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5 Best Reasons the Original PlayStation Is Better Than the PS5, Ranked

No, YOU’RE salty and bitter that you couldn’t get your hands on the new console!

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2 min readNov 12, 2020

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5. ‘MTV Music Generator’

This 1998 classic — a music maker that had nothing to do with the cable network MTV — was the coldest idea game studio Jester Interactive ever came up with. Legends like TDE’s Sounwave cut their teeth on it, and budding producers everywhere got to try new ideas for a low cost.

4. No day-one patches

A needle dropping on a vinyl record. Sliding a tape into a VCR. And pulling a game disc out of the package knowing without a shadow of a doubt that it was a finished experience. No patches, no constantly refreshing calendar of downloadable content. Just… the game. Feels like ancient history, right?

3. Wired peripherals

Yeah, we said it. Not tripping over controller cables is great, as are the Pulse headphones that go with the PS5 — as long as you keep them charged. (Then again, if you’ve got enough free time that you…

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