The Ultimate PlayStation Comparison #Helpful Post

hey guys this is austin and welcome to

the ultimate playstation comparison and

of course how else could we begin but

with the original playstation 1 in 1994

the world got this the original

playstation and what's interesting is is

that this actually almost didn't even

happened originally sony was developing

the playstation as they'd add on for the

Super Nintendo

but after Nintendo bailed on the deal

that figured hey we've already put the

work in we might as well make our own

game console and thus the original

playstation was born it's hard to

overstate just how good of an idea that

was the playstation was the very first

game console to ever hit 100 million

sales and after being sold for ten years

the games continued to come out for the

PlayStation all the way up until 2006

you know when the PlayStation 3 came out

now I have a special attachment to the

PlayStation as this was my very first

game console however it actually wasn't

the only version they also released this

the ps1 which was a much much smaller

version of the console so of course that

is the legendary PlayStation boot up

screen ah it's brings me right back so

this is Gran Turismo 2 and as far as

PlayStation 1 games I definitely spent

the most time with this one one of the

cool things about Gran Turismo and

indeed the PlayStation 1 in general was

the idea that this is one of the very

first fully 3d capable consoles look at

these car models I mean sure they might

not look incredibly detailed by today's

standards but for back in the 90s this

was pretty solid so one of the cool

things about this was that it was

actually pretty realistic I mean sure

the resolution is really low you could

see mountains and everything popping in

just in the background but when you

consider that the audio was actually

pretty accurate to what the car sounded

like and that this was a properly

performing game I mean there at real

physics yeah see you can see I pull into

the shadows my car gets darker I mean

this was seriously cutting-edge back in

the 90s funny the resolution is so

laughably low right now and yet it

doesn't really matter that much I mean

of course the cars a little blocky it's

kind of hard to see but you get the idea

and look at this I mean next we have

another retro classic and I say retro

cuz it's what I play when I was a kid

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

this is back when you actually could get

a decent video game based on a movie

unlike today where they pretty much

don't even do it anymore

so something to keep in mind here is

that this game came out on the tail end

of the Playstations lifecycle and

because of that it is one of the more

technically advanced titles so while the

resolution might not be massively

upgrade over something like Gran Turismo

it actually does look pretty nice

something else cool about this is that I

am getting full voice acting I forgot

that this game uh she had that looking

for that owl of yours how careless of

you to leave it lying about but again

this is one of the major advantages of

using a CD you actually do have plenty

of space for things like actual audio

fast forward to 2008 season 2 now this

still holds the record for the

best-selling game console of all time

the next closest is the Nintendo DS but

at 155 million units nothing touches the

ps2 one of the main reasons why the ps2

is so successful is actually a little

bit of a weird one this at the time was

the cheapest DVD player that you can get

your hands on and while DVD was kind of

a big deal back in 2000 the ps2 really

pushed a lot of tech forward so not only

did a support online play as the very

first PlayStation to do so but also it

allow you to install a hard drive you

can even output 1080i signals from the

sky on certain games remind you that

with stuff like Gran Turismo 4 but

considering that the PlayStation 2 was

available at a time where high def TVs

really weren't even a thing

it definitely pushed the envelope there

was one big difference with the ps2

compared to the ps1 it was much much

larger however it didn't take long for

something to fix that by releasing the

ps2 slim now this actually pretty much

took all the same features and took it

into a much much smaller form factor

while including things like the Ethernet

jack which used to need an actual

adapter on this guy well what's

important to remember is that both the

ps2 as well as the ps2 slim were fully

backwards compatible now these days a

little bit hit or miss but back in 2000

this is pretty much unheard of no real

game console would ever be able to play

the previous generation of games however

Nellie could you put a ps1 game into

these guys but it also fully supported

not only the controllers but also even

the memory cards for the ps2 we have

Gran Turismo 3 immediately you can tell

that while the menus are even weirder

than they were on the PlayStation 1 the

graphics are seriously improved not only

are we getting a higher resolution

especially when you look at the car

model and the lighting there's a big big

jump you also see obviously

the track got a huge graphical update

but the jump between ps1 and ps2 is

massive I mean it's really hard to sort

of overstate that now what's funny is

the car models actually don't look

wildly different I think a lot of it is

just the idea that because you have so

much power they pretty much overhauled

everything in the game I'll say though

the audio actually isn't as good as on

grant remote - I don't remember being

like this but the cars don't really

sound that loud I feel like the music is

cranked up way too high I could probably

change that though do that framerate is

such a huge difference I don't know what

the Gran Turismo 2 on the PlayStation 1

ran at but I want to say it's like well

below 30 frames per second a lot of

