Placing PS1 that way is atrocious
PS2 also developed laser issues if used that way, I can’t recall PS3
ps2 developed laser issues regardless. i’ve tuned and cleaned so many of those. should have charged but i liked my friends.
We had one that had to be cleaned every 3 months or so. The laser would begin sticking on the guide rails and have to be re-lubricated.
I’d just refocus or whatever that white knob did, and clean the dust off the lens
do you know if there was a way to fix the Dreamcast laser? I was like 19 when mine started failing and I think I just kept turning up the voltage pot a teeny bit to fix it for a while until it eventually burned out.
I do not know, but I learned the ps2 method by searching on the internets. I hate to recommend YouTube and reddit, but those are probably your best bets.
If the laser itself is not salvagable, there’s always replacing the laser. I don’t know if it’s plugged or soldered in, but if it already doesn’t work, what more can you do to it?
I gave it away years ago once dreamcast emulation became a thing, I was mostly just curious!
PS3 originally had drives that failed anyway. Had to bake my OG, as well as replace the bd drive.
Some of us had to play ours upside down after the laser got all jank or something
Haha yup. My OG PlayStation only worked upside down.
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When it would wear out putting it like that would extend it’s use before being repaired/replaced.
Hell, the PS5 is shown vertical but with the stand in the horizontal configuration. The PS2 and PS4 also had stands available because they weren’t stable on their side out of the box, and the systems aren’t shown with them. Unsure about the PS3.
Also they didn’t rotate the logo on the ps2
True, the real way was upside down because the laser wouldn’t read the disc after a few years and it needed a little gravity boost to get closer.
Dubai in the early 80s.
This was my first console! We had the massive text to speech thing that went on top and mispronounced all the curse words we typed in.
Also my first console, though I don’t remember a TTS module. The only thing we used the keyboard for was word scramble I think. I was very young at the time lol.
Still have no clue how my parents got one, or why. My guess is off the back of a truck.
Definitely did not have one of those. Thanks for the info!
Dubai architect: They’re on to us!
Quick, add in the worst car-centric road patterns imaginable.
i’m still impressed by the ps5 design, i never would’ve thought a console could look pretentious
I love the industrial design of the PS2 so much. It has all of that optimistic futurism look of the late 90s/early 2000s.
Similar reason for the 4. Loved it. The 5 just looks proper stupid in my opinion.
A pharmacist?
A PS2/PS4 look like a brutalist style government building and the PS5 looks like what this picture states. Some gaudy nouveau rich apartment building in the Middle East.
Or Seattle, this one is a little on the nose:
The only one I ever owned was 2. I could never afford the others when they launched and didn’t care enough once the price dropped because I had too much going on in life.
I wanted the PS5 but I think it’s seen price hikes like many other electronics, right?
Costco sometimes has sales.
Yes. Every console since the Switch has only gone up in price.
You can get a PS5 for around 300 or less on the used market locally
This angle really highlights that PS4 was the best design by far
there’s a slim ps2 knocking on your door right now
From a strictly superficial, aesthetic context and judging solely by modern standards, I agree.
However, if we’re talking aesthetics and viewing it from a contemporary standard for the time of the system’s release, the PS1 is the clear winner, in my opinion.
It’s the most bland one.
Started all the way left and have had every one but the 5 pro.
Damn the first two were some halcyon days. The PS2 was my introduction to staying up and hitting the refresh button on some site called amazon to buy one at launch. I still remember the feeling of the buy going through.
Sigh.
I only bought the 4 and 5 new, but I collect retro games and have all 5 base models. I used to pick them up on eBay or at garage sales back in the day. I remember that feeling of winning a bid (I didn’t have a lot of money for it, so it took a while).
Playstations weren’t my consoles growing up - I went from Nintendo systems to Xbox, but I still played them a lot at friends’ houses.
The PS2 era really felt special. So many iconic games and memories from that generation.
Probably because a ridiculous amount of games were produces for the PS2. I don’t think any console, ever, has had that many games made for it.
i think the last official game made for ps2 was in like 2014 or something crazy
I hate when they stand the psone on its side.
I hate that they didn’t rotate the logos on the 2 and 3.
Alright, they fucked up the scale on the 4, no way it’s smaller than the 1
Definitely, it’s a lower height than the PS1 but much wider/longer.
Ive owned and played 1, 2, 3.
By the time 4 was out I had a bangin gaming pc, always had a computer but never a top of the line like I did at around 2010.
