30 Years of PlayStation History Documented on New Anniversary Website

Great Compilation. What happened if you press the „Analog“ Button on the PlayStation 1‘s Controller?

This is pretty cool! Gonna check it out later 👍🏼

Edit: That was awesome, brought back many memories! Especially those old start up sounds.

Only thing left now is to do a showcase, Sony! Lets goo

It's kinda funny how they've erased the awful US Ico box art and have a section with the header

"Some of the all-time greats of gaming were born on PS2 and are still lighting up your consoles today"

All whilst showing Twisted Metal and Resident Evil 4.

Overall it's a cool little page though

This is a nice ride down the memory lane!😊

@Cerny the thumbsticks used to be called analogue sticks, the button there was used to switch to them on or if you were playing a 2d game and didn't want to use them, you'd switch them off and used the d-pad

@Kibinaaru Bingo

I’ll be reading this to my 10 yr old son tomorrow.

I'm irrationally annoyed at the "the DVD age" subsection of the PS2 article showing a CD-ROM...

Looks fine enough, no mention or screenshot of the other model PS1's like the Serial or others removal hmmmmm.....

It's a fair basic look at the history of the brand, 5/10 though, it gets the job done, but not great. I don't expect that much depth but I do think a few things could be highlighted or be better, and a handful more games, not even just my preferences of games just a few more listed that reflected the era, that or other genres even, others for other regions even it feels kind of a weak showing, very safe, very put together in a few weeks and not that much to look back on.

Almost like someone could have put this together in a single room kind of museum look, very unexciting basics.

The Dual Analogue then Dual Shock yep, which green then red and the mode for joysticks for flight games or to not have conflicts. Not only 2D games i have some that aren't 2D and very much don't support or won't work with the analogue support on, whether PS2 or PS3 tweaking the PS1 emu settings (official hardware).

Ah Pocket Station/Mouse/Flight Stick controller, I hate that mice came to console but very many times like SNES or others it would be the games that really needed it came too early to the platform and didn't support the mouse it's really annoying. It's good mice came to the console it's just very annoying when the games would release too early for them. I think mouse/keyboard for PS4/Xbox One/Switch and of course PS5/Series X/S is a thing it's great to see.

Interesting the key games and very few of Sony's games like Blasto, the extreme sports ones or a few others to highlight them oh well.

Ah the DVD age and the many still CD blue disk games, I'm surprised how many were on that some are really impressive on there besides the upgrades. Also surprised they didn't breakdown the differences of the blue CDs, the regular DVDs and the dual layer ones, I think that would have been interesting. But I guess like the PS1 black disks they didn't want to mention why they did that do they...... Oh well.

These days you never even get lower size disks really like sure you do get multiple sizes but not in the CD/DVD way just single or dual layer blu-ray or DVD way it's interesting. Only console I can think of that did that as the others didn't and well Dreamcast with CDs for.... besides GD-ROMs.

Surprised how few games shown in the PS2 era, still the ones with the network support/the adaptor is nice to see. Would have liked to see any mention iLink support or the Yabasic or other stuff but they probably don't care to or want to hide Yabasic under the covers there.

Singstar/Buzz gets a mention nice.

PSP a little short there, no GPS, no camera, no other mention, no model comparisons, no cables to the TV, just a basic presentation and game showcasing. Pretty underwhelming honestly.

This feels like a really, basic look and while that's fine it is kind of not exciting. I don't expect a lot to be detailed and they want to look good about it but this feels like a few weeks jobs and while good screenshots, fair brief paragraphs and the effort is there it is pretty weak too.

Ah XMB via PSX the PS2/media player before PS3 but they won't tell you about that as JP model and they just want to keep things regionally relevant?

3D support nice to see it.

AV/HDMI nice to see.

Part 2:
Sixaxis and Dualshock 3 but they won't tell you why they did that, but still good to see both of them. Move present.

Odd to see the Move compatible games before the PS3 highlights, not a bad direction just surprised.

Pretty weak 1st party showing of the iconic PS3 games, not even bothered to show the many others (don't have to be sequels) but the great one offs, really, or some third party fair ones Sony teamed up with like Lair or Heavenly Sword, quite disappointing.

PS Home mentioned, good.

Vita getting the spotlight, still brief, about as not that much attention to it as PSP. Disappointing. Good enough but not great and PS TV there is nice to see as no cables for PSP shown, cough cough, no 1000 model but it was shown in Astro's Playroom so showing the 2000 model here is nice to see at least.

Also the niche but still fair titles of Vita I mean it varies but how PS3 didn't have Puppeteer or others is a bit odd but Vita has those types listed even if not others. Also no Freedom Wars they want to hide that in regardless to the remaster or something? Or other titles on Vita? Very strange they just went "eh pick a few and were done here" mentality this gives off. They don't have to list everything I don't expect them to but still a wider handful at least for each era, this is pretty lacking, it needs a bit more.

No mention of the 5GZ model I know it's minor but still. The fair Black/Glacier White is a fair contrast.

To me the vibration is better in Dualshock 4 and they never say it does. Is it just me or am I thinking things?

Like Azure Gunvolt and Clannad aka a 2D Megaman like from 3DS and a visual novel that was on PC/PSP prior having more vibration level tweaks in the settings, like Azure does it to 2 levels or so, 3 states so 3 being off but 2 fair ramped up ones. Clannad does it to 4 states 4th also being off, is insanely odd to me. Like I don't know of any games on PS3 doing that but PS4 they never advertised it or did those devs just like to scale the vibration motors extent for whatever reason.

But otherwise the touchpad, lightbar and mic/speaker are well presented. No gyro mention even if similar or however much improved/not from SIxaxis I guess.

Also the 2 halves of the touchpad that only few games really demonstrated before the Premium PS1/PS2/PSP games did and people going wait it does that. Ah Nier Automata with the 2 halves was my first experience with it, or others.

Same with gyro used in a few games to aim, not used for racing in GT games or others just isn't for me but in shooters it's great..... the few that offer it third parties and 1st party. Let alone besides Killzone with the mic/speaker and the directional touch of the drone was cool to me.

Yeah Playroom, aka Firesprite aka really good DLC and demos for the Camera, the Vita/Tablets, later Playlink whoever made the main games for those besides the others like Hidden Agenda which like Tumble for Move/VR were great games.

Fair mention of VR, but no Playlink at all, seriously Sony. I think that's worth talking about it was a fair brand line of smartphone to PS4 party games there. It also proves something before Everybody 1-2 Switch as well, 10 years earlier.

Not that I care to say things to prove against Nintendo fans I couldn't care less but at the same time it's still something of a fair brand line. It's like Nintendo ignoring Touch Generations games, or well fans would even if they were great titles in that lineup.