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Aeolus451 on 09 July 2017
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zorg1000 said:
Aeolus451 said:

Most of it had to do with sony being in the market and it being a great platform for 3rd party devs. It's games were by and large different than nintendo's games or sega's. There's still is a world of difference between sony's and nintendo's games which have very focuses in terms of demographics. They still follow the same pattern in terms of games. Sony releases a ton of games aimed at teenagers and adults while releasing some kid games. Nintendo releases a ton of games at kids and "everyone"s but release a handful of token games for teens/adults. 

The PS1 comes out and introduces alot of different kinds of games to consumers, breaks sales records never imagined at that point. The stigma of gaming being a kid's hobby dies off around that time. Hmm... That makes me wonder what the cause of that was. 

It must have been because of kid hobby reinforcing stigma nintendo or in it's death bed sega that rarely released any games.... That's so hard to figure out.

yep lets just ignore trends that were already happening before PS1 even released, that makes a whole lot of sense........

also what Sony games are you referring to that were so different during the PS1 era? again, you have to look at trends that were happening previous to PS1.

in the years leading up to PS1, developers were releasing more and more games aimed at teens who were kids during the NES era and developers were able to start exploring with new game concepts/genres thanks to 3D gaming becoming more prevalent.

you keep talking about PS1 breaking sales records never imagined, this is true for Europe which Sony completely deserves credit for, but in America/Japan the console market didnt see a massive change in trajectory.

America

Atari era=~30 million

NES era=~40 million

SNES/Genesis era=~50 million

PS1/N64 era=~60 million

 

Japan

NES era=~20 million

SNES era=~25 million

PS1 era=~30 million

 

Europe

NES/Master System era=under 20 million

SNES/Genesis era= under 20 million

PS1 era=~45 million

 

 

Sony's biggest contribution with PS1 was making gaming mainstream in Europe but the other things were already set in motion and happening with or without them.

Some nintendo  fans just love to pretend that playstation consoles never accomplished anything except with their sales while nintendo consoles are the greatest consoles ever even though they selll like crap. The changes weren't gonna happen without an outside inflluence like sony entering the market. Sega and nintendo kept releasing the same games they ever did. I was there. Nintendo still hasn't adapted it's game library to gamers. 3rd party devs wouldn't have released alot of the games they did without playstation consoles because of nintendo's treatment of them and attitude towards them. 

Stop trying to change the goalpost. We're not talking about only one geographic area.