Playstation/Steam Ecosystem where your Steam library was shared to your console. At the very least, we might have gotten more Valve games on Playstation 3. The framework is there for the in-game inventory to be shared between Steam's inventory as well.

    • @mjc0961
      @mjc0961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "At the very least, we might have gotten more Valve games on Playstation 3."
      lol, what Valve games?

    • @MSORP2008
      @MSORP2008 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mjc0961 the games that weren't on the orange box like half life 1/source day of defeat ricochet etc etc

    • @Xenodyne
      @Xenodyne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@MSORP2008 Not to mention all the updates the console version of The Orange Box missed out on. Also--if I'm not mistaken--L4D never came to Playstation consoles, did it?

    • @MSORP2008
      @MSORP2008 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Xenodyne yes it did not it was for xbox 360?

    • @VexAcer
      @VexAcer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Xenodyne Yes L4D 1 & 2 only ever came out for the 360 console wise. PS3 never got those games.

  • @damiensteele7663
    @damiensteele7663 4 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    Most PS3 purchasers: "I will work more to buy one"
    A dumb 25 year old me: "I will put it on a credit card and begin my path to bankruptcy!"

    • @curtailedbike4123
      @curtailedbike4123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      To be fair, alot of people were buying thing with credit cards at the time

    • @Sockimus
      @Sockimus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I'm glad I've stayed the fuck away from CCs and I buy what I can afford with my own money. I get the convenience but I know, even if I had one, I would never use it for big purchases.

    • @SumDumGy
      @SumDumGy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Me: PS3? What’s that? I bought my first PlayStation in 2009, and it was a new PS2 Slim. I then bought a PS4 two years ago. Now I’m done with modern gaming.

    • @Blueshandle
      @Blueshandle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@SumDumGy Is this a joke

    • @SumDumGy
      @SumDumGy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @The Amazing Adventures Of Sawyer & Tiny, It is not.

  • @ronaldomanzoli3964
    @ronaldomanzoli3964 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love your english. It's just so fluid and easy to understand. As a fan of this language (I'm Brazilian) and of video games i really love your channel and content, really good quality.

  • @LarryJ602
    @LarryJ602 4 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    "Rumble is a last gen technology" - Sony in 2006
    "The triggers rumble, the thumb-sticks rumble, everything rumbles in this new controller, it's got the most rumble and we are calling it the DualSense." - Sony in 2020.

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Plus:
      We call it HD Rumble. - Nintendo in 2016

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Compucles nintendo In 2021 introducing, 4K rumble

    • @nicksrandomreviews
      @nicksrandomreviews 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@YourChannel-r4v And goddamn are they great. Even some 360 games got updated to support them.
      Good move on Sony for incorporating them.

    • @reefchiefer
      @reefchiefer 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, they also NEED aa batteries. Calm down

    • @nicksrandomreviews
      @nicksrandomreviews 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@reefchiefer And last damn near 40 hours on a single pair. I get 60 with my rechargable ones.
      Whereas the Dualshock 4 is named after the amount of hours of play you get off a full charge.

  • @douglas4934
    @douglas4934 4 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    4:38 "Game is based on japanese history"
    *"SO HERE'S THIS GIANT ENEMY CRAB"*
    LMAO

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I'm guessing he meant, "inspired by Japanese mythology."

    • @bananacat3109
      @bananacat3109 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Attack its weak point for massive damage!

    • @bananacat3109
      @bananacat3109 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Classic clip.

    • @relishcakes4525
      @relishcakes4525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think that might have been the bit.

    • @bruiserbrony771
      @bruiserbrony771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Real time... weapon change.

  • @IanTester
    @IanTester 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    On PS Vita: "People soon came out with adaptors".
    Uh, is five or six years "soon"?
    And it required a hack that exploited two security vulnerabilities to install custom kernel modules. It was no simple matter to get around.

    • @LiEnby
      @LiEnby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      yeah, it wasnt soon at all,
      the memory card is just a memory stick with some authentication steps implemented, which work by encrypting some random data using a key on the f00d processor. which the memory card then decrypts and sends back. *theres some other checks involved too, but thats the gist of it*

  • @RealValensco
    @RealValensco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Question: how is Sony's data security nowadays? Didi Sony learn something about being diligent with customer's data and about transparency, and applied this knowledge?

    • @Brokenfingergamer
      @Brokenfingergamer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unfortunately, NO. In 2017, the white hat hacker group “Our Mine” managed to hack into Sony PlayStation social media accounts and began posting claims that they had managed to hack PSN and collect registration data for accounts including email addresses, usernames, and names. While Sony was able to wrest back control of social media accounts, it did some more damage to their credibility as a publicly-trusted tech company. This isn’t to mention the fact that despite claiming to hack companies in order to expose flaws or holes in the cybersecurity of these companies for the greater good, “Our Mine” is notorious for carrying out these acts just to sell their own services as cybersecurity experts, which are still of questionable legitimacy… Think a home security salesman who will break into your home just to prove a point about your safety and sell you their services, while also being potential career criminals and you get the picture…

  • @Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial
    @Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial 4 ปีที่แล้ว +585

    “The vita did eventually find its niche market (of lewd digital novels)”

    • @_Red_Mage_
      @_Red_Mage_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      I get the joke but it really was and still is a JRPG goldmine.

    • @temmaxtemma9570
      @temmaxtemma9570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      i found it better to play lewd stuff on the bed than on the pc desk

    • @backbeathighway
      @backbeathighway 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Which Sony is now fighting hard against with its current leadership while Nintendo is all, "Anime tiddies? That's fine, just make sure it's rated properly."

    • @suneethk
      @suneethk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Ummm what novels are these? (for research ofcourse)

    • @_Red_Mage_
      @_Red_Mage_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@suneethk" 50 Shades of Game" a how-to guide that may lead to significant protein deficiency

  • @SoundsGerman
    @SoundsGerman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    LAIR is actually a really tragic story that should get more coverage. I remember one of the devs being on a german podcast "Spieleveteranen" and he explained it there. The jist of it was that devs had updated sixaxis controls that worked A LOT better than those from launch. So what they did was program the game with those improved controls. But when the time came to ship the game they found out that Sony never updated the sixaxis controls for end users. Meaning they had to use the "old" controls, which made the game nigh unplayable. And there was more like that.
    It surely can be argued if LAIR would have ever been a hit, but these guys got screwed over HARD by Sony. So hard it sunk the studio.

