The Story of Playstation

Quite interesting content, and I wanted to enjoy it, but completely unwatchable die to the sound. Sometimes the background music drowned out the people talking. Awful.

I don't know why the sound was so bad. Watching view a Bose soundbar with rear speakers, but had to turn the rear speakers down otherwise there was an awful echo on the narrator's voice. Also, the actual quality of the sound is tinny and distorted.

I managed to watch about twenty minutes before it became too irritating. Even changed tge sound settings but it didn't get any better.

Very disappointing in what could have been a good documentary.

I (think I) take my hat off to the other reviewer who gave it 4, I managed 4mins 30secs of this GCSE media studies project.

It was partly the "games dev" telling us all how the Walkman and CD Walkman were "universally taken up, all over the world" but mostly the (poor) middle school audio. Started with the cheesy music too loud, then turned the (possibly dead) narrator in to a robot. Not even the PS1 had such bad sample rates!

Wish I could say more about it but I really can't bring myself to watch anymore. Just glad it's included with a well known streaming service, really not the sort of thing you want to pay money for.

I presume it was directed by Alan Smithee?

Shame, was looking forward to watching.

I think I managed about 10mins before I gave up due to the quality of the sound editing. More often then not you cannot hear what is being said as the awful music is drowning it out. I hope whoever did the audio editing and then whoever signed off on the release of this documentary were fired for this monstrosity of a show. I am pretty confident I could have done a better job on the editing and I know absolutely nothing about video and audio editing.

In short, don't waste your time watching this. If you are that interested in the history of the PlayStation you would be far better off and go Google it.

I absolutely love video game documentaries, but like many people have said whoever the sound engineer was for this film should never work in movies again. It's impossible to listen at some points. There's some great archive footage but at other points they'll be talking about something like the Super Nintendo from 30 years ago but they show an unboxing of a brand new Super Nintendo mini. Doesn't make sense. The young lady with the pink hair who seems to be a video game historian is easy to listen to but she makes two false claims that were obviously not fact-checked and that any person who has played video games knows are either patently false or at best, misleading.

When I saw this suggested to me on Amazon Prime, I immediately dived in, eager to see what it had to offer. As an avid gamer since the '80s, the premise seemed right up my alley. However, my excitement quickly turned to disappointment due to the abysmal sound quality. The background music was so overpowering that it completely drowned out the dialogue. It was frustrating to the point where even the subtitles couldn't capture what was being said. How this glaring issue was overlooked and the show released in such a state is beyond me. This major mistake significantly impacted my viewing experience, making it difficult to enjoy the content.