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S.T.A.G.E. on 13 January 2013
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S.T.A.G.E. said:

Videogames were considered toys when Nintendo was on top. That period was the mid 80's to the mid 90's. Care to deny that?

Of course I'm not denying it. Didn't I already say that? They were considered as toys when Atari was on top, they were considered as toys when Nintendo was on top, they were considered as toys when Sony was on top.

The big difference between the time periods of 70's to 80's and 90's to 00's is that the former had games consoles in livingrooms, and families playing them, while the latter had consoles in kids rooms, and kids playing them.

The DVD-playing functionality of PS2 provided value, as that was a cheap option to have a DVD-player for your kids.

 Sony actually helped level the expensive price of DVD players for adults and adults bought the Playstation 2, but funny enough a lot stuck around. Microsoft came a year later with a DVD drive as well like Sony and bolstered their sales. Sony did the same thing with Blu Ray this year and I thank them for it because now we dont have to disc swap and I dont think I can watch a normal DVD without it being upscaled again. The people has young people playing it but as far  as serious gamers it has the oldest stable demographic from spanning from 13-30+ and Microsoft is tearing into that userbase because they want the stable gaming home. Once they took the multiplat exclusivity this gen Microsoft smelled blood in the water, because once you do that and lower the price your product because more enticing. The first half of the gen they beat Sony by becoming Sony in a sense, which is cheaper product with all the top games. That and the comfortable multimedia helps. If DVD and blu Ray weren't a high utility closer for most adults the Playstation brand wouldn't have had stable sales for all the years it has. Microsoft joined because of the fact that Sonys level of multimedia and gaming was growing at a rapid pace and threatening the PC world, so the Xbox was created to crush them. Without Sony taking the hit since the PS2 era non-gamers would've been paying for DVD's for years in a slow market. They did it again in an even greater  risk in Blu Ray and look at Blu Ray today, which is a stable and comfortable market. Its eating away at the DVD section.