CGI-Quality said:
Hmmm...I don't think it makes a difference this late. Beyond that, a plethora of things contributed ("saved", as you call it) to the system making one of the, if not the, biggest comeback the industry has ever seen (even topping the SNES when it took over the lead from Sega after being a good 10 million+ behind three years after the Genesis launched). Never mind that mainly the games are what carried it this far. Redesigns and slimmer models can only do so much, and they know that. |
Point taken - there's always more than one single reason for a systems success. As you pointed out its all about the games essentially and the PS3 did turn this around after a slow first 18(ish) months.
However I do think the slim model along with the DSlite were the most important and effective redesigns in history. They both literally relaunched the respective consoles. Before these a redesign was more of way of milking out a few more sales at the end of a consoles lifespan.
Btw do you have any links to the SNES/Genesis numbers your referring to? Mot that I don't believe you but I'm interested the see older data that missing from VGChartz.
