I can confirm, he came to my house demanding that i sell it to him. he then mentioned he was gonna be buying all 117 million units that we're released. absolutely nuts!
The entire lifespan of the PS4 before the PS5 came out, I never even thought about upgrading to the PS4 Pro. I kept using my launch PS4 with its loud ass jet engine fans haha. But it was still working good enough.
Don't forget to mention that not once not twice but three times our credit debit card info was leaked from Playstation servers and Sony didn't tell us for weeks.
After the PS3 taught Sony that their only option was to copy xbox hardware, they went to AMD and said give me what you're giving xbox only faster, and this was their greatest success and set the blueprint going forward... When the xbox360 went with cutting edge pc graphics from AMD all those years ago, they created the greatest leap in console graphics that will ever be, and established the standard for all future consoles, this one especially...
I sold my PS4, but kept a controller. I use the controller to play driving games when I don't feel like pulling out the wheel.. Which is about 90% of the time..
"Saved PlayStation" In every generation, except for one. The PlayStation has been the best seller of that generation. The lone exception was the PS3, which by the end of that gen was in 2nd Place. Sony has dominated the game industry since it came to market in 1994. The one time they didn't it was due to the general appeal of the Wii. And even the Xbox 360, Xbox's most popular system and the best one they made was in 3rd Place that gen. That just tells you how crazy that generation was.
I really feel like this is a weird way to twist the PS3 to PS4 scenario. The PS3 was a phenomenal system with a price that easily would have come down if people bought it. The problem for the PS3 was the games other companies were making were just so much easier to develop on the Xbox 360. Games that ran flawlessly on the PS3 or made only for the PS3 showed the console was much better than it appeared. So, in a hypothetical where the PS3 sold very well, the Xbox 360 wasn't able to reach par with the PS3 so developers had to put in the work to make the games, and the Move and Vita sold the way they should have, imagine what the PS4 would have been, riding off of such incredible success.
I agree, the PS3 gets hate because people with 360s didn't understand it. It was the cheapest blue ray player on the market at the time on top of being a fantastic game console. My biggest theory is that the 360 has the reputation it has because people's parents didn't want to shell out the money for it, so they bought their kids a cheap 360 arcade instead
Ask anyone thats a developer or close to them and the vast majority do not miss the incredibly complicated CELL, split memory or wimpy GPU. Don't get me wrong, I love the PS3, but it is what it is.
@TKIvanov but if you read my scenario it's based on not having a 360 capable of balancing it out. If it was all they had for higher quality games, it would still suck to develop for but it would have birthed a much better gen
I bought my ps4 with my college book money. Found the books on pdf online for free so why not buy a ps4. I got it from a Walmart that randomly got some in and no one knew it yet. I drove 15 min on my break from my movie theater job through the snow to go buy it and made it back before my break ended and before the movies got out my coworker covered for me and encouraged me to do it. It was fun times. Then ps4 pro I just traded my ps4 for it at Best Buy and paid the difference.
You mean I bought my PS4 using my college book money. I found the books as free PDFs online, so I figured, why not buy a PS4? I got it from a Walmart that had just gotten some in stock, but no one knew about it yet. On my break from my job at a movie theater, I drove 15 minutes through the snow to go buy it and made it back before my break ended-just in time before the movies got out. My coworker covered for me and even encouraged me to do it. It was such a fun time. As for the PS4 Pro, I just traded in my PS4 at Best Buy and paid the difference.
So, I grew up with PC gaming during the 90s/early 2000s. Owned 2 consoles during that time: PS1 and GameBoy Colour, and those perhaps had even more playtime than PC. Since then, no consoles except a brief period with the PS3 and PSP, due to hackability (which was interesting) but quickly sold after 3 months due to non-use. For myself I cannot justify owning a console anymore.
I think Don Mattingly's (sp?) speech where he says (not direct quote) "If you want a console that's not online, get an XBOX 360." pretty much ended him. He's pretty much telling people not to buy their newest, greatest product. Massive fail on his part. Austin didn't mention it, so just wanted to make it a part of the conversation...pretty much a terrible speech.