times whereas this is so much better

next we have grand theft auto vice city

now this is a game that also does I

should do a pretty good job of showing

off what the ps2 is capable of there's a

some pretty serious effects on these

headlights right now oh it's just jump

on okay it's funny to think how far a

grand theft auto is calm I mean when you

look back at something like this which

is like GTA 5 it actually I mean it

doesn't feel that different don't look

all that impressive today but the idea

that you have a full open-world game on

the PlayStation 2 is really something

the ps1 wasn't capable of I mean you

think about it grand theft auto on

PlayStation was just a top-down sort of

shooter style game whereas here we have

a fully modelled 3d world to work with

if I don't crash and I crashed ok move

on to 2006 and we have the PlayStation 3

not only was this a much much larger

console but in some ways at least in my

opinion it was a little bit of a flop

this was an incredibly expensive console

the end of the day was not successful as

a ps1 or even the ps2 a lot of that

comes down to price when the ps3 first

launched it had a base model it was a 20

gig hard drive for $500 but if you

wanted the full features and everything

included you're gonna have to pay $600

for the 60 gig version where the ps2 had

a lot of interesting new tech the

PlayStation 3 was absolutely loaded with

it now a lot of this stuff is easy to

take for granted today but the

PlayStation 3 had some really

interesting stuff including play ADP

over HDMI Wi-Fi that was built-in

Bluetooth wireless controllers that

didn't require batteries not like anyone

would still ship that today or anything

and on top of that just like the

PlayStation 2 made DVD

very very popular the PlayStation 3

almost single-handedly made blu-ray a

success which is especially impressive

when you consider that this was the

cheapest blu-ray player at the time

it likes $600 it's clear that Sony were

trying to make the most ridiculous

over-the-top console they could with the

ps3 so take things like these

slot-loading blu-ray drive it surely

cost a fortune for them to make for

things like having 4 USB ports more than

even at current ps4 and my personal

favorite is underneath this little flap

it has a series of different memory card

slots including compact flash because

you know that's what people want in a

game console unfortunately the ps3

really wasn't a huge success until the

ps3 slim came out now importantly this

was a much cheaper alternative to the

console but it did that by stripping out

a ton of features stuff like the extra

USB ports the card reader and one of the

really important things was the lack of

any kind of backwards compatibility with

ps2 games something that really only

they'll launch ps3 ever had all that

being said it's easy to see why the ps3

slim was such a huge sales success

compared to the original fad model so if

you take a look at it one of the very

first things you're going to notice is

that it's going to be a lot smaller and

because of that it's also not only going

to be more efficient which then makes it

quieter makes it take less power but

also importantly it had a lot fewer

reliability issues the original fat ps3

or I'll list for the most part better

than something like the Xbox 360 still

had his fair share of yellow light of

death issues but all of that was

absolutely second to the fact that the

ps3 slim was going to be a lot cheaper

than the og now this was by far the most

popular model however they actually did

make one more the ps3 super slam now the

issue here was just like how the slim

was not as good as the fat ps3 this was

not as good as the ps3 slim so my

biggest problem with it was this it was

just a stupid sliding door mechanism

which of course saved a lot of money but

it just feels cheap compared to the nice

slot-loading drives on the originals

something that all three models share

though is the Cell processor which was

enormously expensive to develop but did

make the PlayStation 3 the most powerful

console of its generation unfortunately

it was also the most difficult to work

with console of its generation so

especially in the early days with the

fad ps3 a lot of ps3 games just didn't

look as good as they technically

inferior

box 360 however toward the end of the

lifecycle as developers really got their

hands on it

titles like Last of Us really go to show

that there was a ton of potential in

this hardware it takes exactly 2 seconds

to realize that last of us is not only

one of the best looking games on the ps3

but is one of the best looking games of

this entire generation it's crazy that

this is running on a ps3 it's really

clear that Naughty Dog was able to push

this console to its absolute limit with

this game now of course some of the

Uncharted titles look really good

there's some awesome scenes and things

like God of War but for me last of us

it's pretty much the top and of course

Last of Us was remade on the ps4 and

while that's still a better looking

version of the game the fact that this

is running on ps3 at all oh look at that

the detail the motion blur oh man I love

this so much it's such an amazing game I

feel like if you've never played The

Last of Us you really owe it to yourself

to give it a try continuing the trend of

playing Gran Turismo on every

PlayStation ever we have GT 6 now

actually this is still the most complete

version of Gran Turismo that has been

made up until today oh yeah yeah so the

physics were majorly overhauled for this

version of Gran Turismo now part of that

actually is due to the fact that this is

going to be a much more powerful console

so with those eight SP es what you're

getting here is a system that has a lot

more power than the PlayStation 2 ever

did well my favorite parts of Gran

Turismo 6 was the idea that we actually

