PlayStation Has Changed For The Worst!

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  • Опубликовано: 24 май 2024
  • In this video, we discuss why the PlayStation brand now feels drastically different from the one we had for decades.
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  • @LadyDecade
    @LadyDecade  Месяц назад +15

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    • @greenkoopa
      @greenkoopa Месяц назад

      🐢💚🐢

    • @futvnyc
      @futvnyc Месяц назад +2

      Most the Sony stuff is going to pc

    • @DundaMifflin
      @DundaMifflin Месяц назад

      this video is trash

  • @zippityzop
    @zippityzop Месяц назад +42

    The Westernization of SONY is destroying it.

  • @NuncleG
    @NuncleG Месяц назад +90

    I'll let you into a little known secret: there's no such thing as zero environmental footprint.

    • @doomerang1438
      @doomerang1438 Месяц назад

      There is if you are dead, that’s what the elites want

    • @mrglasses8953
      @mrglasses8953 Месяц назад +7

      Oh there is, if there are zero people.

    • @Hijynx87
      @Hijynx87 Месяц назад +5

      Zero carbon emissions means zero human life.

    • @Jabler-
      @Jabler- Месяц назад +2

      @@Hijynx87 Other mammals other than humans also breathe out carbon.

    • @PaulusAlone
      @PaulusAlone Месяц назад

      ⁠@@Jabler-- And the World Economic Forum have some very dark plans for the other carbon based life forms as well.
      Culling and scarcity programming is how they plan to keep their control system in power.

  • @bitmau5
    @bitmau5 Месяц назад +47

    It's pretty obvious who 'they' are catering to. It's not the consumer, it's the shareholder. It's just that simple.

  • @brucewayne2955
    @brucewayne2955 Месяц назад +120

    Finally I'm not the only one that noticed. PlayStation during PS3 was pretty consumer friendly but that changed during the PS4

    • @Jum_jamb0
      @Jum_jamb0 Месяц назад +13

      To be fair that was to bring back customers since they got cocky with the launch of the ps3 (overpriced). Same with the vita and now the ps5 though it's much more obvious than ever.

    • @eastvanisfun
      @eastvanisfun Месяц назад +5

      it was overpriced because they were cramming ps1/ps2 emulation into it and giving you a decent hard drive, if you owned xbox360 you had to spring for the model with a hard drive

    • @wlb2j
      @wlb2j Месяц назад +2

      I went with Xbox for that console generation mainly because the ps4 controller felt wonky, and I was used to the 360 at that point, but I'm glad I didn't go ps4. And I still get use out of my ps3 from time to time, so I wasn't about to give up on what I had purchased.

    • @alfredosilvaneto
      @alfredosilvaneto Месяц назад +1

      Funny enough PS4 and PS5 were way more succesful than PS3.

    • @alfredosilvaneto
      @alfredosilvaneto Месяц назад +6

      ​@@eastvanisfunPS2 wasn't emulated at the beginning. It had the original hardware.

  • @T.A._Baracus
    @T.A._Baracus Месяц назад +153

    I hope she doesn't get hung out to dry by YT for telling the truth.

    • @gamebriz4163
      @gamebriz4163 Месяц назад +6

      Same here, see how long this upload stays up before a takedown 🙄

    • @Adamtendo_player_1
      @Adamtendo_player_1 Месяц назад +6

      I’m sure she won’t we need more people like Lady decade telling the truth about PlayStation as well as Xbox and Nintendo.

    • @joshuaerickson1969
      @joshuaerickson1969 Месяц назад +3

      I agreed she’s telling the truth on how it is and it’s only effecting western gaming and news and any news outlets and is pushed in podcasting as well

    • @AbigailHonestly
      @AbigailHonestly Месяц назад +4

      The truth as a right winger sees it isn't truth

    • @BillBixby-ob8di
      @BillBixby-ob8di Месяц назад +2

      Rumble and X will welcome her with open arms 🤗

  • @blitzerblazinoah6838
    @blitzerblazinoah6838 Месяц назад +228

    Lady Decade is now officially based!

    • @adamb416
      @adamb416 Месяц назад +15

      I'm so happy she is talking about this

    • @wlb2j
      @wlb2j Месяц назад +12

      She's been based in my opinion... love this lady

    • @lilithaensland5566
      @lilithaensland5566 Месяц назад +3

      was based

    • @DundaMifflin
      @DundaMifflin Месяц назад +3

      she should team up with andrew tate

    • @IaconDawnshire
      @IaconDawnshire Месяц назад +2

      There's a reason why she's my waifu

  • @marcusryan9129
    @marcusryan9129 Месяц назад +20

    You just summed up everything I've been feeling within the first 40 seconds. A lot of the younger generations don't really understand all of the hot garbage being fed to them...🤢

  • @xepacagueta2009
    @xepacagueta2009 Месяц назад +22

    the problem is BLACKROCK and ESG. Those who dont follow ESG rules will be punished.

    • @napoleonfeanor
      @napoleonfeanor Месяц назад +8

      They rebrand as BRIDGE currently

    • @john_hunter_
      @john_hunter_ Месяц назад +1

      I think Blackrock is doing this as a distraction tactic.
      They fund media to promote these weird ideas so the population is busy arguing about it.
      This distracts the population from the corrupt activities they are engaged in.
      This prevents another Occupy Wall Street situation where the population rises up against them.

