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disolitude on 03 September 2014
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CGI-Quality said:
disolitude said:
CGI-Quality said:

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Different tastes aside you're telling me that the lineup of PS1 games is something that would persuade you to buy a console?

Until Resident Evil 1 and Tomb raider came out in early 1996, PS1 didn't really have a killer app. Sure there were a few good games here and there...but a console like the SNES was killing it with must play titles like Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG and Yoshis Island in the same timeframe. 

I didn't praise the line-up, it surely wasn't great, I argued that it wasn't terrible (the games I mentioned, specifically). Every console launch is dry, yes even the SNES's, but that was never in question. :P

All due respect, no PlayStation has ever launched with a killer app, but by comparison, I'd argue that the PS1's launch was stronger than all of Sony's home machines. 

Edited because I ain't trying to sound rude.

Fair enough. My perception may be a little skewed as I bought a Saturn at launch and was only starting to get jelous of PS1 come fall 1996. :)  

Till then I saw PS1 as a hype console not any better than the Saturn. Being a Sega games fan I was much happier with Saturn for Christmas 1995 than I'd be with PS1. Shinobi Legends + VF2 + Virtua Cop + Sega Rally were better games to me in 1995 than anything PS1 had.

I also think first Xbox, Wii and n64 had launch games on day 1 that you absolutely had to play (Halo, SM64 and Wii Sports). However one console stands out for having the best launch... Dreamcast US launch was absolutely insane. Dont think there was ever so many games that pushed gaming forward tothe next level available on day 1.