jarrod on 24 March 2010
| KillerMan said:
You have to remember that before PS1 gaming wasn't very mainstream. At least not in Europe. PS1 was for most of us first touch in gaming and because of that PlayStation was the name that was synonym for gaming a long time. |
It's very much a regional thing, but yeah Europe was very much fractured market for games pre-PlayStation, with a lot of home grown computer formats overshadowing the consoles (Speccy, C64, Amiga, etc). Post-crash, Nintendo pretty much unified America from day one (well, until Sega came back and split the market with Genesis). Nintendo also unified Japan more or less, though more niche platforms like PC-88, MSX and PC Engine still did alright.
In the US and Japan, the NES sold about as well as PS1 actually.
