| oniyide said:
If TM was finished by SCE then that would count. As for people not buying it for those games. WHy would they?? That makes no sense. Ninty and Sega had multiple gaming systems made at this point. With multiple franchises, lets be reaslistic, were you expecting SOny to just have butt loads of internally developed games from just there first console?? Especially since said console was intended to be an add-on and they had one dev team? The fact that they slammed Ninty and Sega so soundly makes that console all the more impressive IMHO |
I'm mostly saying that if PSX didn't have 3rd party devs, the Playstation line would be an absolute disaster.
As for their ability to make games, a bit of going to the books gave this.
The Super CD was in the works since 1988. Nintendo was able to come up with a system and a boatload of games in a very short period of time with the NES. I agree, it's the NES and games were less resource intensive, but so also were teams smaller. Plus, this is Sony we're talking about.
The NES came out with a plethora of games and new IPs, you should see this page for some. That's just one studio.
When you compare to Nintendo, Sony did peanuts on the software front, in house. Legend of Legaia was made by Contrail I don't even think that started out as Sony. Legend of Dragoon was made by SCEI so that's clean, but it was launched in 1999.
A game finished by Sony is "acceptable" at most in terms of comparing volume. Ultimately that's how it is. I'd see it differently if there was another way to see it, especially when the company in question wasn't 1st party (2nd party) to begin with.
The only point of all this is that S.T.A.G.E. was trying to tell me that Sony was the natural evolution to Nintendo, but I countered that with 2 points:
1) It's the 3rd parties that made Sony's success during the PSX era there is no doubt there.
2) Yamuachi was interested in CD technology, until Sony left a bitter taste in his mouth.
In the end, I believe that Nintendo had it coming to them. They made lots of mistakes in their attitude in the business. It had nothing to do with tech and skill, it had everything to do with the character of the man leading the company at the time: Hiroshi Yamauchi. So telling me that PSX is the natural evolution to Nintendo is horribly wrong, and desperately revisionistic.
