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. 

Except that the Saturn was very expensive AND hard to program for. It was also a 2d focused console at the start of the 3d age. I see third parties making their games across N64 and Saturn. without cgi, many games would fit on a N64 cartridge anyway.