Top 10 PlayStation FAILS (Redux)
Top 10 PlayStation FAILS // Subscribe: // TIMESTAMPS BELOW // CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF WATCHMOJO WITH OUR SPECIAL EDITION MAGAZINE, LINKS BELOW! More like Fail-Station, #amiright? These are the times Sony, and their gaming mega-brand the PlayStation, have failed, blundered, screwed up, shafted themselves, shot themselves in the foot or otherwise screwed the pooch in terms of PR. Welcome to and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 PlayStation FAILS.
00:31 #10. Creepy As Hell Commercials
01:21 #9. PlayStation TV
02:07 #8. Mascot Confusion
03:01 #7. Inferior PS3 Ports
03:47 #6. Paid Subscription (and Increases)
04:41 #5. PSP Go
05:27 #4. PlayStation Underground’s 2004 Holiday Demo Disc
06:16 #3, #2 & #1: ????
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first off, yes I also have an xbox. second, xbox live has been hacked as well. and third, where is microsofts handheld to challenge psp or vita? just sayin'
Sony's mascot is fucking Cloud from FF~VIII
Whats a redux?
A demo disk? You're basically paying for the real game, but the game is just a rip off and was around 5 minutes of lasting.
why arent you doing honorable mentions anymore?
PS3 $600
– built in bluray player
– built in wifi
– free online gaming service
– USB cable for charging the controller
– web browser
– Bluetooth
– ps1 and ps2 backwards compatibility
– 60gb hard drive that can upgradable
Xbox 360 $500
– $50 Xbox Live Gold Membership annually
– $200 HD DVD drive
– $100 wifi adapter
– $30 – $40 charge kit and batteries
– 20gb proprietary hard drive
Xbox 360 real price $850
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What about the ongoing fail of not being able to change our goddamn PSN names?
Quite happy that pretty much none of that has happened in that past 5 years. That's got to be a good sign right?
Over $600 and my PS3 burned out after 4 years.
Seems so easy to slate the past. Even worse when we're on the brink of a dystopian future
I remember as apologies for the PlayStation Network outage us gamers got a free month of PS Plus and a choice of two games out of a small selection of four games. This is back when you could content share on another PlayStation console with your family or friends. Me and my content sharing mate both picked LittleBigPlanet and Dead Nation when we could have gotten all four games if we were smart.
Greedy fuckers all that money and they can't make a descent controller that actually fits in your hands nor can they properly maintain the security of there servers. Greedy bastards
Top 10 best Xbox exclusives for 2017….oh wait
How bout that racist ass advertising campaign for PSP White 10 years ago?
hooonter of hoooonters should be pS mascot
Hopefully the ps5 won't be stupidly priced like the ps 3 was
They totally made up for their fuck ups with the ps4. Thankfully.
number 2? Adding Linux support to PS3.
number 1? Removing Linux support from PS3.
playstation tv? i didnt even hear of that haha
1. The Vita
their servers are one of the biggest fails.
also getting hacked all the time. like that huge hack in 2011 i think or 2010
Playstation….making hilariously bad business decisions since 2003…god I hate SOny.
CreepyStation
I always wanted to know how ut feels like for the PSN Hack 2011. I bought my PS3 a year after the hack.
1:20 I would bang that.
I was hoping they mention the commercials of that guy that used to be the "VP" of everything.
2 more things: The PS4 Pro and firing Kevin Butler.
As a Playstation/PC fanboy i think PSTV and PSNow are the top reasons for a fail and I think PSPgo was okay but PSVITA was kinda good but still it was a flop from the start!
NOT FAIL! Sure! There were trials and errors, but for an all-in-one console, it has surpassed Microsoft on almost every level of quality and units sold without return or the console ACTUALLY breaking down (i.e. X-Box 360 REDRING).
#10: A more artistic and abstract approach to advertising has not failed any of the Playstation launches. The consoles still pulled in a great number of sales for each launch, and nothing about these strange ads has prevented gamers from purchasing any of their consoles. NOT A FAIL!
#09: I had to correct this one simply because I researched the VITA TV. It was meant for the Chinese market, where video game consoles are technically banned (though it's not really enforced). They made this product to get into the Chinese market of VOD. However, multiple Chinese companies basically stole the idea and started developing Doby boxes, that were basically the same thing but cheaper. I guess you could call this a fail, but having realized the issue of copyrights, licensing, IP, and other legal loop holes China loves to exploit, I still consider this… NOT A FAIL!
Just simply unfortunate that they tried to do business in China, and when their idea was robbed, they looked for success elsewhere. Poor SONY.
