The Story of Playstation

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.

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.

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.

I think I managed about 10mins before I gave up due to the quality of the sound editing. More often then not you cannot hear what is being said as the awful music is drowning it out. I hope whoever did the audio editing and then whoever signed off on the release of this documentary were fired for this monstrosity of a show. I am pretty confident I could have done a better job on the editing and I know absolutely nothing about video and audio editing.

In short, don't waste your time watching this. If you are that interested in the history of the PlayStation you would be far better off and go Google it.

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.