-The 5th generation was [unk] show. Can I say [unk]
show? I have to look at my notes. That's how
much of a [unk] show was. 3DO in '93, Atari
Jaguar in '93, then finally the playstation. There's too many
players here. There's too many players in the 5th generation.
Some things got to give. -It really was a fascinating
time. So many people found companies like 3DO and Sega
all moved to Nintendo or to Sony and both of
them just became major powerhouses for the next several years.
-I think history chosen the Nintendo 64 is one of
the stranger systems ever created. -1964-- -On the one, it
lost. The playstation was far more successful than the N64.
On the other hand, it run arguably, the two best
video games ever made. Super Mario 64, a launch game
for the N64. And then a few years after that,
Legend of Zelda, The Ocarina of Time and then you
can't forget GoldenEye. And suddenly, you know, the Nintendo 64
is a staple of college dorm rooms and drinking and
it's one of these things that you are sitting there
with passing the control around playing nonstop. -But something dramatic
happened in the next generation, the 32-bit generation Sony showed
up. -The Walkman people have the nerve to come out
with this Playstation. As as a Sega kid talking to
my Nintendo enemies suddenly [unk] his Playstation I have watched.
-For several years in my career with Sega when we
heard a big company like Sony was gonna get into
the game in mystery, it was laughable. -Fly, plaything, fly.
You're not ready. -And then when the Playstation first came
out, we were all pretty blown away and quite frankly
pretty scared. But what it was? Was Sony making a
calculated effort that you know whether you see Microsoft, camera,
and DVD exact same thing, then saying we are coming
in here. We're seeing with this market isn't worth taking
our claim in it. This is kind of an accidental
way. They were supposed to just partner with Nintendo and
make a CD attachment to the super Nintendo. Relations fell
apart. A lot of people historically they blame Nintendo for
kind of boggling that, but the bottomline is-- -The media
is much cheaper for groups. One think ss produced cartridges
with [unk] side. One think is just [unk] -And thus,
it was expensive to develop to get those things to
test them out to me where you're making your return,
you know, I mean, that's the whole problem. - You
and me. Booyah, grandma. Booyah! -The thing that Sony really
did that was different is they added to-- that they
brought in marketing that first generation of the Playstation. -"Hey
plumber boy, mustache man. Your worst nightmare has arrived!" -But
it was this idea that you should be moving on
from whatever kiddie games you played before. There were times
when I'm, you know, in high school and I'm like,
this hobby." This is cool and this is fun and
this is distraction, you know, but I want something more
and I didn't know-- I didn't know what that was.
I didn't know what to say. And then one day,
you know, me and a friend went off. We rented
some games with this Playstation I just gotten and one
of them was Metal Gear Solid and I played Metal
Gear Solid and for the second time in my life,
video games changed my life. -Colonel, what's a Russian gunship
doing here? -And one of them is on his knees.
His name is Otacon. He's crying over sniper wolf and
she's staring up the sky dying. -Set me free. -And
hearing up with my other high school friend right next
to me and you get attach to these characters, that's
when you get an experience you can't get anywhere else
and the scene, the taste that had it out was
Metal Gear and it was like just that moment of
like this is it man like this is-- -The future.
-We have the second Dreamcast that was the last of
Sega's Consoles unfortunately. -Sega should have been in a Dogfight
with Nintendo of third generation of the generation. They begin
to fade away. -The dream cast was so far ahead
of its time. Nobody knew it to make it. -And
then you had companies like the [unk] that basically just
said we're a juggernaut and we are pulling support from
your console and, you know, eventually, the right down on
the Sega Saturn for Sega out of the hardboard business
and they became a software publisher which is essentially what
we have now. -I owe you nothing. -PlayStation 2. You're
gonna see that even as today is the most sold
video game console. -And Sony flips the switch, man. They
changed the game with the Playstation 2 and it was
also-- it was a bit of Trojan horse effect and
that it was right around the time when DVDs were
becoming the most popular medium of home video. -It's movie
on a disc, the size of a CD. -The same
way it back in the old days Nintendo kinda had
every game we needed to play with maybe one or
two exceptions. PS2 is the system for sixth generation. -Your
torment is just beginning. -When you talk about-- Okay, Playstation
2s were God of War shows of. Then, Metal Gear
continues to evolve, right? Again, all the games I've just
mentioned are exclusive to the Playstation 2. Sony is swinging
like Mike Tyson against your grandmother. -Do you have a
problem? Turn off your spaceship. -And again, there are the
young kids on the block and then I mean Déjà
Vu comes a knock-in and here Microsoft suddenly announces they're
gonna make-they're gonna make this Xbox. The Xbox was not
a great console. It was a good first step. -Microsoft
comes out. They know they're gonna take a loss at
the Xbox. They talk a horrendous loss and not making
money on it. But Microsoft is so in the black
here that they can just say, okay, will do. -Microsoft
is the Windows company. It is weird enough when Sony,
the people who made your television, are gonna make you
a game console, but at least they made a thing.
-And they give you this gigantic black box and this
gigantic controller and you're like, what the hell is this?
This thing is a bomb. Nobody wants Halo. That was
it for them. That's all they needed, what was Halo.
-This is gonna be your lucky day. -There's the Halo
obviously. There's Fable. You're talking about Knights of the Old
Republic. Like they're saying we're gonna get you good games
and then we'll put on them yellow text only on
Xbox. -Yeah! -Hello? -The Nintendo comes out and they said,
all right, you guys love N64 so much. Let's give
you the Nintendo GameCube. -If you remember a lot of
people laugh at the GameCube. So, there's a purple lunch
box with a handle on. I appreciate that because I
thought, you know, game consoles previously were meant to be
tucked away hidden-- -But the Nintendo found a software in
odd position in the beginning of the sixth generation because
of a lot of gamers they want the Nintendo to
fight back. They feel like Nintendo had taken its lumps
from Sony, from Sega. -[unk] -And again, they had lost
before they began on-- Remember, we only have this small
group of franchises that we really love. I'm sure other
people can program for it. -They did not. No one
decided to come the game plan. -A lot of that
focus had gone on to the Playstation 2. That real
is where the industry had shifted over to. But this
was the beginning of a change where it wasn't so
much just about how good are your graphics or how
good are your games, but what else can your console
do. -[unk] This was the biggest Trojan horse I think
anyone ever pulled off.