- And we are back
for an exhilarating episode of The Lowdown,
because in honor of Gran Turismo 7,
we are here at Speed Circuit,
because we're gonna go toe-to-toe in an all out battle
to see who is the racing champion.
- And then we're gonna head back to the studio
where we're gonna play Gran Turismo 7.
Sony has an incredible gaming setup
with all of the latest
and greatest tech.
And of course we're gonna have the Retro Challenge,
so stay tuned.
Also,
I don't wanna worry you,
but I brought my own racing outfit.
- Oh, funny you say that because
so did I!
You ready?
Let's go.
Whoo!
- So here's what's gonna go down.
We're gonna do three races here at the Speed Circuit,
each is gonna be worth five points,
and then we're gonna go
and do three races of Gran Turismo 7,
each worth 10 points.
- Hmm, and the winner takes home the trophy?
- Yeah, it's gonna look so good on my shelf.
- Well, why would you assume that?
- I mean,
I look at my legit outfit,
like, it's coming home with me.
- Mine's being held by gaff tape.
Anyway, you ready?
- Oh yeah.
- Alright, let's go.
- [Sidney] No!
No, no, no, no, no, no!
Yes, yes!
- [Jenna] Oh, he is whopping me now!
- Whoo!
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, spun out.
- [Jenna] No! - [Sidney] Yes, yes!
- Absolutely not, no!
- Whoo!
He's trying to creep up on me,
we just gotta block him,
block him
and pick up speed!
- [Sidney] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Don't listen to her,
she cheated, she cheated.
- Yeah!
- Okay, you won.
I concede.
That was a, that was a really good race.
- That was incredible.
It's true.
I mean I did beat two out of the three times,
you did win once,
and that was so much fun.
But the fun doesn't stop there,
cause we're actually gonna head back to the studio
to our incredible gaming setup
where we're gonna be racing again on Gran Turismo 7.
- It's my only chance to win, guys.
- It's actually true, yeah.
- It is my only chance to win.
- Okay, see you in the studio.
- Well, we are back from the track
where you officially won fair
and square.
Congratulations.
- Thank you, thank you.
But the competition is not over
because now we actually get to Gran Turismo 7.
Now, let's talk a little bit about
what we are gonna be playing on
and with.
We have the Sony ZV-1,
which is gonna be capturing the action of our face cam,
and we have an OLED A80K TV,
which looks so good.
- [Sidney] And also,
it's optimized for the PS5.
We can't forget about sound.
We gotta talk about the sound.
We have the Sony A5000 Soundbar,
which we're really excited to hear in real life.
And if you wanna be a little bit extra,
you can add the subwoofer,
the SW5, so that you can actually feel
and hear the rumbles as you're driving on the track.
And also can't forget about the rear speakers.
We got the RS3,
they give us a fully immersive experience
as we are racing on the track.
So, we're gonna be playing a pre-release version
of Gran Turismo 7.
We're gonna do three races,
and whoever gets the best position in each race
gets the points.
- Okay,
that sounds simple enough.
- Alright. - You ready?
- Right, you first.
I'm gonna coach you.
- Sure, no, no.
- I'm just gonna help you
Whoa!
- Oh, yeah!
Alright! - [Sidney] A sub?!
- Here we go!
See that move?
Yeah.
It's the move of a winner.
- Are you sure about that?
- Excuse me!
- Give it away.
- Beep beep beep!
Tu tu tu!
Man, the graphics looks really good!
- You could totally tell that this TV
is optimized for PS5.
I mean graphics to colors,
the reflection from the cars,
the gameplay,
like the response time.
- Now that I'm so far ahead,
I can actually look around
and appreciate it.
Like look at all those people cheering me on!
- [Sidney] Okay, 2:15 is the time to beat.
Here we go.
Alright, outta my way.
There you go,
down the inside line.
Oh, look at that beautiful move!
- Alright.
- Right? Look at that!
Come on.
- Yeah, make sure you break,
and slow it up,
yeah, slow it up.
- No, Jenna.
