It's a bit ostentatious
(midwest.social)
The Picard Maneuver
People Twitterps1, but i was so young i barely remember it. i have more memories with ps2. my dad skipped ps3 because he found out the 2nd gens werent backwards compatable with ps2 games so he got an xbox 360 for us instead. never had 4, but bought a 5 for me and my siblings a year or so ago
Put a few drone shaped holes in those and you got yourself 2026 Dubai cityscape
The PS2 era really felt special. So many iconic games and memories from that generation.
Probably because a ridiculous amount of games were produces for the PS2. I don't think any console, ever, has had that many games made for it.
i think the last official game made for ps2 was in like 2014 or something crazy
I hate when they stand the psone on its side.
None of the above, I started on the PSone.
PS1 but had Master System and Mega Drive before that.
AND!
Lucky bugger.
Hardly. I grew up in a terrible household, just material possessions were provided but you had to tolerate decades of trauma so 🤷.
Also, contrary to the comments in here it doesnt mean we were rich. We lived on a council estate and my dad worked in a warehouse as a picker.
Rich kids had ps2, but I only owned ps4.
The one that's missing in the picture
PSP?
prolly the PSone
Ding ding :)
Did you have that goofy little flip-up LCD that attached to it?
I went to my rich friends house for the PS2. EyeToy and Spy Kids 3d was the coolest thing ever.
U still Friends w him?
I wish... 3 countries on, I haven't even been in the same town as him since I think 2006 at the latest. Don't even think I had access to the internet at that time.
::: spoiler Personal Rant Time
Looking back, I think he grew up with a single parent. My parents split up after I finished school/reached adulthood.
Chatting to others who had 'less than optimal parents' I noticed that even though some had parents who split up at one point, its different when you are 6-8 years old, and you learn to live with it.
And when you are 18-20 years old, getting ready to move out, and then you learn your entire childhood was a lie. :::
@The_Picard_Maneuver somehow I expected a beard trimmer in between there.
Placing PS1 that way is atrocious
PS2 also developed laser issues if used that way, I can't recall PS3
PS3 originally had drives that failed anyway. Had to bake my OG, as well as replace the bd drive.
ps2 developed laser issues regardless. i've tuned and cleaned so many of those. should have charged but i liked my friends.
do you know if there was a way to fix the Dreamcast laser? I was like 19 when mine started failing and I think I just kept turning up the voltage pot a teeny bit to fix it for a while until it eventually burned out.
I do not know, but I learned the ps2 method by searching on the internets. I hate to recommend YouTube and reddit, but those are probably your best bets.
If the laser itself is not salvagable, there's always replacing the laser. I don't know if it's plugged or soldered in, but if it already doesn't work, what more can you do to it?
I gave it away years ago once dreamcast emulation became a thing, I was mostly just curious!
We had one that had to be cleaned every 3 months or so. The laser would begin sticking on the guide rails and have to be re-lubricated.
I'd just refocus or whatever that white knob did, and clean the dust off the lens
Some of us had to play ours upside down after the laser got all jank or something
Haha yup. My OG PlayStation only worked upside down.
Hell, the PS5 is shown vertical but with the stand in the horizontal configuration. The PS2 and PS4 also had stands available because they weren't stable on their side out of the box, and the systems aren't shown with them. Unsure about the PS3.
Also they didn't rotate the logo on the ps2
When it would wear out putting it like that would extend it's use before being repaired/replaced.
True, the real way was upside down because the laser wouldn't read the disc after a few years and it needed a little gravity boost to get closer.
i’m still impressed by the ps5 design, i never would’ve thought a console could look pretentious
Dubai in the early 80s.
This was my first console! We had the massive text to speech thing that went on top and mispronounced all the curse words we typed in.
Also my first console, though I don't remember a TTS module. The only thing we used the keyboard for was word scramble I think. I was very young at the time lol.
Still have no clue how my parents got one, or why. My guess is off the back of a truck.
https://odysseytalks.com/
Definitely did not have one of those. Thanks for the info!
This angle really highlights that PS4 was the best design by far
It's the most bland one.
there’s a slim ps2 knocking on your door right now
From a strictly superficial, aesthetic context and judging solely by modern standards, I agree.