    • @SoundsGerman
      @SoundsGerman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @7MGTESupraTurboA I guess you would know better than an actual former F5 employee who was there when it all happened. I'll believe you. Online trolls planning a global conspiracy to make a game worse at release is far more realistic than a simple corporate fuckup.

    • @RanaRandom
      @RanaRandom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They should remaster LAIR on PS4....

    • @christopherwalkinalloverya5824
      @christopherwalkinalloverya5824 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @7MGTESupraTurboA Dude, the PS3 sucked the first couple years after launch. There was no conspiracy dude. And RROD was a big deal. Microsoft did create a decent plan for getting faulty units repaired though.

    • @silversonic99
      @silversonic99 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean that sucks, but if a studio isn't organized enough to make sure they controls they are spending months on, will be on the end product, they were gonna go down eventually anyway.

    • @codezero7981
      @codezero7981 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      had they stayed with Nintendo they might still been around today..

  • @dustin6225
    @dustin6225 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    I suppose a good "runner-up" mistake would be their famous Leap Year Bug, that obliterated all fat PS3 users' online capabilities for 24 hours thanks to old systems thinking 2010 was a leap year

    • @llSuperSnivyll
      @llSuperSnivyll 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ... how do you make such a simple mistake?

    • @llSuperSnivyll
      @llSuperSnivyll 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Nathan-DTS I know it can happen for more specific cases (the whole "must be divisible by 4 or 400, but not 100" situation) but 2010 isn't divisible by any of those numbers... how is it even possible?

  • @Vigo1936
    @Vigo1936 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    #4 releasing PS5 pro for $700

    • @boredstudent
      @boredstudent 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      And with no disc drive.

    • @GamerJP30
      @GamerJP30 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      And no vertical stand

    • @RedTail1-1
      @RedTail1-1 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      How is it mistake?... They seem to be doing just fine and holding onto all that power and influence without issue..

    • @NookStudios
      @NookStudios 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Proof the Sony never learns from their mistakes (ok maybe the emoji movie)

    • @BK78-official
      @BK78-official 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      WTF that’s the same price as the 3do. Sony why are you making it stupidly expensive?!?

  • @ChrisGower
    @ChrisGower 4 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    The biggest mistake of that PAC-MAN t-shirt is spelling 'essentially' wrong

    • @Dangerjams
      @Dangerjams 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And it was printed off center.

    • @ahmadzahraniAAZ
      @ahmadzahraniAAZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE
      NAMCO SHOULD SUE

    • @PinballBrendan
      @PinballBrendan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I ran a fact check on this and it turns out Pac-Man ate the other S, so it checks out.

    • @coryengel
      @coryengel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pac-Man is a postmodern relativist. He believes it’s spelled right, so it’s spelled right.
      ^^^ not really

    • @leejamiemellor
      @leejamiemellor 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      jeroen i think its you who has dyslexia if you think its spelt correctly 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @juanbautistagonzalezrodrig9715
    @juanbautistagonzalezrodrig9715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Great video, Norman. The next video needs to be about the story of the CD-i, how Phillips tried to enter to the video game industry and failed and how Nintendo lend Mario and Zelda to Phillips for the CD-i. Please, Gaming Historian. Do that video so many people can know more details about the CD-i.

  • @onthemoverealestatephotogr9655
    @onthemoverealestatephotogr9655 4 ปีที่แล้ว +351

    Sony has a long history of being anti-consumer in several markets.

    • @BenjermanKulandaisamy
      @BenjermanKulandaisamy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      You sure look at the history Microsoft has it has gotten so bad that the government had to step in

    • @justinsutton5005
      @justinsutton5005 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@BenjermanKulandaisamy Yeah antitrust laws.

    • @JessieJamesPlays
      @JessieJamesPlays 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      that's why imma buy an series x rather than a ps5

    • @SaberToothPortilla
      @SaberToothPortilla 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      I mean, I don't want to be that guy, but there isn't really such a thing as a "pro-consumer" company. They need to make money off of people, not necessarily out of a lack of caring, but out of necessity. This is especially true for larger ones.
      That being said, there are definitely levels to the anti-consumer bit, and I agree Sony is far from the best, but they aren't exactly the worst either.

    • @adamthomas1222
      @adamthomas1222 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      *cough*apple*cough*

  • @motionsick
    @motionsick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This channel has the most in depth and interesting original documentaries on youtube. Really service to society to catalog all this gaming history while a lot of these people involved are still alive and often still working in the industry.

  • @nick-playercharacter8583
    @nick-playercharacter8583 4 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    Knowing Atari's history, they could easily get a top 20 list.

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Lol, yeah. I was thinking about that and you can't just do a top 3 mistakes with Atari. Their whole history since the gaming crash has been mistake after mistake.

    • @5kogur
      @5kogur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@fattiger6957 Only with the exception of the Atari ST!

    • @honoredshadow1975
      @honoredshadow1975 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      And Commodore

    • @FhargaZ
      @FhargaZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Next video

    • @pass_
      @pass_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      1. The 5200
      2. Pac-Man and E.T
      3. The Jaguar

  • @pigeonplaysguitar
    @pigeonplaysguitar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +528

    Sony's biggest mistake: Jack & Jill staring Adam Sandler

    • @mrdufresne05
      @mrdufresne05 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Also the Emoji Movie.

    • @HKgaming86
      @HKgaming86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I got the Adam Sandler movie Click as part of Sony's apology gift for the PSN hack. There's a couple hours of my life I wish I had back

    • @antoniomaldonado8876
      @antoniomaldonado8876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@HKgaming86 Hey it's an OK (dare I say it) good movie. I'd put it high on my Adam Sandler tier list

    • @RexPowerCo1t
      @RexPowerCo1t 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The Dunkaccino scene was the only good thing to come out of that movie.

    • @Left-Earth
      @Left-Earth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      👍✨ Jack and Jill was horrible.

