Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

[DonFerrari]

Mandalore76 said:

DonFerrari said:

A what if scenario where just because Sony isn't there Nintendo wouldn't screw up third parties (which they were since nes and still do) doesn't make sense. Or that sega wouldn't made the mistakes they were already doing before since Genesis.

 

And for other manufacturers a lot released system and failed and others had show no interest. So to suppose someone else would is a little hard but possible. You can say that if Nintendo didn't save gaming Sony wouldn't enter and I would agree (funny is that Nintendo fan will forever say they saved as if no one else would). If Planck, Einstein, newton and all other didn't exist would we reach what we have today? Quite possible since nature is the same and others would observe it, but it would probably take more time. Same for this case, if Sony didn't do it then maybe someone would but also would take longer because otherwise they would had appeared even before Sony and independent to it.

 

So if Nintendo didn't exist we would get similar and possibly better games than what they do since without their competition more companies would try those genres right? Or just what Nintendo do is exclusive capacity of them?

I never said that.  Nintendo's success in the mid-late 80's proves that there was still a market available after Atari collapsed the industry.  Nintendo thought that to be the case and that's why they brought the Famicom over to the US as the NES.  They were 100% correct.  If they hadn't done so, all it would have taken is another company to try and fill that void.  Would the games have been the same/better/worse?  There's no way to say that.  Different people have different ideas and concepts.  Sony's PlayStation is not remembered as a success because of ideas and concepts that they as a corporation were responsible for.  They had a console that Nintendo themselves spurred them to create.  They used that console as a platform for brilliant 3rd party support.  No PlayStation = some other platform receives that support and gets Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII, etc.  That opens the door for some other platform to enjoy that success in Sony's absence.  You can't say as a definitive fact that no other company would have enjoyed the PlayStation's success in the absence of Sony's entrance to the market if they had that level of 3rd party support.

There is no way to tell what would happen if Nintendo hadn't entered the fray in the 80's but what we can be sure is that it would have taken longer, if there would be a bigger crash or if things would be better in the end we can't be sure... but in the case of Sony, seeing how many failed and that no one else tried before MS entered and also didn't really suceed at first I don't think anyone else would make the same success.