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o_O.Q said:
"the fact that the 64 brought it to a reasonable audience prior to the PS1 is enough to argue that Nintendo brought it to the masses first" awesome... but that wasn't my point "making motion gaming mainstream " you're falling into the same habit from before of saying i've said things i haven't said making something mainstream has absolutely nothing to do with when you bring it to market just the market penetration of the product ( to my knowledge ) thats why people say the iphone made smartphones mainstream even though several smartphones existed before it
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I never said you said that. I'M SAYING THAT.
My barometer in judging which system brought it to the masses first is a sales threshold considered reasonable. The Super Nintendo has relatively small total sales as compared to the PS2, yet it and the Genesis introduced 16-bit gaming to the masses. If another console 10 years later, also 16-bits (think GBA), managed to sell much more and also offer 16-bits, will you say the new system brought it to the masses? NO.
So timing is important, and a reasonable base threshold of HW sales is needed to say a system brought it to the masses. My post, my point.