They did not just sell off their Manhattan HQ and fire a bunch of people to save Sony after deciding to go all in on the PS. They closed and sold off a fair chunk of their Music movie-making sectors. All of their PC studios Inc, SOE were closed and sold off in bits. A few of their PS studios even had to be sacrificed. The hardware and mobile sector did see cuts too after Mobile sales had gone down 90% since 2007. Betting everything on PS4. Tho... To be fair, the Xbox One E3 show helped a fair bit too, and should be credited
I personally LOVED the PS3. I made more friend on there and LOVE PS Home and pretty much STOPPED using PlayStation after they said they was going to bring it to PS4, then pretty much dropped it and never commented on it again.
Yeah Microsoft's original Xbox was a compacted pc in a case. Sony just copied that after the PS3 losses. They just implemented it better for the PS4 Xbox one generation, lucky for Sony!
They love talking about losing money when it launched but I want to know how and when it became profitable no way they sold 100 million consoles and lost 200$ on every one they’d be out of business.
Sony during the beginning of the PS4 era was over a trillion dollars in debt and was sinking. If Xbox didn't alienate their base, then there's a chance Sony would no longer be around and Microsoft would likely have been the absolute worst with no competition.
It’s not about hardware it’s about the games gamers wants just good games to play I personally will trade any 120fps console for 30-60fps with good games and I think most of the gamers will. That’s what sell the more what to do with the most powerful console when there is no good games
To be honest, I'm not a big fan of the Dualshock 4 like a lot of people are. It was nice that it was re-chargable but man did that battery drain fast. And a nitpick of mine is the controller being too light for my liking. I do remember the shift to PlayStation at the time. Many people I knew who were Xbox 360 players shifted to the PS4 at the time.
I never understood all the love for the 360 controller. To me it was straight up ass. That battery lump in the back makes me have to hold my hands on the controller in a way that causes hand cramps. Never had that problem with any PS controllers or either of the original Xbox controllers.
I still have a base PS4 (Uncharted 4 edition). The controller already failed on me but the console itself is going strong (even though it's been sounding like a jet engine lately). I still play on it on a regular basis, in fact I used it a lot more than my PS5 in the past few weeks (been replaying Bloodborne and Dark Souls with it). Really a great console despite its age and is probably my 2nd favorite Playstation console just behind the PS1
PS4 pro was one of my favorite consoles and I've been playing consoles since the Atari 2600. They just had so many good exclusive games, and the games actually looked decent and ran at good frame rates (unlike the ps5). 4:39 lol, no it wasn't a good pc in a box, both the xbox and ps4 had garbage hardware, the pro models took them to where they should have been at launch, and no the cpu WASN'T better than the xbox, wtf you smoking? 17:43 - wtf man, the pro was a HUGE leap in performance, thumbs down on this video due to all this bs you're spouting.
7:31 no way in history of both console there was ever a time where I thought Xbox controller was better than playstation.. Xbox controller since the beginning of time had wobbly analog sticks and playstation controllers had always been more dominant becuz they offered more precision
Xbox one x scorpio actually had little bit more success as it came out almost on same time as fortnite that fortnite on xbox one x looked super good. Playstation for pro fan was horrendous it was obnoxiously loud
Sony did NOT look at what worked, they looked at what was overhyped and in theory popular Austin. Get your RESEARCH right. a i5 4690k completely DOMINATES a FX 8350, and a 4790k would of been close to 4x as powerful (not quite that but not far off). They WOULD of been able to have the ps4 produce games close to on par with the ps5 (base) with that hardware. FX 8350 STRUGGLES with 4k, that hardware was able to do 4k and 60+ fps with Tomb Raider 2014. Do your research you TROLL
Man i hate these essay/news coverage voice, I don't understand why every sentence need to be stretch. "ever madeeeee" "in the rooooom" "ps2222/ps333333" "going oooooon" like ugh
sony didnt save it, just making it overpriced, nintendo is making their stuff overpriced too, xbox is only giving a good deal cause they have to, thats how consoles are now, it sucks, they arent affordable anymore
Biggest thing that’s still counts today ownership of your bought games physical. Something Ms still refuse and cheap out. Indiana on 1 disc when they can add 3 but nope
Funny as how much I used PS1-3 controllers. After a long time I tested the PS4 controller. It felt worse on my hands than PS3 controller. At least things that I played. Same time on PC I just go for PS5, 8bitdo or Switch pro controller because those are easy to work with and Switch pro controller is superior to Xbox controllers. Even mostly using same design. Also skipped the PS4 but I tried the controller on PSTV after thinking that could it be better than using PS4 instead of PS3 controller on PSTV.
