Pristine20 said:
So what was the competition back then? Seriously, the article ignores the competition because they were virtually non-existant. When ps2 was leading, I rarely saw talk of the xbox or GC. Not the same this gen. The fact that we've spent so much time these past weeks discussing last place ps3 is proof enough. As much as we praise the wii, it still has nowhere near the market penetration of ps2 and ps1 and they didn't even need to introduce anything revolutionary to get that far. |
The competition was there for both the PS1 and PS2. The difference is that Sony had its finger on the pulse and simply outmaneuvered its competition. You people make it sound like Sony was just handed the market on day 1. They scrapped for about a year with the N64, and floated the PS2 for a year on almost no software. If GTA3 hadn't come out of nowhere (and it did - no one was expecting the GTA series to become what it is) the PS2 would have had a harder time dominating against the competition.
The market resets itself to zero every generation. Sony forgot that, and figured they could ride their momentum with a $600 price tag and a gadget most people weren't interested in. They got cocky and forgot what gamers wanted and deservedly got their asses whupped.
