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.

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.

While the information in this isn't exclusive or new, the documentary is a great history of the PlayStation and Sony. This is all absolutely ruined by the sound design. Who even edited this?

You'll get someone talking and then suddenly there's a horrible voice effect over them and you can barely hear it. The background music isn't background music at all, it's more like someone has found their favourite 80s soft-core and put that in infront of interviewee's voice. At some parts, you cant hear the person speaking at all and the subtitles don't even pick up what theyre saying either, despite you seeing the person talking.

So basically, you get 5 points for the clips and information but lose out of 5 points because I couldn't even hear most of it...

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 don't know who thought it be a good idea to release this documentary in it's current state.

No build up, story is rushed and all over the place. Narrator sounds like Ben Stein. The console comparisons of the time barely, if at all, mention main competitors like Xbox or Sega. It seems to really focus on Nintendo the entire time, and with little mention of a main competitor, N64.

Probably the worst audio mixing I have ever heard. There are amateur youtubers who would do a better job then they did. It really is atrocious. Double audio, echoing in speech, music drowning out interviewees, random music in odd places, volume level fluctuations.

Take a pass on this one. Or watch video game historian on YouTube to see how a real video game doc should be done.