- Sorry, I
- Let's be supportive.
- I'm, ah, ugh,
I'm too competitive to be supportive!
Okay.
- [Sidney] Oh! - [Jenna] I think you beat me.
No, you didn't!
- But wait, wait, but,
- No - Hold on
- 2:15 is lower than 2:16.
- Wait a minute,
can we, can we try this again?
- You have lost,
but that's okay,
because there's still two more rounds,
alright?
- Okay.
Watch out!
- No. - I tried.
- Oh gosh.
- Oh gosh, fantastic.
- I'm pretty sure that is ground .
- That is fantastic.
- Oh, close enough. - Oh, man.
1:57, okay.
- How do you feel?
- Not gonna lie,
I feel a little nervous.
I have to win the next two races to win.
- [Jenna] Okay.
I'm, I'm nervous for you, honestly.
- [Sidney] Right here.
Shhh!
Whoop!
Okay, ugh,
Jenna, that was you! - That was a
- Okay, here we go.
- I'm not even doing anything.
- Ride it out.
Oh my gosh, what is it?
- Okay, you got first. - What is it?
- [Jenna] Oh, you beat me!
- [Sidney] Oh, yes!
- Okay. You're still in it,
you're still in it.
- Sorry to the sound guy,
but my heart was actually kind of racing.
Okay, here we go.
- And the graphics
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
- [Jenna] I mean, it kind of worked in your favor?
- [Sidney] A little bit, yeah.
- I'm a little nervous. - Just deep breathing.
Just deep breathing.
- Okay, you,
you finished, so that's good.
- [Sidney & Jenna] 1:29.
- [Sidney] Could beat that?
- [Jenna] I don't know.
- Okay. - I mean, yeah,
no, I can get that,
no problem. - Alright, here you go.
This is it.
- How do you feel?
- I, I, I don't know.
It could be anyone's game.
- I did it!
In one,
you lost by one second!
You lost by one second!
Boo!
- You're, you're gloating.
- Okay, good job.
- Good job.
- Let me have this one victory.
- Alright, all right, you won.
- Well, I actually had like five wins.
- Congratulations.
You won.
- Thank you.
- Congratulations, Jenna.
You won officially I guess, so
there you go,
there's a trophy. - Thank you, thank you.
It's beautiful,
and it's gonna look so good on my shelf.
- Well, don't need to bloat.
- Yes, I do.
- A simple "thank you" would've been fine.
But hey,
the episode isn't over yet,
I still have the chance to win
during the Retro Challenge.
Hopefully, I'll win.
Hopefully.
So, let's go.
- We're now ready for the Retro Challenge
where under this cloth is a Sony product
from the past 75 years.
- I wonder,
Oh, I think I might know what it is
just by looking at it.
I think,
I think I'm gonna win this one.
- I think it's a product.
- It it's definitely a product.
Alright, well,
we have three questions to answer,
we're gonna write down our answers,
and then reveal them.
But first,
let's reveal what's in this cloth
drape thing.
Here we go,
- [Sidney & Jenna] One, two, three!
- Oh, oh!
- Yes!
- I had this one.
Wait, is this mine?
I had like a little marker on the side.
- [Jenna] Did it?
What, is it yours?
Did they steal it from your parents' house?
- [Sidney] Oh, maybe, maybe.
Right, so now let's get to
question number one. - Okay.
- What year was this product released?
Now, we got two hints. - Okay.
- The first hint is this.
The number one movie of that year was
Batman Forever.
- Does that help you?
- Nope!
- So here's what's wrong with the hints,
I'm not very good at movies,
but that's okay.
It's better than nothing.
And we also have another hint.
The number one song was "Gangsta's Paradise"
by Coolio.
- Man!
- I hear it in my head,
I hear it in my head!
- Okay, ready,
count to three, one - Yep.
- Two, three.
- It's 1995!
- I got '97.
- I won! - Oh, you won that one!
- Yes, finally.
- Touche.
- One point for Jenna.
- Touche, touche, you got that .
- Being a gamer has paid off.
- Alright, now,
ready for question number two?
