- A little announcement before we start,
a lot of people have been asking me lately,
"Drew, I love your videos.
I love your YouTube channel.
But when is the sequel coming out?
We gotta see what you do next."
And I'm excited to finally announce
that Drew Gooden 2 is in production.
Well, technically we're still waiting
to get our budget approved.
We need about $3 billion to make it happen.
So it might be a while before it hits theaters.
But if you wanna grab this poster,
you can at drewgoodenshop.com.
Also got these hats now
if you'd like to remind people
that they are in fact dealing with a little stinker.
All right, enjoy the video.
- Hey, guy, welcome back to GameStop.
Let me know if you got your eyes on any pre-orders.
I know the answer is no,
but that won't stop me from asking you 12 more times.
So I had to make a video this week,
and I've been wracking my brain
trying to figure out what to talk about,
and I decided, you know what?
Fuck it. Let's talk about video games.
With a new generation of consoles
coming to us in the near future,
the age old debate has been reignited,
which console will reign supreme?
Will it be the PlayStation 5?
Will it be the Xbox Project X the Movie?
Or perhaps a newcomer will arise.
I'm thinking, Ouya 2?
- Your favorite game or your favorite app,
and you're going to be like, "I wanna play that,
and I have to get you to play it,
'cause it's the only place it will be."
- For some reason, the Xbox versus PlayStation debate
is the most heated argument on the face of the planet.
These people absolutely hate each other.
Look at some of the conversations on Twitter.
"Xbox is so shit."
"Nobody wants it gabbage."
"Imagine giving a shit about the PS5."
"Shut the fuck up, fanboy."
"Can you poop in it?"
"Shittiest console ever."
"PlayStation is doodoo."
"Xbox is for little kids."
"Don't bully Xbox, please.
Respect all consoles."
"XFart Series."
Let me tell you guys about my personal history with gaming,
and the relationship I have with these consoles as a result.
I still remember the day I learned that computer aren't just
for sitting in the corner and making weird noises
whenever my parents would turn them on.
When I discovered that you could play games
on that dusty ass rectangle
my five-year-old brain exploded.
I played the shit out of Backyard Baseball,
and Backyard Football,
and JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain.
Video games awakened a part of my soul
that my 41 pound body had yet to become acquainted with,
and all I wanted was more.
When it came to consoles though,
my family didn't own any for a few more years,
but we would often visit my cousins
who had two things that we didn't:
a swimming pool and a Nintendo 64 (crowd gasps).
Yeah, the pool was nice,
but you're telling me I can go inside,
and play Mario kart,
and not get any water up my nose?
Where do I sign?
I remember my cousins who owned the Nintendo,
and could therefore play it whenever they wanted,
would sometimes look at me like,
"Drew, can we do something else?
And I would say, "No, it's Destruction Derby time.
I knew that as soon as I got home,
the only game my ass would get to play
was Reader Rabbit Math Adventures Ages 6-9.
And that just wasn't gonna cut it.
So blow off the cartridge,
give me the good controller this time,
and let's blow up some cars.
Speaking of cars,
one other vivid gaming memory I have
is when my parents took us to CarMax,
so they could spend what felt
like 19 hours trying to buy a Honda Odyssey.
Why is this a gaming memory you didn't ask?
Well, because CarMax had a GameCube
in the kid's waiting area,
and you bet your ass I played Super Mario the entire time.
Best day of my life.
That memory is so precious to me
that I think it actually influenced my decision
as an adult to buy a car from CarMax.
Anyway, everything changed one glorious Christmas morning
when after months of begging,
my sister and I finally convinced my parents
to buy us a PlayStation 2.
They probably figured it was cheaper
than financing a used car
every time I wanted to play something.
This was a huge upgrade from Reader Rabbit.
Now we got games like Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3,
Spider-Man the Movie the Game,
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Probably should have rented that one.
In the years that followed,
my love for games only continued to grow
as we discovered newer and bigger games,
like Kingdom Hearts,
I didn't even think something like that was possible
until I played it.
And then when the sequel came out a few years later,
I still remember being blown away
by some of the innovations,
like the new combat system,
the new magic spells,
and most importantly,
the ability to skip the cut scenes.
In a way, my new video game obsession
probably did more harm to my life than good.
I went from being a consistent, straight A student
to, "You know, mom, a C actually isn't that bad."
I went from weirdly being like a baseball prodigy
as a seven year old
to a lazy chubby 12 year old,
who wouldn't even swing the bat anymore,
because I was too distracted
thinking about how, when I get home,
I could play ATV Off-Road Fury 2.
