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TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30:31 David Rosenthal They were making GPUs, like, Nvidia's stock tracked whether they won the next Sony contract for the next PlayStation or the Xbox.
- ▶ 1:30:46 Ben Gilbert It's like, is the next PlayStation going to include your chip or not?
- ▶ 1:36:26 David Rosenthal It's not because of the PlayStation.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 32:46 Mitch Lasky Or if you were going to play that game, you had a PlayStation, or an Xbox, or you had a gaming PC that was capable of playing it.
- ▶ 40:02 Blake Robbins If you had an Xbox, you couldn't play with your friend who had a PlayStation or a Switch, and really Nintendo and Microsoft went to war against Sony.
- ▶ 40:11 Mitch Lasky Yeah, I mean, as Phil said in our, in our conversation yesterday, he said, you know, Sony's perspective was, if you want to play with your friends, get them to buy a PlayStation.
- ▶ 42:15 Mitch Lasky I have greenlit a Switch SKU at that game company for Sky, and that has now come to market, and it is really meaningful, and we have a PlayStation five SKU as well.
- ▶ 45:04 Blake Robbins I think this is part of why, like, Epic actually felt comfortable going to war with Apple, is, is if you look during those filings, so much of their revenue is actually coming from PlayStation and console, and that to me is just like,…
- ▶ 1:09:52 Mitch Lasky Um, let's look at some other platforms where a similar kind of user could be aggregated, whether it's Switch, whether it's like casual PlayStation, et cetera, and let's go after those and then
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 12:56 David Rosenthal Before we mentioned PlayStation.
- ▶ 12:58 David Rosenthal And then, like, the PlayStation story in and of itself, we could do an episode on.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 8:56 David Rosenthal Well, we left off the amazon.com episode in 2007 with the sort of Sony PlayStation like coda of the Kindle story and the new chapter.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 3:00:54 David Rosenthal I don't know, we've probably done it more than once, but in my mind the canonical acquired episode, Coda, is the PlayStation on the Sony episode.
- ▶ 3:01:23 David Rosenthal The PlayStation.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 1:54:40 David Rosenthal So that combined entity itself went bankrupt in 2018, but Walmart by this point in time, this is like the Sony PlayStation version of Walmart, like the last big hurrah.
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:52 Ben Gilbert Oh, this makes so much sense because they basically have walked away from every console since the PlayStation three.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:21 Ben Gilbert PlayStation One is out, but PS two is not out yet, I think.
- ▶ 55:21 Ben Gilbert PlayStation One is out, but PS two is not out yet, I think.
- ▶ 55:25 David Rosenthal Yep, PlayStation One.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 1:04:53 Ben Gilbert I think Sony had, like, sort of used it about the PlayStation, but no one's marketing this idea.
- ▶ 1:32:02 David Rosenthal The original Xbox, the PlayStation three, which we'll talk about next time, and the Nintendo switch.
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.
- ▶ 1:41:25 David Rosenthal This, of course, is the PlayStation story.
- ▶ 1:41:33 David Rosenthal I assumed that, like, everybody knew the PlayStation story.
- ▶ 1:41:41 Ben Gilbert And I had a PS two and a PSP, and I did not know these things.
- ▶ 1:41:45 Ben Gilbert How did the PlayStation come to be?
- ▶ 1:45:28 David Rosenthal You didn't have any of this stuff you would later have with the PlayStation with loading times.
- ▶ 1:54:46 David Rosenthal The original PlayStation sells over a hundred million units, and they win over all the major third-party developers to come over.
- ▶ 1:55:38 David Rosenthal For the PlayStation, it was all based on PC, so you could develop PlayStation games on PC.
- ▶ 1:56:10 David Rosenthal And then once the PlayStation started getting such a large install base, then it was just a no brainer.
- ▶ 1:56:14 David Rosenthal It's like, well, of course I'm going to either go exclusive on PlayStation or at least multi-platform on them because otherwise I'm leaving out a massive part of the market.
- ▶ 1:56:23 David Rosenthal So yeah, PlayStation, huge success.
- ▶ 1:56:53 David Rosenthal All told, over one billion games are sold for the original PlayStation.
