| Boshaman1992 said: Playstation 2!!!! First system to offer horizontal or vertical stance, DVD playback, CD-Rom Playback and first and only system to sell over 135 million units!!! |
Vertical stance? not exactly the greatest gift to gaming is it.
DVD playback - ok sure, I suppose the spread of consoles into non-gaming worlds is important, but DVD was just natural progression from the CD functionality that the PS1 had, so not exactly revolutionary.
CD-ROM - ROM I believe would include games, and there were CD peripherals for games consoles from before the PS1... if you meant music CD playback functionality then that would be the PS1 first.
135 million units being a particularly special number is it?.... what if all previous consoles had sold 134 million, not much of an achievement then is it.... personally I think sales success should be viewed by how much they manage to increase the market in the face of adversity.
The NES is the only console to manage to double any previous consoles sales (60 million from the Atari 2600s 30 million) The PS1 increased the market hugely (102 million, previous best being the NES at 60 million). The PS1 did have a better competition though, so is perhaps why it didn't manage to double like the NES did.
