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walsufnir on 02 August 2013
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
Soundwave said:


Personally I don't buy it. I was the Playstation target audience when it was launching, I was basically entering my teens.

Everyone I knew eventually basically got a Playstation, but all of them had a NES 7-8 years prior. Then you also had younger 8-12 year olds getting their first console that gen and that was a Playstation.

The Wii really is the only console I've ever seen that's legimiately brought in total non-gamers (as in adults) en masse.

You had 80 million SNES/Genesis owners that needed to upgrade to something, almost all bought a Playstation because it had all the third party support. Some bought an N64, but even most N64 owners caved and bought a PSX eventually.


CD's and CD players were affordable when the PSX came out but the market expanded because of the PSX capabilities. Target audience was expanded by the PS2 because no one could afford DVD players and laser disc format died off. 

The Wii...brought the most non-gamers, but the Playstation brought a large stable mass of an audience to gaming and kept their hunger for multimedia sated whilst keeping the videogames at the forefront. 

Between the SNES and genesis there were above one hundred million users. The PSX sold above that by itself, thus proving the market expanded the gen after on his first go-round. It did something Panasonic failed to do earlier with the 3DO. 

The third party support is a major part of the equation for many consoles, but Nintendos consoles were still considered toys and still aren't taken seriously to this day outside of the core gamers.

The N64 had some expensive games, by default it caused people to step away. Some of the launch gamers were super expensive. Nintendo didn't make it easy for people.


CD's and CD players were affordable when the PSX came out but the market expanded because of the PSX capabilities.

You have to proof this, otherwise this is worth nothing. Even when PSX was released CDs were absolutely common media, there were even portable cd-players around - for a long time.