Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

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deskpro2k3 said:

bigtakilla said:

The real question would be if the only place you could get them was the Wii U, would they? And the answer is yes.

Lets step out of fantasy land. Nintendo stuck with cartridge all the way up to N64, and then its weird mini disc on the Game Cube. Last time I check, Sega last two consoles use CD roms and if there was no PS1 then I'm pretty sure most of the third party support would go to Sega because of its larger memory capacity.

The Dreamcast actually uses GD-ROMs which are higher capacity CD-ROM, but actually have less capacity than the Mini-DVDs used on the Gamecube.

And the Gamecube actually had pretty good third party support, even Square Enix came back after the fallout from Secret of Mana settled.

Even the Nintendo 64 had some nice third party titles like Turok, Goldeneye 64 and Doom64, to name just a few. Back then most space on a disc was still used by video sequences and out-of-engine cutscenes. Take these away, and 90% of the playstation titles would have fit on N64 cartridges; you'd just need to tell the story in a different way.