I miss consoles... good consoles. once upon a time ya could get a console cheaper then a pc and have it play games and work outta the box. today its a mess...overpriced , slowly moving away from physical games. games in general getting worse blah blah blah... I feel/am old.
Sony lost out when they decided to not continue with the backwards compatible software for all their systems. Xbox did it easily, so not sure why sony doesn't! Stupid choice in my opinion, cause then I wouldn't of just had to purchase a ps3 super slim.
I can confirm, he came to my house demanding that i sell it to him. he then mentioned he was gonna be buying all 117 million units that we're released. absolutely nuts!
I still got my ps4 pro, so he still hasn't reached my door yet. But for 1200 $ I am absolutely willing to sell it too him 😂😂😂😂
What a mad lad
@@marcusellbyshut it😡 the party never ends bruh literally
The entire lifespan of the PS4 before the PS5 came out, I never even thought about upgrading to the PS4 Pro. I kept using my launch PS4 with its loud ass jet engine fans haha. But it was still working good enough.
You got lucky dude mine HDD had to be changed 3 years after I got it and it was a Slim not even a launch model
The PS4 pro had issues with noise as well. I have one and it’s unbelievable how loud the fans get.
Is this video even titled correctly "i bought every PS4" and then you discuss the history of the PS4 for the entire video?
its not any longer
How Sony SAVED PlayStation! - lol
@basically_chris Which isn't even correct either.
Don't forget to mention that not once not twice but three times our credit debit card info was leaked from Playstation servers and Sony didn't tell us for weeks.
40% Sony making improvements
60% Microsoft fucking up in every way imaginable
Microsoft Owns half of Sony. How can they lose?
@@RabbitsInBlack no?
And the funny thing is that it’s still going strong since 2013
@@RabbitsInBlack Bro is defending a billion dollar company on RUclips comments 😂😂
I’m SCARED of that ONE Vein on Austin’s Arms!! 😧
Man no the hell you didn't
After the PS3 taught Sony that their only option was to copy xbox hardware, they went to AMD and said give me what you're giving xbox only faster, and this was their greatest success and set the blueprint going forward...
When the xbox360 went with cutting edge pc graphics from AMD all those years ago, they created the greatest leap in console graphics that will ever be, and established the standard for all future consoles, this one especially...
I sold my PS4, but kept a controller. I use the controller to play driving games when I don't feel like pulling out the wheel.. Which is about 90% of the time..
"Saved PlayStation" In every generation, except for one. The PlayStation has been the best seller of that generation. The lone exception was the PS3, which by the end of that gen was in 2nd Place. Sony has dominated the game industry since it came to market in 1994. The one time they didn't it was due to the general appeal of the Wii. And even the Xbox 360, Xbox's most popular system and the best one they made was in 3rd Place that gen. That just tells you how crazy that generation was.
I really feel like this is a weird way to twist the PS3 to PS4 scenario. The PS3 was a phenomenal system with a price that easily would have come down if people bought it. The problem for the PS3 was the games other companies were making were just so much easier to develop on the Xbox 360. Games that ran flawlessly on the PS3 or made only for the PS3 showed the console was much better than it appeared.
So, in a hypothetical where the PS3 sold very well, the Xbox 360 wasn't able to reach par with the PS3 so developers had to put in the work to make the games, and the Move and Vita sold the way they should have, imagine what the PS4 would have been, riding off of such incredible success.
I agree, the PS3 gets hate because people with 360s didn't understand it. It was the cheapest blue ray player on the market at the time on top of being a fantastic game console.
