PlayStation created the Industry, Xbox changed the playing field

[CladInShadows]

daredevil.shark said:

CladInShadows said:

daredevil.shark said:
With PS1 that attracted and retained mature gamers who were suffering from fatigue for playing the same game over and over again. 

What exactly are you basing this on?

With PS1 people got variety. Who wants to rescue a princess who has been kidnapped for the 100th time over and over again? Playstation 1 was about brand new IP and fresh take on gaming.

Yeah no. As someone who was actually there, I can tell you this isn't the case. Not even close. We have 4 Mario games and 3 Zelda games spanning the 10-11 years during gen 3 and gen 4. For every "save the princess" game back then, you had 10 or more games about something else.  Racing games, side scrollers, sports games, platformers, run and guns, JRPGs, vertical shooters, strategy games, dungeon crawlers, action/adventures, fighting games, beat em ups, and even first person shooters. The NES was THE system for third parties. And the SNES and Genesis both enjoyed very healthy third party support with a wide variety of game types.  The only thing the PS1/N64 era brought was a 3rd dimension and more realistic graphics so that people afraid of cartoony graphics could join in on the fun and claim the new games were more "mature." The thing the PS1 did differently was steal all the third party support by having a disc drive when Nintendo stuck with cartridges.

Your view of gens 3/4 is just...wrong.