LivingMetal said:
generic-user-1 said:
LivingMetal said:
For those of you who say "Someone else would have filled the void" or "Sony got lucky." I don't know about that. You the need to consider the fact that Sony wanted nothing to do with making console hardware after talks between them and Nintendo fell through with the proposed Nintendo CD add-on. It was Katuragi that convinced the hot shots at Sony to push on with the Playstation project. Because think about it. If Sony didn't originally wanted to do it, who else would have? I have not heard of any other major hardware manufacturer who went as far as Sony eventually did to capitalize on the console market. Also if it were so obvious that it was luck that pushed the PlayStation success, then most other major hardware manufacturer could have easily trounced Sony and its first entry in to the console market. But there were no other takers. Other than Nintendo and Sega, no one else challenged Sony if it were so obvious that they didn't have a pray of doing it on their own. |
did you look at the competition? atari was a dead man walking and never figured out how to copy the nes gamepad, Apples hardware was bad and they had no games, Nuon and 3DO flopped because nobody realy cared for them or pushed games.
its not like others dont tryed, but they all failed horrible because they mae realy stupid mistakes..
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And you call that luck??? Therefore if Sony could have done it, anyone could have. But clearly, this wasn't the case. Go figure.
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sony had some IPs a lot of money and the will to push other media with a gaming console, they had a better start than the most and they didnt made any stupid mistakes or risked anything, they made a realy big PR campaign, got all 3rd partys on bord and played the rest save.
they didnt made better games or had the better tech, they won because they went for the casuals with a lot of marketing.
and they done so 3 out of 4 times and won every time they did it.
