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LurkerJ said:
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. |
Crash also survived. Granted it was a second party, but so is Pokémon. Difference is Sony/Naughty Dog never managed to acquire the IP unfortunately. Same goes to Spyro
I think the only Sony published games that really disappeared were Twisted Metal and Jak. The others were simply never popular in first place
I will say PS1 have a strong Sony identity, because even if Sony did not develop and own some IPs they strongly associated their brand and did the marketing to sell those games
But PS2 less so, with third parties taking over with GTA, Madden NFL, Call of Duty, FIFA, Guitar Hero, etc but also other publishers strongly associated to Sony started investing in their own branding (Capcom, Square, etc)
A good clue on how much some IPs are associated to Sony during PS1 and PS2 era is checking how less popular they became during PS3 days and how quickly they became multi-plat with fast transition to Xbox support