  • @SamM_Scot
    @SamM_Scot Месяц назад +25

    The sad reality is Playstation moved their HQ to America being geared towards more AAA western market. It's partly why Nintendo Switch has completely taken over in Japan besides being a hybrid system in huge handheld marketplace. I just hope Nintendo doesn't follow in their footsteps :-)

  • @SonicSkychaser
    @SonicSkychaser Месяц назад +32

    And that's why i wasn't in a rush to go out and buy a PS5. Im happy with my PS3 Super Slim and my PS4 Slim. I also got a Switch too.

    • @Marcelocostache
      @Marcelocostache Месяц назад +4

      Y have my original ps1 ps2 ps3 and ps4 with more then 3000 physical games in my collection no need fue ps5

  • @KhallStream
    @KhallStream Месяц назад +27

    You hit it right in the head, as a minority myself, I find it utterly insulting that someone out there thinks my hard work and perseverance takes a backseat to the color of my skin in the work place.
    Ask them if they’d like to be known themselves as the diversity hire and see how fast their facade withers.
    Companies like that can’t go under fast enough.

  • @javierortiz82
    @javierortiz82 Месяц назад +7

    It's been like that for 20 years, it started with the PS3, their focus on charging for services, DLC and digital ownership.
    Everything after PS2 has been downhill.

  • @Uzukii
    @Uzukii Месяц назад +34

    Sony wants us to recycle our consoles rather than keep them? Dafuq? Where was that ever said. Sounds incredibly corporate level stupid.

    • @LadyDecade
      @LadyDecade  Месяц назад +45

      They want you to eat bugs and live in a pod! 😄

    • @basedelon
      @basedelon Месяц назад +17

      @@LadyDecade "You will own nothing and be happy." - WEF/Klaus Schwab

    • @sczrhndz
      @sczrhndz Месяц назад +7

      sounds like forced obsolescence 🫰 corporate greed at it's finest! It's absolutely mental my friend

    • @JGreen-le8xx
      @JGreen-le8xx Месяц назад +6

      @@basedelon You hate to sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist with a cork board full of pictures, thumbtacks and red string, but almost all the craziness in the world (including this DEI forced into games and gaming culture) all the red strings point to the group/person you describe... scary... brings a new meaning to the old song "He's got the whole world in his hand."

    • @napoleonfeanor
      @napoleonfeanor Месяц назад +1

      ​@@JGreen-le8xxKlaus is just the figurehead though

  • @MeiRaAaAwrsyourEye
    @MeiRaAaAwrsyourEye Месяц назад +45

    Sony: SIE is committed to building inclusive communities for our players and staff.
    Also Sony: Raises game prices to 70$+, walls online behind a sub and blocks PS+ in over 170 territories, most of these being African and third world countries.

    • @dapperfan44
      @dapperfan44 Месяц назад +3

      To be fair on the online-walling point, Microsoft did that first, and PS3 and Vita online (where applicable) is still free.

    • @CMONCMON007
      @CMONCMON007 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@dapperfan44 So? They are all hypocrites then.

    • @wangchung2157
      @wangchung2157 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@dapperfan44to be fair microsoft actually offers perks and benifits sony just wants to charge me

    • @mravg79
      @mravg79 Месяц назад

      @@dapperfan44it is true that MS started it. But did Sony have to follow? As for leader they are trying to be they are mimicking the MS who well let’s have their own issues on gaming market (console sales being one of them).
      And one more thing while MS had scummy practice of locking even f2p games behind the paywall, they never locked backup of games save files. Which Sony did with ps5. Did Sony had to do it?
      Both are worth each other I do put one above another but we need to stick to facts.

  • @dukejason
    @dukejason Месяц назад +73

    I lost 1200 in digital content when ps3 went to ps4. I was never the same.

    • @leathan7
      @leathan7 Месяц назад +12

      Just reading this is going to cause me PTSD for the rest of my life.
      R.I.P. digitial content. 😢

    • @gelijkjatoch1009
      @gelijkjatoch1009 Месяц назад +2

      Is my content gone?

    • @charlesbronson1959
      @charlesbronson1959 Месяц назад +3

      I had over 100 Ps3 games that I couldn't bring forward to the current console , no backward compatibility is disappointing

    • @diamondstock7778
      @diamondstock7778 Месяц назад +3

      Xbox didn’t have that problem

    • @sczrhndz
      @sczrhndz Месяц назад

      ugh that's nauseating:/

  • @FlorianMark
    @FlorianMark Месяц назад +11

    These businesses don't care about politics. It is and just was marketing. They want to appeal to what they think gets more people into buying there stuff.

  • @AL-np1im
    @AL-np1im Месяц назад +78

    Yeah I sold my PS5 and only have PC and switch

    • @Kirby-Krios
      @Kirby-Krios Месяц назад +11

      Switch and PC aren't exempt from DEI and sweet baby influenced games. (multiplatform)

    • @Heira
      @Heira Месяц назад +4

      I got a series S and I don't switch anymore due to frame rate

    • @olafthebear2327
      @olafthebear2327 Месяц назад +6

      Honestly, those 2 are the only ones a gamer could reasonably need these days. PC for power and Switch for portability and Nintendo exclusives

    • @Heira
      @Heira Месяц назад +2

      @@olafthebear2327 i gave up on switch years ago they are so toxic the fan base are the smash bros community why I got all platforms so I can play whenever I want but what's point getting a PS5 for PS5 exclusives 😂

    • @eduardosanchezbarrios5810
      @eduardosanchezbarrios5810 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@Kirby-Krios i only play On PC classic games and indie games free of DEI

  • @cemsengul16
    @cemsengul16 Месяц назад +5

    Now Sony is the Karen that censors games. Truly sad times.