can play inside the cockpit view which

is always the way I like to play per

niche well any recent game now one of

the issues was was that actually did

have a lot of older car models so they

not all the actual interiors were

modeled some of them look just straight

out of the ps2 but I mean come on this

this is pretty good Gran Turismo 6

really is a game that pushed the ps3 to

its absolute limit now I like this

support high resolutions and high frame

rates but also the level of detail the

level of cars in here kind of pushed a

little bit too far sometimes but it's

still a game that holds up surprisingly

well even today move on to the

PlayStation 4 and you will see a huge

contrast with the ps3 whereas that

system tried to do everything well where

is yes this does have a Netflix app and

a blu-ray player just like it did the

real focus here is on being an

uncomplicated simple and straightforward

gaming system what you're not going to

find is a giant leap in graphics this

sure ps4 titles are definitely going to

look better than their ps3 counterparts

but when you look at some

like the ps1 ps2 transition we're

especially the ps2 to ps3 transition

there were huge huge graphical leaps

whereas the ps4 is a little bit more of

an evolutionary change now there were

some key updates first of all this had

much more powerful graphics which would

allow games to actually hit a full 1080p

pretty consistently and there's also

going to be a lot more memory as opposed

to 512 megabytes of RAM on the ps3

you're getting a full eight gigabytes of

gddr5 on the ps4 allowing it now I'd

like to be able to have much more

detailed worlds but also going to be

just bigger ones

now the original ps4 was actually a

pretty strong seller out of the gate

however with the addition of the ps4

slim as always with these kind of things

what you're getting here is going to be

a smaller console it's going to be a

little bit quieter and a little bit more

efficient which is also going to be

cheaper and instead of the four-hundred

price tag that you got on the original

ps4 this guy comes in at $300 moving on

from the ps4 and the ps4 slim we have

the ps4 Pro now this is the first time

that we've seen a mid cycle update that

actually increases the performance so in

a lot of ways you can think of this is

not a ps4 but as a PS 4.5 not quite a

full generational leap this guy is going

to be a lot more powerful the big

difference here is going to be in that

performance so the ps4 Pro is capable of

outputting a full 4k resolution and it

also includes support for HDR what's

really interesting about this is that

even though a lot of games are going to

be aiming at a little bit of a lower

resolution such as 1440p

through the use of checkerboard

upscaling the games are going to look

really really nice on a 4k display and

of course it's going to be a big leap

over something like a standard ps4 now

in GT sport which mind you is not a full

Gran Turismo game I guess it's got a lot

of the features it's got a lot of stuff

to do it expect but it's not maybe quite

as full features GT six you're still

going to be getting a lot and

importantly you're going to be getting

the new engine with the new graphics

unfortunately we don't have midfields

available here but we do have streets of

Willow which looks close enough to the

other tracks if you squint a little bit

Mille are the physics improved here but

also they've done a lot with the audio

so the cars actually sound like well

cars should I mean if I cook it too hot

into this corner here just a ton of Tyre

squeal

are you actually bump into a car it

feels like I'm hitting an actual vehicle

jump into the cockpit view and we're

going to be getting that full detailed

experience something else that Gran

Turismo sport includes is HDR support

now I really can't show you that in a

YouTube video like this but the idea

here is that if you're playing on an HDR

display you get a really impressive

range of brightnesses something about GT

support that really jumps out to me is

just how much better it sounds than

earlier versions of Gran Turismo instead

of that sort of vague vacuum cleaner

sound you're actually getting all the

different sounds of your tires your

suspension your tires off-road the

engine everything feels a lot more

realistic because of that also what is

that Raptor doing here a serious next we

have rise of the Tomb Raider and one of

the reasons that picking this game is

because it actually has selectable

graphics options so I was playing on a

normal ps4 it pretty much would just

look like the way it looks like however

we can play it not only 4k or rather an

upscale version of 4k but you could also

go for a high Freight version

essentially 1080p at 60 or you can go

for the maximum visuals with the same

1080p resolution it's nice about a lot

of ps4 pro games is that you actually do

have multiple options something that

well consoles don't usually give you so

raises the two later actually is it

games that was available on last

generation consoles if you count the

actually surprisingly decent Xbox 360

ports

however it does a very good job of

showing off just what these kind of

consoles are capable of now mind you I

actually do think that it looks a little

bit better on the Xbox one X and

generally speaking that actually is the

case with the ps4 pro across the board

you're going to be getting more powerful

hardware there and I died so it's

interesting about the ps4 pro is that it

does give you somewhat of a generational

leap so sure it's not going to be as big

of difference as going from a ps3 to ps4

game but we are going to be getting an

increased resolution and a lot of cases

there's going to be a lot more detail

and sometimes even better frame rates so

out of all four generations of

PlayStation which one is your favorite

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