Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

[Aeolus451]

RolStoppable said:

Aeolus451 said:

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.

You do realize that in an alternate universe where PS doesn't exist, the Saturn would have been more popular, right? Sony came into the market, took the third party games and gamers followed. At the time of Resident Evil's release, the PS1 wasn't even popular. It shipped less than 10m units in its first 18 months on the market; of course this was a staggered launch, but there wasn't a big installed base in any country at the time of RE's release. Plus in Japan where RE released first, the Saturn was competitive with the PS1 at that point, the difference being merely a few 100k units.

Your suggestion that Nintendo would have declined a release of Resident Evil on their platform is nuts. I have to ask, are you serious about that? You've got to be fooling around.

Nintendo handles very tough competition just fine but sega bails out after sony has been in the market for a bit. That tells me sega wasn't really doing all that well to begin with and probably would of exited the console market without sony being there.  It just would of took a bit longer. Sega was horrible at handling consoles.

Yes, I think Nintendo would of turned down the first Resident Evil game without knowing what it would become. I doubt that a publisher would give the go ahead on resident evil on nintendo's consoles at the time. It was mainly a kid's console at that time.