  • @BOutdoorsman
    @BOutdoorsman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Man, it's surreal seeing George Hotz being mentioned here. I remember living on the same dormitory floor as him in college back in 2006-2007, and suddenly his name was all over campus because he had jailbroken not only a PS3 but later an iPhone. Meanwhile, I'm thinking to myself, "What the heck does jailbreaking mean?" (in the context of technology). That being said, I'm glad I waited until 2012 to get my PS3 after all this mess went down.

  • @genwunnergreen2100
    @genwunnergreen2100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    2010 PSN: * exists *
    Hackers: Free real estate!!

  • @BeerdyBruceLeeCentral
    @BeerdyBruceLeeCentral 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Life Of Black Tiger on PS4.

    • @accountwontlastlong1
      @accountwontlastlong1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Was that really Sony's fault though?

    • @glendian
      @glendian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      accountwontlastlong1 they allowed it on the ps4 so yeah

    • @kellymountain
      @kellymountain 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Quality control doesn't exist anywhere, no big surprise

  • @KorporalKReephdmkiytrecv69
    @KorporalKReephdmkiytrecv69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    It's been awhile since we got a video.
    Glad to see you back.

    • @GamingHistorian
      @GamingHistorian  4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Hey, gimme a little credit! I had a 45 minute doc on Mario Paint last month 😀

    • @mullinsjm1
      @mullinsjm1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GamingHistorian I ended up buying mario paint after that. Lol

  • @scoobydoo23320
    @scoobydoo23320 4 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    I bet the hackers are watching this and laughing.

    • @cnk9822
      @cnk9822 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Frost Aurora holy shit you took part on it?

    • @cnk9822
      @cnk9822 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Frost Aurora ah okey my bad.

    • @mortenera2294
      @mortenera2294 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, you're right. I laughed, hearing Norman talk about what I did

    • @Einar730
      @Einar730 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ahaahahahahahha
      ha
      ha

  • @NNoyingHusband
    @NNoyingHusband 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love your videos. The production, your voice, tone, delivery, knowledge, just great videos. Keep up the outstanding work.

  • @Nightenstaff
    @Nightenstaff 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    Atari's biggest mistake: Piles and piles of drugs.

    • @locke103
      @locke103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      i thought it was blackjack and hookers.

    • @HKgaming86
      @HKgaming86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@locke103 Drugs, blackjack and hookers go hand in hand

    • @allmoviescliper5566
      @allmoviescliper5566 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      🌹 thanks for your support💪.... th-cam.com/video/9FTEsqxm4QA/w-d-xo.html
      Bhai ki izzat dubaa di benchoo !

    • @onyxx300_
      @onyxx300_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Burying every remaining copy of E.T. in the desert

    • @locke103
      @locke103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HKgaming86 i see that you too are a man of culture.

  • @sheltonhatton3325
    @sheltonhatton3325 4 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    Lol "Nintendo couldn't keep up with the demand." Some things never change.

    • @lordhashimoto4035
      @lordhashimoto4035 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Nintendo got pokemon, zelda and Mario fans by the balls

    • @mariocart2wrholder
      @mariocart2wrholder 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Saw ps5 and series x mate

    • @Shinobi33
      @Shinobi33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yea like inferior hardware in their consoles

    • @saviorself1164
      @saviorself1164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Shinobi33 but they really dont need powerful hardware, obviously. They have legendary IPs and each one of them moves consoles

    • @Shinobi33
      @Shinobi33 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@saviorself1164 which are?

  • @thomasdarby6084
    @thomasdarby6084 4 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    Your biggest mistake: Buying a T-shirt from a seller that can't spell "Essentially."

  • @theretroreviewer657
    @theretroreviewer657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey Gaming Historian! I love your videos! I have a few suggestions on the next few videos:
    1st: The History of Crash Bandicoot
    2nd: The History of Luigi’s Mansion
    Why I want both is because Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time just came out, and I started playing Luigi’s Mansion 3 again. I think that they would be very interesting ones to talk about. Especially Crash Bandicoot. There was a lot of heat between Universal and Naughty Dog back in the 90’s, and there was some stuff that happened that would be good to talk about.
    Thank you for reading this! I hope you take these ideas into consideration!

  • @kevins8071
    @kevins8071 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Alright, a new gaming historian. Love it.

    • @djphildeez6357
      @djphildeez6357 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ikr!? It's chill time everytime I get a Gaming Historian notification.

  • @大卫-u7d
    @大卫-u7d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    I'm a big Sony fan and personally I feel that their biggest mistake is an ongoing one. They simply don't support the products they release. You can be sure whenever you buy a Sony product that (unless it's a flagship one) that it won't be supported, won't get updates and won't be advertised to more people. People like to blame the memory cards but neither the PS Vita nor PlayStation TV was really advertised or supported in a meaningful way. PS TV died after a year and the only reason the Vita survived as long as it did was because it had a small but dedicated developer- and fan base. I mean half their games didn't even work on the PS TV simply because the developers weren't told by Sony to "flip the PS TV switch"...

    • @user-vi4xy1jw7e
      @user-vi4xy1jw7e 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      PSVR is still supported

    • @gotoastal
      @gotoastal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I wouldn't be surprised if they were still manufacturing some PS2s

    • @thepuppetmaster9284
      @thepuppetmaster9284 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      PSVR, PS Move, PS4 & PS4 Pro are still in support. Even DS4, PSVR, PS Camera, and PS Move already confirmed compatible on PS5. As for Vita, the Vita store is still alive compare to Wii, Wiiu, NDS, and 3DS eshop that already closed. Heck, PS3 store also still alive.
      Sure Sony isn't flawless when comes to support but in some aspect they did better than their competitors.

    • @LordHorst
      @LordHorst 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      True. The PSVita is the best handheld ever made (yes, I said it), and yet it recieved little to no support from Sony. I really don't get why. It's an amazing system! Remote Play is awesome! The games are awesome! Just a little more effort and advertising and sales would've gone through the roof. Maybe they wouldn't have sold 75 million like Nintendo did with the 3DS, but way more than the estimated 15 million the Vita did sell. But instead of putting more effort into their very own product, they more or less announced "handheld gaming is dead" only 2 years after the release of the Vita.

