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Mandalore76 on 11 July 2017
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Aeolus451 said:
Nuvendil said:

That's a rather bizarre way to view things.  You do know that 3rd party devs found immense success on the SNES, right?  Playstation was a great platform but if it hadn't come along, third parties would have kept on doing what they were doing and making plenty of money.  The industry would certainly be different but it would have been fine.  A lot of third parties were fully prepared to back Nintendo but backed out because Playstation provided an alternative with some better deals.  Honestly, you accuse almkst this entire forum of being fanboys but the only one writing blatant fan fiction here is you.

immense success compared to what? Other 3rd party game sales on nintendo consoles or overall? Third party games did alot better on playstation than they did on nes or snes and there was alot more third party games on it. Fact. Some third party games doing well does not equal to alot of third party games doing well.

What would of happened without sony is console gaming would have remained a kid's hobby and everyone still gaming would have went to pc.

I never said anything close to nintendo fans being fanboys but I did say I won't trust their opinion on gaming topics like best console or best game because they're biased. It's no different than ms or sony fans but this is a nintendo site. *shrugs. 

More revisionist history.  Who do you think introduced their kids to gaming?  My grandfather had an Intellivision.  He didn't have any kids in the house, and he didn't buy it for the once a year trip we made across the country to visit him.  He played PGA Golf, PBA Bowling, Snafu, Dracula, & Microsurgeon on it all the time.  My dad had a Coleco Vision that Carnival was his favorite game on.  Years later he would pour hours into Sim City on SNES.  My Uncle had an NES of his own and whenever he would come visit, he would come to my room to show me how goood he was at Legend of Zelda.  The video game industry was not a kids only market in the 80's whether or not you can comprehend that.  Adults bought games and played with their kids.  Some got hooked on it more than others.  Those kids grew up still playing and became the adults buying games in the 90's that you somehow think would not have touched a video game if not for Play Station.  Sony copied Sega's "We're the console for adults" marketing strategy, priced their CD based console $100 cheaper than the Saturn and firmly pushed Sega out of the market (not without Sega's own missteps helping along the way admittedly).  Look at the jump from Sega Master System sales to Genesis sales.  The market was growing, and would have continued to grow whether or not Sony entered.  The only major difference would have been that Saturn would have had a better chance to succeed.  Saturn would have gotten Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid, and all the other big 3rd party games that wanted the higher storage capability of CD over cartridge.  Sega had already been moving in that direction since Sega CD.