However, if we're talking aesthetics and viewing it from a contemporary standard for the time of the system's release, the PS1 is the clear winner, in my opinion.
Dubai architect: They’re on to us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCGgNjxMLmw
Alright, they fucked up the scale on the 4, no way it's smaller than the 1
Definitely, it's a lower height than the PS1 but much wider/longer.
I love the industrial design of the PS2 so much. It has all of that optimistic futurism look of the late 90s/early 2000s.
Similar reason for the 4. Loved it. The 5 just looks proper stupid in my opinion.
A pharmacist?
A PS2/PS4 look like a brutalist style government building and the PS5 looks like what this picture states. Some gaudy nouveau rich apartment building in the Middle East.
Or Seattle, this one is a little on the nose:
The only one I ever owned was 2. I could never afford the others when they launched and didn't care enough once the price dropped because I had too much going on in life.
I wanted the PS5 but I think it's seen price hikes like many other electronics, right?
Costco sometimes has sales.
Yes. Every console since the Switch has only gone up in price.
You can get a PS5 for around 300 or less on the used market locally
Ive owned and played 1, 2, 3.
By the time 4 was out I had a bangin gaming pc, always had a computer but never a top of the line like I did at around 2010.
Started all the way left and have had every one but the 5 pro.
Damn the first two were some halcyon days. The PS2 was my introduction to staying up and hitting the refresh button on some site called amazon to buy one at launch. I still remember the feeling of the buy going through.
Sigh.
I only bought the 4 and 5 new, but I collect retro games and have all 5 base models. I used to pick them up on eBay or at garage sales back in the day. I remember that feeling of winning a bid (I didn't have a lot of money for it, so it took a while).
Playstations weren't my consoles growing up - I went from Nintendo systems to Xbox, but I still played them a lot at friends' houses.
Between my PS2, 3, and 5, I've got them all covered.
not for long
Sega master system II
I hope 6 is another boxy one. They seem to alternate, curvy - boxy - curvy - boxy - curvy (maybe not the original PS, but there is a big circle on top you can’t see in this picture)
Yeah, I'd count the original as curvy for this pattern. It was never meant to stand up like this.
I had 1, 2 and 5. I even still have a PS2.
123 for mememe. When the PS4 was released, I found its performance and load times atrocious, and the PS4/ XBone turned off of consoles forever. I’ll forever have my 2600 to PS3/Xbox 360/Wii collection tho!
I was hella into ICO and SOTC, so when TLG was announced I was like "I'll wait on getting a PS3 until I can play that."
So I never had a PS3.
I never had a PS4 because... I don't really know 🤷♂️ I only feel like out of those two systems, I only have missed out on MGS4 because it's the only thing I still can not play even with a PS5 (emulating it does not work well on my system or I'd do that). Though that will change in the future since it's getting a remaster with a PC release.
I’ve only played MGS1, so I don’t feel like I’ve missed out on anything on the PS4 hahaha. I’d be very interested in playing MGS2-4 on the computer, though!
I just modded a PS2 with a 1tb of games on the internal hard drive. It's pretty cool.
well the skyscrapers look like gravestones yeah from out here
Beautiful memories on old systems.
I've had them all (no pros) and probably won't be getting another, judging by the way the industry is going.
It's sad. I haven't played my ps5 very much... And I'm enjoying older games or indies on PC more than any new games that come out. The quality of AAA seems to have fallen so far.
While simultaneously increasing in price. Pay more, get less. No thanks!
Could also be various shavers
literally
ruined literally
Had a two first, skipped three, then had four and five
I was a PC gamer, but the PS3 was my first PS experience. I didn't like the controller.
None. Xbox is better.
It's kind of funny to see this level of fanaticism on Lemmy. Xbox had a great run for a while. RIP.
As someone who's first "new" console was the Xbox one...
Is it better... Even if I didn't switch to PC, I would go to playstation. Not because the games, because the leadership.
The PS5 was my first console since the N64.
While I appreciate that Sony was trying to do interesting design, the choice of shitty plastic for its case defeats that attempt completely. Crappy plastic just isn't the medium to pull that off. I immediately bought a bracket so I could hang it under the rear of my desk so I wouldn't have to see it.