    • @JoePCool14
      @JoePCool14 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Reminds me of the problem with Google. They come out with too many services, barely advertise them, barely support them, no one uses them, and they're gone within a year.

  • @zfallonz
    @zfallonz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Wait...I see an Aladdin. Didn't they all get destroyed in that mass unexplained explosion of games that only targeted Deck Enhancers?

    • @DegeneragentX
      @DegeneragentX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I understood that reference.

    • @e.c.b.
      @e.c.b. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe it's just the box now

    • @Its_Charlie_Young
      @Its_Charlie_Young 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I see what you did there.

    • @XCDNafis
      @XCDNafis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe, this video on a other universe without AVGN

    • @ObsessedCollector
      @ObsessedCollector 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Norm traveled back in time just before James destroyed em all. OR its a reproduction box...

  • @reptiliansamurai
    @reptiliansamurai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Just to correct the historical record, as an "Ambassador" 3DS owner, the Nintendo 3DS cost $250 at the time. (Sony initially tried to sell the Vita by announcing it was the same price; of course ignoring the expensive proprietary memory cards). It took the massive 3DS price cut a few months later to salvage the system.

  • @venkazoidblastii9675
    @venkazoidblastii9675 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    The late 2000's had embarrassing moments for each of the big three. My favorite will always be the insane looking Wii Music drummer.

    • @Videogamelover58
      @Videogamelover58 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Agree

    • @Christopher-md7tf
      @Christopher-md7tf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He was trying his best 😝

    • @ahmadzahraniAAZ
      @ahmadzahraniAAZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He was drumming the air too power fully so the air fucked up his face

    • @ohnoitschris
      @ohnoitschris 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The motion control era was the golden age of E3

    • @just-fun-stuff6753
      @just-fun-stuff6753 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Japanese History - a giant enemy crab is also great. Or that riiiiidge Racer, or that Microsoft Kinect stuff

  • @NOELQUEZON
    @NOELQUEZON 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Nintendo Switch have Internal Storage 32 GB and most Cheaper MicroSD Card thanks to Nintendo. PSVITA have No Internal Memory and was Expensive Proprietary Memory Card.

    • @mutalix
      @mutalix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The original OLED models actually does have internal memory, but can be accessed by jail breaking it.

    • @RanaRandom
      @RanaRandom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember when I got my VITA, I also had a spare SD card back in the days, to serve as a extra gamesave storage just in case. :)
      I did the same for my PSP before that.

    • @mikemck4796
      @mikemck4796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It’s not as if they were released together. Sad part is, vita came out way before, yet the performance of guys is incredibly similar. Nintendo gets by on nostalgic exclusives. That’s about it.

    • @donkeypong1847
      @donkeypong1847 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mikemck4796 Calling the sales of nintendo switch "getting by" lol

    • @mikemck4796
      @mikemck4796 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@donkeypong1847 I didn’t say their sales are Nintendo “getting by.” I said the Switch gets by with similar performance to another handheld released a long time before it. There are a lot of things that sell well. It doesn’t mean they’re a technical feat.

  • @SapphireKnight675
    @SapphireKnight675 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    #3, this video's number 1 or refusing to Cross Play with Nintendo and Microsoft
    #2, Censorship Hypocrisy between Japan and Western titles
    #1, silencing the masses for Last of Us Part 2 using illegal means
    And man I miss my PSP, mainly battery being dead. Good video by the way.

  • @originalfunkyfry
    @originalfunkyfry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    love your channel -- this is the kind of story that I might have heard about in passing a few times, but it definitely helps to take a step back and put things into context now: which is just what a "historian" is supposed to do. Cheers.

  • @jacklazzaro9820
    @jacklazzaro9820 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    "The flaws in that system [PSN] created the biggest mistake Sony has ever made."
    *Ad for Ice Breakers plays*

    • @MileyCyrusPartyUSA
      @MileyCyrusPartyUSA 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      "It took a long time for Sony to gain the trust of consumers"
      Nah. Gamers forgot about it within a week after the whole affair ended. People here probably don't even remembered that it happened. Or that MILLIONS of user accounts private info was now in the hands of hackers.

    • @HKgaming86
      @HKgaming86 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MileyCyrusPartyUSA I never forgot, the PSN hack was egregious affair that ruined my trust in Sony, that in combination with those vita memory cards and the seven or so PS3 controllers I went through due to their shit build quality

    • @Jedzelex
      @Jedzelex 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HKgaming86 The whole issue didn't adversely affect Sony with its fanbase tho. Unlike what happened with Microsoft with the whole 'always online' debacle that alienated gamers, Sony didn't suffer any backlash from the whole getting hacked scandal. They went on to dominate gaming with the PS4. And even had the temerity of pushing their luck by placing online gaming behind a paywall. Gamers simply let it happen without complaining. Because they got 'free' games from that deal. Sony could do no wrong.

  • @MrPhange
    @MrPhange 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    The Vita was an amazing handheld wrecked by Sony's own greed

    • @Nicomanism
      @Nicomanism 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It was waaay ahead of its time.

    • @anscr-hdfan4739
      @anscr-hdfan4739 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      i feel so sorry for the vita. the 3DS crushed it.

    • @robbelk1982
      @robbelk1982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Nicomanism yeah and it is still getting games

    • @campkira
      @campkira 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      used it to play ps4 handheld before switch...

    • @HKgaming86
      @HKgaming86 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      imo the vita is overrated, mine collects dust in my desk drawer. If the fucking egregious proprietary mem cards didn't kill it for me, the dead analog sticks on mine did

  • @ryancat001
    @ryancat001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is the only channel that I absolutely stop whatever I’m doing and watch new content. It makes my day. Rock on Norm! 🤘🏻

  • @JayJBlack
    @JayJBlack 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Keep up the good work...I love the history of video games and always enjoy learning new things about them!!!

  • @volkan7844
    @volkan7844 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    you don't upload much, but when you do, they are bangers!

    • @MoonlightXYZ
      @MoonlightXYZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Quality over quantity.

