amp316 said:
oniyide said:
amp316 said:
MontanaHatchet said:
amp316 said:
If the N64 was an abomination, then I must be one of Satan's spawn as much as I've enjoyed playing the games on that thing.
The reason that it failed was because it used an outdated format (cartridges), and Sony did an excellent job of marketing itself as the "cooler" system to the beer drinking jocks of the world. |
There are some points I agree and disagree with in this post.
The N64 was certainly a great system with some obviously fantastic games, so it's hardly an abomination. And having cartridges definitely did not contribute to its success.
However, a huge aspect of the Playstation's success wasn't just in appealing to jocks. If you look at the hardware totals, the PS1 and NES are basically on par in terms of hardware sales in NA and Japan. The vast majority of the growth came from Europe and the developing markets. The most important thing that Sony did in terms of growing the gaming market was making millions of gamers in the PAL region enter the home console market through games that appealed to the market (e.g. Gran Turismo).
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Truth be told, some of my post might have been tongue in cheek.
I do agree with you that Sony definitely expanded the market. Many of it was due to it's advertising to the developing markets. Another thing that Sony did well was to be the first system to usher in the new generation of substantially better graphics. While the N64 was more powerful, Sony did it first. Which brings me to another point. Sony used being first strongly to it's advantage. They made it seem like their Playstation was the only gaming system to have.
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They didnt make it seem like anything, for all intents purposes it WAS the only gaming system to buy, at least for a little while. It was out two whole years before N64, thats a long time and in that time was competing against PS??? Sega Saturn?? Yeah how long that last??
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Exactly. Sony made people believe the way that you did. The Saturn was competing with it and some people (I was one of them) waited for the N64 to come out.
Also, being the only system out doesn't guarantee anything. It didn't work for the Dreamcast. My point is that the marketing for the PS was extremely well done. It in truth was not the only system to have...
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Sega Saturn sucked, at least in the US it got very little support. That thing crashed even before the PS was getting really popular, N64 wasnt out yet. So what other system could one have gotten, im sorry but if someone bought Saturn instead of a PS then they were being silly, especially when it was apparent the systems was going away