  • @jackthemi2975
    @jackthemi2975 Месяц назад +23

    Hearing that the company moved from Tokyo, Japan to L.A., the grounds of corporation greed and, sometimes, bs business says enough. I haven't invested in Playstation until they change the way they handle business, but I doubt that's to come. Money is all that company cares about nowadays. Really sad to see what has become of the company that was once loved. And, yes, being inclusive is a money tactic for these companies, for those who don't understand what I was getting at. Games are games, not a damn a political tool to use to get to people about shii majority gamers don't give a damn about. Too many games to keep up with the political ish.

  • @hybrid9mm
    @hybrid9mm Месяц назад +8

    When Sony moved in 2016 to California my exact thought at the time was ”well it’s been fun” I knew corporate America would ruining it but I was expecting greed oh how wrong was I, FK!
    The CEO is clearly a numbers person she has no interest in gaming.
    Alienating the fans and player bases is the current trend and most of us know who is behind it.

  • @GB-sh9st
    @GB-sh9st Месяц назад +13

    Sony's failing and begging for ECG investment

  • @YellsAtTheCloud-ir4ci
    @YellsAtTheCloud-ir4ci Месяц назад +27

    Doesn't mean everyone who is the most qualified gets the job, sometimes it's who you are buddy buddy with, rather than what you know, I've experienced that myself.

    • @FoggyD
      @FoggyD Месяц назад +3

      Exactly. If we had a perfect system until about 10 years ago and *suddenly* companies started making recruitment decisions that patronised and pitied many new workers, or made them feel like victims due to the colour of their skin and/or gender, then I'd be as disgusted as Lady D is here, but that's simply not been the case in reality. The issue is historical and systemic.
      It remains a fact that non-whites and women are underrepresented in the workforce, and especially in upper management roles, so it doesn't seem unreasonable for companies to try to redress that balance (although it seems many are only paying lip service to the idea).
      And even from a selfish point of view, I may be a straight white male but I'm also disabled and we're way below average in terms of the proportion of us who are employed compared to the national and global average, so I'm all for being given a chance to prove myself for that reason too, even if it's through a "diversity hire".

    • @CMONCMON007
      @CMONCMON007 Месяц назад +1

      Ah yes that's also another problem with society. CORRUPTION and NEPOTISM! Hate it equally

  • @TimDespairBear11
    @TimDespairBear11 Месяц назад +29

    I agree that it’s not okay to hire people to tick a box and not because of their skill set. But I don’t think this is a PlayStation issue, a lot of companies are forced to say things like that just to look “good.”

    • @KnightSoulsG
      @KnightSoulsG Месяц назад +8

      Black Rock

    • @MeltonCrest
      @MeltonCrest Месяц назад

      Don't be silly, Soyny is one of the most vile and disgusting companies in the industry, they need to be driven into bankruptcy or broken up by the government.

    • @FoggyD
      @FoggyD Месяц назад

      @JohnJacob-ry2iu Well, globally white people are not the ethnic majority so you should actually be all for a worldwide initiative to hire minorities, no?

    • @Arkaner3
      @Arkaner3 Месяц назад

      @JohnJacob-ry2iu Sadly, the majority of people shrug this off as a conspiracy theory. And I think that's why the evil plan is working so well.

  • @jaygatsby3039
    @jaygatsby3039 Месяц назад +7

    I know I'm that guy, but.. it's "To change for the worse" not worst.

    • @LadyDecade
      @LadyDecade  Месяц назад +5

      I know, we discussed this when producing the video. The title we went with is infinitely more click able. It's a figure of speech people use, even though it may not be grammaritically correct.

  • @billclay2701
    @billclay2701 Месяц назад +11

    Barely any games. Nickel n diming. Nintendo pricing. Rush to 4k. Its sad.
    PS2 / 360 days. The best. Games a plenty. Wide variety. Affordable. No nickel and diming. COmplete releases, no 45gb patches needed.

    • @maroon9273
      @maroon9273 Месяц назад +3

      7th gen was the last era of home game consoles.

  • @dennisbergen9892
    @dennisbergen9892 Месяц назад +4

    You are not over-reacting. Not just PlayStation, much of the gaming industry is a disaster that deserves to sink.

  • @attlue
    @attlue Месяц назад +5

    PlayStation: "..we're bringing awareness to climate change and environment.."
    Also PlayStation "..we're using resources and power to create the PS5 Pro that NOBODY asked for..."

  • @Sander1678
    @Sander1678 Месяц назад +6

    In my opinion they should be more concerned with diversity of games than diversity of staff. Take a look at the PS1 and PS2 there was such a wide array of games available. There were so many different types of games and they all looked so bright and colorful. But since the PS3 it seems to me that all games are just dark, dull and violent. That's what's wrong with Playstation. And that's why Nintendo on the other hand is doing so well. Nintendo seems to be the only one who knows what gamers want these days.

