| OneKartVita said: I agree with him and it's a good thing. He's basically complimenting the Playstation by saying it moved gaming forward. It's funny though because indies are seeing great success on Playstation again 4 generations later. |
To bad he says it was a bad thing as it killed the diversified ecosystem the gaming industry had. 2D games almost got killed off entirely because no publisher would finance them (3D was the selling point of the generation after all - no matter how crapy it looked even back then) and Indies couldn't get their games published anymore (which until them publishers still did)
However, I disagree that the PSOne was the only culprit. In these days there was another movement going on, which I think was the real reason why the age of independent devs stopped in the mid 90s: Publishers started to buy the different independent studios and each other resulting in both less independent sutdios and especially much less publishers who would publish their games. Around 92 there where over 200 publishers, in 98 they where down to 60 and dwindling even further down. As Indies where dependent on the publishers to get their games released (barring shareware of course) it affected them dispropotionally much, even more so as publishers moved to only publish in-house games anymore.
