PlayStation - 39 Things They Didn't Tell You.

you know that the PS5 has its own hidden Voice Assistant that once enables you wake by saying hey PlayStation and can use it to control basically the entire console we've come a long way since the PS1 but even that had its strange features like did you know that one of the most common errors on PS1 was a discrete error that was solved by I kid you not turning the console upside down all the certain games on the original PlayStation will actually keep playing even if you remove the disc that they're playing from and the craziest part of this is that you can then replace that disc with a music CD that will then change the background music within the game this is what you didn't know about PlayStation from the Revenge story that started the company to the failed project they've tried to hide to the honestly shocking Easter eggs that were staring at us in the face the entire time like for instance you know how the cross button is almost universally used in games to either confirm or proceed and our circle is always used to go back well it's designed that way because here in the west we associate the cross with x marks the spot something that you would head towards if you were on a map and the red circle is a stop sign that you would want to back away from and it does not stop there the designer of the original PlayStation controller tayugoto he chose all four of these button shapes very deliberately with triangle apparently representing point and square representing a piece of paper which is why it's so often used to access menus and even beyond the clever meanings behind them The Simple Choice to use shapes instead of the letters that every other company like Nintendo and Sega were using was also significant because not only did Sony want to stand out from the crowd in the market they also literally had to differentiate the PS1 from Nintendo's SNES system because the original PlayStation actually came from a collaboration between these two companies Sony was actually working with Nintendo to develop a cd-based add-on console for the SNES until Nintendo decided to switch supplier and ditch Sony without even telling them twitch Sony basically said screw you Nintendo they used what they built and what they learned to create their own console and the first PlayStation so glad I caught that and once they decided that they were making a console things changed very quickly the PS1 was originally going to have a flat Gamepad controller inspired by Nintendo like basically every other popular controller at the time but Sony's president norio ogre he was a big fan of aircraft he hated it and he asked for something more similar to an airplane controlled yoke which is where we got this whole dual hand grip design that's now become the world standard now if you've seen my video where I unboxed every single PlayStation console brand new then you might remember when the PS1 launched the company they ended up killing on their quest for Nintendo's head was Sega and they did it with just three numbers sega's fully 3D console the Saturn released a whole month before the PS1 which should have been a disaster for Sony but Sony had one massive Advantage they'd managed to make their PlayStation a whole hundred dollars cheaper than the 399 Sega Saturn leading took maybe the biggest mic drop moment in games presentation history where they announced the price [Applause] [Music] and once Sony had dethroned Sega they went on what I can only describe as the biggest offensive I've ever seen from a company against their original rival Nintendo creating this radical edgy mascot whose sole purpose was just to be the Super Mario killer in the form of Crash Bandicoot and they went hard hey plumber boy mustache man your worst nightmare has arrived I mean this super aggressive marketing was really successful in the west but it's kind of funny because it did not land as well in Japan which led Sony to basically create two different versions of it completely overhauling crash's entire design and sanding down his rougher edges and personality to give him a more cutesy look that appeal more to the culture there but even then unlike Sonic for Sega Mario for Nintendo or I guess Master Chief or Xbox crash did not really stick around for certain the company's been trying tirelessly over the last two decades to find a mascot that fits as well because you know it's great for sales it's great for merchandise but it begs the obvious question have they succeeded does PlayStation finally have beneficial mascot well do you remember Knack that PS4 launch game where you play as a guy made of basically living particle effects designed to show off the system's capabilities if you don't me that's probably why he's not the answer a lot of people have called a failed mascot because the game was basically trying to be the PS4's reinvention of a Crash Bandicoot game but the gameplay wasn't the best and I mean look at it if you want people to actually remember your mascot they should at least be able to draw him Sony have plenty of recognizable characters you've got Kratos from God of War you've got ratchet from Ratchet and Clank but the problem Sony runs into is that these characters are often used to Market their own specific games so really there's only three contenders for B1 character that represents PlayStation as a brand there's Toro who's specifically the mascot for the PlayStation network but has just become a big name in general in Japan appearing in tons of games as an Easter egg and even being a playable character in Sony's Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale fighting game where you can funnily enough fight against the second top Contender polygon man this guy believe it or not was the originally planned PlayStation mascot even appearing in print adverts before the PS1 even came out but the creator of the PlayStation