Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

mountaindewslave said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

Mobile gaming

nah, recall we're talking late 90s into the 2000s. mobile gaming was not a thing until MID 2000s. the reality is that either someone would have filled Sony's shoes in the console department (probably just Microsoft more successfully) OR that PC gaming would have become much bigger much faster

as it stands PC gaming I believe is larger at this point than the consoles so

without a console popularizing gaming, PC gaming would have been much smaller. PC gaming didn't really hit its stride till last gen. But even if PC did, it would still get replace by smartphones since PCs with the exception of power users and hobbiyist, smartphones are much more convient. This is irrelevant of when gaming hit mobile.

Imo its inevitable, right now the mainstream is already skewed towards mobile, but it is a lot more diverse then it would be if your alternate scenario occured.