The PS2 years were magical.
We sunk so many hours into games like Star Wars Battlefront,
The Sims,
Simpson's Hit and Run,
Shrek 2,
which is like one of the best movie games I've ever played.
And then as my little brother got older,
I could show him some of my favorite games
from when I was his age,
or we could play new games together,
like Lego star Wars,
or Army Men: Air Attack.
Sometimes when I'm really bored,
I'll turn on my PS2,
and just go through the memory cards
that I've somehow managed to hold onto for all these years.
Seeing all the save files
for games that I can only assume I rented
from the Hollywood Video store
that closed down in 2007.
Weirdly though, despite having
this sort of emotional attachment to the PS2,
when it came time to upgrade
to the next generation of consoles,
I didn't really hesitate.
I went with Xbox 360.
In hindsight, I think there was one,
and only one reason for that,
and his name was Master Chief.
Halo 3 introduced me to this brand new world
of multiplayer gaming that I had never experienced.
And it was so much fun.
Now I could play against other people.
I could talk to my friends.
I could get yelled at by strangers.
It was life-changing.
And in some ways traumatizing.
- [Kid] I sounded like I deep-throated a cow,
and I then I said I deep-throated your mom,
so your mom's a cow.
- But for the next several years,
the Xbox 360 was the only console I owned,
And I didn't really have any problems with it,
except for that one time
I didn't realize you can't move the console
when you have a game in,
otherwise you will absolutely destroy
your brand new copy of Madden '08.
Way to go, dumbass.
I have equally fond memories of the Xbox 360
as I do the PS2.
I remember being obsessed with unlocking achievements,
even though they serve no real purpose.
I remember all the cheap games
I would discover years after they came out,
and ended up blown away by.
I remember one time my friend stayed the night at my house,
and when we woke up,
we started playing Portal 2 together,
and we played it so long
that he ended up just spending the night again.
So fast forward to like 2015,
and this time around, I felt pretty loyal to Microsoft,
so when I got my first big check from a job
I was not qualified to do,
the first thing I bought was an Xbox One.
Even though there was a pretty heated debate at the time,
Sony versus Microsoft,
as there always has been,
I didn't even really hesitate.
And I was an Xbox guy now.
But unlike with the 360,
I actually started to second guess my choice
as time went on.
Not at first,
but after a year or two,
I started feeling regret.
Outside of halo,
which is a shell of its former self at this point,
there weren't really any Xbox exclusives
I gave a shit about.
And my eyes started to wander.
Huh? People seem to really like those Uncharted games.
And Last of Us is getting some pretty good reviews.
Wait, did they remaster all the Kingdom Hearts games?
Fuck.
So then in 2018, now several years into my adulthood,
I did something that I had never done in my life so far,
I bought a PS4,
and had both major consoles at the same time.
10 year old Drew would be proud
of my financial recklessness.
And it started off small.
I was like cool,
now I can play Fortnite with Eddie Burback,
I can play the Kingdom Hearts Remaster,
Amanda can play the Final Fantasy X Remaster.
Spider-Man's coming up pretty soon.
That should be fun.
Wait, hold on.
What do I do when I wanna buy a non-exclusive game?
I have to make a choice?
And slowly I started finding myself
stocking up on non-exclusive PS4 games.
I bought Madden 19 on the PS4,
2K20 for the PS4,
Modern Warfare,
before eventually deleting it,
because it's 14,000 gigabytes.
All of these games I could have gotten on either console,
I ended up buying on the PlayStation.
It felt kind of weird too,
because it had been over 10 years at this point
that I had this loyalty to Microsoft.
And now I'm like not even turning my Xbox on
for months at a time.
I felt like I had no use for it anymore.
The only reason I ever would go on when I did
was to play Rocket League with my one friend,
who I used to live with,
and we would play Rocket League together on our Xboxes.
But that was pretty much it.
No exclusives I cared about.
I didn't go on it for other things
like Netflix or YouTube.
I just stopped using it.
But then it started to flip back.
The past year or so,
I've started to go on there every once in a while,
and realize, like, I think they're making a comeback.
(intense orchestral music)
Actually, if you don't mind,
I think I'll try and channel my inner Nakey Jakey
for this one.
I don't have a yoga ball,
but the folding chair should do.
Easily the best thing that Microsoft
has added to the Xbox One, in my opinion, is game pass.
This shit is fantastic.
They have some really great titles on here,
like big games,
games that are still relevant.
And I'm pretty sure the plan
is that when they have exclusive releases,
like Gears 5,
it comes out for free on game pass
the day it's released.
