20 years in the same room, while the world outside his window ever evolves and changes. It even looks like the father at one point gives an approving glance their way in the hall. Note, that there is no visiting girlfriend in the last scene, just the two "ever-teenager", "Rip Van Winkle's" gaming on their Playstation god/idol for all eternity. Perhaps they are even more than just life-long "platonic buddies" On a positive note, maybe he and his friend are working on their PhD's at some local university and are just "saving money" by living at home with their parents until their "studies" are completed. I'm guessing by the end of the video and the intro of the PS4 they are in their 30's, assuming the first clip is sometime from their high school days.
i remember purchasing my original playstation console back in 1995. had to go out of town to a sears store on launch day, no one locally carried it. so i loaded up, drove the 25 miles to get there, picked up the console along with ridge racer and battle arena toshinden for my first two games. later that year started programming my own 12c508s and it's been all up hill since.
Should we play "spot the anachronisms"? I call skinny jeans in the year 2000, right when baggy cargo pants were all the rage. What about the thick color eye glasses that are so trendy right now but nobody was using 10 years ago? Or maybe we should point out that the average teen gamer has no girlfriend or black friend IRL (specially the n-word throwing COD types)
How dare you bring logic into this!.....nice ad tho :3 Tho if you want to get technical its because this is not menr for Japan so 1995 would be correct
To be honest I thought the video was shit. Just your typical PR man image of what teenagers are like. I mean, the dirty fuller never picked up his clothes. Typical Sony PR that's so out of touch.
You hit it on the nose. I'm guessing this is supposed to be a general Playstation brand/PS4 promo. I guess it might work with casual Playstation fanboys. I kind of thought they were trying to use nostalgia with how the video goes except that doesn't work. Atleast not with me. The PS1 has some nostalgic value for sure. PS2 barely. Other than none of it qualifies. Things like the NES and SNES generations are far more so to me. Plus it definitely doesn't fit me because I never owned just a Playstation system. I bought my PS1 after my N64. I believe I bought my PS2 after my GameCube and definitely after my DreamCast. I imagine the PSP came after my DS. The PS3 came after the Xbox 360. It wasn't since the late 80s to mid 90s that I ever only owned one console or one brand.
Funny you say this because that is nearly my life experience too. NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, Playstation 1, Dreamcast, Gamecube, Playstation 2, in that order and doesn't include the non-sony handhelds along the way, which also were bough long before the PS2 and PS3.
I think my order is also the same as yours except I can't place when I got the Genesis. I may have gotten my Genesis before the N64, after it, or maybe after the PS1. Thinking about it, it's very likely after the N64, but probably before PS1. Don't get me wrong, the PS1 had some great games. While I was pretty much a Nintendo brand follower from NES to N64, Playstation as a series never had the same things going on for it. Maybe for those a bit younger.
At least they managed to choose the perfect "time capsule" bands for the posters, since everyone has forgotten about Blur, Kasabian and Franz Ferdinand since the periods shown in the video. Also, really made me excited for the future with 3 seconds of Generic FPS.
Really nice ad, only thing that bothered me is them using RE4 even though it was a GC release first. Should of used MGS2/3
(year in brackets stands for the year i first got the console) For me it's: PlayStation (1999/2000) PlayStation 2 (2004) PlayStation 3 (2013) But really amazing ad! I loved it.
Is this thing really an "ad"? Seems really lengthy to be an advertisement. Instead, it resembles more of a fan-made infomercial or tribute video.
