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Insidb on 19 April 2015
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Aeolus451 said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Aeolus451 said:


Alot of teenagers and adults didn't play many games until playstation came out. Was there a market for mature games before playstation? No. Playstation was the console to buy if you wanted more mature themed games.. Was it sega? Nope. Was it nintendo? Hell no. Even now, nintendo barely dabbles with mature themed games. It has nothing to do with what seemed "cool". It's as simple as playstation having games that appealed to teenagers and adults. Playstation introduced gamers to the likes of Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, Twisted Metal, ect when nintendo wouldn't touch games like those. Look at what games sold the best on Playstation. The vast majority of the games on the Playstation were mature or rated for teenagers. You can deny it all you want but surely playstation opened the floodgates on mature games and that's why it was so popular.

So much wrong in this post. In a nutshell, I completely disagree.

I guess you weren't around during the early 90s? I saw plenty of teenagers and even adults playing video games. And I assume many teenagers and adults played Pac Man, Galaga, and other classics.

I'm not sure where the revisionist history of just kids playing games comes from. Its simply not accurate.


Yes, I was around. I played the original NES when it came out and many of the old nintendo consoles. Sure, some teenagers/adults were playing games but not as many as compared to after playstation came out. You didn't bother to look at any best selling game lists for playstation did you? First console to sell over 100 million consoles and the fact that the majority of the games on it were targeted to teenagers/adults didn't have anything to do with it selling that well? Hmm.

You hit the nail on the head: how many people bought a PS1, based soley upon the FFVII marketing campaign? Tons. I knews tons of high schoolers and college students who bought a PS1, played FFVII for 2 hours, realized it wasn't Super Mario XXVII, and stopped playing. What did they do next? They got Madden, Tekken, RE, Tomb Raider, etc. Sony cracked the teen/adult market wide open. When I was kid, SNES/Genesis was for "nerds." When the PS dropped, everyone got into the scene, and gaming suddenly became "cool." I had the N64 before I had the PS1, and the library was games like Mario 64, Goldeneye, DKR, MK, Blastcorps, Staf Fox, and a host of mostly family friendly games. My first PS1 game was MGS. My friend's first games were House of the Dead and Maximum Force. Mortal Kombat, Spaltterhouse, and Nighttrap may have existed and hinted at the future potential of the gaming market, but no company capitalized on that potential until Sony actively pursued it.