  • @georgeprapas4995
    @georgeprapas4995 Месяц назад +6

    Sony should have stayed in Japan, it was created as japan company based on japan culture.. why moving headquarters in California doesn't make sense to me...this bring back memories of why Sega of Japan and Sega of America was arguing about all the time back then... lets hope there is a part of Sony is stays true to Japan culture 🙁

  • @mattfm101
    @mattfm101 Месяц назад +10

    Imagine what dei does to games, now imagine what it does to a country.

  • @blitzerblazinoah6838
    @blitzerblazinoah6838 Месяц назад +15

    Within six months. Both THGM and Lady Decade will be guests on Podcast of the Lotuseaters.

    • @basedelon
      @basedelon Месяц назад

      Great!

    • @DundaMifflin
      @DundaMifflin Месяц назад +3

      alt right basement dwellers rejoice!

    • @basedelon
      @basedelon Месяц назад

      @@DundaMifflin ha, you don't even know what alt-right means you little transcommie.

  • @dantek6738
    @dantek6738 Месяц назад +15

    PS5 is my last console, I'm going full PC next gen. Sony's censorship and anti consumer stance as well as PC's mod support and lower price point all added to this choice

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman Месяц назад +9

    *_"Well, Sony ended up moving the PlayStation brand, which was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, over to California instead."_*
    - Lady Decade
    BINGO.

  • @Blackcurtain8108
    @Blackcurtain8108 Месяц назад +3

    "Employees and allies"? Allies has me thinking it could be both unpaid employees AND diversity hires

  • @krazyd0nut404
    @krazyd0nut404 Месяц назад +7

    Gaming industry is just depressing with all the news. It’s like Nintendo is the only thing left.

    • @mouradhalbi1554
      @mouradhalbi1554 Месяц назад

      East gaming studios is the futur , western gaming is dead or corromp

    • @NectarineC
      @NectarineC Месяц назад +1

      They are starting to turn woke as well. Look at the thousand year door.

  • @mattfm101
    @mattfm101 Месяц назад +8

    The propaganda machine 5

  • @LoremasterFoxBuster
    @LoremasterFoxBuster Месяц назад +3

    "These networks aim to (...) promote cultural awareness"
    That's a laugh. Nintendo and Sony don't even consider translating games to Brazilian Portuguese, even when considering the 200 million possible consumers. But they translate to Korean and even .
    The last game where I've seen some sort of cultural awareness for Brazilian people was "Samba de Amigo", in 2000.
    The issue here is that the majority of game developers consider "culture" and/or the world itself to end at the Equator's line.

  • @jameskrack196
    @jameskrack196 Месяц назад +4

    I stopped buying new games after GTA V and game consoles after PS3.Gaming just didn't feel the same anymore. Playability was gone and the games just felt like a movie. Like a really long boring movie without much if any challenge. Lucky for me I have a large library of NES, Sega Genesis/SegaCD, Game Gear, PS 1,2 and 3 titles I can fall back on. This is just my opinion and I'm sure I'm biased cause of when I grew up and came into gaming but the NES-PS3 was really the golden years.
    Excellent content as always Ms. Decade. Keep it up and you'll be as dreamy as dreamy dreamboat Trip Hawkins😜

  • @plazma2891
    @plazma2891 Месяц назад +4

    this is why i play retro games

  • @MoviesNGames007uk
    @MoviesNGames007uk Месяц назад +3

    There was even a Ministry of Sound game on the PS2!

  • @jason4275
    @jason4275 Месяц назад +5

    I have 60 ps2 and 3 games collecting dust, not making gaming system backwards capability and greed is destroying gaming consoles, no one wants a gaming system with bowsers, a bunch of streaming apps, everyone wants backwards capability, I have a ps5 now with 5 games and I haven't played any games in 6 months.

    • @GarryGri
      @GarryGri Месяц назад +2

      So why don't you still have a PS2 and PS3?

    • @quiet00mi
      @quiet00mi Месяц назад +1

      Especially if it was possible to emulate the games, so they can look nad run better. But I guess the unecessary TLOU remakes are important.🙄

  • @DubsBrown
    @DubsBrown Месяц назад +4

    PS3 could support 7 controllers at once.
    They truly peaked with that console offering everything they could think of.
    This is why it’s bad that they don’t really compete with Xbox as much as they did then.

  • @johnsnake3467
    @johnsnake3467 Месяц назад +8

    I agree with your comments about Sarah Bond. After watching your last video about her my first thought was that she was a diversity tick box hire.

  • @gamebriz4163
    @gamebriz4163 Месяц назад +13

    For the record I've been gaming since the early 80's. The old slogan "games for gamers' is long gone. Wokeisum, distortion ideology, identity politics and social media. It's now about selling ideology and pandering to particular groups to sell as much "product" as possible and keeping the shareholders and investors happy not "games for gamers". Moving Sony HQ that's a huge mistake, California...enough said on that one 🤢🤮

    • @GreenTygur
      @GreenTygur Месяц назад +3

      Sony probably felt California was the best place to appeal to a bigger world audience. It's completely backfiring to the point of alienating the audience they did have.

    • @FoggyD
      @FoggyD Месяц назад +1

      Still waiting for a sequel to Custer's Revenge, eh?

