/vr/ - Retro Games

>muh Dvd player
really boomers?

>>7339252
Blu-ray was not yet born...

>>7339241
Look more like the Wondermega and the Dreamcast

>>7339241
First one would have been pretty cool, not gonna lie.

Sony:
>"Let's just use this old Atari patent instead"

>>7339343

Forgot to include image related.

>>7339347
Well Atari ripped off Dieter Rams, I don't see a problem here.

>final product has 2 controller ports instead of 4
I always wondered about this. Why'd they do it? They actually briefly made 4 standard during gen7, but then got rid of it.

>>7339419
Seeing they had it in the prototypes I have no fucking idea, gave themselves a handicap for no good reason. I'm guessing it just came down to somebody wanting the console to look cooler and less like a traditional square box design. PS2 phat is pretty dope looking but I'd have rather have had the Dreamcast-like design and legit multiplayer.

>>7339241
they were far more than two, the ps2 hype was immense and every psx mag was hiring concept artists to shit out what they thought it would look like, I remember one with a dome on top

>>7339419
probably ran out of space, the dreamcast-like design would have also rendered PS1 controllers useless

>>7339241
an you fucking faggots stop lying at all, there were dozens of retarded concept shots

>>7339401
Sony actually licensed the PS2 design from ATARI.

>>7340236
Did the person who mocked this up think that discs phase out of existence when you close the lid?

>>7340297
looks deep enough for a disc to fit in there but it still would have been a very strange design choice.

All concept with 4 controller plugs.
Reality with only 2...

>>7340443
A disc can probably fit below that lid, but can a disc fit past the hinge a lid with such a design would need?

I've just spent 3 hours looking for the silliest one that had a dome on top and it's just not on the internet, I even pulled out my magazines from 1999 but there are just too many to skim

>>7339347
We felt so mature with the ps2, it wasn't a babies toy like the cube, we were adults and we could drink beer now, the ps2 is classy with its blue light that fits right in with our entertainment system. This is not a game console, its a sophiticated piece of high end electronics.

>>7341704
As ridiculous as this post sounds, I got to agree. The PS2 was a really pretty thing to have, and still is.
And now I want to go play some PS2 games.

>>7339295
>Wondermega
Haven't seen this name for almost 30 years. Thanks for the memories.

>>7341114
Yep, that's sad.

The PS1 had some... interesting prototype controllers to say the least.

I have no idea what the top button/analog nub-looking thing is on the top-left controller. I assume these prototypes date back to late-1993 at-least since the current design was already finalized by mid-1994.

>>7341810
Bottom right with handles would've been kino. That dpad seriously looks way better than the final one.

>>7341810
>not posting them all

>>7339347
>Nooo don't steal my idea for a vertical box!

>>7341810
>lets just rip off nintendo and remove the good from the sega d pad

>>7340209
I always figured they planned to have the HDD at launch, but it wasn't ready/bean counters said no, so they had to hastily add memory card slots back in where they had planned to have 4 controller ports.

>>7341810
I honestly love the analog nub, early camera control. The rectangular buttons are interesting, im sure theyre inferior to circles, especially with how big the space between is, but i like it.

>>7339347
We need more vertical consoles.

>>7341810
>all four had circular d'pads
>Final design has segmented d'pad
MOTHERFUCKER

>>7343095
Could have been worse.

>>7341704
Get over yourself, boomer.
Pic is you

>>7343341
That second one waa perfect wtf

>>7342082
>>Nooo don't steal my idea for a vertical box!

It wasn't stolen. Apparently, Sony bought the patient from some sort of liquidation/ auction of Atari patents. The patents for the PS2 case even reference the patents for the Atari Falcon Microbox,.

>>7343624
Today I learned something new about the PS2. Thanks anon.

>>7339241
Left looks awesome, right is a Dreamcast.
>>7339252
Go back.

>>7343717

>Go back.

no thanks, i quite like it here. much better than /r/retrogaming for sure...not like you'd know what that is, BOOMER.

>>7342458
Yeah I thought it was weird that they had a giant HDD bay but no HDD in sight. My buddy stored weed/cash in there (everyone did I guess?)
...
Then when he HDD was actually released, it was only available with FFXI, and ultimately like 6 games used it.

>>7341704
>>7343357
I'm a Boomer and I was only 13 in 2000. lol at that anon saying we were all adults when the PS2 came out.

>>7341810
top left is a rip off of the snes controller

>>7343357
>>>7341704
>Get over yourself, boomer.
>Pic is you

Wrong, pic related is me

>>7343907
>design of direct successor project looks like original project
You don't say.

>>7339241
>>7340236
>no sources listed for the images

in other words their own people made them in order to sell more magazines

>>7341704
>>>7339347
>We felt so mature with the ps2, it wasn't a babies toy like the cube, we were adults and we could drink beer now, the ps2 is classy with its blue light that fits right in with our entertainment system. This is not a game console, its a sophiticated piece of high end electronics.
>>7341780
>>>7341704
>As ridiculous as this post sounds, I got to agree. The PS2 was a really pretty thing to have, and still is.
>And now I want to go play some PS2 games.

Both correct. They did great with the marketing and realizing their customers were growing up and appealing to that. Xbox as well fit in with the TV of an entertainment system

>meanwhile normal people
>"I just want to play video games"

>>7343930
>You don't say.
yeah i did say. I also said your mom is a huge whore. But that is pretty well know too; am i rite?

>>7344109
yo momma takes it in all her open ports

>>7339241
both are shit but the one on the left looks like a portable dvd printer with a screen from a printer

>>7339295
>>7339241
It's like the not too distant future