N64 or PS1?

[Chrizum]

VGPolyglot said:

Chrizum said:

Not really. Like I said, PS1 games were much cheaper (up to two times as cheap in many cases) and there were just more games. PS1 also had a much longer lifespan. N64 was more of an enthusiast machine, PS1 was the cool system to have (almost every household I knew had one sooner or later).

That's interesting, because I thought the stereotype at the time was that the N64 was for kids, while the PS1 was the console for mature gamers?

That was indeed the stereotyping going on at the time. But you seem to confuse casual with kiddy/low quality and enthusiast with mature...

Thing is, (console) gaming was seen as a kid's hobby in the 90's. Obviously adults played videogames as well (especially those growing up with videogames), but Sony with the PS1 convinced people that gaming is not just for kids (or enthusiasts needing to defend their hobby), but for everyone. And the marketing totally worked. Now people who never considered buying a console were buying a PS1 and buying games for it. PS1 was a real important system in that sense.