Jo21 on 05 August 2008
| Sky Render said: I see a lot of declarations of "Sony", yet the industry did just fine without them before. There's little to no reason to believe that gaming would not survive on other consoles if there were no PlayStation systems made. Sony did not do anything of note for the industry beyond take it over. No, it's the loss of Nintendo that would hurt the industry the most. Nintendo resurrected the industry after American companies destroyed it in the early 1980s. They introduced every single sustaining innovation that made it so games could be better (not to be confused with sustaining innovations like the CD or DVD, which ultimately just made it so games could be bigger). Without Nintendo, the industry would have remained dead after 1984. Were Nintendo to leave and no company rise to fill the void of inventiveness that departure created, the industry would collapse within two generations of consoles due to sheer lack of innovation and due to the rehashing of old ideas with only minor updates. Just like it did in 1984. |
in the snes era.
third parties could only publish 5 games each year, because nintendo made the cassettes they had to follow the rules
it was a total monopoly worse than microsoft in the pc market.
then sony came by, develop playstation from what was left in the joint venture with nintendo.
if it wasn't for them third party wouldn't grow up the where it is now.
