Sony: We “Legitimized [Gaming] As A Form Of Entertainment!

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The Ghost of RubangB said:

You guys are all forgetting the Game Boy.  How embarrassing.  The Game Boy was far more mainstream than the PS1 and it was released 5 years earlier.  The Game Boy was the system that brought gaming out of the living rooms and bedrooms of NES and PC gamers and brought it out to the rest of the world on trains, planes, buses, and school playgrounds.  And the Game Boy trounced its competition much more successfully than the PS1 did.  You'll find more fans of the N64 than you will of the Game Gear.

The most successful game on the PS1 was Gran Tursimo with 10.85 million sales.
The Game Boy had all the mainstream smash shits:
Super Mario Land 2: 11.18 million
Pokemon Yellow: 14.64 million
Super Mario Land: 18.14 million
Pokemon Gold/Silver: 23.10 million
Tetris: 30.26 million
Pokemon Red/Green/Blue: 31.37 million

Tetris was (and still is) played by men and women of all ages.  The whole world plays Tetris nowadays, and not just for free.  It's had over 100 million paid downloads on cell phones.  That blows anything on the PS1 out of the water.  Tetris alone expanded the market more than anything Sony did.

And then 2 years after the PS1 came out, Pokemon happened.  Pokemon definitely stole the PS1's thunder.  There are more movies inspired by Pokemon than movies inspired by the entire PS1 library.

I'm pretty sure at least two people mentioned that!