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,

"I don't know how much longer I'm gonna be in

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.