chemical Taraji thankfully saw this for what it was decided it was a little bit creepy and had him scrapped before launch until he returned as literally the final boss of PlayStation All-Stars which is one of the most coincidentally full circle real life plot lines he was abandoned at launch he became evil and now he's the main villain to fight using the PlayStation characters that actually did make the cut then who I think is the closest thing to Sony's new mascot and who it looks like we're going to be seeing a lot more of going forward is basketball this little guy completely fits the PlayStation aesthetic he's well animated he's really expressive and so he's already basically made it his job to show you what the PS5 can do in the free launch game Astros playroom where the levels are literally different parts inside the PS5 which side note is actually surprisingly great for a tech demo this game is jam-packed full of obscure references and Easter eggs from all of PlayStation history speaking of which Sony loved their Easter eggs especially across games developed by PlayStation's own Studios like in Ghost of sushima you can visit different shrines themed after other games like God of War and bloodborne and actually get different armor set that's based on those games there's even bits of origami on a random table based on other famous PlayStation titles like Ratchet and Clank The Last of Us sent Shadow of the Colossus in death stranding you can find a hologram of Eloy the main character from The Horizon games and you can even get a Quest from someone who's actually the real life head of Sony interactive entertainment Studios worldwide Hermann Holst this company even HIDs secrets in games as grim and Sirius as The Last of Us Part 2. my favorite being that if you try and shoot this long abandoned PS3 your gun just won't fire the only other items in the game that you can't shoot at are literally sacred like an actual synagogue I see why you're doing that Sony and if you're enjoying this video then a sub to the channel would be so neat but these Easter eggs even extend to the consoles themselves if you've ever been to a Disney park you might have noticed that they love to hide these hidden Mickeys everywhere basically just playing a game with themselves of how many Mickey Mouse symbols they can hide in plain sight as possible well Sony have been doing basically the exact same thing but just with the PlayStation shapes it's very fun like for example if you look at the back of the PS4 Pro or the PS4 slim models these feet to the bottom are those shapes but it even extends to the insides like if I take off this top panel on the PS4 they're also on the screws holding the hard drive in place I've actually got one more of these console Easter eggs to show you but it's so incredibly cool that it's actually going to be number one in this video but the point is Sony throws in tons of hidden features like you know the iconic PlayStation 2 boot up screen have you ever noticed that those weird spooky pillars aren't always the same height you might have even noticed more or less of them at different times well that's because they actually represent your save files there's one tower for each and they get taller the more data you save in each game and so because this console has no memory card in it right now there are no save files and therefore no pillars I've known about this boot screen for 20 years of my life and I've only this week realized that fact and speaking of the PS2 when do you think the last game was released for it for context the PS3 launched in 2006 so you'd think like 2007 maybe 2008 the PS2 would be finished right well the game was actually FIFA 2014. the PS2 was so incredibly successful that it was only discontinued the same year that the PS4 came out the thing even got Netflix support which is not what it looks like today there were no apps on PS2 you had to order a specific disc from Netflix just to access it and I mean at that point screw it why not just turn your PS2 into a full-on computer with the PS2 Linux operating system disk it even came with a keyboard Mouse network adapter under 40 hard drive but what about the actual games lightning round time these are the best selling games on each PlayStation console starting with Gran Turismo on PS1 at 10.85 million total units then on PS2 it's GTA San Andreas which was multi-platform but sold 17.3 million copies on Playstation alone so you won't be surprised to hear that the PS3s was GTA 5 with 20 million units for a console that sold just over 80 million that's an insane ratio in fact GTA 5 was such a Powerhouse that the exact same game also nearly made the number one spot on PS4 too but was just edged out by Spider-Man which has managed to hit closer to 25 million but then it gets complicated for the PS5 Sony hasn't released proper Global sales data but we can get an idea of the winners from the top games on the PSN store like in 2020 ps5's first year the most downloaded game in most regions was Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War and since then it's largely been a rotating combination of NBA FIFA and Call of Duty not the most exciting list but it makes sense I mean football's pretty hard to compete against especially here in UK right and other Everton now let's talk about what you didn't know about the Enigma that was the place like on the home menu for instance did you ever notice that if you move the PS3 6-axis gyro controller the particles in the background move with that gyro sensor which was actually kind of controversial at the time of the console's launch because when people got their hands on this controller for the very first time it's only then that they realized something was missing it didn't have Rumble naturally people were asking why and Sony said that they dropped it because it would interfere with the new motion sensors which if you picked up a