Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

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Lawlight said:

foxtail said:

Lawlight said:
Yes, it would. Don't forget that the reason that gaming is such a mainstream hobby now is because of the playstation. I think that if it didn't come along, gamers would have been a "basement"-only activity. Now, we see Jessie playing Rage in Breaking Bad, Kevin Spacey playing CoD in House of Cards or Adam Sandler playing Shadow of the Colossus in Reign over me.

Product placement isn't anything new, even Nintendo has done some in shows that are for an older audience.

Tony and AJ playing some Mario Kart 64 in the Sopranos.

Bill playing a round of Wii golf in the show True Blood. 

Lauren Holly tempts us with a Gameboy in Picket Fences.

Notice how 2 of those involve kids. That's what gaming was before - something for kids.

As for Bill in True Blood, I also notice that you omitted the part where it's actually a grandma who's originally playing the Wii and Bill sees it. Which makes sense as a large part of the Wii audience were casuals including more mature people.

There is also an adult in both those 2 scenes too, and those shows were meant for adults.  Something for everyone (1st scene targets Families, 2nd scene targets Adults, 3rd scene targets Teens)

The Wii made several appearances on True Blood, the episode where Bill plays golf is different than the episode you're talking about where the crazy old lady plays Dead Space.  In this episode Bill plays golf alone, it was just Nintendo being played by a regular adult.