The Story of Playstation

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.

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.

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) 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.

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.