Which is the most significant (important) console in history?

[zorg1000]

Aeolus451 said:

zorg1000 said:

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.

well you really arent worth discussing with if you're just going to brush off what i said simply because im a Nintendo fan.

Sony accomplished alot with the PlayStation brand, they made console gaming mainstream in Europe & developing nations, they popularized the concept of consoles being multimedia devices, thanks to their heavy promotion of Final Fantasy VII they helped make the RPG genre mainstream outside of Japan, they had less restrictions on 3rd parties which helped them to grow, etc.

i will give credit where credit is due, Sony & the PS brand have done alot for gaming in the last 22 years but i will not give them credit for things they did not do.

Consoles were already huge in America/Japan and the console market was already transitioning to a stronger focus on teens/young adults in the years leading up to PS1.