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javi741 said:

To those who lived and experienced the 90s, when did you first hear about PlayStation and what made you immediately trust Sony with the PS1 enough to buy one? And did you skip out on the N64 for the PS1? What do you think made PS1 so successful to beat out the well known and dominant Nintendo brand at the time?

I actually didnt buy a PS1,... but first a PS2 lateron.
My parents got me and my brother a n64 back then (we had nes,snes,n64,gamecube,wii ect) (my bro was a huge nintendo fan).


"What do you think made the PS1 so successfull to beat out the well known and dominant nintendo brand at the time?"

the wow factor.
There was also a mystic to it, it was a more "grown up" system, which apparently was super cool, to us younger kids back then.

I still remember the mind numbing chills, and shocks, we would have sitting down and playing Resident Evil, on the PS1.
Imagine a group of kids that grew up playing around together, on the same street. One of them has a huge 50" tv back then (it was rare back then) in their parents bed room, and we would pull the curtains so it was dark in the room. Put on Resident Evil.... and as a little kid, that game could scare the crap outta us.

Street Fighter Alpha, Tomb Raider, Tekken, Twisted Metal, Ridge Racer...

N64 was cool, but it was mostly just a differnt experiance.
N64 was mostly just the Mario64 + Killer instinct box (starfox, starwars, clayfighter).

They just offered differnt experiances.

I will say, I think the single player experiances, like RE and tombraider, were HUGE for playstation 1.
It was something very differnt, experiance wise, than what you could find on a nintendo system.

*edit:
Also holy crap n64 games were expensive.
I think part of the reason playstation did so well, was just the prices of games were so much lower too.

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 18 November 2020