veritaz on 14 June 2014
| spemanig said: It's not a question of discs. It's a question of CDs. The PS1 did well because it doubled as a CD player. No CD player, no difference. I mean, they'd have FF7, but they already had Goldeneye, OoT, Mario Kart 64, and Super Mario 64. One more mega hit wouldn't suddenly have made them sell 100m consoles. |
Most people didn't even know it doubled as a CD player or didn't care. I found out my PS1 could do it by accident 2 years in. It was cool but useless since I didn't care and couldn't carry it around anyways. You're also underestimating the sales of exclusives like Crash, Spyro, Gran Turismo, Ape escape, Legend of Dragoon, twisted metal and so forth.
