| yushire said: @Resident_Hazard----> So whats the game equivalent of Wii Sports and Super Mario Bros. for the original PSX then? Whats PSX introductory game? Sorry never bought the PSX at launch so I never knew... |
Hate to disappoint, but I can't say. I was always more a Nintendo guy that also rooted for Sega. I don't really remember much of the Playstation's early releases. I think the original Tekken and Battle Arena Toshinden were on there, and Twisted Metal 1. I remember playing Twisted Metal 2 with my friends all the time in high school, but by then, the system had somewhat more refined games. The original WipeOut comes to mind as one of the early PSX "demonstration" titles. The early Playstation games contained an offensive glut of PC ports and Doom-clones (before First Person Shooters had the refined modern control scheme first tested with Turok 1 on the N64), and some Arcade ports and things like that. I can't list off-hand any actual Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt introductory games although I do believe the system originally came with a demo disk. Mine did at any rate, but I bought it when Tekken 3 came out some years later.
The 32/64-bit era was really the first time consoles started launching without games packed in, which, in my view, was a huge mistake. Prior to that, pretty much every system came with games packed in. Go back even further to the pre-NES (and there about) days and consoles occasionally had games programmed straight into them though cartridge games were still seperate. I remember actually being shocked that the N64 came with nothing and that I had to buy a game seperately when my NES and SNES, and my brother's Game Boy had all come with packed-in games. The Saturn had an extremely rocky start and I don't think it launched with packed-in games, either.
As a side note, the 32/64-bit era was also when this concept of "selling the console below cost (at a loss) and make the money back on software revenue" came into the industry. Sony introduced it and Microsoft followed suit. Prior to that, all console makers, including Nintendo, Sega, and Atari, sold their machines for profit. Nintendo is still the only company that does things this way. Sega and Atari were both replaced by Sony and Microsoft, and they seem to like losing money with a goal of "eventually" making it back with games, although it's debatable if this strategy is really a winning one. Microsoft didn't make a profit on the Xbox until over halfway through its short cycle, and Sony has lost literally billions on the PS3. I've always believed that the game industry should be left to the game companies, which is why I was initially very against Sony and Microsoft entering the fray. But Atari and Sega made shitty choices, shot themselves in their feet, and generally made poor business decisions and Nintendo pretty much did the same when they essentially handed Sony a winning formula to dominate the industry for two generations. [/derailment]