So for just a few extra bucks a month,
in addition to your Xbox Live subscription,
I think there's a lot of value in that.
I haven't even bought an Xbox game in forever,
but I've been able to go back and play any games
that I missed out on,
because of game pass,
games like The Outer Worlds,
Moving Out,
which is a really fun arcade game,
it's kind of like Overcooked,
which is also on game pass.
Disneyland Adventures.
Just kidding, that game is awful.
Who is this guy?
Is this like the Disney mascot now?
Was Pinocchio busy that day or something?
What even is this?
Now, of course, Sony has their own version of this,
It's called PlayStation Now.
And it's actually been out for several years.
They advertise it as having over 800 games
spanning three generations of console.
So on the surface,
it actually seems like a much better deal.
Wow. 800 games for 10 bucks a month?
But it's kind of funny the way it's presented,
because you get all excited
when you first open up the app,
and you see all these games like Spider-Man, Fallout,
Rocket League,
these like big games that draw you in,
but then once you take the extra steps to navigate
to the page that shows you every game, A to Z,
you're just sort of like...
Just kind of like, what?
The hell is this shit?
Suddenly, that 800 plus numbers
starts to feel a little less impressive
when you realize five of them alone
are just different episodes of a detective game
that came out in 2007.
I don't even recognize like 80% of these titles.
It's nice, I guess, to have the option to play them,
but let's be honest,
I'm never going to.
PS Now also seems to be a lot more nostalgia driven
than game pass.
Most of these games are from the PS2 or the PS3,
which is great if you missed out on a lot of these,
or you just wanna go back
and relive a classic like BioShock,
or the Sly Cooper series,
which is actually the reason I got PS Now
in the first place.
But for me, after a few months of getting all of that
nostalgia out of my system,
it started to feel less and less valuable as time went on.
And while it's great to have access to all of these games
whenever you want,
if there's only a few of them that you wanna play,
it makes more sense to just buy those,
because they're pretty cheap at this point,
rather than paying 10 bucks a month
for the rest of your life.
If you want a more apples to apples comparison,
something like 2K,
you can play the newest version of 2K on game pass for free.
A game that I paid full price for seven months ago,
or on PlayStation Now,
you can play the version that came out three years ago,
and doesn't even support online access anymore,
which is how you play most of the game,
so it's kind of pointless.
There are other things I've noticed coming back
to my Xbox One after using PS4 for awhile.
For one, everything feels way faster on Xbox.
Things download faster.
The menus on my PS4 are super laggy and slow
in comparison to Xbox.
Something as simple as inviting my friend to a voice chat
takes forever on PS4,
but I can do it almost instantly on Xbox.
I can also take screenshots almost instantly on Xbox,
but if I want to record a game clip on PS4,
which I often do,
it sometimes takes several seconds
to even load the button.
And keep in mind, I have the original Xbox One.
It's two years older than the PS4 that I bought.
So if anything,
these loading times should be the other way around.
Another thing is,
while I generally Sony's interface over Microsoft's,
why can't I just add Netflix to my homepage?
Or YouTube?
Or anything like that?
Even if I just exited out of it for a second,
I have to first go to the TV and video tab,
which takes too long to load, as previously discussed.
And then I can click on it,
and get back to watching my show.
Yes, these are very minor problems.
I feel silly even complaining about them,
but the more you experience something over time,
the more annoying it gets. But if you guys want to know
what makes me the most irrationally angry at my PS4,
it's this.
So I have the standard 500 gigabyte PS4 hard drive.
And I understand,
from years of owning electronic devices,
that that does not mean 500 gigabytes.
I know that there is a portion of that that is reserved
for system operations,
for actually running the games that are on the hard drive.
I get that.
However, that space has already been accounted for.
They've already subtracted those 93 gigabytes from the 500.
So why do I have over a hundred additional gigabytes free
and I can't use any of it?
Once I hit like 260, 270, that's it.
I can't download anything else.
I can't even start game sometimes
without deleting something.
And look, I'm not a tech savvy person at all.
So maybe I'm just dumb.
I don't understand hardware,
or specs,
or the inner workings of these devices,
but if no matter what I do,
I will never be able to use this space,
then don't show it to me.
Don't make it look like I have all this room when I don't.
And the thing is I've looked this up too.
I have not been able to find a solid answer online
as to why this is,
why I have a 500 gigabyte hard drive
but I can only use a little bit more than half of it.
Am I being taxed?
Is the government taking some of these gigabytes back?
I need those.