  • @CatCaregiver-ie1ej
    @CatCaregiver-ie1ej 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    That was a good one, especially the part about their security breaches. I never knew the extent of how bad that really was and how many times they got hit within such a short time frame.
    I am surprised that you didn't mention the cell processors of the PS3. It was weird and difficult for 3rd party developers to program for. It has ripple effects of difficulty that to this day still leave legacy setups to the playstation line. Emulation and backwards compatibility with PS3 games was not possible for the PS4 and likely won't be for PS5 because the architecture is so radically different. Also, it made playstation 1 and 2 compatibility very difficult and expensive for the PS3. Initially, they built a PS2 board inside of the PS3 for backwards compatibility at launch. That made it bigger, hotter, and more expensive. They eventually ripped it out to get the price down, but then you have most models of PS3 with no backwards compatibility. Basically, almost everything about the PS3 was a mistake.
    It did help them win for format war against HDDVD, but within just a few years that became irrelevant as streaming became more widespread and physical media is on the way out. They did revitalize the PS3 in the second half of it's life, but it still fell slightly short of XBOX 360 in hardware sales and WAY BEHIND in software sales.

    • @DoswarePictures
      @DoswarePictures 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The PS3 eventually outsold the 360. Although neither won.

    • @CatCaregiver-ie1ej
      @CatCaregiver-ie1ej 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just looked it up again, you're right, my mistake. The PS3 sold about 2% more hardware units than the 360. And yes, the Wii outsold them both by about 20%.
      However, no one ever talks about software sales, and that's how these companies really make their money. (In the near future the real mark will be subscription/service sales). The Xbox 360 sold most, followed by the PS3 and the Wii was in last place. Although, all three companies software sales were within 4% of each other.
      In a weird way, that generation was almost a tie. All three companies had strong hardware and software sales in the end, and won some victories but did some damage to their brands.
      The Wii lagged at the end and sold a significant chunk to elderly people and families who were not traditionally gamers. Those people did not follow Nintendo over to their next console and traditional gamers went away from Nintendo until the Switch came out.
      The PS3 won the Blu Ray format war for Sony, but the cell processors were an odd choice that is still hurting their backwards compatible capabilities. The loss they took on consoles in the first half of the PS3's lifespan was way too big to easily recover with software.
      The 360 sold the most software and Xbox live subscriptions, but the red ring of death left them with a financial hit and must have hurt their brand to some extent and consumer confidence as the Xbox one came out (and they didn't need any more problems for the Xbox one launch as it was, they did so much wrong with that).

    • @IrishCarney
      @IrishCarney 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Cell processor might be a legitimate reason for Sony to have skipped PS3 backward compatibility in the PS4, but there was no excuse for skipping PS2 and PS1 backward compatibility in the PS4. The PS4 is basically a PC, and PS2 and PS1 emulators for it have existed for years. It would have been easy for Sony to provide full BC for the PS2 and PS1 in software alone. And frankly they could have just made the PS4 a physically bigger machine, like a 3DO or something, with an expansion slot in the back for people to buy a PS3 BC expansion card with a Cell processor to put into it for like $99. I mean look at the PS3 Slim. Take out everything but the main board, and Sony could have made that an add-on card for the PS4. Especially since the PS5 and especially the XBox X are going to be gigantic, so why not? After all Sony wanted the PS3 to be the all-in-one everything for home entertainment - showing your home movies and photos, playing your CDs, SuperAudio CD, DVDs, Blu-rays, online digital music, movie and TV purchases etc. Even your cable box because PlayStation Vue. So a big box like that that does everything is fine since it replaces every other box, and fine for the PS4 too, and if BC for the PS3 disks was really so unwanted by the fans then they wouldn't buy the add-on card.

    • @DoswarePictures
      @DoswarePictures 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      IrishCarney if I were crazy enough, I would make the PS5 backwards comparable with all PlayStation systems. Even the PSP and Vita, plus memory card slots and controller ports for PS1/2 stuff. And just about every other disc format. CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays (including 3D and UHD), even Mini DVDs, VideoNows, Video CDs, and HD DVDs. Basically every disc other than competitor’s discs and Laserdiscs, both for obvious reasons.

    • @IrishCarney
      @IrishCarney 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DoswarePictures Sign me up! PhotoCD, Philips CD-i, all of it. And they should have made the PSP media either be MiniDiscs so the PSP could play audio MiniDiscs too, or be mini CDs / mini DVDs, so the PSP could play those, and have a better upgrade path for the Vita with BC too. And make the Vita have that combo slot that Sony had for some of its Cyber-shot camera that's compatible both with SD cards and Memory Sticks, so PSP owner could transfer their Memory Stick stuff over, but newcomers could just use SD cards.

  • @czarkowskipawelyt
    @czarkowskipawelyt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    3:33 People didn't came up with microSD to Vita adapters "soon". It took years and was a huge effort. Vita was "hacked" in late July 2016, over five years after release. Comparatively, this is ages, PSVita was pretty well secured. Most consoles are hacked within their relevancy period; just look at the Switch or PS3 or even PS4. After that, adapter schematics and code required to enable the adapter didn't show up until July of 2017. And then it took months for consumer-friendly adapters (like those shown in the video) to appear in online stores. People used to order custom PCBs off places like PCBWay and soldered microSD ports on their own.
    By the way, I have 400 GB Vita, it's glorious. :)

    • @gc3k
      @gc3k 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Define "hacked" because there were exploits for Vita's PSP emulator back in 2013

    • @czarkowskipawelyt
      @czarkowskipawelyt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gc3k >PSP emulator

    • @SakuraAvalon
      @SakuraAvalon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And all it cost was the life of the device, and Sony backing out of the handheld market. lol

    • @czarkowskipawelyt
      @czarkowskipawelyt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SakuraAvalon Vita was abandoned by Sony years before Henkaku.

    • @Uutama
      @Uutama 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@czarkowskipawelyt Honestly, not really. Sony Entertainment of Japan did a really good job supporting the Vita until the end of its life cycle. Despite the many issues surrounding the memory and lack of good marketing, it was booming in their home country. Anyway, SD2Vita doesn't help at all. Sure, it's a great way to store more games on the system, but it makes it impossible to play physical cartridges without unmounting the card. Because of this device, it kind of boosted piracy if anything, completely going against Sony's original anti-piracy practice for the Vita, being the memory units.

