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.

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 (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.

When I saw this suggested to me on Amazon Prime, I immediately dived in, eager to see what it had to offer. As an avid gamer since the '80s, the premise seemed right up my alley. However, my excitement quickly turned to disappointment due to the abysmal sound quality. The background music was so overpowering that it completely drowned out the dialogue. It was frustrating to the point where even the subtitles couldn't capture what was being said. How this glaring issue was overlooked and the show released in such a state is beyond me. This major mistake significantly impacted my viewing experience, making it difficult to enjoy the content.

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.