My biggest theory is that the 360 has the reputation it has because people's parents didn't want to shell out the money for it, so they bought their kids a cheap 360 arcade instead
Ask anyone thats a developer or close to them and the vast majority do not miss the incredibly complicated CELL, split memory or wimpy GPU.
Don't get me wrong, I love the PS3, but it is what it is.
@TKIvanov but if you read my scenario it's based on not having a 360 capable of balancing it out. If it was all they had for higher quality games, it would still suck to develop for but it would have birthed a much better gen
I bought my ps4 with my college book money. Found the books on pdf online for free so why not buy a ps4. I got it from a Walmart that randomly got some in and no one knew it yet. I drove 15 min on my break from my movie theater job through the snow to go buy it and made it back before my break ended and before the movies got out my coworker covered for me and encouraged me to do it. It was fun times. Then ps4 pro I just traded my ps4 for it at Best Buy and paid the difference.
You mean college book money, not college books money
You mean I bought my PS4 using my college book money. I found the books as free PDFs online, so I figured, why not buy a PS4? I got it from a Walmart that had just gotten some in stock, but no one knew about it yet. On my break from my job at a movie theater, I drove 15 minutes through the snow to go buy it and made it back before my break ended-just in time before the movies got out. My coworker covered for me and even encouraged me to do it. It was such a fun time. As for the PS4 Pro, I just traded in my PS4 at Best Buy and paid the difference.
@@jackdknutson You had enough for one book
So, I grew up with PC gaming during the 90s/early 2000s. Owned 2 consoles during that time: PS1 and GameBoy Colour, and those perhaps had even more playtime than PC. Since then, no consoles except a brief period with the PS3 and PSP, due to hackability (which was interesting) but quickly sold after 3 months due to non-use.
For myself I cannot justify owning a console anymore.
The dualshock 4 was the first good controller Sony made.
I think Don Mattingly's (sp?) speech where he says (not direct quote) "If you want a console that's not online, get an XBOX 360." pretty much ended him. He's pretty much telling people not to buy their newest, greatest product. Massive fail on his part. Austin didn't mention it, so just wanted to make it a part of the conversation...pretty much a terrible speech.
They did not just sell off their Manhattan HQ and fire a bunch of people to save Sony after deciding to go all in on the PS. They closed and sold off a fair chunk of their Music movie-making sectors. All of their PC studios Inc, SOE were closed and sold off in bits. A few of their PS studios even had to be sacrificed. The hardware and mobile sector did see cuts too after Mobile sales had gone down 90% since 2007. Betting everything on PS4.
Tho... To be fair, the Xbox One E3 show helped a fair bit too, and should be credited
THIS IS!
I personally LOVED the PS3. I made more friend on there and LOVE PS Home and pretty much STOPPED using PlayStation after they said they was going to bring it to PS4, then pretty much dropped it and never commented on it again.
Man, I loved when he showed off the PS4s he bought.
THE PS4 DESIGN BLOWS THE PS5 AWAY NOT SURE WHY THEY THOUGHT GOING BACK TO A FAT PS3 LIKE DESIGN WAS THE BEST CHOICE.
It literally blows the PS5 away with that fan 😭
Kinda cool that not only is this the history of the PS4, but also told from someone who was there through the entire way
You are giving too much credit to Mark... They basically looked at what Microsoft was doing since the OG Xbox and decided to do that.
Yeah Microsoft's original Xbox was a compacted pc in a case. Sony just copied that after the PS3 losses. They just implemented it better for the PS4 Xbox one generation, lucky for Sony!
@@jonathanellis6097 😂 Not lucky, they did it correctly. Microsoft dropped the ball hard.
Been WAITING for this episode. Honestly, you should pitch it to WarnerBros or so for Max (specifically the show Game Changers)
Titanfall was so good... nothing like grappling onto a giant mech climbing up and dumping an lmg mag into its head
They love talking about losing money when it launched but I want to know how and when it became profitable no way they sold 100 million consoles and lost 200$ on every one they’d be out of business.
