What was the Greatest Launch Title of all Time?

[KungKras]

NightlyPoe said:

d21lewis said:

Hell, the PS2 didn't have a single game from Sony the day it came out. Their first game was f'n Fantavision. How the heck do you launch the best selling console of all time and not have a single game of your own!?

With all the hype in the world.  Remember all those stories about how the PS2 was some sort of super-computer that Saddam Hussein was going to buy millions of to power his nuclear program?

Didn't matter that Dreamcast's lineup was 10x better until its death.  Didn't matter that Xbox and Gamecube had better hardware.  Didn't matter that Gamecube and Xbox both had better exclusives (and Xbox had most of PS2's lineup as well).

All that mattered was the hype, momentum, and that it came out at a perfect time to double as the first DVD player for millions of families.

A fun fact about the PS2 is that it was much more painful to program for than the Saturn or Jaguar ever were. So it wasn't a developer-friendly machine either.