Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

[naruball]

Mnementh said:

naruball said:
Always sad to see people unable to have a mature discussion and showing a need to downplay the significance of a console/company simply because they don't like them. At least there are a few who understand the importance of all 3 of them.

The industry would have been much different without any one of the big three. I don't think it'd be in crisis without ps, but overall sales would have probably been down massively. Just because apple or Amazon could have stepped in, doesn't mean they would have done well.

Apple even was there and failed, no way they could have provided a proper replacement for PS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Bandai_Pippin

Forgot about that. Good point.