konnichiwa on 09 July 2017
| d21lewis said: 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? |
Yeah no, Sony did a lot of investments, Crash bandicoot became only big because of Sony giving Naughty dog more money for making their game and promoted it like hell, and did the same for a lot of developpers. Just look with what they did with FFVII, Nintendo hardly paid for advertisements for the FF games, Squaresoft was on their own. Sony basically gave them a big advertisement Check, investments and helping opening a new studio in Santa Monica and end result, FFVII became the best selling FF game (three times more than the best selling one on the NES/SNES).
