Captioning the 9th Generation: The Public Suicide of PlayStation

[LurkerJ]

Conina said:

LurkerJ said:

That belief was reinforced during the PS3 era, when PlayStation finally encountered real competition. That period thoroughly exposed PS weaknesses. However, their response to that pressure was, in my opinion, commendable.

For the first time, the PlayStation brand began carving out a real identity. It started to build a library of original IPs that people could recognize and associate with the platform.

What are you talking about?

PS1 and PS2 already had lots of original IPs of this kind: Gran Turismo, God of War, SlyRaccon, Jak & Dexter, Ratchet & Clank... 

Relative to how successful those two consoles were, I find it astonishing that the only three surviving IPs of these two eras are Gran Turismo, God of War and Ratchet. The PS1/PS2 were great, but they were majorly defined but what third party devs had to offer imo.