PlayStation Classic is out & receiving "Do Not Buy" recommendations (did Sony even develop it themselves?) *updated 12/5/18

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Shadow1980 said:
Simply doing everything right is rarely enough in and of itself. The competition has to be doing something wrong.

So, no, doing the right things isn't enough in and of itself.

I honestly doubt Sony was able to do that all by their lonesome.

 

If you had only expressed yourself this way from the start.

I agree with the above of course, and I don't even see how it's debatable. But tbf it's pretty far from the gist of your first post (below).

 

Shadow1980 said: 
And the PS1 owes its success to third parties

It owes its success to Nintendo, whose mistakes are what allowed the PS1 to succeed at all.

the PlayStation succeeded because Nintendo screwed up