Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

[Aeolus451]

RolStoppable said:

Aeolus451 said:

Resident Evil started out on playstation and sold very well. It was later ported to other consoles after it sold well. If playstation wasn't around for the game to be released on and find success with, the series would of never became a series. Nintendo wouldn't touch a game like that then. I doubt the game would of be no where near as successful on a sega console. Sega was dying as a console maker regardless if playstation entered the market or not. 

It's the same story with Silent Hill and other games. 

If PS hadn't been around, the same game could have been made for the Saturn. I am pretty sure that the game would have sold well there too, because Resident Evil became a thing because it was Resident Evil, not because it was on PS. Also, Nintendo had games like Killer Instinct and Goldeneye 007 around that time, so I don't know why anyone would think that they would have rejected Resident Evil from their platform.

But probably not. Even if it was released on Saturn, I doubt it wouldn't of been successful on that console. Playstation merely gave Resident Evil access to more people with the console being as popular as it was. It makes the world of a difference if a good game is released on a high selling console versus a console that's not. It could mean the difference if a game gets a sequel or not. 

Killer Instinct and Goldeneye 007 are completely different to games like Resident Evil. Killer Instinct was already popular through arcade and Goldeneye was known through the bond films. Resident evil was a new IP and because of that, I doubt nintendo would of wanted it at that point.