controller in the last decade might sound a bit sus and that's because it was almost certainly a straight up lie it's widely believed that Sony actually acts the rumble feature in fact because they were being sued by a company called immersion for copying their Tech and since Sony then released the motion and Rumble capable Dualshock 3 controller right after settling in court with immersion I'm inclined to believe the story but motion is not the only gimmicks only experimented with on the PS3 in what was maybe the company's most obscure demo ever they managed to use a PSP as a rear view mirror in a PS3 racing game you can see why I didn't come to Market but this is such interesting way to integrate two of their key products on the subject of scrapped features though it's time to talk about PlayStation's fail products like PlayStation Vue which was actually one of the very first online video streaming services ever it gave people a collection of both live and on-demand content but failed I think in large part just because of the name you could get PlayStation Vue on other platforms like on your Amazon Fire TV box but the name made it seem like something that required a PlayStation to use which actually ruled out most of the people that could have benefited from it then this PlayStation's official 3D display and I mean if you've ever had the privilege of using a 3D display it shouldn't come as much of a surprise why they discontinued it but it did have one unique feature that I still think could be huge today it could use its 3D ability which involves generating one image for each one of your eyes to instead play in 2D but send two separate full screen images to two couch multiplayer players instead of them having to split screen oh and remember this quite unpopular controller that the PS3 launched with well it is not nearly as curse is what they almost went with at E3 2005 Sony showcased the entire world the PlayStation 3. and alongside it the boomerang controller except the backlash after seeing this futuristic banana was so vocal that Sony realized they had to do a complete 180 before the console even came to Market but a failed project that fans actually did like was PlayStation home on the PS3 it was basically a virtual Social Hub very similar to something like second life or meta's Horizon worlds where you can make an avatar decorate your own home hang out and play games with other players it had a really loving fan base but unfortunately home was basically doomed when Phil Harrison then head of Sony's worldwide Studios who'd been championing the entire project left the company in 2008. the higher-ups didn't really care that much about it and without him to argue for it let it slowly drift into irrelevance until it was eventually shut down in 2015 and then of course I was going to say Sony's most tragic blunder that was nearly ours the PS Vita ask basically anyone who had one of these bad boys and they will likely start a spiel about how despite being abandoned by Sony the Vita is still one of the greatest handhelds of all time I know because I'm one of those people I basically founded this channel covering it and you would think any successor to the PSP given how well that thing did should have been a mamm of success but unfortunate it wasn't just Nintendo's 3DS that they had to compete against it was also Mobile gaming and whereas Nintendo changed their tactics and relentlessly supported the 3DS with big games so it could keep up the fight Sony basically cut their losses early leaving the PS Vita with little support and very few major releases until it was discontinued most likely being the nail in the coffin for Sony's handheld efforts and along with the Vita was its weird cousin the PlayStation TV which was basically Sony's way of saying okay this Vita situation is pretty bad how do we make the most of it so they equipped the PlayStation TV with the exact same internals of the PlayStation Vita but just without the screen and the controls which did effectively just make it an incredibly cheap TV box but one that also had access to an existing library of games that you could play with a PS3 or PS4 controller you just had lying around it sounds like a great idea by swapping game and memory cards back and forth between your Vita and your PS TV you could basically have a slightly jankier version of the Nintendo switch which is really cool but the problem was that most of the people it appealed to already had PS3s or PS4s that just did the same thing better what would you say with Sony's first handheld though it wasn't the PlayStation Vita surely the PSP right no it was the pocket station which is genuinely the strangest combination of two Tech products I've ever heard of Sony called it a combination between a PS1 memory card and a personal digital assistant it had tiny little LCD display even tinier buttons allowing you to play extra content from specific games and since it was Japan only we never saw any of it but there is an even more in your face secrets that you still probably have not seen you know how we talked about how Sony is constantly trying to hide these PlayStation shapes within their designs well if you have a PS5 and you've ever noticed the grip texture on the back of your dual sense controller zoom in and you will see 40 000 shapes in total of each literally only a few microns high and they're actually not just on the controller they're on the media control remote the wireless headset even on the inside of the side plate of the console itself that's attention to detail to see me unbox every single PlayStation console brand new that video is here I'll see you there

Channel: Mrwhosetheboss

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Keywords: playstation, sony, gaming

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Length: 15min 10sec (910 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 06 2023