It's like 1994-2000 never existed in a lot of sony fans minds on this site.
What games DEFINED the ps1 during that period? that's right, Gran Turismo aside it was all ALL 3RD PARTY games, (for example, Metal Gear Solid, Tekken, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis and many MANY more).
Even During the ps2 era sony relied heavily on 3rd party exclusives like Devil May Cry 1-3, Oinmusha 1-3, Metal Gear Solid 2 (timed exclusive) Metal Gear Solid 3 (full exclusive that gen). GTA Vice City & San Andreas (timed exclusive) and many MANY more.
Some of you make it sound like you have a fundamental right to have EVERY single game you want on your sony consoles.
Newsflash, perhaps if you embraced other consoles, and actually acknowledged that perhaps it's not the best way to go to purely own sony devices, then maybe just MAYBE you might not actually be so bitter about all this.
In fact, i'm sure i read somewhere that sony had a deal to ensure no games after the first Tomb Raider in the series went to any other console until 2000.
Oh.......... look, and here's the proof that i was looking for..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Design