#08: Mascot confusion???? Seriously? Having multiple great games instead of one identifier is a FAIL??? Sorry that the Playstation launches didn't fit your traditional, simple, archetype of basic gaming. Really! I'm so sorry that you had to play so many great exclusive games like "Devil May Cry", "Ratchet and Clank", "Metal Gear Solid", "Ace Combat", "Soul Reaver", and almost every Final Fantasy game up to 10. That's such a horrible fail, not having ONE mascot! How hard life must have been for your simple brain! On behalf of SONY, I wish to apologize for them making gaming about…. well, gaming, and not considering your ridiculous request for simplicity. NOT A FAIL!
#07: What were the Microsoft ports again? Oh that's right! There weren't any! They didn't have enough systems with titles to port… How awkward! Porting games to the console not to your standards….? By the way… that cell processor being difficult is also the same reason they had the GBS to ACTUALLY develop games in TRUE 1080p, instead of upscaling to 1080p from a lower resolution, and lying about it on the back of every game box #X-Box360. You know what you did! NOT A FAIL!
OH OH OH! And many games performed poorly on the PS3??? You mean like all the games that over-heated the 360??? That poorly??? IDIOT! Inferior graphics??…. INFERIOR GRAPHICS???? TO WHAT!?!?!? THE X-BOX 360… F***! Okay, I'm done with this one!!
#06: You're SOOO right! What a FAIL that Playstation ONLY started charging their customers almost 15 years after X-Box! Such a fail that they started charging their customers while maintaining almost comparable online game play! Also, paying a higher price for more online game content is NOT A FAIL! Sorry they STILL have more EXCLUSIVE games than the repetitive HALO series! NOT A FAIL!!!
#05: Okay! I'll give you this one! But would like to say that Microsoft still has not matched Playstation or Nintendo AT ALL in the portable gaming market. In fact, they don't even try, they're so scared! MISSING A HUGE MARKET! Microsoft… FAIL! Playstation… NOT A FAIL!
( I guess I didn't really give you this one. okay, you can have the next one…maybe.)
#04: Okay, yep! Fail! Huge fail! MASSIVE FAIL! Still…. compared to RED RING, eh…. Yeah! Still a FAIL nonetheless.
#03: Combining EVERYTHING you would have paid for add-ons to the X-Box 360 (network adapter for online play, a separate HD-DVD drive WITH NO titles to watch) while maintaining game play without destroying discs or needing console replacement. It was economical and practical that Playstation launched 2 consoles. People spent more money with X-Box 360 in the long run. It was more expensive because it included EVERYTHING, ya dope! AND, IT WORKED! Again… NOT A FAIL!
And did you ever buy a 60gb hard drive back in 2006? They were not $100, that's for sure! it was worth getting that extra 40 gigs. Especially with all of those games to play, movies, music and online content. And don't forget the FREE online game play. Remember #06??
#02: Okay, I'll be fair and give you this one too, even though this was literally a handheld PS3!!!! LITERALLY!!!!! But still, I'm sad to say…. FAIL! (That's TWO)
#01: Okay. This was a horrible tragedy! But at the same time, it wasn't SONY's negligence to create a superior product. They were attacked by hackers and immediately responded, shutting down their system and trying to secure their customers' private information, which doesn't take a day. A few weeks without online gaming as opposed to identity theft? NOT A FAIL!
So, a total of 2 actual fails in a list of 10 accusations. Interesting… Surprising that they don't have an X-Box FAIL video! I guess people don't have a week to lose going through that train wreck! It would literally take a 10 episode series to cover! Hahaha.
I bought so many ps1/2 games on ps3, its really disappointing that all those games aren't transfer to ps4… hell, none of it even available!! This is why i envy xbox backward compatibility
Yeah, I absolutely love the ps vita but it does have its flaws. The reason I bought it was to play all the Ps1 games i bought through the psn on it. But the fact that the PSOne classics section is now non exsistent makes finding said ps1 games an absolute chore. Plus some games like Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill needed a PS3 or a pc to download while some weren't even compatible made it even more of a nightmare. This became my biggest gripe for me in the end really, thought like throwing my hat in honestly.
The first one with the baby pointing at the console and laughing demonically is refetencing 2001 Space Oyessy with the space baby pointing at the black monolith. The white room is the room Dave ends up in by the aliens. This implies the playstation is an evolution in technology. I would love to hear from the initisl natrator your thoughts on thid one.
Thing I hate about PS4 now… NO GOD-DAM RACING SERIES!!! Has it really took an entire generation of gaming for Sony to develop a racing game???
I dont think any company have only one mascot. Nintendo got mario, link dk and samu, xbox has master chief and gears of war(cant remember his name) and even sega wifh its reliance on sonic has things like shinoni alex kid and jet set radio
Did a Crisis Communication report on the hacking. Unbelievable. Good news is that my group got an, "A."
Its Ride Racer! RIDDGGGGEEEEE RACEEEEEEER!
PS3 was awful it turned me off PlayStation until Ps4 came out which is better than Xbox One
Based on Japanese history…
* 2 minutes later *
…so here is this giant enemy crab
Let's just all admit it, Sony has been fucking up A LOT for the past couple years