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eugene said:
Ironicly, this is almost exactly how the PS1 did so well in the first place. They secured Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid as exclusives and almost used them as mascots to the system both of which were given life from Nintendo. They also had other fantastic third party relations. I believe it was even Namco games that even brought attention to Playstation in the first place with games like Tekken and Ridge Racer. Strange to see Sony stray so far from their roots. Microsoft just took great notes on how the the Playstation became so popular and Sony strayed into becoming more like the original Xbox.

 i'll disagree with you on this one.  i think it had less to do with sony being good at securing third party and more to do with nintendo completely fucking third party developers over.  third parties were really upset with nintendo by the end of the snes era and would have gone just about anywhere, sony just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

 ..and if sony strayed from it's roots it pretty much repeated nintendo's mistake, thinking those developers needed nintendo/sony more than nintendo/sony needed them.  that's simply not the case.  not now, not ever.