| Aeolus451 said: PS1 or PS2. Saved the gaming market and third party devs. |
Wait, what? You can say the PS1 or PS2 is your all time favorite console. That's fine and dandy. But, you can't just make up some revisionist history about Play Station saving the gaming market. Saved it from what? Home Console sales had risen in Gen 4 from Gen 3. So, what was saved? An already growing market? You're entitled to your choice of answer to the OP's question, but when you follow it with ridiculously unsubstantiated claims it makes said choice seem to be purely based on personal bias than any grounding in reality. When someone says the NES saved the gaming market, it's a well documented and proven fact that in North America it did just that. There was an actual video game market crash. There was no market crash at the end of the fourth generation that Sony swooped in and repaired. Was PS1 the highest selling console of its time? Was the PS2 the highest selling console of all time? Yes. No one is disputing that. But the video game market was not stagnant or in decline when the Play Station brand debuted. It was growing. Therefore, you can't just arbitrarily declare that Sony saved gaming.
By the way, 3rd party devs were doing just fine before Play Station. If you think SquareSoft, Capcom, Konami & Activision etc. would have somehow mysteriously gone belly up without Sony entering the video game market, then you have some pretty heavy blinders on and I don't know what to tell you.