  • @jackthemi2975
    @jackthemi2975 Месяц назад +11

    I can't wait to buy a Steam Deck. And, Nintendo joining up with Playstation.... I hope this BS don't move over to Nintendo. Please. Stop effing games up for us gamers. Damn these for-now game players.

    • @Pegfoxx
      @Pegfoxx Месяц назад +1

      Jackthemi I will bet my life you will love the Steam Deck if you love gaming. Iv'e been a girl gamer since the late 70s, and Iv'e had most games consoles. But when I got the Steam Deck early last year, I gotta say its the best gaming system Iv'e ever bought in my life.

    • @napoleonfeanor
      @napoleonfeanor Месяц назад

      Nintendo is just old school greedy

    • @jackthemi2975
      @jackthemi2975 Месяц назад +1

      @@Pegfoxx I know; I'm going to order one soon. I'd love gaming on that, especially when it comes to my retro collection. But, Starfield, on the Steam Deck, will be quite an experience.

    • @Pegfoxx
      @Pegfoxx Месяц назад +1

      @@jackthemi2975 Yeah man the Steam Deck emulates all the old classics, even the Switch & Xbox 360 and PS3! Never played Starfield because Iv'e been told it's woke unfortunately. I am a Doom player myself, and Doom Eternal runs perfectly even on full graphical settings lol. Enjoy my friend lol,

  • @timrichmond5226
    @timrichmond5226 Месяц назад +3

    You're completely right, I had a huge argument with someone I once respected who was blaming consumers for the mountains of waste civilisation produces. They argued that we should consume less. I stated that it is the corporations that are to blame for over producing inferior quality products and trying to sell us more!

    • @FoggyD
      @FoggyD Месяц назад +2

      Yeah this is the one part where I'm on board with Lady D - companies should live up to their environmental responsibilities without passing the buck onto individual consumers. I've even still got a Mega Drive and a GameCube lying around - so much for recycling them!

    • @lmcgregoruk
      @lmcgregoruk Месяц назад +1

      @@FoggyD I've still got a Mega Drive and a Master System lying around (Along with a ZX Spectrum, Atari 2600, and some other newer consoles)

    • @FoggyD
      @FoggyD Месяц назад

      @@lmcgregoruk Cool! I'd still have a 2600, NES, SNES & N64 too if my Dad hadn't chucked them all away ages ago. 😔

  • @ThatMellon
    @ThatMellon Месяц назад +3

    I’m all for equality but when it comes to the work place you need hard working and passionate people; not a mix up of various ethnicities, genders or sexual orientations. Bit that’s business now, businesses believe that if they have one of each, they’ll receive the consumers of each. There’s also a good percentage of people who would believe that if they didn’t show support then they are against it and the bad publicity it involves is something a big corporation would rather avoid.

  • @thfreakinacage
    @thfreakinacage Месяц назад +12

    Every dollar and every second spent on DEI stuff, is a dollar or a second compromised on the quality of the product. Nobody was being stopped from gaming besides their own choice, and you don't need ANY policy to hire a diverse team, just continue to hire the best for the job and do it without any form of discrimination or any consideration whatsoever for the person's attributes outside of their skills and experience. The diversity will apply when and if it wants to.

  • @Cybfreak99
    @Cybfreak99 Месяц назад +4

    They don't know who they are trying to appeal to anymore 😢 PlayStation

  • @TerraWare
    @TerraWare Месяц назад +4

    When Sony launched the PS1 the industry was so very different. There was so much innovation, experimentation, proprietary technologies etc. These days game engines and hardware architectures are very unified. There's no real difference between console and PC versions of games like it used to be. Also with focus on big blockbuster games Sony and most big companies play it safe. Innovation still exists though and its with indies and some AA smaller studios.

  • @crunchyfrog555
    @crunchyfrog555 Месяц назад +4

    What utterly frustrates me about Sony is that they don't learn som every simple lessons.
    The PS1 was a happy accident as it turned out. Although they've always had the image of cutting but built to cost from their audio and walkman brands to their consoles and TVs. Walkmans being a prime example of constantly pushing the boundaries, making things smaller, less power hungry and still reliable and cheap enough. They built everything upon that - hell, I have a Minidisc walkman I still use a lot that uses 1 AA battry and will last about 8-10 hours at least on a single charge.
    Their PS1 was like this - a banger for £d, and yet undercutting Sega to the extent their announcement was just the price of 399.
    Come the PS2 they did the same and cleaned up again. It was for ages, the cheapest way to get a decent DVD player but also being a good console at a reasonable price.
    Come the PS3 they screwed up by thinking they were top dogs and could do no wrong, and they paid for it, and had to move the goalposts a bit. They also screwed up with the VIta - the PS3 was expensive while being decent, but the Vita had stupidly unnecessary memory cards that made the whole thing worthless.
    They learned from this and changed for the PS4.
    But now they're repeating the same mistakes yet again. And it's obviously worse because triple A publishers are wrecking things from their own end too. But having an expensive console with the addition of needing VERY expensive storage is a stupid endeavour.
    And of course moving the brand across to America with it's greedy corporate culture is obviously a wrong move.

