walsufnir said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
walsufnir said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
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.
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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.
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I have to prove that? Compact disc players first came out in the 80's bro and were they were the evolution after Sonys Walkman was created. By the mid 90's when the PSX came out CD players were already profitable and had dropped in price. Less than a decade later they would be phased out by MP3. The torch for multimedia was passed from Sony to Apple.
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But what has PSX to do with it?
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Exactly. It's not like "CD" was a Sony format, it was basically a universal format. One house had a Panasonic CD player. The other house had a Sanyo one. Etc. etc. etc.
Almost no one I knew used their Playstation as their primary CD player, it was impractical because you had to have the TV on to navigate the tracks.