  • @OldSchoolDudeGaming
    @OldSchoolDudeGaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I remember this period of time. I had no idea why anyone bought a PS3 that first year. Everything about it seemed so bad, bland, and expensive. What exclusives they had just wasn't what I was into either. The 360 was Microsoft just hitting it out of the park.

  • @balaam_7087
    @balaam_7087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    Can’t wait for the 3 part episode detailing Microsoft’s 12 biggest mistakes.

    • @MetxsightseerRailfan
      @MetxsightseerRailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Isn't it Part 4?

    • @SvennyMcG
      @SvennyMcG 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahaha this made me laugh

    • @Sweetestsadist
      @Sweetestsadist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      If he could keep the Sega video to just 3, he can do it with Microsoft.

    • @MetxsightseerRailfan
      @MetxsightseerRailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @DiamondDude11 [PMD Piplup] oh yeah because this video on Sony is Part 3.

    • @alvarochaves1999
      @alvarochaves1999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He only counts 3 per company.

  • @Froggievilleus
    @Froggievilleus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I was an Xbox rep during this time. Sony made my job easy to convert Sony customers to Xbox thanks to these mistakes, especially the hack.

    • @PlatinumSperms
      @PlatinumSperms 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yet Xbox lost to Sony every generation

    • @boogieboss
      @boogieboss 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      An then MS Think lets smash everything we build up with the xbox one👌🏻

    • @jakegaydos3325
      @jakegaydos3325 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      why would an "xbox rep" be speaking directly to disgruntled customers that don't even own your product? I call BS there buddy lol.

    • @patricklawton8135
      @patricklawton8135 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Funny enough, xbox made similar anti consumer mistakes this past gen. Lol and now they are the most consumer friendly this forthcoming...so far. Cyclical no?

    • @roastbeef2335
      @roastbeef2335 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Guys no need to get salty over someone liking xbox

  • @cky1088
    @cky1088 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Just finished the Netflix series High Score and it was abysmal. Please, never stop the hard and amazing work you do for us unworthy nerds, we're all eternally grateful.

    • @Canadiansamurai
      @Canadiansamurai 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      High score girl?

    • @luqhakim5711
      @luqhakim5711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Canadiansamurai No not the anime. It's a Documentary about video games and stuff. Judging by OPs comment, I'm guessing the Netflix documentary was crap

    • @ainsbass
      @ainsbass 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@luqhakim5711 I thought it was pretty interesting. It's not groundbreaking by any means, but there were a few things I didn't know about. Give it a go and see what you think for yourself.

    • @Jareneric
      @Jareneric 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was pretty annoying at how politizied it was... it made some episodes unwatchable with how much time they wasted on people who had basically no effect on the industry but were still included for their political opinions.

    • @tburrrg2502
      @tburrrg2502 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah this TH-cam channel is a billion times better!!

  • @boredstudent
    @boredstudent 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It's funny how forcing people to use proprietary memory to combat piracy and hacking leads to piracy and hacking
    - Gaming Historian
    I love that quote

  • @TooCooFoYou
    @TooCooFoYou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    “PlayStation Network was sluggish”
    It still is.

    • @eq7161
      @eq7161 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You still playing on a ps3

    • @randomboys1000
      @randomboys1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Not any worse than Xbox live

    • @TooCooFoYou
      @TooCooFoYou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      FiNiSH Random
      Not sure about the Xbox One, but Live during the 360 era was the best.

    • @TooCooFoYou
      @TooCooFoYou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Elaine Quidley
      I play on a PS4 Pro and the menus are a chore to get through.

    • @RoninXDarknight
      @RoninXDarknight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@TooCooFoYou Agreed. I dread having to go into the PSN for any reason.

  • @vice86
    @vice86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love GH. His production values are top notch and his topics are awesome. Could watch his stuff over and over. Pretty cool to see his videos from 10 years ago and see how far he's come.

  • @MetxsightseerRailfan
    @MetxsightseerRailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Nintendo Mistakes:
    1: Sony and Nintendo collaboration
    2: Nintendo not sticking with disks
    3: Virtual Boy
    Sega Mistakes:
    1: Sega Saturn Suprise Launch
    2: Sega/Sony project
    3: 32x add-on

    • @MegaManNeo
      @MegaManNeo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You are aware that despite we usually say the PS1 is Sony's entry in the console market the SNES only functions because Sony built essential hardware parts for Nintendo to use, right?

    • @MetxsightseerRailfan
      @MetxsightseerRailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MegaManNeo yes I'll edited the listing later

    • @DoswarePictures
      @DoswarePictures 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Microsoft Mistakes (prediction):
      3: Original controller (The Duke)
      2: The Xbox One launch
      1: The Red Ring of Death

    • @claudiobizama5603
      @claudiobizama5603 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      More than the Duke itself, the failed attempt to enter the Japanese market. Which eventually lead to a new smaller controller, because the Duke was too massive for the Japanese hands.

    • @Casanuda
      @Casanuda 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DoswarePictures I'd say Microsoft's mistakes are far more than some minor mistakes with the XBOX & 360.
      3. XBOX One game "sharing" system & bundled Kinect
      2. Games for Windows Live
      1. Windows Vista

  • @Penrose707
    @Penrose707 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So random but the music in the background on your channel is simply sublime

  • @micahlhoover
    @micahlhoover 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This guy's stuff is so solid. I keep forgetting about what a big deal some of these things are and he really draws out the irony. Nice job!

  • @alvarochaves1999
    @alvarochaves1999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Future companies to appear in the Three Biggest Mistakes series:
    Microsoft
    Atari
    Bandai Namco Entertainment
    Capcom
    Konami
    Electronic Arts
    Square Enix
    Take-Two
    Activision Blizzard
    Valve
    Epic Games
    Ubisoft

    • @MrDeedsly
      @MrDeedsly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Would love a look at Square Enix's mistakes myself. Most watchers over 25 know Microsoft's many mistakes.

