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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 differences 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 let me know in the comments below and if you guys enjoyed this video definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel for more content like this and smash that like button it'll help Ken feel a little bit less empty inside anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one