| Soriku said: @misterd At that time PS1 fans--->PS2, T-P support definite, lower price. |
If I have translated you correctly...
1) Not all PS1 fans were necessarily going to become PS2 fans. Sony did a great job of laying down the desire with advertising when no competition existed, but had failed to deliver games in its first year (or more in Japan). Had they failed to deliver what is arguably the greatest holiday lineup ever (with all due respect to the 360), it is debatable whether they could have dominated to the same degree (they almost certainly would still have come out on top). MANY people jumped from the PS1 to the PS2 that holiday, specifically for GTA3, but the other games as well (I certainly heard that from my students). All MS had was Halo, and the Cube Rogue Leader.
2) At that point 3rd party support was much more evenly spread. Nintendo was bending over backwards to bring back 3P developers, and MS was reaching for its wallet. 3Ps tend to follow the console sales, and had the PS2 not outsold its combined competition 3 to 1, there would be no reason to believe that greater parity would not have resulted.
3) They didn't have a lower price. The Price of the PS2 in 2001 was the same as the XBox and $100 more than the GCN. Sony lowered the price in 2002, and both MS and Nintendo followed suit.