    • @godofmediocrity7582
      @godofmediocrity7582 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Activision Blizzard would be an impossible list, because their entire company is a mistake.

    • @alvarochaves1999
      @alvarochaves1999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MrDeedsly 2019 was probably the worst year for Square Enix

    • @godofmediocrity7582
      @godofmediocrity7582 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rap6439 To be fair,Rmember the Hearthstone controversy last year, when they banned a professional player for supporting the free Hong Kong Movement? Well, that caused a lot of people to delete their Blizzard account.

    • @DoswarePictures
      @DoswarePictures 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Take-Two’s biggest mistake is releasing Dora games under the 2K label. They should’ve released them with Rockstar, that be hilarious.

  • @nsgames24
    @nsgames24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    To me, their biggest mistake aside from the "support" they gave the PSvita was also the "support" they gave to PlayStation All-Stars. Looking at the history of the game is really depressing how Sony treated that game, as well as the developers behind the title, SuperBot Entertainment.
    And this is coming from someone whose not only a Nintendo fan (though, I have grown up with PlayStation, as well), but prefers Smash Bros. over Sony's alternative.

    • @psp420bam
      @psp420bam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm happy with killzone mercenary, uncharted golden abyss and unit 13 so I mostly blame 3rd parties for the vita's demise missing games like GTA(psp highest seller) and star wars

    • @InhabitantOfOddworld
      @InhabitantOfOddworld 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@psp420bam
      Third parties develop confidence in a system based on the approach taken by the manufacturer and first parties.
      Simply put, the Switch is receiving major third party support because Nintendo have put all their weight behind the system. It's effectively their major home console this generation as well as a DS replacement. It means everything to them and they've learned hard from mistakes dating back to the N64.
      Sony, on the otherhand, never treated the Vita with any real faith from the start. High installation cost from the start (incl. highly priced proprietary storage cards) already put consumers on the backfoot in terms of investment. This didn't help third party confidence.
      Sony only went on to treat the Vita as secondary to the PS3. Apart from the small selection of first party launch titles, the Vita very rapidly devolved into a PS3/4 accessory and crossplay device.
      So they never allowed the system to stand on it's own merit, and in turn became little more than a very expensive paper weight.
      What Nintendo did wasn't anything remarkable. They just approached the market with modesty, kept costs low, made actual investments into the system, and as a result accrued third party confidence in the Switch.
      As a result, you get high-quality games on the Switch. Borderlands 2 is well-optimised, yet ran like hot garbage on the Vita. Go figure. Low confidence = low effort.

  • @PhilLube
    @PhilLube 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great vid GH! Also love it ending on those buttery smooth beats.

  • @fyrewatermelons
    @fyrewatermelons 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Imagine my shock when my email info didn't get compromised from the PSN hacks, but it did when Funimation got hacked.

  • @Reepicheep-1
    @Reepicheep-1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    "Which one next, Atari?"
    Ah, but WHICH Atari? The name has changed hands repeatedly and there is arguably no connection from one group to the next.

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      xbox?

    • @ConsumerOfCringe
      @ConsumerOfCringe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      the og one of course, they made more interesting and chatastrophic mistakes than the puppet ataris (bringing down the industry lol) and also did stuff other than mistakes (actually selling stuff)

    • @Kylefassbinderful
      @Kylefassbinderful 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Atari showed the industry that Quality Control and Licensing are not to be overlooked.

    • @Pooglian
      @Pooglian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Kylefassbinderful Even before that, they could have shown basic recognition that your game developers are a valuable part of your team, so that they won't, say, quit to form their own company, paving the way for third party games to exist in the first place. I'm not saying other companies wouldn't have reverse-engineered their way into making Atari games eventually, but Atari's treatment of its game developers created Activision. Of course, Atari-era Activision was a good thing for gamers, so...

  • @Someguyhere111
    @Someguyhere111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    What caused the Sony hack:
    "Nedry, our personal information is in your hands and you've got butterfingers?"

  • @christianloubardias6375
    @christianloubardias6375 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Vita didn't just fail because of proprietary memory. It came out 2 years before the PS4 was launched, and there was a lack of support from major 3rd-party developers due to the fact that games for the Vita were more expensive to make than games for the 3DS

  • @Lucky_9705
    @Lucky_9705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Sony had become increasingly complacent from the monumental success of the PS2 up to the PS3 launch. The same smug mentality affected Nintendo after the Wii launch going into the Wii U. Both the PS3 and the Wii U had disastrous launches.

    • @RobertK1993
      @RobertK1993 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Microsoft from Xbox One onwards.

    • @darthnerd4432
      @darthnerd4432 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RobertK1993 I don't think I'd call the Xbox Series X launch a failure, just mediocre. It was about on par with the Xbox One, but people weren't expecting much more than that so it performed on par.

  • @eungorm8535
    @eungorm8535 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Looks like spell check wasn’t “essential” in making that shirt 🤔

    • @Eric2300jeep
      @Eric2300jeep 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😂😂😂 Right?

    • @Schwarzorn
      @Schwarzorn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It wouldn't be Japanese if the English was spelt properly. Haha

  • @MetxsightseerRailfan
    @MetxsightseerRailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    The Playstation Network 2011 hack is almost 10 years old.

  • @DownUnder43
    @DownUnder43 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Concord needs to be addressed in this video 😂

  • @Headywon
    @Headywon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Sony's 3 biggest mistakes:
    1. Emoji Movie
    2. EMOJI MOVIE
    3. *E M O J I M O V I E*

    • @GamingDelight
      @GamingDelight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's a movie, not a video game.

    • @Headywon
      @Headywon 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GamingDelight C o 0 l S t 0 r Y b R o

    • @gab_v250
      @gab_v250 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Where's Betamax tho?

    • @otherlego
      @otherlego 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@GamingDelight Sony *made* that movie, though.

    • @GamingDelight
      @GamingDelight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@otherlego
      Sony Pictures made it, not Sony Interactive Entertainment.

  • @GameOverGrant
    @GameOverGrant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I just wanna sit around and talk about games with Norm all day

  • @Sweetestsadist
    @Sweetestsadist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    My PS3 came with a copy of "Grown Ups" to show off Blu-Ray...
    ...I still buy DVDs.