  • @Kirby-Krios
    @Kirby-Krios Месяц назад +9

    Asian person here. I agree 100% about your DEI views and the current western leadership side of Sony. But outside that, I don't dwell too long on the behind-the-scenes corporate stuff, and I enjoy my PS5 the same way I did ALL my past consoles- I buy games that interest me, avoid ones that don't, and wait for upcoming games while working on my backlog ( ^_^)b
    Suggestion if you don't mind. Title seemed vague+clickbaity IMO. I would've rather see a more descriptive headline mentioning Sony DEI or 'hiring practices' etc. Anyway thanks for your game documentaries and industry commentary.

    • @TheRandomGuyTheFarNoGameCat
      @TheRandomGuyTheFarNoGameCat Месяц назад +1

      But, it has changed for the worst.

    • @azizalfa752
      @azizalfa752 Месяц назад

      Wake Up Sony iS going full men hate and woke they must lose to learn be normal again

  • @Levity635
    @Levity635 Месяц назад +3

    Based Lady Decade. 👌 The fall of Playstation is incredibly sad.

  • @digitizer3627
    @digitizer3627 Месяц назад +16

    All consoles suck nowadays for a very simple reason. Games today in my opinion are not fun. The older consoles were awesome only because the games were awesome. Games today mostly suck... I avoided ps4 until there were a couple of keepers.. same applies today. Games today suck.

    • @GreenTygur
      @GreenTygur Месяц назад +6

      I've been saying this as well for a long time with alot of people disagreeing. Games now are all iterative (which isn't inherently bad) or void of any true creativity or innovation. They've regressed in alot of ways as well. People are starting to finally admit it now, though.

  • @nathancarpenter2193
    @nathancarpenter2193 Месяц назад +3

    Amen! Appreciate your viewpoint here! It's amazing to think the location of a company's headquarters can have such a massive impact on the way the whole company operates, sad

  • @shaolinpunkFTW
    @shaolinpunkFTW Месяц назад +2

    Agree. Since their HQ changed to the USA things have gone drastically downhill.

  • @fastrack2170
    @fastrack2170 Месяц назад +2

    If anyone understood what the Carbon Footpring being Zero by X Amount of date really means, no one would buy or play these consoles that support it lol.

  • @yamato852
    @yamato852 Месяц назад +6

    ape escape died for the last of us :( not my playstation

    • @allenniumfalcon
      @allenniumfalcon Месяц назад +1

      Spot on

    • @lmcgregoruk
      @lmcgregoruk Месяц назад

      Ape Escape, the game that REQUIRED you to buy an EXPENSIVE controller from a GREEDY CORPORATION because it wouldn't work with the one that came with the console? ;-)

  • @rickrenegadesmetalreviews3243
    @rickrenegadesmetalreviews3243 Месяц назад +10

    You’re on fire with this video! As someone on the right, all I really want is neutrality… when politics become a religion it’s gone too far! I just want to live my life without being told how to

  • @calculateddeclination5534
    @calculateddeclination5534 Месяц назад +3

    I knew they were trash the moment I found out they shut down japan studio. Love their games. Now we'll never get any of their unique games EVER again.

  • @danielreynolds4716
    @danielreynolds4716 Месяц назад +2

    That $500 paper weight on my desk is starting to look less attractive every day

  • @IaconDawnshire
    @IaconDawnshire Месяц назад +3

    Playstation was at its best in the 1st and 2nd Gen systems

  • @kraken5003
    @kraken5003 Месяц назад +4

    you mentioned that PS was the 'counter culture' in some ways (being marketed for adult and such), and i'm not disputing that
    but to me the PS1 was the only console to truly go head to head against nintendo.. ps1 had many different 'nintendo style' (family friendly) games, such as crash bandicoot and spyro.. i think that even changed a little bit with the ps2 where it double down on the 'adults' and the 'family friendly' games took the backseat (and every new 'mascot platformer' and such was now a shooter)

  • @skycloud4802
    @skycloud4802 Месяц назад +4

    A great video. Champion voice of us gamers 💪💯 thank you so much. As a former PlayStation player, I had given up on Sony a long time ago. I'm sick and tired of the current industry. I'll stick to retro games.

  • @hughmac7423
    @hughmac7423 Месяц назад +4

    Yes, a lot of it is corporate fitting in rubbish. I work in a corporate role in consulting engineer, unless we are making a profit, no one really cares about diversity and saving the world. Now, I work with a very diverse work force, not because it is a goal, but because I'm in an Australian city and we just have many nationalities and identities.

  • @KrashyKharma
    @KrashyKharma Месяц назад +2

    Nobody has any interest in being cool anymore, and it *sucks*. At this point businesses see being cool as the same as alienating their potential audience. Everything has to be minimalist, flat, and fit into your existing decor without standing out at all, and the same thing applies to the games. Being cool died in like 2014 or so 😢

  • @Xaito
    @Xaito Месяц назад +2

    Hear Hear! I agree 100%. I've seen the writing on the wall when they've started censoring games. That's why I decided against buying a PS5 despite being a Playstation fan and owner since PS2.

  • @BowsettesFury
    @BowsettesFury Месяц назад +2

    All this and still got PlayStation games in the background. You pay them you tell them that everything they do is ok. You signed their paychecks, like it or not that’s the way it is.

  • @basedelon
    @basedelon Месяц назад +6

    "Our Values". Nuff said.

    • @frdsg8350
      @frdsg8350 Месяц назад +1

      " We see you. We hear you"

  • @DiscoFinalBoss
    @DiscoFinalBoss Месяц назад +2

    PlayStation’s best years were during the PS1 and PS2 era. The PS4 was great too but the PS5 is reminding me of what happened with the PS3.

