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The Story of Playstation

  • 2023
  • 47m
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4.2/10
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The Story of Playstation (2023)
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Japan rose technologically after war. Sony aimed to collaborate with Nintendo in video games' rise. After betrayal, Sony founded its successful PlayStation console line, competing with Ninte... Read allJapan rose technologically after war. Sony aimed to collaborate with Nintendo in video games' rise. After betrayal, Sony founded its successful PlayStation console line, competing with Nintendo.Japan rose technologically after war. Sony aimed to collaborate with Nintendo in video games' rise. After betrayal, Sony founded its successful PlayStation console line, competing with Nintendo.

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    • Jake Hickman
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    • Alexandra Perry
    • Charlie Fish
    • Tristan Donovan
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    • Director
      • Jake Hickman
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      • Jake Hickman
    • Stars
      • Alexandra Perry
      • Charlie Fish
      • Tristan Donovan
    • 14User reviews
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    Alexandra Perry
    Alexandra Perry
    • Self - Games Dev
    Charlie Fish
    Charlie Fish
    • Self - Author
    Tristan Donovan
    Tristan Donovan
    • Self - Author
    Aoife Wilson
    Aoife Wilson
    • Self - Games Journalist
    Mark Cerny
    Mark Cerny
    • Self - Games Dev
    • (archive footage)
    Bill Gates
    Bill Gates
    • Self - Co-Founder of Microsoft
    • (archive footage)
    Ken Kutaragi
    Ken Kutaragi
    • Self - Former CEO of Sony
    • (archive footage)
    Akio Morita
    • Self - Co-Founder of Sony
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    Jason Pumarada
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    3sweepstakespodcast

    Could've been way more polished.

    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.
    1rxrvqwktx

    Completely ruined by the terrible sound.

    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.
    3matc-33511

    Sack the sound editor

    Nice little story about the Playstations history which gets to the core subject surprisingly fast, without dragging it's heels. But it suffers 2 major flaws:1) this annoying modern documentary need to swap between nobody's offering 10, 15 seconds of dialogue one after the other. Just give us 1 presenter who we can associate with! 2) the sound editing. It is utterly dreadful, to the point where you can't even hear what the nobody's are saying. They no doubt feel this adds an edge to it, an interesting twist. It doesn't. It completely ruins what could have been a nice little documentary. 3 out of 10 is being generous.
    4MikeHunt1075

    Nothing to gain from watching this.

    This documentary offers nothing you most likely already didn't know about the history of the Playstation.

    It's presented through a couple of no-bodies being interviewed and sharing their useless nostalgia stories and uncaptivating personal histories that come off more vein than anything else.

    They just talk about each launch of the new systems and mention a couple of leading games, while obviously not being allowed to talk about the games consumers where really obtaining the consoles to play.

    It's also got quite some misleading parts to it, in particular one of them claiming the PS1 had better graphics than the Nintendo 64... yeah, nah a umm, 32 bit system vs a 64 bit is not going to have better graphics. What they're failing to admit is the PS1 was easily chipped to run bootleg games, where as the Nintendo 64 wasn't able to be modified like that, and that's how the PS1 outsold Nintendo's 64 console. It wasn't from it being a better console or had vcd.

    Also, the sound editing during this entire thing is atrocious. At points you can't hear what someone's saying because music is drowning it out, and it's annoying as bleep that way the sound goes up and down and has no constant level. Very poor job on the audio all through out this pointless documentary from the pov of a couple of nobodies.
    1martinmclarencgi

    Pardon?

    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.

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      • 2023 (Canada)
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