- ▶ 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,
- ▶ 1:57:36 Ben Gilbert DVD players were kind of expensive, so we had one for, like, the main TV, but for the little TV in the basement where I was going to plug in my PlayStation, my argument to my parents was, well, I don't, we don't need a DVD player now,…
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 1:58:08 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.
- ▶ 1:58:34 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.
- ▶ 1:58:43 David Rosenthal Unfortunately, the PS three, ah, Sony got a little carried away.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 1:59:10 David Rosenthal The PS three should have just run away with the market, but this is where Sony's not understanding computers really comes in.
- ▶ 1:59:18 David Rosenthal The PS three, they'd made this whole thing.
- ▶ 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,…
- ▶ 2:00:24 David Rosenthal They barely won the generation war between the PS three and the Xbox three 60, but like they should have just totally walked away with it.
- ▶ 2:01:42 David Rosenthal At least with the PS three, like they completely messed it up.
- ▶ 2:01:50 David Rosenthal On the PS three in the first three years.
- ▶ 2:05:56 Ben Gilbert It is worth calling out, before we move on fully from PlayStation here, not being in gaming and paying a lot of attention, I don't think I understood Sony's dominance here relative to, to Microsoft.
- ▶ 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,…
- ▶ 2:06:05 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,…
- ▶ 2:06:05 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,…
- ▶ 2:06:21 Ben Gilbert They also have four of the top six because in the number six slot is the PS three and the four and five slots are the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo switch.
- ▶ 2:06:48 David Rosenthal Just this current generation of consoles with the series X and S Xboxes and the PS five.
- ▶ 2:10:23 David Rosenthal Gonna have to do that on PlayStation.
- ▶ 2:11:18 Ben Gilbert It's project Spartacus, by the way, is the rumored game pass alternative, which is kind of a mess because they already have the PlayStation network and then they have PlayStation.
- ▶ 2:11:18 Ben Gilbert It's project Spartacus, by the way, is the rumored game pass alternative, which is kind of a mess because they already have the PlayStation network and then they have PlayStation.
- ▶ 2:11:31 David Rosenthal Like the PlayStation is such an amazing story and entrepreneurial journey, and yet it's got all of the Sony unfortunate quirks all over it too.
- ▶ 2:14:23 David Rosenthal And that's what the PS two
- ▶ 2:14:25 David Rosenthal and then really the PS three was all about and the cell processor, et cetera.
- ▶ 2:21:43 Ben Gilbert An interesting thing to point out is within gaming, most of the sales are actually coming from digital software and add-ons, which is related to the PlayStation Network.
- ▶ 2:29:48 Ben Gilbert Again, this is all in the Sony hack emails, but then they started bringing Spider-Man into PlayStation marketing and kind of a weird way.
- ▶ 2:29:55 Ben Gilbert Like, do you remember the PlayStation three font?
- ▶ 2:30:03 David Rosenthal Now it makes sense why the Spider-Man games are PlayStation exclusives.
- ▶ 2:31:10 Ben Gilbert Uh, they actually get the supply chain in order so that I can get a PS five if I want one.
- ▶ 2:35:21 David Rosenthal Obviously the PlayStation has been this incredible success, and I don't think Microsoft is going to like completely take the market from them now or possibly ever.
- ▶ 2:35:43 Ben Gilbert I bet Ibuka would be excited about the PSVR too.
- ▶ 2:35:46 Ben Gilbert I think right now, this current generation, the Oculus Quest two is like, it's much newer than the PSVR, but I think it's like massively outselling it.
- ▶ 2:39:23 David Rosenthal Well, as you say today, I do think the PlayStation story is an incredible story of network economies in the developers and the consumers of a two-sided network economy where the more install base PlayStation got, the more attractive the…
- ▶ 2:40:01 David Rosenthal 8000 games on the PlayStation versus 400 on the N. 64.
- ▶ 2:40:24 David Rosenthal But then by even before the end of the life cycle of the first PlayStation, it was just like the gravity was so much with that platform that Squaresoft and Capcom and Konami and act was like, they had to come to the PlayStation.