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Zoombael on 12 November 2018
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What to expect for 99.99.

 

Shadow1980 said:
twintail said:

I am not really sure what part of TL;DR, the PlayStation succeeded because Nintendo screwed up means much else. I know you say 3rd party support but that ties directly into you saying that Nintendo not choosing CDs was the screwup that let Sony win, so essentially your argument is unchanged. Sony sticking with CDs was them being proactive, but it wasn't the only proactive steps they took to undermine Nintendo, which I have already mentioned. There is no need to revise history here. PS1s success is due to the moves Sony made to break into the market. Nintendo's complacency doesn't detract that. 

I guess that statement was rather poorly phrased. My bad.

The point is, Sony's massive success wasn't entirely due to their own efforts. Yes, they did a lot of right things, and they could have made it competitive even without having the lion's share of third-party exclusives. It was only trailing the N64 by about 20% for the Jan.-Aug. period of 1997 in the U.S., which shows potential for filling in Sega's old spot as a close competitor to Nintendo even had they lacked big exclusive killer apps like Final Fantasy VII. But the competition wasn't even close for the generation as a whole. It was a total blowout in Sony's favor. And it was Nintendo's choice to go with carts that resulted in that generation being so lopsided. "Sony dominated because Nintendo screwed up" is a better summation of my original point.

Everyone else but Sony screwed up. Atari, Sega, 3DO, Nintendo... three of which chose CD format.



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