Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

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AlfredoTurkey said:

Turkish said:

-Nintendo 64, would be the leader of Gen 5 which means gaming held back another generation of the constraints of cartridges.

 

That's all kinds of wrong. If the PS1 never existed, the Saturn would have kicked the N64's ass because just like the PS1, it would have brought all those third partys over thanks to the machine using a CD format. That, and Sega was way better at third party support and had a great relationship with alot of western developers. 

In all reality, even with the Saturn, devs still were more interested in 3D development for N64. Saturn was a mess of a console with poor controls and it was EXTREMELY hard to develop for. If PS1 didn't exist, devs would have simply jumped on 64. Just like Square Enix. They knew Saturn was disc based but it wasn't a good platform to develop for.