  • @jayce_147
    @jayce_147 Месяц назад +2

    Finally someone who tells it like it is, we had enough of these useless policies, Playstation should be a company that creates games for the players as they love to repeat in their commercials.
    Nowadays, PS5 has very little library and in general it is light years far from what it used to represent

  • @justinwhite2725
    @justinwhite2725 Месяц назад +4

    PS1/PS2. Never got a console since. PC gamer much since steam

    • @polycube868
      @polycube868 Месяц назад

      Those are great consoles...and with a PS2 you get a PS1 too!

  • @darylmodjeski698
    @darylmodjeski698 Месяц назад +2

    I think another big change has done, is they have less Japanese made 1st party games like they have in the past.

  • @ArcmanatTube
    @ArcmanatTube Месяц назад +3

    all i can say to this video is ❤
    You speak from my soul and I'm sure many others too

  • @thechosenone2123
    @thechosenone2123 Месяц назад +18

    Playstation has certainly been doing better than Xbox in terms of sales numbers. But thats literally their only advantage right now because when it comes to creativity, they've been in the dumpster. I can NEVER forgive them for what they did to THE GETAWAY franchise by shutting down their developer SONY LONDON earlier this year. The Getaway series was a great competitor to GTA back in the PS2 days, and instead of Sony continuing to move the franchise forward, they straight up abandon it. Not to mention that other classic Playstation IP's like Socom, Sly Cooper, Killzone, Resistance, Syphon Philter, and many others have also been let out to rot in the sun. All Sony cares about now is mostly online live-service crap. We cant get another Getaway game but we can certainly count on live-service slop like Foamstars, SMH

    • @greenkoopa
      @greenkoopa Месяц назад +1

      I was trying to remember that but I could only remember Xbox doing the same thing over there more recently

    • @Adamtendo_player_1
      @Adamtendo_player_1 Месяц назад +2

      Sony has moved from what made them great to to woke culture and focus too much on graphics and interactive movies rather than games being games.

    • @jsutton0010
      @jsutton0010 Месяц назад +1

      @@Adamtendo_player_1 What do you mean by woke culture? Since the meaning of woke is to be aware of social problems such racisim and inequality. I'm assuming you think it means to push an agenda.

    • @dusermiginte4647
      @dusermiginte4647 Месяц назад +1

      Playstation has done better than Xbox but only, yes only in console sales. Nothing else.

    • @mravg79
      @mravg79 Месяц назад +1

      @@dusermiginte4647let’s not forget that MS is a bigger company they can afford failures which we saw in the past.
      If Sony runs PS brand do the ground I do not think it they will be able to recover.
      Same applies to MS they still can destroy Xbox as a brand. But it will not hurt their overall business as much.
      And there is no such thing imo as too big to fail. Back in the day people were saying this about Nokia communication.

  • @AngryCalvin
    @AngryCalvin Месяц назад +2

    I long for the days when video games was about video games. When I was slaying dragons with a line and a block in Atari Adventure. Eating power pellets and chasing or running from ghosts. Jumping with Mario. Beating up thugs in Double Dragon. Being welcomed to my doom in Altered Beast.
    Politicians were complaining about video game violence in the early 90’s. Politicians who have no morals or values. Politicians who are warmongers and criminals. See no value in life except their own. Now politics have destroyed everything. Not just video games. They want to control every aspect of our lives.
    Identity politics are meant to conquer and divide people so that the political establishment will have more power and control. I don’t want to see it in video games or anything else. I haven’t watched television in over 20 years. Movies don’t interest me at all. I’m a gamer and politics can suck it!

  • @leathan7
    @leathan7 Месяц назад +2

    I feel like the video might as well end when she says they moved offices to California lol but I am grateful nonetheless for more lady decade.

  • @tyraelhermosa
    @tyraelhermosa Месяц назад +3

    “For the worse”, but yes, agreed 👍

  • @jedimindtrickonyou3692
    @jedimindtrickonyou3692 Месяц назад +2

    Agree, moving the HQ to America was a mistake and it started PS’s downward trajectory. I say this as an American.

  • @MaxAbramson3
    @MaxAbramson3 Месяц назад +5

    DEI + ESG = DLC

  • @skylined5534
    @skylined5534 Месяц назад +3

    Maybe I'm not particularly intelligent but I don't particularly give a fig about politics, especially where gaming is concerned. I've got a fairly new digital PS5 and the fact I use it to mostly play older games like SOR4 will upset some people. The only modern game I own (ISH) is the latest version of Doom.

  • @shayoko6
    @shayoko6 Месяц назад +2

    Sony has drastically changed after the PS2 era. i think they still had some dignity during the ps3 era if not part of it.
    but when ps4 arrived? things were never the same.

  • @MrMartinP
    @MrMartinP Месяц назад +2

    Hearing your take on PS' ESG nonsense was such a breath of fresh air! Nice one, and thanks.