Big shoutout to Microsoft for letting Sony be the king again after the Xbox one reveal.
Remember, the Xbox one didn’t allow used games, but PS4 did :)
great video Austin! This type of content is awesome.
You didn't really mention that sony's 25th anniversary was during this time, and that they released a PS4 that looked like the PS1.
Under 2 minutes gang
Xbox One X and PS4 Pro are still great consoles, especially if you replace the HDD with an SSD.
Sony during the beginning of the PS4 era was over a trillion dollars in debt and was sinking. If Xbox didn't alienate their base, then there's a chance Sony would no longer be around and Microsoft would likely have been the absolute worst with no competition.
It’s not about hardware it’s about the games gamers wants just good games to play I personally will trade any 120fps console for 30-60fps with good games and I think most of the gamers will. That’s what sell the more what to do with the most powerful console when there is no good games
U forgot to mention that psvr1 was the highest selling vr headset at the time. Rest sold around 2m each in that same period.
To be honest, I'm not a big fan of the Dualshock 4 like a lot of people are. It was nice that it was re-chargable but man did that battery drain fast. And a nitpick of mine is the controller being too light for my liking.
I do remember the shift to PlayStation at the time. Many people I knew who were Xbox 360 players shifted to the PS4 at the time.
$499/$599 for launch PS3 still the cheapest Blu Ray player at the time of release
PS3 is my favorite console, generation, and time in gaming if you want.
Who are you, and what have you done to Austin? This was professional made.
Great video again. I really like these breakdown/history videos
Where did he get that sick button up?
Ps4 is how sony saved the ps franchise.
Ps5 pro is how they destroyed it again.
Ffs make sure things are 100% working when you make something.
I never understood all the love for the 360 controller. To me it was straight up ass. That battery lump in the back makes me have to hold my hands on the controller in a way that causes hand cramps. Never had that problem with any PS controllers or either of the original Xbox controllers.
I believe, out of all the versions of the playstation, i have more hours on the PS4. The original Playstation with Resident evil was epic.
Love your team and your videos. Good job
If we could give Sony a reminder of these prices for this new CRAZY price for the PS5 Pro.
the guy at the 18:03 PS VR demo booth was like fed up and ready to quit..
Was the eventual death of sega's console division starting from the sony ps1 299 roast not a press conference?
I still have a base PS4 (Uncharted 4 edition). The controller already failed on me but the console itself is going strong (even though it's been sounding like a jet engine lately). I still play on it on a regular basis, in fact I used it a lot more than my PS5 in the past few weeks (been replaying Bloodborne and Dark Souls with it). Really a great console despite its age and is probably my 2nd favorite Playstation console just behind the PS1
PS4 pro was one of my favorite consoles and I've been playing consoles since the Atari 2600. They just had so many good exclusive games, and the games actually looked decent and ran at good frame rates (unlike the ps5).
4:39 lol, no it wasn't a good pc in a box, both the xbox and ps4 had garbage hardware, the pro models took them to where they should have been at launch, and no the cpu WASN'T better than the xbox, wtf you smoking?
17:43 - wtf man, the pro was a HUGE leap in performance, thumbs down on this video due to all this bs you're spouting.
7:31 no way in history of both console there was ever a time where I thought Xbox controller was better than playstation.. Xbox controller since the beginning of time had wobbly analog sticks and playstation controllers had always been more dominant becuz they offered more precision
Ah so you're the reason why I can't buy a PS4. You'll rude the day Austin Evans!!
"Rue the day", but yeah!
Marc Cerny is just a legend
when they launched crysis remastered on PS4 with software raytracing that cemented the fact that PS4 will stay another 10 years or so
I wonder how it would play out if Microsoft didn’t make this huge mistake
Nice video 👍
20:37 I thought Xbox was the one who started with a familiar hardware concept. I mean... That's the promise since OG Xbox
Anyone here before the name was changed from ‘I BOUGHT EVERY PS4’
PS4 Slim was my favorite.
Wonder what would have happened if SONY went first at E3
How Sony saved Playstation?
