| Turkish said:
Nope, PC gaming is different than console gaming. Console gamers don't care about the average pc game: crpg, mmo, simulators, rts, mobas etc. They also aren't gonna exchange the comfort of playing games on the couch to their work desk pc to play some console ports, if they wanted to play console games they'd get consoles. If Playstation wasn't there, gaming would be simply smaller, still seen as for kids and nerds. Considering where Nintendo and Sega where going, it'd likely have crashed already trying to compete against the mobiles. Without Playstation and the hundreds of millions it brought, budgets for games wouldn't have grown accordingly so 90% of the AAA games you've ever seen in the last 20 years wouldn't exist or in a smaller form. Nintendo and Sega would be fighting for their dwindling user bases since the SNES/Megadrive era. People take it for granted that PS made gaming mainstream. Nintendo's fan base is diminishing gen over gen, the share of loyal Nintendo buyers even decreased with the Wii considering how few of them are left to buy the Wii U. "if Sony didn't enter someone else would've done it" so many companies tried in the 80s/90s, none could replace the PS. Sony was there at the right time at the right moment, no one could've done it but Sony. They were the biggest electronics manufacturer and they had expertise in gaming(making the superior sound chip in the snes and they had a studio making games for the console). |
Rampant speculation. Being the company that did to something, and being the only company possible that could have done something are two very different things. There was no gaming crisis in the early 90's for Sony to have saved the entire industry from, therefore there is no reason to conclude that home video gaming as we know it would have disappeared without them being in the market. That's what we know. What you are proposing is a "What If?" question. It is impossible to prove an answer to a "What If?" question, because of the very fact that it never happened. You are stating "no one could have done it but Sony" as an absolute. An absolute answer cannot exist in a reality that does not exist in the first place.
