leo-j said:
There have been roumers around that EA joined microsoft some how. I just cant confirm it, also lets get to soriku about the troll comment, speak for your self. On topic: If it wasnt for the ps1, we wouldnt really be in this general area right now, not many people would actually be interested in video games. But if it wasnt for nintendo rejecting sony that would have never happened. Not saying sony made the industry what it is today(which it did) but if it wasnt for nintendo video games "might" not have existed in the first place. |
I'm reasonably sure that the Playstation did not create the demand for videogames in the older (expanding) game market nearly as much as it came in response to their demands ...
In 1990-1992 (or so) there was a growing population of teenager and young adult videogame players; many of them choose the PC or Genesis because Nintendo continued to focus their marketing on children in North America because they saw them as the core audience. At the time of the release of the Playstation, Sega was heavily targeting this market with the Saturn; the Saturn mainly failed because of Sega's mistakes (Sega CD, 32x, expensive Saturn).
Had the Playstation never existed one would assume that these gamers would have continued to play games on the Saturn or PC.
The main difference between Sony's accomplishment at expanding the market and Nintendo's more modern one is that many of the gamers Nintendo has recently captured had absolutely no interest in gaming before the DS or Wii came around ...
