Is the Xbox Brand Simply Weaker Than the Playstation Brand?

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Insidb said:

Aeolus451 said:


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.

I think before the PS1, M games were mostly just tolerated.  But, Sony was really one of the first console  companies to truly embrace them, even using there own money to advertise and/or develop them.  It's also important to note that  many of these games weren't just M for their blood and gore, like in the past, but also because of their dark/mature atmospheres and themes.