What Determines a Console Will be a Success?

[KungKras]

bananaking21 said:

KungKras said:
Good indicators that a console will be a success are:

No hardware flaws, such as faulty processors, being a hardware addon, unnessecary difficulty of programming, etc.

Acceptable price level.

Breadth of game library. (How many genres are adequately represented on the system)

Killer apps. (Games that become so popular, that people buy the system in droves for them, like Sonic 2, Halo, Tetris, Super Mario Bros or Wii Sports)

honestly, that really doesnt matter much. look at the ps2, a bitch to develop for. ps vita, one of the easiest consoles to develop for. now look at the sales.

Of course it's not an iron clad rule, but these things can affect how a console performs. PS2 was riding on the massive momentum of the PS1, that built its momentum partly because it was very easy and cheap to develop for and its competitors weren't.  PS3 in its early days did lose a few devs because of its architecture. So I added it in because it might be an indicator.