Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

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Aeolus451 said:

RolStoppable said:

Sony undermined what Sega's success in the fourth generation was built on, and that was an image campaign. Sega had portrayed themselves as the cool brand and Nintendo as for kids, then Sony entered and made themselves the cool brand. Since Sony had more money to throw around than Sega, they succeeded and there wasn't much left for Sega. Without Sony taking that image away from Sega, Sega could have continued what they've been doing in the fourth generation and been successful at it.

At the time that Resident Evil was made, Nintendo home consoles had third party IPs like Mortal Kombat and Doom, so Capcom's game wouldn't have been out of place at all. Your belief that Nintendo was a kid's console is a testament to how successful Sony's (and previously Sega's) image campaign has been. I can give you simple examples of how messed up it all is. Two of the most anticipated games for PS4 right now are Final Fantasy XV and Street Fighter 5. Now think about where those IPs used to be in the past. When Sony has these games, they are cornerstones of making gaming mainstream; but when Nintendo had them, it's a kid's toy. And it's not like Nintendo had only Final Fantasy and Street Fighter back in the day; they had countless other games too. Contra, Castlevania, Gradius, R-Type, numerous JRPG series etc.

However, video game history is framed in a way where all these works of third party publishers are considered meaningless and it wasn't until PlayStation that video games became something respectable. And because you clearly buy into these lies, you don't realize how plausible it is that a publisher would greenlight a game like Resident Evil when at the same time Turok was greenlit, a series that would go on to have four games on the Nintendo 64.

 

So you're telling me what I'm thinking now? Please, stop with rhetoric about nintendo not being intended for kids. It's like trying to say power rangers was for adults. Yeah, some adults watched it but that doesn't change what demographic it was intended or marketed towards. Yes, anyone can play 'em. It's marketed to this day as 'The console the whole family could enjoy." 

 Nintendo brought many rpgs into being and plenty of other series. I never downplayed that nor will I ever. Some people are acting like if sony never went into the gaming market, all of those third party games that started or were popularized on a playstation console would of just ended up on any of the consoles. Playstation and Nintendo cater to completely different demographics/fan bases. Some publishers might not of took a big risk with a new IP on a console where that genre doesn't fair well. Do Call of duty games do well on nintendo's consoles compared to how well those games do on other consoles? Hell no and the publishers/Devs know that as well.

How well would of titanfall done on the wii u if it released on it instead of the xbox consoles? Would it been able to beat just the xbox one's sales of titanfall? No. 

Am I lying or skewing facts when I say mature games generally don't do well on nintendo consoles? 

Mature titles don't do well on Nintendo consoles at this current moment in time, back in the 90s they did which is what it discussing, so using examples like Call of Duty or Titan fall are irrelevant.

Their is no other way to put it, ur being ignorant, teen & mature rated games did do well on Nintendo consoles back in the SNES/N64 days. Mortal Kombat 2 sold about 2 million, Killer Instinct sold over 3 million, Turok 1 & 2 each sold about 2 million, Street Fighter II sold 12 million, Goldeneye sold 8 million, Perfect Dark did over 3 million, Shadow of the Empire did over 2 million.

Their is no reason to believe games like Resident Evil, Tekken, Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider wouldn't have been successful if they were on N64.