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PSX and to a lesser extend the PS2.

I come from an Amiga background, at first most Amiga games were mostly straight or slightly worse Atari ST ports, the Amiga really got rolling when game developers really started to take advantage of the Amiga's custom chips and eventually overtook the cheaper but less powerful Atari ST by a good margin both in terms of game complexity and sales.

At fist I owned an Atari ST (my favourite game for the platform was Dugeon Master!), but I upgraded to an Amiga in 1989. The PS3 is a powerful and complex system like the Amiga was for its time, it takes some time for game developers to get the most out of the system.

With the more impressive games currently spanning years of development for the system, I don't think perspectives on a later PS3 breakthrough are very strange at all. Home, Metal Gear Sold, Final Fantasy, Killzone, Gran Turismo, etc appear to be yet to be released system sellers. HDTV marketshare will increase, Blu-Ray disc will most likely have won as a next gen movie format, important gaming add-ons will be released, etc. Many factors will influence future PS3 sales.

IMO at this point the PS2 can be looked at as an entry level Playstation for the home and the PS3 being the high end product, eventually the PS2 will see its retirement and the PS3 would be cheaper to make. Never before have there been such huge differences between the same generation of game consoles. IMO the difference between the power of the PS3 and the XBox 360 is greater than the advantages the Amiga as a gaming system had over the Atari ST.



Naughty Dog: "At Naughty Dog, we're pretty sure we should be able to see leaps between games on the PS3 that are even bigger than they were on the PS2."

PS3 vs 360 sales