**looks at what Sony is doing with the PS5 Pro**
You sure about that?
And then they decided to destroy all the good will they had with the stupid and unjustified pricing of the PS5 Pro.
Now you must buy 117 million PS5s. The Master Chief demands it.
I still to this day hate the Xbox Controller layout. just the symmetry makes it feel wrong.
Hearing that Halo plasma pistol sound effect at 1:29 was funny. Since Halo is a Microsoft product (for now) lol
Ps4 wasn't boring I mean it was literally shaped like a parallelogram.
PS4’s success is much bigger than the XBOX 360.
Now we know why the ps4 sales’ number keeps getting higher after all these years 😂
remember the banana controller playstation had as a concept once?
Xbox one x scorpio actually had little bit more success as it came out almost on same time as fortnite that fortnite on xbox one x looked super good. Playstation for pro fan was horrendous it was obnoxiously loud
This should have been named, How Don Matrick saved Sony! 😂
And still supported by Sony I use the PS 4 Slim regularly
Sony did NOT look at what worked, they looked at what was overhyped and in theory popular Austin. Get your RESEARCH right. a i5 4690k completely DOMINATES a FX 8350, and a 4790k would of been close to 4x as powerful (not quite that but not far off). They WOULD of been able to have the ps4 produce games close to on par with the ps5 (base) with that hardware. FX 8350 STRUGGLES with 4k, that hardware was able to do 4k and 60+ fps with Tomb Raider 2014.
Do your research you TROLL
PS4 sounded like a jet engine
Ps3 was my favorite console because of black ops 2
Sony fuxked up the ps3, Microsoft fuxked up the xbox one.
I can’t be only one who notice the big vein on his arm 16:41
Man i hate these essay/news coverage voice, I don't understand why every sentence need to be stretch. "ever madeeeee" "in the rooooom" "ps2222/ps333333" "going oooooon" like ugh
Still rocking my PS4 Slim, thinking about upgrading to PS5 Pro (if possible)
sony didnt save it, just making it overpriced, nintendo is making their stuff overpriced too, xbox is only giving a good deal cause they have to, thats how consoles are now, it sucks, they arent affordable anymore
I have a PS5 I play mainly PS4 titeles on it. Am I happy with it? yes....do I miss my PS4 console? also yes
All you did was talk about them?
XBOXers are crying right now with the XBOX receipt.
bring back free online play
Is it only me or anyone feels that Austin's content is sus nowadays
Within an hour gang!!!
Finally a video that’s not mystery tech lol 😆 even though I love mystery tech
Did your Microsoft and Xbox sponsorship just end Austin?
Biggest thing that’s still counts today ownership of your bought games physical. Something Ms still refuse and cheap out. Indiana on 1 disc when they can add 3 but nope
you did not buy all the PS4s you're missing the special editions
Funny as how much I used PS1-3 controllers. After a long time I tested the PS4 controller. It felt worse on my hands than PS3 controller. At least things that I played. Same time on PC I just go for PS5, 8bitdo or Switch pro controller because those are easy to work with and Switch pro controller is superior to Xbox controllers. Even mostly using same design.
Also skipped the PS4 but I tried the controller on PSTV after thinking that could it be better than using PS4 instead of PS3 controller on PSTV.
Well, till now I had thought PS3 to be so great!
I have the PS5 and Xbox Series X, I love both consoles equally and play both equally
Bungie the creator of halo.... we don't talk about the other one...
ya I waited all night for a ps4, I did not get one.
was this titled wrong_
Really love this series
I miss consoles... good consoles. once upon a time ya could get a console cheaper then a pc and have it play games and work outta the box. today its a mess...overpriced , slowly moving away from physical games. games in general getting worse blah blah blah... I feel/am old.
Me watching on my PS4
I bought every version of the ps4
The ps4 wasn’t great either didn’t it sound like a jet engine and have bad fans and get super hot?
Sony lost out when they decided to not continue with the backwards compatible software for all their systems. Xbox did it easily, so not sure why sony doesn't! Stupid choice in my opinion, cause then I wouldn't of just had to purchase a ps3 super slim.