  • @terrylodge4846
    @terrylodge4846 Месяц назад +3

    I would say I agree with the start of this take, but it kind of undone itself when Lady D tried to speak on white male privilege. I was physically assaulted on a London bus from Sloane Square to Waterloo transporting students. Why ? Because the person refused to believe I belonged there and my London accent was obviously fake😑 "well, look at ya!" . That simply wouldn't have happened if I wasn't half Jamaican. It would be a "privilege" to be able to do my job and pay my taxes without being harassed, like everyone else. My dad has worked his **s off for 40 years on the railway, he's a manager sure, but he'll never get any higher and he told me why a few years back. This isn't a sob story, he wasn't bitter about it, it was more of a "that's just the way it is" . Everyone has lived experiences that are different so this video didn't need to go in so hard on the diversity angle, mindfulness of it is a good thing, the real issue is the pretending to give a shit with this BS exploitative marketing while closing studios down, ripping off European consumers entirely on price, crying "rising overheads" ....yet posting healthy profits and bonuses we could only dream of. THAT is the problem with PS and the industry as a whole, game quality is second fiddle to money, any money, black money, gay money, ...kids money! One of my younger students called their team "battle pass" in a class activity!, the horror was real.

  • @jase2568
    @jase2568 Месяц назад +5

    This video sealed the deal for me in subscribing. I agree with 100% of what you said. Great video. From: Straight White Male. 😂 Seriously though, video was class.

  • @25beefcakes45
    @25beefcakes45 Месяц назад +3

    When I hear PlayStation What comes to mind is simply Generic antimicrosoft

  • @DrAllDoRespect
    @DrAllDoRespect Месяц назад +2

    Pro model will save gaming at 699-750 dollars 💀

  • @ren7a8ero
    @ren7a8ero Месяц назад +3

    When Japan made games for consoles, and the rest of the world focused on PCs, there wasn't so much restriction. I wonder if muddling the waters left both fronts more vulnerable to "social" "media".

  • @alirelax8761
    @alirelax8761 Месяц назад +3

    I like the new road you are taking to be critical.... your channel becomes more interesting.

  • @Gila64
    @Gila64 Месяц назад +9

    Moved to San Fran and turned to crap...sounds about right

  • @infinity2z3r07
    @infinity2z3r07 Месяц назад +7

    this is the 1950s for progressives

  • @user-hw8hj7fu9j
    @user-hw8hj7fu9j Месяц назад +3

    Playstation: Just remember that you are a other, always remember that you are a lesser
    Me: Dude, I'm just a chick and that's okay.

  • @thrashvictim6591
    @thrashvictim6591 Месяц назад +1

    Don't forget all the companies that pulled all this crap.

  • @macker33
    @macker33 Месяц назад +2

    The signs were there beforehand but playstation has been finished since the Last of us 2 reveal at E3.

  • @olafthebear2327
    @olafthebear2327 Месяц назад +2

    I'd feel incredibly patronized if I was hired just to tick a box. 100% agree with game companies needing to be apolitical. This whole shabang would be just as annoying if it were happening with the other political extreme instead. Just make good games and leave politics at the door.
    Also, 2050 to be carbon neutral sounds like a total cop-out. "We'll be carbon neutral after our current CEO has retired with their 20 yachts and it's the new CEO's problem." That's what it sounds like to me

  • @eudaimonistic
    @eudaimonistic Месяц назад +2

    Not that this opinion was specifically solicited, but I watch this channel for it's merits. The opinions shared are great, but between documentarian and personal takes, it's all high effort and worth the watch time. Thanks for standing up for merit on principle. The world needs this far more than it needs a flattened curve.

  • @datriaxsondor590
    @datriaxsondor590 Месяц назад +1

    You're about 6 years late to the party, but, I am glad you are here, and speaking out about it now. 🍻 This has been a trajectory for a lot longer than most people have noticed.

  • @GullyFootTony
    @GullyFootTony Месяц назад +1

    Great video, I’m a grown ass man now & as a kid in the 80’S, teen in the 90’s & an adult in the 2000’s I also disagree with the current ideology that’s being pushed around , especially in gaming at the moment. I feel it’s doing the opposite of what it’s intended & creates more controversy & division. You’re right, it is disingenuous.
    Good to hear a bit of your background, your Grandad looks quite dapper in that photo 🙏🏾

  • @simonochana3189
    @simonochana3189 Месяц назад +1

    Your upbringing is very similar to mine. I was born in the late 1960’s to African parents who settled in the uk 🇬🇧. I was always told to excel at education, in the work place, to work harder than my colleagues to show my employers that I’m good at my job. Also show my colleagues that I am proud to be black. Not being employed to tick a box.

    • @FoggyD
      @FoggyD Месяц назад +2

      This is the whole point though - you shouldn't have had to work any harder than your white colleagues!
      Also while there was sadly more overt racism while you were growing up, when you came of age there was also more social mobility.
      That has largely dried up for younger generations, which is why a lot of them are angry & frustrated - regardless of ethnicity - and finding solace in simple solutions to complex problems offered by political extremes.

    • @alexc836
      @alexc836 Месяц назад +1

      @@FoggyD Yeah, that's exactly why DEI exists in the first place. I'm not cheerleading for DEI (I have issues with it too), but we already know from decades of research that 100% meritocracy simply doesn't happen in the real world, it never has and it never will. Bias and prejudice will always exist, whether implicit or explicit, even when people swear it doesn't, and there is decades of data supporting this. If you just let it go unchecked, you end up with all the same social divides we had in the past that that we have spent decades fighting against. I feel like a lot of people in these comments are likely too young to remember a time when these things were much worse in society.