Wishmaster92

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEa24_4uHZI

Secret agent Phil details the history of PlayStation. Includes some brief segments of original psx tech demos.

He should totally come back to Sony and host their E3 in some form.

 

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Squidofman

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #2

good times

 

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tr00per

Member

• Apr 14, 2016

• #3

The hero playstation

Spoiler

HOME

deserves.

Thanks OP, will watch later.


Edit: wait this is from this last gdc!?

 

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Poimandres

Member

• Apr 14, 2016

• #4

Manta Ray and Dinosaur demo's were on the original PS1 demo disc. I had quite a bit of fun with that!

 

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aussiedude08

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #5

great video/presentation. extremely brief but it only had 7 mins. And still did a good job of telling the story of the first 10 year or so.

 

GHG

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #6

That T-Rex demo. So much nostalgia.

 

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Max_Po

Banned

• Apr 14, 2016

• #7

Yep ... did he leave Sony for the Money?? I know he went to MS and later Atari...then atari tanked .... and he is missing in rubble. ..

 

JordanN

Banned

• Apr 14, 2016

• #8

Some cool take aways from that video:

-PS1 originally had 1mb of ram, they later doubled it to 2mb.
-PS1's R&D was $50 million. They easily made the investment back.
-The name "PSX" was because it sounded cooler than Playstation
-200 units of the "Nintendo Playstation" were made

 

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dragonflys545

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #9

JordanN said:

Some cool take aways from that video:

-PS1 originally had 1mb of ram, they later doubled it to 2mb.
-PS1's R&D was $15 million. They easily made the investment back.
-The name "PSX" was because it sounded cooler than Playstation
-200 units of the "Nintendo Playstation" were made

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Kinda glad this didn't happen... So many games wouldn't have exist.

 

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Newtype-001

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #10

JordanN said:

Some cool take aways from that video:

-PS1 originally had 1mb of ram, they later doubled it to 2mb.
-PS1's R&D was $15 million. They easily made the investment back.
-The name "PSX" was because it sounded cooler than Playstation
-200 units of the "Nintendo Playstation" were made

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Sounded like $50million to me

 

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Occam

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #11

$50 million R&D, amazing.

"It was this great moment in time where the cost of development and the market opportunity were nicely aligned."
Yes, that's why there were so many amazingly creative games on PS1. I miss this. Thankfully we have indies on consoles now.

 

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big_z

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #12

dragonflys545 said:

Kinda glad this didn't happen... So many games wouldn't have exist.

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The 3rd party ones would still exist. It's likely sonys own in house games would have ended up Nintendo PlayStation exclusives.

 

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Simply Sami

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #13

Hope he spills the beans on the Xbox one launch. Would love to know whose idea it was and the reaction to all the silly features that were originally planned.

 

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xenorevlis

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #14

That was kind of cool, but felt way too short and lacking in detail about the people behind the efforts. Ah well.

 

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Alessandro

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #15

Net Yaroze was the best thing. I remember avidly waiting the monthly issue of a magazine which came with demoes made with it.

If they could replicate that experience with PS4 or Xbone it would be awesome.

 

timmyp53

Member

• Apr 14, 2016

• #16

I always loved Phil Harrison such a tall charismatic guy.

 

IbizaPocholo

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• Apr 14, 2016

• #17

Alessandro said:

Net Yaroze was the best thing. I remember avidly waiting the monthly issue of a magazine which came with demoes made with it.

If they could replicate that experience with PS4 or Xbone it would be awesome.

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Same for me.