Soundwave on 25 April 2015
| Burek said: I have always been claiming the same (and now as well in that strongest brand thread). Without PS, gaming would still be a fringe hobby catering only to children and hardcore hobbyists, and we would probably have seen a huge decline by the mid 2000s. Sony significantly expanded the market, brought it to be of mainstream relevance, and Microsoft helped significantly to further expand it to online interactions, thus taking it out of the child's bedroom/hobbyist's basement and bringing it to the living rooms worldwide. |
Sega was already doing all of that, even Nintendo was pushing ahead with more focus on teenagers/adults by the mid-90s.
It was inevitable that that was where gaming was going.
The kids who had an NES were growing up and in their teens/20s by the mid/late 1990s.
