Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

[naruball]

zorg1000 said:

naruball said:

Not necessarily. Many people stop gaming after a certain age. Who knows how many more would have stopped (because it was no longer cool to do so), had ps not expanded the market. Also, how was sega's strategy working? Obviously it didn't work enough, hence their failure. But even if they had done alright (with ps out of the picture), they never had the money for the promotion that Sony has been doing since forever. Sega would never be able to afford that. They couldn't promote their brand the way, for example, Sony did with football games etc.

Considerably less though. And that's what's important here.

Many people stop playing games after a certain age? Do u have any sort of data to back that up? Like somebody says, "hey its my 22nd birthday, I guess it's time to give up gaming and become an adult!!!"

No, that's not how it works, if gaming is something u really enjoy and is ur hobby, u don't just give it up because u hit some unspecified age. Now do some people quit gaming because they have more responsibilities like work or family and no longer have time or money to continue gaming as a hobby? Yes that's completely reasonable to expect.

Any data to back that up?

See how ridiculous that sounds? That's an observation, not something stated as a fact. Also, your example is weak as hell, unfortunately. Do you like everything you did when you were a child? Did you wake up one day and said, "I'm 13, no more hide and seek for me!!!". That's not how it works. People find different hobbies when they grow older. Obviously it doesn't happen with everyone, but it does happen with a lot of people, especially the ones that have an active social life and play sports in their spare time/need. Until a certain age, for many children games are all they talk about, but then it becomes all about girfriends/sex, cars, competitive sports, etc.