- I am.
- Okay,
how much did this product cost
in the year it was released?
- This is tricky,
cause I don't,
I didn't have money when I was young.
- You didn't buy it. - No.
- I didn't buy it, either.
Our parents bought probably, right?
- Yeah, so it's like,
could we do like phone a parent?
- I'm gonna, can I text my mom, dad, or no?
- Not, put that phone away.
- [Sidney & Jenna] And go!
- I got $299.
- Oh, we're close.
- $350, answer is
- $299 exactly?! - $299 on the dot?!
And it's the equivalent of $551.60
in 2022.
- Wow. - That is crazy.
I'm a little scared.
- That is actually
impressive.
I can't even be mad at that.
- On the dot, that's
- I mean, I wasn't like that far off.
- So now, we are onto our
final question.
The wild card question,
and it is this.
What is the best selling PlayStation game of all time?
- PlayStation game?
- Of all time!
- PlayStation game.
- Of all time.
Ready?
- I think so, I don't, yeah.
I'm ready, here we.
- One, two, three.
I put down Final Fantasy VII.
- Oh my gosh.
Okay, I did
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
- The Original Gran Turismo?
Okay, I can see that.
- The original Grand
Why did we not put that?
Why did none of us,
we literally
- They're like hinting at us the entire episode.
- They're like, "Hey,"
- It was Gran Turismo the entire time.
- Modern Warfare 2,
good game.
- That's a great game.
So is Final Fantasy VII. - It's Final Fantasy.
- I was also gonna think,
was the game like Spider-Man, like
- Great, all of them, all of them.
- Okay, so,
so we both suck.
- That was great!
- So, let's take a look at the overall scoreboard.
- Like in my numbers.
Pretty good.
- Not looking great for me, but fortunately,
I still have some time,
so make sure you guys subscribe
and stay tuned,
because this is not over.
Who is going to be
the Retro King
or the Retro Queen?
- Thank you guys so much for watching.
Subscribe, like, comment
We could not end this episode without playing
the original Gran Turismo.
We've got the vintage PS1,
vintage Trinitron,
Jenna, you ready?
- Oh, I was literally born ready.
- Let's go!
Oh no, no, no, no!
What am I doing?!
- [Jenna] Sucks. - [Sidney] What am I doing?!
I was, I was going backwards.
- [Jenna] Yeah, I mean
- [Sidney] Ah, okay, it's X.
Oh gosh,
this is not happening.
- [Jenna] Why is my car?
- [Sidney] Not again!
Okay. I need to,
there you are, there you are.
- [Jenna] My controller isn't
- [Sidney] Can you believe like the difference between
this Gran Turismo
and Gran Turismo 7?
It's night and day.
- [Jenna] It's pretty wild.
The graphics have definitely improved in the past
20-some years.
Ah, I just keep crashing.
I keep crashing.
- [Sidney] Did I win?
Yes, I win! - I feel like it's over.
I was like I don't think
- Oh, thank you.
You can congratulate me, it's okay.
- You did, no, congratulations,
you won fair and square.
- [Sidney] That was awesome,
and I can see why Gran Turismo has stood the test of time
from the original to Gran Turismo 7,
I had a great time.
- It was so much fun.
And honestly,
the graphics have come a long way,
but this still looks pretty good.
And the fact that this still works after so long
- It's pretty amazing.
- Pretty great.
- It's just fun to play.
- I'm gonna take this home with me,
it's cute. - It's cute.
Well, that's it for this episode
and I didn't technically lose?
- Sure, but you didn't win,
and you're not taking home the trophy, but
either of us are still in the running for Retro King
or Queen.
- And we did talk about that Gran Turismo
was the best selling PlayStation game of all time,
but let us know in the comments below
which PlayStation game was your favorite.
- And we are gonna have links in the description
of all the Sony products that we talked about,
so make sure you check those out.
- And also,
don't forget to follow us on our channels,
watch our previous episodes,
they're really fun,
and we'll see you next time on
- [Sidney & Jenna] The Lowdown.