c0rd on 26 February 2013
| haxxiy said: Understandable. We are used to multiple consoles launching successfully during the this generation. But in the years of the PS2 and even before, the usual was multiple platforms to fail and one or two actually being meaningful to the industry. Imagine an industry with the Dreamcast, Gamecube and Xbox alone in the market before the PS2 came out. Or the Saturn, Jaguar and Pippin before the PS1 and the N64. |
Well, I think the main reason the PS2 / PS1 were so successful is that they attracted the third parties. Consequently, the other consoles failed because they didn't offer anything the leader didn't already have. If there had been no PS2, for instance, all the games would have simply gone to the GC / Xbox, which would have sold tens of millions more.
