GProgrammer said:
Those 2D games would of looked worse on the PS1 than if it was than if on a pure 2D PS1. The reason being Sony blew all the hardware power budget on the 3d hardware, if instead of doing that they put it into a beefier 2d blitter they could of ran their games at 640x480 instead of the 320x240 mess that most ended up being |
And it would probably have been a commercial failure if they had offered a pure 2D console while Nintendo and Sega were offering consoles who can handle 2D and 3D games. Especially as a newcomer in the console sector. Most gamers wanted polygon-based 3D games in the mid-nineties, which also allowed new perspectives and gameplay due to the flexible camera.
2D in native 640 x 480 also needed a lot of performance back then, so the pure 2D console wouldn't even have a price advantage.
