The Playstation was a sleeper hit. While in retrospect, a lot of people play off the "Devastating move to launch the console cheaper than Saturn as it stole Sega's thunder." That's not accurate. Even after that move, the Playstation was still almost invisible and irrelevant for another 1-2 years. Resident Evil is the first game I recall that was an eye opener.
Yes, the price of the Saturn killed it, but the launch price of the Playstation had NOTHING to do with Sega's downfall (again, because no one gave a crap about it). Basically, when the Playstation really began to take off, the N64 was the console to defeat. Lucky for Sony, N64 games cost 2-3 times as much. While Nintendo was going on about the amazing 4 games available on the console, Sony was saying "Or you could get ours which now has over 200 games, including Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Crash, and Twisted Metal; and upcoming later Wild Arms, Final Fantasy 7, and Resident Evil 2.
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