TeaserPlay has created a new Unreal Engine 5 concept video that celebrates five generations of thePlayStationbrand, showing a gamer play the originalPlayStationas a kid and then finally playing the PS5 with their own child. YouTube channel TeaserPlay has made a name for itself with its impressive concept videos that utilize the power of Epic’s Unreal Engine 5, oftentimes showing what hypothetical video games could look like if built using the same tools.
Most of TeaserPlay’s videos focus on specific video games, like the channel’s recentMax Payne 2remake video. However, the channel’s latest Unreal Engine 5 concept video is a more original work, instead showing a gamer growing up with five generations of PlayStation consoles from the PS1 all the way to the PS5.
RELATED:Weird PS4 Bug Says Friends Were Online in 1970
At the start of the video, the gamer is a kid playingCrash Bandicooton the PS1. Time jumps and the kid is a teenager now, playingGrand Theft Auto: San Andreason their PlayStation 2 console. Time jumps some more, and the gamer in the video is now a young adult playingUncharted 3: Drake’s Deceptionon their PS3. The next time jump moves the story ahead to 2018 with the2018God of Wargamebeing played on a PlayStation 4 console.
The final clip in the video shows the gamer now as a fully grown adult with a child of their own, sitting in their living room andplayingSpider-Man: Miles Moraleson the PS5together. It then ends with a brief message thanking PlayStation for the good memories. It’s a nice, nostalgic video that will likely be well-received by PlayStation gamers who have similarly grown up playing games on Sony’s consoles over the years.
Sony itself has paid tribute to PlayStation’s past in various ways recently, like with PS5 launch titleAstro’s Playroom. Built to highlight the PlayStation 5’s unique features,Astro’s Playroomis full of references to classic PlayStation games, and the main goal is to collect objects relevant to the brand’s storied history.
More recently, classic PlayStation references have been found in the company’s new PlayStation Stars loyalty program.PlayStation Stars tasks gamers with completing various tasksand rewards them with special PlayStation items upon completion. One such PlayStation Stars reward gives players a digital version of the T-Rex from the classic PlayStation 1 tech demo, for instance. Moving forward, it’s likely that there will be many more classic PlayStation digital items to collect through PlayStation Stars, so fans should keep an eye out.
