PlayStation 2, every mention
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Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:21 Ben Gilbert PlayStation One is out, but PS two is not out yet, I think.
- ▶ 59:18 David Rosenthal And what that means is like, if you think back to games from this time, you know, think console games, PlayStation one, even PlayStation two and 64.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:20:45 Ben Gilbert I had the Sony tape Walkman, the Discman, the mini disc player, a PS two and the PSP, uh, many, many sets of Sony headphones.
- ▶ 1:41:41 Ben Gilbert And I had a PS two and a PSP, and I did not know these things.
- ▶ 1:57:01 David Rosenthal And then the PlayStation two becomes the most successful console of all time.
- ▶ 1:57:17 Ben Gilbert Well, I wasn't allowed to have a game system before my bar mitzvah, and so that was my reward, was that I got to, I got to get a PS two.
- ▶ 1:57:24 David Rosenthal Well, and the PS two, that was like,
- ▶ 1:58:06 David Rosenthal Year 2000 was when PS two came out.
- ▶ 1:58:08 Ben Gilbert So I, I guess Xbox would have been the other one that I could have gotten, but yeah, the, the PS two was like, I think a sufficient number of my friends had playstations where I was like used to the, the controller
- ▶ 1:58:20 Ben Gilbert and then they all got PlayStation twos
- ▶ 1:58:26 David Rosenthal And the other thing that the PS two had was backwards compatibility.
- ▶ 1:58:34 David Rosenthal So, like, day one, the PS two, you had 8000 games from the PS one that you could play, and they did, like, a little bit of upscaling on them.
- ▶ 1:58:55 David Rosenthal So, like, after the PS two, I mean, Sony was the video game industry.
- ▶ 1:59:02 David Rosenthal Relegated to a niche player, basically Microsoft to come in with the Xbox, but the first Xbox Sony, the PS two just trounced it.
- ▶ 1:59:32 David Rosenthal Blu-ray was expensive, and they wanted to do the same thing they did with the PS two, use it as the Trojan horse to get Blu-ray into living rooms, win the format war with HD DVD, and then this cell processor they developed with, I think,…
- ▶ 2:06:05 Ben Gilbert I always thought, like, the two of them come out with, you know, devices and they both sell well, but if you look at the top game consoles ever sold, PlayStation has three of the top three, with the PS two is the best selling of all time,…
- ▶ 2:14:23 David Rosenthal And that's what the PS two