    • @RikkiSan1
      @RikkiSan1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Funny thing is DVDs still out sell Blu-rays even today...

    • @supernintendo182
      @supernintendo182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      > Grown Ups
      Yikes

    • @Narukami9507
      @Narukami9507 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok

    • @Mrinsomniac
      @Mrinsomniac 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brother Davi Sancti source?

    • @BlackLotusFlame
      @BlackLotusFlame 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Best movie to watch on a ps3

  • @CanonGames
    @CanonGames 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The KING OF GAMING HISTORY! The best documentaries on the internet about gaming.

  • @LordHorst
    @LordHorst 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    My credit card info can never be stolen, because I don't have a credit card. CHECKMATE!

    • @lewisaino
      @lewisaino 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is why don't play OnLine apart because I am not working jaja.

  • @ericthe7177
    @ericthe7177 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One mistake was the placement of the analog stick on the PSP. I remember being really irked by it because it wasn't great for FPS. The whole memory and storage issue sucked big time as well. Both the PSP and Vita were otherwise great systems.
    As for the PS3, it was touted as being more advanced than the other systems, but was apparently harder to program for, much like the Sega Saturn. That high price point really began to hurt when the economy tanked in 2008. That being said, I got one before a 360 because of Valkyria Chronicles and Fallout 3. Also I recall they were looking into the systems using the internet to communicate and combine the power of the cell processors, much like cloud computing.
    And for my last observation, what? No mention of Playstation Home?

  • @abdelali9279
    @abdelali9279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    4:33 everyone: have you ever played any Ridge Racer game?
    Me: Oh, Ridge Racer, RIIIIIIIDGE RACEEEER, no I've never played it.
    And tbh OutRun2 in both PSP and PS2 is better.

  • @brandonkahuna1251
    @brandonkahuna1251 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The PS3 had a real rocky start , but it ended up being a fantastic console and their idea of going with blu-ray, was a good one in the end.

  • @rsolsjo
    @rsolsjo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Glad to say that I have never in my life heard of a "Sony memory stick".

    • @the-NightStar
      @the-NightStar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That is literally what they were called, though.

  • @BugsyFoga
    @BugsyFoga 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What I'm getting at is that these mistakes mainly coming from Sony being a little too overly ambitious for their own good , nowadays I feel like they've certainly learn from those times.

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree. That's why I'm not nervous about the PS5 launch. Many of the people at Sony were working there during the PS3 launch disaster and remember those mistakes well.

    • @GELTONZ
      @GELTONZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeeeah but now everything is in the hands of Sony of America and I could write a novel about how badly they've screwed up the industry and the many franchises they've ruined with their garbage policies.

    • @MrDeedsly
      @MrDeedsly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@GELTONZ Add Nintendo of America and Sega of America to that list.

  • @AlexTenThousand
    @AlexTenThousand 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I wouldn't exactly consider the PS3 launch to be a mistake - it was a gamble that, in the long run, paid off. Blu-Ray became the defacto format for HD media and still is (especially now that the overcrowded streaming market is causing some people to reconsider the idea of owning physical media), and the hardware was quite ahead of its time.

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As expensive as the PS3 was, it felt like a really premium machine for the time that was jam packed with features. Built-in wifi, bluray, card readers for every memory cards, HDMI (which some 360s lacked), rechargeable wireless controllers with motion control and a pretty big HDD for the time. Unfortunately, I think Sony got way too ambitious with it.

    • @AlexTenThousand
      @AlexTenThousand 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fattiger6957 And the first models retained full retro compatibly with the PS2 by including the Emotion Engine

  • @l1uchill
    @l1uchill 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was really detailed and awesome! I always learn something new on this channel!

  • @sasorishino
    @sasorishino 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    As both a Sony fan and a consumer, that hacking frightened me the most! A big company, such as Sony to get hack and have my private data stolen is abominable. Though I daresay even if google and facebook is stealing data from me, Sony should have protected our private data

    • @budal15
      @budal15 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really? And what happened? Nothing, you got 3 games and no harm was ever done. This point is one of the most bloated, fake problems ever. In reality, online stopped for 3 weeks. No harm was done to anyone on the planet and we got free games form Sony. Truly a horrible thing...

  • @SavageMontreal
    @SavageMontreal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember getting a PS1 for my birthday and finding out I had to buy a separate RF adaptor to connect it to my TV. Then, I played Tekken for a month until I was able to get a memory card for Christmas and save my game. Lots of fun spending money on things other than games for your system, especially when you're young and barely have any money.

    • @DoswarePictures
      @DoswarePictures 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I currently use a VCR plugged into a CRT via coaxial and AV for most of my old systems.

  • @lvl5Vaporeon
    @lvl5Vaporeon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    *599 US Dollars*
    *So this game is based off of real Japanese History. So here's this giant enemy crab*
    That 06 conference was the most embarassing thing I sat and watched as a kid.

    • @MBelasko12
      @MBelasko12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Don't forget the 2006 version of "don't you have phones?!" " You must have the discipline to work two jobs to afford the PS3".

    • @GamingHistorian
      @GamingHistorian  4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Oof. Sucks Genji got such a bad reputation, the PS2 game was a hidden gem!

    • @supernintendo182
      @supernintendo182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sony: "lol u need 2 jobs 2 aford this u fuking loser"
      Microsoft: "Hey here's this affordable HD console that's easier to make games for"
      Nintendo: "Hey here's this white rectangle that comes with remotes that you swing around and it makes stuff on the tv happen and your whole family can play it and there's Mario and Zelda and shit and it plays GameCube games"

    • @KayX291
      @KayX291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Konami: Hold my luchadores.

    • @thelarry383
      @thelarry383 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      People forget the PS3 launched at 499 USD and the 599 was the upper model only in terms of storage and sd card reader

  • @EhEhEhEINSTEIN
    @EhEhEhEINSTEIN 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was a fantastic watch :)
    At the time, my main issue with "taking a stand against Sony" for the data breach and all their carelessness was that bad company 2 had a hold of my soul lol.