rccsetzer said:
attaboy said:
TheBlackNaruto said:
It is indeed a good point....but as it stands WITHOUT SONY those 3rd parties would not have been what they are today.
That is something I do not get, NIN and SEGA were both around but somehow but those 3rd parties went with Sony and blew up.
Sony did a lot right they deserve the credit that they got. Let's not take anything away from them folks!
Gaming was always cool, but thanks to Sony(whether it be from 3rd party support or not) gaming EXPANDED 100 fold...
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Sony gave third parties a lot of freedoms that Nintendo didn't. Third parties had to be batshit crazy to put up with Nintendo's tyranical policies of the 80's and 90's but since Nintendo was so dominant, they didn't have much of a choice. Sega wasn't really a viable option because they had screwed their fanbase time and time again with unsupported hardware. Sony offered a lot of incentive and low dev costs. The PS1 became the default home of the third party, espcecially when Nintendo went full retard and stuck with cartridges.
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Final Fantasy VII is a good case of Sony understanding third parties need. Can you imagine what we would not experience if Final Fantasy VII was a N64 game? Perhaps reduced soundtrack, world less detailed (and more bland) and absence of FMVs (much praised at the 90s). CD was Sony's right bet. They tried to repeat it again with blu-rays, but without the same success.
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Both good points and good posts...