I'm trying to play Bridge Constructor.
That said, though, Xbox is not perfect either.
Neither of them are perfect.
That's why I'm making this video.
I think Microsoft has this weird habit
of creating a really good interface that everyone likes,
and then completely changing it for no reason.
And it definitely seems
like right now they're getting their ass kicked
in terms of IPs,
in terms of original games
that are exclusive to these consoles.
And at the end of the day,
that's pretty much the most important factor
when it comes to deciding which console to buy.
But I suppose that brings us to today,
and apart from a handful of memes,
and lists of words and numbers
that I don't understand, because I'm an idiot,
It's impossible to say at this point
which console is gonna be the right one going forward.
And you know what?
Maybe that's my entire point with this video,
which is that the console wars are dumb as hell.
It is so silly when grown adult men go on the internet
and practically fight to the death
in defense of a piece of hardware they like.
Or when they try to act like one of them is better
in literally every way,
and the other is useless.
That's just not true.
If you were trying to engineer the perfect console,
you would have to take elements
from both of them in order to be able to do that.
You'd have to take games
from both of them in order be able to do that.
And even then it wouldn't matter
if it's the greatest console in the world,
if it's not the ones your friends have,
because then you'll have all this fun,
and no one to share it with.
And wouldn't that be pretty lonely?
My advice,
if you wanna try and take something from this video,
is just buy whatever fucking console you want.
I have felt myself, in the past,
have my opinion swayed by popular consensus.
Maybe see a lot of people trashing Microsoft right now,
so you're like, "Well, I guess I have to buy a PS5.
I don't wanna look like an idiot."
But if you want to buy an Xbox,
then buy an Xbox.
Who cares what anyone else thinks?
You're the one playing the games.
That's also why I think it's so dumb
when someone makes a video reviewing a game,
and everyone gets furious
at the fact that they had a different opinion than them.
How dare your experience vary from my own?
Personally I don't feel like I've made my mind up yet
about the next generation of consoles.
I'll probably buy a PS5,
but that's mostly because I think
that's the one my friends are buying,
and I wanna play with the boys.
Life's no fun without my boys.
Anyway, that's pretty much all I have to say about this.
If you enjoyed hearing me talk about video games
for 15 minutes, let me know.
If you didn't,
just keep that shit to yourself.
All right? No one cares.
For now though, I have to toss it over to it yesterday me,
who hasn't shaved yet,
but has something very important to tell you about.
Hi, I know what you're thinking.
Wow, is that Drew Gooden,
founder and CEO of pictureofhotdog.com,
the world's most robust website."
Yeah.
It is.
You know, people love to call me names,
legend,
genius.
They see an intricately crafted webpage
where you can put a pickle on a hot dog,
and they assume I must have spent
thousands of hours engineering it,
but that's just not true.
I have to confess something, guy.
All I did was go to squarespace.com/drew
to get 10% off my first purchase of a website or domain,
and then I chose from one of hundreds
of beautiful designer templates
until I found the one I liked,
and then I swapped out some texts,
put in a Photoshop picture of a hot dog,
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Truth be told, it probably only took like 20 minutes.
Okay? There, I said it.
You don't have to be a genius to build your own websites.
Squarespace has all the tools you could ever need.
Whether you're a photographer,
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It was one of the most user-friendly experiences I ever had.
I had total control over the look and functionality.
They showed me all the analytics I could ever need.
The truth is I'm not special.
I'm not even smart.
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Thank you Squarespace for sponsoring this video.
Thank you so much for watching this video, guy.
I know it probably seemed kind of random,
'cause I don't normally talk about this stuff,
but it's sort of hit me lately
that I don't always talk about things
that I wanna talk about,
and that's kind of dumb, because this is my channel,
and I should talk about things I wanna talk about.
So don't be surprised if you see more videos
like this in the future.
They won't all be like this.
Don't worry.
I'll still talk about Tik Tok,
and bad movies.
I like talking about those,
but I got other opinions too,
and I got to get them off my chest.
Finally, I said I would donate money
for every video I upload this month.
And I think I uploaded this one just in time.
So this one counts too.
This week I'm actually gonna be splitting my donation
between two different organizations.
One is the Marsha P. Johnson Institute.
And the other is House of GG.
Both of which work actively
to support trans people of color,
who are one of the most marginalized
and targeted groups of people in the country.
Links in the description, of course,
if you want to go read more about them,
or donate yourself.
But other than that have a great summer, everyone.
And I will be back next week
for yet another video,
where my hair doubles in length.
But I refuse to get it cut. Bye-bye.