WithOUT Sony people would have bought Saturn and N64. Maybe even the Atari Jaguar would have gotton more third party support and sold a more and lasted a while to. I don't understand the PS brought gaming for adults theory , Sony a massive organization with loads of money used there marketing strategy to to push the system to everyone ,it played adverts in cinemas before their films, and sponsored adult events. But gaming in all honesty is a neither adult or Child like. It's gaming. Many bought Megadrive because it was deemed more adult like then Snes.
Saturn would have sold more, as well as N64. Neither may have not reached the sales numbers of PS ,but In Japan Sega Saturn's marketing was very good and sold well there. Of note ''Tomb Raider '' was developed on Saturn by Core design who actually liked the Saturn. Plus all these games people mention would have gone to one system or another. Plus developers would have tried harder on Saturn to program using both processors instead of being lazy and using only one .
PS had no games to match Virtua Fighter 2 ,Sega Rally or Virtua Cop for almost 18 months
Today Sega would still be the Sega we new, Nintendo would be at the top of there game and even though XBOX was inevitable ,it still would not be a contender outside of America and the UK. The rest of the world just don't seem to take well to Micrsoft's consoles, especially Japan.
And yes i believe the ludicrous DLC demon may not have got out of hand as it has .
But then WHO KNOWS WHERE WHERE BE IN FIVE OR TEN YEARS TIME . WHO will be the market leaders then, will Sony or Microsoft still be behind the PS and XBOX brands.
All i know is i just don't have room for any more consoles.
What if all current companies made a console together. Give it a really crazy name.( Snes Staion Box) Third parties would just need to produce one version of any game. But each company would say produce their own consoles with their own branding . Making their first party titles only playable on their branded system. Consumers would buy the console with the best exclusives for them and still be able to play all third party titles.
From a current view from a first party choice i know who i would choose. do you?
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