HappySqurriel on 29 February 2008
| MikeB said: @ HappySquirrel It lacked strong competition until it was in a "dominant" position Poor Sega with their DreamBox.... What about the original Playstation, did it lack competition? Or was the console only popular because it played your music CDs? People bought a PS2 because their friends owned a PS2 Why did people buy a Playstation 1? DVD was the hot product on the market BEFORE the PS2 was released So if the PS2 launched before DVD was popular, it would have failed? |
Do you not understand the concept of a combination of factors?
The Playstation launched against a $500 Sega Saturn which (with inflation) would be similar to an $800 or $900 system today, Nintendo offended all third party publishers and launched 18 months after the Playstation with a difficult to develop for system which lacked a key feature developers wanted (CD audio); it was only after the N64 launched, Final Fantasy VII was released, and Nintendo had the worst game drought ever that the Playstation really dominated.
