Mistakes of the Video Game Industry

[LordTheNightKnight]

ChichiriMuyo said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Sony: Turning the Playstations into kitchen sink devices, and forgetting that they were gaming systems more than anything else.

You're wrong, though, the PS has always been a vehicle for Sony to sell its multimedia functions. Those functions are just becoming more and more advanced as new PlayStations come along. The PS was made to sell the multimedia functionality of CD-ROM. The PS2 was made so that DVD could spread wide enough to replace VHS outright. The PS3 was made to win a format war. Sony has always made their systems to push far more than games.

And Robjoh, the reason Europe doesn't have a date for that game is because Europe usually doesn't buy those kind of games. The real reason Nintendo has been so weak in Europe is because, for the most part, European gamers just don't like the types of games that go on Nintendo systems. This looks to be changing, but the simple fact of the matter is that things that can wonderful in the US and/or Japan can fail miserably in Europe AND developers/publishers have to take that risk at a much higher cost thanks to all of the languages and other issues. If you want games faster, you need to convince all of the countries in Europe to change their tax laws, official languages, and many other factors or you have to wait until it's feasible for a company (any company) to wade through all of that bs without getting bogged down.

 What was the multimedia of the PS1? As far as I could tell it was only designed for games and CDs, which had already caught on. And my point was that the PS1 and PS2 were PRIMARILY gaming systems, not that they didn't have multimedia AT ALL.