d21lewis on 09 July 2017
I'm sure there's more to it but whenever I think of console makers, I just assumed their mentality was "We made this hardware. Here's what it can do. We're gonna make games for it. You can make games for it, too."
From there, I figured it was up to the third parties to make money on it or not. If your game was good and appealed to the right people, it would sell. If it wasn't, it didn't.
To this day, I think that all Sony did with the PS1 was provide an appealing platform to release games, make a profit, and have decent performance. Now, it's a little more complicated with online modes and competition but isn't that all a first party can do? You can't tell people what to buy...can you?
