S.T.A.G.E. said:
walsufnir said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Yep...exactly the reason all the toy stores went out of business where I live. Babies, toddlers and very young children are the only reason Toys R Us still exists. K B Toys went ouf business where I live because of EB Games. Electronics took over and kids are kicking over toys just to get their hands on games. They are desensitized to the effects of technology. Then the Playstation came onto th scene the game industry grew by like forty million+ and continued to grow there after and then MS segmented that crowd. Thats an effect if I ever saw one. Today the average gamer is an adult.
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The question is if this happened because of Playstation alone which I highly doubt. Sony changed the competition but in no way did they change the word "toys". Arcade games back then also were not considered as toys.
Btw, I think it's not a good thing that kids will get their hands on consoles instead of playing with "real" toys.
Edit: Yes, the average gamer is now an adult. They started playing before PSX and are still doing it.
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The gaming industry increased in size because the Playstation turned the videogame console into the center of the livingroom thus giving you a reason not to buy multiple pieces of media when you had the "all in one box".
IE: My PSX was my cousins gaming console and music center because he had his surround sound connected to his TV and big screen TV.
This prompts adults to take gaming seriously since they are invested in their living room.
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Oh, now it's getting funny. The PSX started entering the living-room? Because it could play audio cds? I know many reasons why people bought the PSX but I never heard anyone saying because of audio-cd-playback.
The reason why Sony had a huge success in the industry was because of BigN and Sega sleeping for a much too long time. I can only speak of Germany but here Sony's success was ads. Ads all over the place, you couldn't escape the Playstation. Deals with big TV-channels which mentioned Playstation whenever possible, aggressive marketing all the way. It played out for them, sure. But it had nothing to do with "multimedia" in the beginning.
