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AngryLittleAlchemist on 17 October 2018
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potato_hamster said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

I was actually talking about the OG Xbox port ... I think it was of San Andreas. It would take a long time to find the source, I'll look. I could very well be wrong though. Never know how much is just shitty rumors to make a company look bad  

And yeah, I agree that PS3 had a lot of effort put into it to help it catch up. I should have specified about the first couple of years. About Playstation not necessarily being a bigger brand than Nintendo ... whilst I agree, we are talking about home consoles here. 

It could be totally true. If so, shame on Sony for a terrible practice and I'm glad they turned that ship around pronto.

As for home consoles, I don't think the Playstation brand is why Sony sold around three times as many Playstations as Nintendo sold N64s. Sony had to put in a monstrous effort right out of the gates to steer prospective buyers away from a Nintendo console. I remember at the time it was extremely common for parents to refer to all video game consoles, no matter tha manufacturer as "Nintendos". Not exactly a small feat.

Hm, actually, my bad. I guess I might have been mistaking it with Sony buying timed exclusivity for Vice City. Either that, or I'm correct  and it's just almost impossible to find a source ... haha 

I'm not really focusing on the literal definition of brand that much. I mean first of all, "Playstation" did not even have brand recognition when the PS1 came out. I felt like it was fairly obvious that I meant after the brand was well established ... you know, after it became the dedicated home console of the world. Wouldn't really make sense before. My bad though if I made it seem that way. 

I guess I should clarify that what I meant, was that obviously a big reason why third parties will always support Playstation is because of sales, and sales are in large part because of what the brand means in places where Nintendo (Europe) or Microsoft (Japan) means very little. I am not trying to discredit the steps Playstation took ... obviously without some of the quality of life improvements for PS3,  support would be less. I simply mean that, Playstation is so big worldwide, that it would be almost impossible for third parties to stop supporting it. Unlike with Nintendo, where even great sales don't always result in great amounts of third party.